lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest.ry is imposing extra sanctions on the russian mercenary group wagner, which has been fighting alongside moscow's forces. wagner has faced american sanctions since 2017. the new measures treat it as an organised crime group. the us says vagner employs 50,000 fighters in ukraine, most of them convicts. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes explains why the americans are taking this action now. this is another attempt by the united states to curb the activities of the wagner group, said to number some 50,000 in ukraine right now, made up mostly of convicts from russian prisons. it first came to prominence in 2014 during the annexation of crimea, and then in the months before the russian invasion of ukraine last year, wagner group were said to be involved in the false flag attacks that we heard so much about at that time — essentially the fake, provocative attacks that were supposedly designed to give moscow some justification for its invasion of ukraine. and ever since then, wagner

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest. stay with us on bbc news. how one english resort is becoming something of a global capital for amateur horror movies. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first — america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set upon by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him 'the butcher of lyon'. klaus altmann is being held on a fraud charge in bolivia. the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there, he was the gestapo chief klaus barbie. millions came to bathe as close as possible to this spot — - a tide of humanity that's believed by officials - to have broken all records. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: western defence chiefs fail to agree on the provision of advanced tanks to ukrai

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest.d have fined the british prime minister, rishi sunak, for failing to wear a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car. it happened when he was filming a political clip for instagram. the main opposition party, labour, earlier said that a fine would be very serious, as mr sunak also had to pay a penalty for breaching covid lockdown rules while finance minister. scientists from the european space agency are putting the final touches to an ambitious mission tojupiter�*s icy moons, in the hope they may find primitive signs of life. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle reports. bleak yet beautiful, the giant moons ofjupiter, covered in a thick crust of ice, but hidden beneath hints of vast oceans where life could thrive. now a mission is getting ready to make an epic journey to study them. at airbus in toulouse in france, engineers are putting the finishing touches to the spacecraft. it is called thejupiter icy moons explorer, orjuice. this is a number of scientific instruments that we have

however, at the bucharest summit, kyiv did not receive a pdp because of the position of berlin and paris was the revenge of the pro-russian forces of yanukovych, euromaidan and the beginning of russian aggression thanks to the political and ukraine then withstood the financial support of the usa, but the reaction of the obama administration was completely weak. washington was afraid to supply weapons to kyiv and did not want to burn all bridges with russia. we will never recognize annexation crimea or a violation of ukrainian sovereignty , if russia continues its aggression, there will be tougher sanctions and even more losses for it under president trump. ukrainian-american relations have become as pragmatic as possible . washington has started supplying ukraine with javelins in exchange for contracts for the purchase of american coal and locomotives, i gave you anti-tank weapons , president obama sent you pillows and sheets many people did not want to do it but i did it after february 24 washington became the undisputed leader of the western the coalition that helps ukraine deter the r

well, the appeal court in | bucharest went on for six hours, then thejudges bucharest went on for sixreleased from custody — they�*ve now been in detention in romania for 12 days. we understand that prosecution is arguing that they should be continued to held dust be held for the 30 days initially ordered by the judges. an interesting development, just before thejudge judges. an interesting development, just before the judge is adjourned, and there�*s no development yet, just before the judge is adjourned, a british lawyer appeared in the courtroom and, according to some romanian media reports, this is a british lawyer who defended andrew tate previously against similar charges in the uk seven years ago. and just detail the charges for us, nick. 3, , and just detail the charges for us, nick. , ., nick. basically, there are three main sets _ nick. basically, there are three main sets of— nick. basically, there are three main sets of charges _ nick. basically, there are three main sets of charges - - nick. basically, there are three main sets of charges - one - nick. basically, there ar

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest. a pioneering mission tojupiter�*s icy moons, in the hope they may find primitive signs of life. our science editor rebecca morelle reports. bleak yet beautiful. the giant moons ofjupiter, covered in a thick crust of ice, but hidden beneath, hints of vast oceans where life could thrive. now a mission is getting ready to make an epic journey to study them. at airbus in toulouse in france, engineers are putting the finishing touches to the spacecraft. it is called thejupiter icy moons explorer, orjuice. this is a number of scientific instruments that we have onjuice. they range from a radar that will see beneath the ice to lasers creating 3d models of the surface and high resolution cameras. these oceans could sustain the necessary conditions necessary to support the emergence of primitive forms of life in these oceans, and it is this environment that we want to further investigate. juice will travel more than four billion miles before it arrives at its destination in eight years' time.

