British for now, but after todays agreement, not for much longer. The islands are all uninhabited, save for one. An important one. DieGo garcia. It is home to a vast and secretive american Military Base, used to refuel bombers during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. Foghorn but for years, the Island Nation of mauritius has been staking claim to the ChaGos Islands, planting their flag on one of the tropical atolls here and demanding that britain give up what some have called the uks last colony in africa. Back in the 1960s, the people living on the archipelaGo were forcibly removed by britain, which kept hold of the islands while giving mauritius its independence. A secret deal was already in place to let the americans set up their Military Base on DieGo Garcia. Chapter ii of the charter. But in recent years, international opinion has turned against britain. That the united kingdom is under an obligation. The uns top court ruled here that the islands do indeed belong to mauritius and s
on brazil s streets. russia says it will veto any un security council resolution condemning its self styled referendums in occupied regions of ukraine. the us intends to bring a draft resolution to a vote in the coming days. earlier, the us secretary of state antony blinken said the west would never acknowledge what he called bogus referendums. moscow claims almost total support in the vote onjoining russia. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, considers what these votes will mean and how that will affect (tx next) the russia ukraine conflict. first, i want to stress the key point here that these so called referendums were not real referendums, they were hastily arranged, kremlin created, kremlin controlled events designed to pave the way to russian annexation of huge swathes of ukrainian territory. we may well see this happen later this week. i expect at some point this week, russia will come out and say, right, this land is now ours, even in the absence of international
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