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest.his week she was stepping down. mr hipkins, who was the only candidate nominated by the labour party, is currently the country's minister for police and education. rising prices are affecting us all, but research shows its being felt more in the north than the south. the centre for cities think tank says the impact of the cost of living crisis is significantly higher in blackburn and burnley, for example, than in cambridge and london. it says the disparity was down to the higher proportion of poorly—insulated housing in the north and the fact that workers in the north tend to earn lower wages and so spend more of their income on essentials like food and heating. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth has spent the week in blackburn, meeting people in the community trying to help those in need. radio: at 6:00, with the latest for lancashire, there is a yellowj warning for ice and snow... early morning in blackburn, and it's cold. but at the ivy street community centre, there is a sens

lucy williamson sent this report from bucharest.cars. the power of a ferrari paralysed in the grip of a police truck. whatever the truth about life behind these walls, its secrets are now being scrutinised by investigators. this fleet of luxury cars, the toys of a successful businessman or the proceeds of a trafficking ring? this man was in charge of security at the tate compound and describes himself as a close friend of the brothers. why everybody comes now and talk make a lot of statements in front of the media and in front of the police about how bad is andrew tate. you doubt all the women, but you never doubt andrew? i never doubt andrew. why do you doubt all the women and not andrew? because they are young and stupid. very simple. if you're living in the western world, this is probably 40% of the reason i moved to romania... in an online video, andrew tate said the move to romania in 2017 in part for what he saw as its more lenient approach to sexual assault claims. he and his brother tristan are being held in detention for 30

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest.r columnist, jeremy clarkson, says he has written to the duke and duchess of sussex to apologise over a newspaper column in which he said he "hated" meghan. the article, published last year, has since been taken offline by the british newspaper, the sun. our culture and media editor, katie razzall told us more about what he said — and the repercussions. if you remember, there was outrage because he said he wanted to see her paraded naked through the streets and that he wanted excrement thrown at her. more than 25,000 people complained to the press regulator — it is investigating. so today, we had a much more fulsome apology. six pages on instagram in which he reveals that on christmas day he reached out to the duke and duchess to say sorry. far from accepting the apology and in interviews since, prince harry has suggested the column proved the couple's point about press bigotry. mr clarkson today writes, he abhors violence against women, he is not sexist. he also says that amazon and i

well, it took the ukrainians a little longer for this bucharest impulse to come to the realization ofse people who decided to expel everything russian from their territory. here, ah, but we are for abkhazia to build south ossetia, uh, relations with georgia there are mechanisms for dialogues in which we also participate, and the georgian side is singled out. quite a long time ago, the project of carrying out joint economic activities through this to strengthen trust is all a very, very useful thing, and it's true. now e western participants, the so-called geneva discussions between georgia and abkhazia south ossetia. this is the european union, the united nations, the osce, the united states, they are somehow trying to make this format of dialogue a hostage of what is happening around ukraine hmm that's not indecent. i consider it unprofessional. uh, this means that they are doing specific tasks in a particular region , uh, they are conditioned by their political grievances and whims. here, but i 'm glad that we have people-to-people contacts with georgia actively developing. last yea

we were basking in 20 degree temperatures in romania as capital, bucharest. but now we've got blizzard warnings around this city, not for bucharest itself, but not too far away. and the snow is also been falling in theory, a vo belgrade. and sophia bulgaria, is that colder air is now entrenched in this part of europe. now for turkey, it's the act of whether pitcher right across the country. so for the western side, this will fall as rain, but for the eastern side we've got snow over the higher ground here. weather alerts and play right across all of portugal for a low temperature is here. so lisbon, a top temperature of 11 degrees on saturday. wet in windy through the valley, eric islands, and for the new yorker, we could see wind gusts, about 60 kilometers per hour. it is a commer pitcher toward the northwest by check this out in iceland. that's the weather there that will impact the capital reykjavik. and it's been about more than a week of wedding windy conditions for the coast to morocco, algeria and tunisia haven't seen some snow in it's a hard desert. a

in sophia and bucharest over the next little bit in time, snow and ice alerts across the islands of ireland and britain. especially when you look at those temperatures a few degrees above freezing, but overnight they dip below freezing. so some dangerous conditions. they're most active weather has been around the bay, biscayne northern spain, northern coast of portugal as well. we've seen winged us in the bay of biscayne exceed a 150 kilometers per hour, big waves up and down the coast of portugal as well. so that what in windy weather drops down to the northwest of africa and you know, temperatures from robot right through to tripoli are below average for this sum of the year, up in 2, in the northern k province in south africa for the 1st time in a week below 40 degrees and we got a tropical storm coming in to madagascar. the worst of the rain will be north and east of and 10 an arrival on thursday a ah ah, oh. lou . oh, they're watching al jazeera live from doha reminder of our top stories this our israel forces that killed 2 palestinians during a raid in the occupied west bank. there wa

you were the secretary of state in 2008 during the bucharest nato summit when georgia and ukraine wereied the membership action plan. looking back, do you think that this it was a mistake, we in the bush administration advocated for ukraine and georgia to have an alliance at the bucharest summit, but nato was a consensus organization and there was no consensus then, so we did the best we could and declared that ukraine and georgia will one day become part of nato. i think that now thanks to the courage of ukrainians vladimir putin did one thing, he actually brought ukraine closer to nato, not as a member, but as a beneficiary of everything that nato can provide in addition to troops. someone said that vladimir putin managed to put an end to german pacifism and swedish neutrality within a year, i think we will see nato with sweden and finland, i didn't even dream about it when we were there in 2008 . even if there is no final settlement, we will change the face of europe, the best thing is that we have to thank the ukrainian people for this, and now you supported nato to accept ukraine

our correspondent lucy williamson sent this report from bucharest.ed by a tiny audience of prosecutors, lawyers and police. the rest of the world stands waiting as police investigate allegations of trafficking and rape. one of those allowed through the gates today was his brother tristan's girlfriend, arriving with his daughter. investigators have just over a week to present evidence that a crime has been committed here. neither andrew tate nor his brother have yet been charged, but their public image has been complicated by the things they say and the way they behave online. daria was 16 when she says she received a private message on instagram two years ago from andrew tate's account. it read simply, "romanian girl," followed by a strawberry emoji. it was very obvious we were high school girls, like, we had the high school in our bio and everything. i feel like he was just trying to find girls that seemed like as innocent or as naive as possible in my opinion. daria, who is now at university in the uk, says it is important she speaks out because so

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest.t winter yet. bbc panorama has been meeting the doctors and nurses who are trying to ease the pressure on the health service by re—thinking how they deliver care. here's our social affairs editor, alison holt. 91—year—old ted has been feeling unwell for some time. but he wants to stay at home. hi, my name is dan, i am one of the doctors from the hospital. how are you? i feel really rotten. you feel rotten? so professor dan lattison from thejohn radcliffe hospital in oxford has come to see him. i am going to need to listen to your heart and your lungs and have a scan of you. yes. new technology means he and his team carry rapid blood tests, heart monitoring and an ultrasound that plugs straight into his mobile phone. ted's heart is not pumping properly. usually ted would be tested and treated in hospital but after a quick discussion with a heart specialist he is given the intravenous drugs he needs whilst sitting in his armchair. we can assess you and we can diagnose you and with the ri

the self—proclaimed misogynist was in bucharest . on misogynist was in bucharest.news good afternoon is coming up to 39 minutes after 5:00. this is a gb views tv online and digital radio. i'm not a choir. now there are fears that the continued amongst western countries over the issue of whether or not to provide ukraine with more battle plays right into president putin's hands. now, whilst the has already pledged 14 of its challenges to tanks to help ukraine, germany still has to . ukraine, germany still has to. whether or not to provide key with any of its leopard. two tanks. well joining me is con coughun tanks. well joining me is con coughlin defence , editor and coughlin defence, editor and chief foreign affairs columnist at the telegraph. con, thank for joining me. now you wrote a column on this. tell us a bit more about it. column on this. tell us a bit more about it . well, yes, i was more about it. well, yes, i was just at the way the conflict is going. i mean, we're coming up to the first year anniversary of putin's unprovoked of ukraine when putin made hi

lucy williamson, bbc news i , bucharest.ade a very rare appearance on the uk coast. why he travelled so far from home remains a mystery, but scientists are using satellite technology to track others like him — and they want your help. jonah fisher has more. knowing how many walruses there are and how the melting of the arctic sea ice is affecting them is vital for efforts to protect them. so a team travel to the arctic circle last summer. theiraim? to count walruses and to cross—reference their findings with satellite images. if their findings with satellite ima . es. ., �* their findings with satellite imaaes. ., �* ., images. if we don't have information _ images. if we don't have information about i images. if we don't have information about them | images. if we don't have i information about them then images. if we don't have - information about them then we don't know if they are adapting to their changing environment, we don't know if they are doing 0k, we don't know if they are doing ok, if their numbers are decreasin

lucy williamson, bbc news, bucharest.nuary have been particularly wet across southern and western parts of england and wales. still plenty of flood warnings in force. this is the scene in stourport—on—severn in worcestershire at the moment. thankfully, things have been turning drier through the course of the day. in the next few days, staying fairly cold and drierfor many, but widespread frost and there will be wintry showers for some, blown in on this breeze that is coming all the way from the arctic, drawing in the cold air massthat is with us at the moment. there is milder weather waiting in the wings in the atlantic which will sweep in from the west as we head through to the end of the week and into the weekend. back to the here and now, cold and clear through this evening and tonight for many. more snow showers for northern and western scotland, parts of northern ireland and one or two for north—west england and north wales. rain clearing away from the south—west so there could be some icy conditions as temperatures

they seized a f oleetf luxury fcarsro hmis compound in bucharest andai rded seven more opprerties. 36taold te is tadeined as part of lealgations intoan hum traffigckin and rape, along with his broth.er th dy enall lealgatis.on reporter: weeks aftoler pice meca for theirwn oer, they turern for his cars. thwee por aof frierra paralyzed the grip ofol a pic teruck. evwhaterhe tru tth about life behind theseal wls, its secrets are scrutinibyzed investorigats. this fleet of luxurys, car the toys of a succefussl sibunessn,ma or eeprocdsf oa trfiinckg ring? hain crgofe security at the tate compoun dd,esibcres himself a close friofend the brrsothe. >> eryvebody comes to talk. lktaing autbo how bad is ewandr tate. reporter: you doubtll a the wo bmen,utev ner doubt andrew? why do you doubt all w theomen antd no arendw? >> becauhese ty ear spitud. ryve simple. >> ifou y a lreiving in the western world --reporter: in an onlviine deo an tdrewatsae id he mov tedo ronia in 2017n ipart forha wt saw as its more lenient approach to sexual asslt claims. he and his brother tristen are held in prison 30 da

they seized a fleet of luxury cars from his compound in bucharest and raided seven more properties. 36old tate is detained as part of allegatis into human trafficking and rape, along with his brother. both deny all allegations. report: weeks after police came for their owner, they return for his cars. the power of a ferrari paralyzed in the grip of a police truck. whatever the truth about life behind these walls, its secrets are scrutinized by investigators. this fleet of luxury cars, the toys of a successful businessman, or proceeds of a trafficking ring? in charge of security at the tate compound, describes himself as a close friend of the brothers. >> everybody comes to talk. talking about how bad is andrew tate. reporter: you doubt all the women, but never doubt andrew? why do you doubt all the women and not andrew? >> because they are stupid. very simple. >> if you are living in the western world --reporter: in an online video andrew tate said he moved to romania in 2017 in part for what he saw as its more lenient approach to sexual alt claims. he and his brother tristen are held

vienna budapest belgrade bucharest and sofia all these famous cities and their populations ended up insphere almost all of these countries are controlled by police governments. there is no true democracy in them. this is clearly not the free europe for which we fought. when he offered his vision of the world to the west against the soviet union, it was an attempt to return to the international to propose some new a trend, if you want a political one in world affairs, because the soviet union was anglo, the united states were allies in the second world war, and after churchill's fulton speech it became clear that we were becoming enemies of the fulton speech. helped churchill return to the chair of the prime minister of this post. he was stripped immediately after the victory. over nazi germany there is an interesting version. why did it happen that england failed to agree with fascist germany on cooperation and joint actions against the soviet union when the second person in in the german reich, the hydroelectric power station flew on a private plane on his own private plane in england

hours later, tate and his brother tristan, along with two others, were arrested at their villa in bucharestcapital of romania, accused of human trafficking, rape, and being part of an organized criminal group. according to romanian prosecutors, the tate brothers and two romanian citizens lured women to the country then committed acts of physical violence and mental coercion against them. and forced them to perform pornography. tate appeared in a romanian court today. his attorney rejecting all charges, saying there was not a single piece of evidence apart from the victims' statement regarding the rape charges and no evidence regarding human trafficking and organized crime. the judge ruled tate must remain in custody. >> the romanian police now say he may be guilty of sex trafficking and rape. that will come as no surprise to those people who have seen him talk about women in a way that says that their bodies are owned by men and that they are fundamentally there to be subjugated by men. >> reporter: andrew tate, now 36 years old, began his rise to fame as a kickboxer, winning multiple title

last month, police released this image of the raid inside tate's house in bucharest.s deny any allegations against them. let's get the latest from a reporter covering the case. >> the allegations against him and his brother triston are that they have organized this criminal group where they were basically using this method to get young women to fall in love with them, work for them as models, doing sexual videos that were later sold on adult websites. maryam: there is also an unlikely name that you may have heard connected to this, climate activist greta thunberg. tate tagged her in a tweet, bragging about the emissions from his 30 cars that he owned. it led to a viral exchange and also speculation that the pizza boxes and one of his pictures tipped off police to his location. that was debunked, but greta thunberg responded to his announcement of his rest. this is what happens when you do not recycle your pizza boxes. >> a lot of parents of teenage boys have never heard of him. the shadow minister for domestic violence said last month that she had never heard of him.

for example, bucharest plus 20 the past day.omania has already been declared the warmest ever meteorological observation record temperature regime and in moldova the word inhabitants. chisinau today, in theory, there should be epiphany frosts. see for yourself. the grass is green and the birds are singing. the culprit of warming is the atlantic cyclone, which has been circling over the east of the old world for several days now, and at the same time throws a very warm air mass into the region due to anticyclones over scandinavia and the south of the russian plain, this whirlwind cannot go further towards the urals. so its cloudy fields are concentrated over the northern half in european russia, precipitation in the front zone is rather weak. however, in the south of the republic of komi and pomorie, freezing rain is again possible, but in the coming days the situation will begin to change . well, tomorrow. precipitation will begin to turn into rain, thermometer readings will quickly drop. the fact is that the very anticyclones t

in the area of ​​the snake island and then implemented the decision of this arbitration, although bucharestuch because it was absolutely obvious that if there were any territorial conflicts in romania, ukraine, well, knowing that nobody was going to accept ukraine at that time, not in nato and not in the european union, it does not have the right to go there, this could lead to serious problems for the further functioning of both unions cyprus when was joining the european union, the cypriots undertook to hold a referendum on the unification of the turkish cypriots from the northern part of cyprus and fulfilled this obligation only with such a small correction that at the time of the after the referendum in cyprus, the government changed and the new president of greek cypriot cyprus, which is considered a legitimate state, voted against the reunification of both parts of the island as a result and called on their compatriots to do the same. as a result, the greek part of the island, which was supposed to vote for the union voted against, and the turkish part of the island, which should have

for example, bucharest plus 20 the past day.romania has already been declared the warmest in the history of copper observations record temperature regime and in moldovan word inhabitants. chisinau today, in theory, there should be epiphany frosts. you can see for yourself, the grass is turning green. and the birds are singing. the culprit of the warming is the atlantic cyclone, which has been circling over the east of the old world for several days now, and at the same time throws a very warm air mass into the region due to anticyclones over scandinavia and the south of the russian plain, this whirlwind cannot go further towards the urals. so its cloudy fields are concentrated over the northern half of european russia, precipitation in the front zone is rather weak, however, in the south of the republic in komi and pomorie, freezing rains are not ruled out again, but in the coming days the situation will begin to change. today it is still warm on the russian plain, bryansk, for example, the daily temperature record can be broken

snow over the higher ground, and it will eventually knock back those temperatures in sophia and bucharest over the next little bit in time snow and ice alerts across the islands of ireland and britain. especially when you look at this temperature. so few degrees above freezing but overnight they dip below freezing. so some dangerous conditions they're most active weather has been around the bay, biscayne northern spain, northern coast or portugal. as well. we see windows in the beer biscayne exceed 150 kilometers per hour. big waves up and down the coast of portugal as well. so that what in windy weather drops down to the northwest of africa and you know, temperatures from robot rate through to tripoli are below average for this sub the year. up in 2, in the northern cape province in south africa for the 1st time in a week below 40 degrees. and we got a tropical storm coming in to madagascar. the worst of the rain will be north and east of and 10 in a refill on thursday. i think a pause, tough drug led to a string of execution, devastating families and walking where protested one to one i

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that warmth also extends into sophia and bucharest in time all about the rain for that south coast of croatia into bosnia montenegro and albania. also some big downpours to the south of rome. snow for the upsets curling up into the baltic states. so we pick up the story there, but with higher temperatures in minsk and moscow is could fall as some freezing rain. still cold air through ireland and britain saw some flakes of snow flying around liverpool, where the wind has been really intense. the bay of biscayne northern spain and the coast of portugal could whip up those waves to about 14 meters, so that white sand windy weather dropping down to the north west of africa on wednesday. and it's now been a week of temperatures at or above 40 degrees in up in 10, in the northern cape province in south africa. and we've got some tropical activity cooking up for madagascar. so this rain is going to pour into antenna revo as we had from wednesday to thursday. and now you're in the now, we'll see you soon. take care. ah. in depth analysis of the date headlines from around the world. if i write

but once again, nato played its ro, an april during the nato summit, in bucharest, a declaration was adopted saying that georgia and ukraine would be in nato. and that you knew what i was or to nordstrom or your critical. i don't want to use a curse words, but she is emotions apparently got the better of him. i'm speaking of soccer, she really and he decided that he was entitled to do whatever you wanted. and kimberly's arise, visited, and he ordered to bomb invalid and peacekeepers. ukrainians took a bit longer. joshua for these book rest issued the impulse to reach the conscience of those people who chose to expel everything russian from the territory. this is we would like to see a casa and south, as santia will be older. the are relations with georgia, the raf divers mechanisms that we participate in revenue. quite a while ago, jojo came up with the project of joint economic activities and strengthening trust, racial, rub, leases, perfectly commendable, and the western participants of the so called durgin eva discussions between the cashier soldier said here in georgia, namely th

under the leadership of merkel, thanks to which, well, we got into nato before, as we know from the bucharest meeting, the whole of europe fell into economic dependence well , and so on, there is a lot, that is, the question is not that the germans sprinkled their heads with a noose as early as 1945, but the question is that in the last ten years, several of their leaders did such a thing that we entered into this wide -scale war, and here the political and military political. we must clearly emphasize these sides too. if we want to change the situation, then we must act decisively in the direction of providing emergency aid to ukraine before supplying equipment in this war. yes, i updated exactly this information. no, i was not right, neither are you two . billions of euros, we are talking about a sum of several hundred million euros, that is, maybe 200 million euros, i want to get rain metal to finance this work, because the director of the pope gr claims that these tanks need to be completely disassembled and then completely assembled well, in short i understand that this is absolutely not

exceptional warmth, still come into that southwest corner, despite the cold conditions 20 degrees in bucharest on wednesday with sunshine. ah, join africa's premier trade, i mean basement to paint in cuts eve, why intra african trade fair gives you access to more than 1000. 600 exhibitors and over 35000 attendees from more than 75 exhibiting countries. participating trade and investment deals with over $43000000000.00 us dollars as business and government come together to explore business opportunities. register now brought to you by the african export import bank. african union commission, a if see if the secretariat and the premium partners connecting african markets. lou ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera mind on top stories this our russia escalates is bombardment. the crating city of newt is forces are trying to secure, rare military victory. often long sufficing as ukrainian forces have digging in recovery teams and the pool is searching for the 2 passengers still missing off to sundays plane crash, 70 people have been confirmed. dead authorities have begun releasing the victims b

deployed an aircraft from a permanent base in germany will be served by 180 military personnel near bucharest in the action they are able to record the movement of air surface and ground targets within a radius of 400 km, and also play the role of a mobile command center. as stated by the minister of defense of romania with the help of avaks. nato will monitor military operations on its eastern flank, according to official data, the mission is expected to last several weeks since february last year, nato aircraft, avax regularly patrol the airspace over eastern europe and the baltic sea. in the west of germany, activists again clashed with the police, officers used batons and tear gas to dozens of demonstrators, for almost a week they have been trying to prevent the opening of a coal mine on the site of an abandoned village. lucirat are conservationists who regularly march from a nearby campground to a coal pit, but stumble upon police patrols at the last of the activists. today i managed to expel from the settlement itself, let me remind you. on saturday , tatumberg says she joined the prote

it was one of 9 countries to set new national records in romania capital, bucharest. it felt like spring time with thermometers hitting 20 degrees. the bombing conditions have caused havoc in the winter tourism industry. however, with ski resorts struggling with the lack of snow, it looks like a summer trip up the mountain, but this is january and europe, green grass blankets hills that should be covered and snow right now. and ski slopes have been confined to a narrow lane at the school bush, it's really weird. everything is green, left and right of the slope. if the temperature is of up to 10 degrees celsius, have caused the last snow on the slopes to melt. and what little snow you see here didn't fall from the sky. there, the hammer and the 2 had fresh, natural snow in salem, see about 40 centimeters. this will be far too little. so we filled it out with artificial snow because of that we've co grove is here to with it won't nickel and the last significant snowfall in the area was at the start of december ski slope operators. a feeling the pinch, puts better, helps

ministry of defense of the country reported that long-range radar tracking aircraft have arrived in bucharest, from there they will transmit information to the nato headquarters about any tactical and operational movements near the border of the alliance, according to the romanian media, today there are at least three nato reconnaissance aircraft in the country, last year the ukrainian fuel market experienced the most severe crisis, the government and business together tried to overcome it to help reduce the deficit on the market, the government handed over to naftogaz the arrested gas stations that connect glusko with viktor medvedchuk, they were launched under the yugo brand, currently 64 such gas stations are already operating in ukraine, more details in the plot, kilometer-long queues for gas stations and zero stellach, the fuel market last year experienced the biggest crisis in the entire history of ukraine's independence, we lost 100% of fuel supply sources, supplies from russia and belarus stopped, the occupiers blocked imports by sea, and ukrainian oil refining, in particular, the lar

she worked at a police station in the center of bucharest for 8 years ago she left the bodies of thesfera. yes, according to the romanian investigation, we played a special role in luring girls to shoot porn videos. even after the detention and arrest, blogger andrew tate did not go offline, his name in news agency tapes are still in the top foreign press. however, if the guilt is proven to him. you will have to answer and sports tricks will no longer help. despite all attempts to appeal the court decision for 10 years. deprivation of liberty. so much threatens the main defendant with a kind of hook for a former kickboxer. andrey ivlev. alena titova news duty department. well, at the end of the issue, we will return to a serious fire in the north-east of moscow, the ministry of emergency situations confirms the elimination of the fire. i will remind you about driving with you, where is the car service and warehouses with perfumery located, so that 233 people had to be evacuated from the premises on their own to cope with the emergency. now experts are investigating the causes of the

balkans. places like romania seen temperatures really touch up if we haven't looked at the 3 day for bucharest. 20 degrees by wednesday. some of that rain coming in, but it does pull away by thursday. the worst of the weather has already hit western parts of france that storms rolling in here. things are looking very blustery and wet and wintery for spain and portugal. we've got red alerts out on tuesday for possible flooding, and it's looking very nasty as well for italy at storm system pushing its way across to the across the a dramatic into the balkans. we are expecting it to rain rather wintry. indeed, florence coming in only 5 degrees celsius on wednesday. no further north of this is a wintery picture for much of scandinavia heavy snow. once again for norway, we could see some flooding across southern parts of sweden. thanks to the rain, but we are seeing some brightest bells in the south of england. ah, ah ah. ah. ah lou. oh, oh. oh, come back. you're watching out. as a reminder, i'll top stories this hour. russia escalates it's bombardment of the ukrainian city of moves. forces are tryi

bucharest for heavy transport for long-distance runners thank god because the weather reminded us a little that it is still winter, and today it is a little frosty and the roads are actually ready to be driven on . well, the fox is licky and you have to look after yourself and protect yourself and your loved ones. i want sergey to return to the situation with electricity, and in some places there is such information in local telegram groups that local residents of high-rise buildings are offered to join the initiative to pay a certain amount of money there and they will allegedly be connected to the infrastructure and critical so that the lights do not go out, how widespread are such cases of fraud well and as far as it is possible at all, there was such a situation of trying to collect money from people there, as it were, with someone and they agreed with which enterprise, or even talk about the military part, the fact is not proven, because our special services also checked, that is, a serious level, we are talking about it , and such collections of money were carried out by representati

railway from the terminal station of vala vishalu, you can reach the larger cities of sighid and bucharesta oliynyk for espresso tv channel charity auction january 20 at 3:00 p.m. in the lviv warriors' house, the auction of carvings will be held on the line of the heartbeat of maria hupalo , two lots of the robot tyra vilna and mariupol madonna will be exhibited, funds received directed to the support of military medics and families of prisoners of war, also at this time the exhibition of carvings of craftswomen ukraine in fire will be opened. you can see the works until february 25. the event is organized by the efforts of several organizations, in particular the international forum of central and eastern europe in via carpathians, the information partner of the espresso tv channel . i say goodbye to you. i'll see you tomorrow, have a peaceful evening, vasyl, winter and the big air , movies, television, sports, music, education, free people have a choice, choose what you want on megogo, i iryna koval, mother, wife, presenter of the espresso tv channel. and i am also a volunteer. our soldi

made it clear that the door to nato membership remains open, the promise that nato made back in bucharest in 2008 remains, that is , there is no deviation from this, but this cannot be done during the war, the previous expansions of nato took place in peacetime and then nato entered into a dialogue with russia about a possible offensive for which the russians are preparing ukrainian intelligence warns of a new direction of the russian attack zaporizhzhia may be us also the opinions of the british special service there say that in recent weeks russia has strengthened the defense of the fortifications in the occupied part of the zaporizhzhia region, especially between the cities of vasylivka and orihiv, and maintains large forces in this sector, that is, preparations are underway, but a major ukrainian breakthrough in zaporizhzhia would call into question the viability of the so -called russian land corridor connecting the rostov region of russia and the annexed crimea and part of the zaporizhzhia region was occupied by the russians at the beginning of the war, however, despite putin's stat

the romanian capital, bucharest, felt like spring with the moments as hissing 20 degrees. but the balmy conditions have caused havoc in the winter tourism industry with ski resorts struggling with a lack of snow. now scientists are warning that this extreme weather will continue if drastic measures on introduced to stop global warming the w's climate report. a tim schoenberg has this outlook at the climate in the year ahead. devastating floods, droughts, apocalyptic storms, and rising sea levels. the past year in the u. s. pakistan, italy, and the horn of africa was just the beginning. the scientists are able to give an attribution very quickly. back to sun flood. they gave an attribution 50 percent more, a flood because of human induced limits, change the hurricane. ian that had florida, they said 30 percent more flooding rainfall because of climate change. okay, so we don't have the climate change element to all of these disasters is law 0, climate change disaster left any more the energy crisis fueled by the russian invasion of ukraine will continue to play a major role

this was actually caused by the absolutely weak position of our western partners in april 2008 in bucharestwhen they gave in to putin's demands and openly showed him that he can do whatever he wants in the post-soviet space, that is, he can rule ukraine, he can rule georgia, allow something, allow them to join nato, and so on. it was in april 2008 that a huge mistake was made, which then led to the war with russia against georgia well, after the 14th year of the occupation of crimea and the attack on ukraine on february 24, of course, the fact that ukraine is now stopping russia is a chance for europe, a chance for the west to destroy this empire, which in any case is from the bottom, this is definitely the putin regime until it is destroyed , he will try not only to establish his control over the post-soviet space, but of course he has much bigger ambitions. well, this is a chance for the west to stop the attack on its countries , because it is clear that under the blows of the countries of eastern europe just a few days ago more precisely, yesterday oleksiy danilov wrote a column and wrot