Biden allows Ukraine to strike inside Russia with US missiles
US media say President Biden has made a major policy change, by letting Ukraine use long-range missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia. Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, has long called for the change. There's been no confirmation from the White House.Also in the programme: An Israeli airstrike in central Beirut is reported to have killed Hezbollah’s media chief; Russian opposition protestors take to the streets in Berlin; and a proposal in the new Zealand parliament, which would impact the rights of Maoris there.(Photo: White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs)
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Russia attacks Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
Russia has again targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure; we hear from the governor of one of the regions that has been hit. Also in the programme: Israeli airstrikes on Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza kill at least forty-six people in a multi-storey building; why Maoris and their supporters are marching to protest against a proposed change to New Zealand’s founding treaty; and the drama that portrays former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as an amateur sleuth.(IMAGE: Firefighters work at the site of a critical infrastructure facility hit by a Russian missile strike, in Vinnytsia region, Ukraine November 17, 2024 / CREDIT: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Vinnytsia region/Handout via REUTERS)
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US and Chinese leaders to discuss “delicate transition” in Lima
US and Chinese leaders to discuss “delicate transition” in Lima as President Biden holds his last talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on sides of APEC summit.
Also in the programme: families of Israeli hostages in Gaza on Donald Trump’s hopes to secure the hostages release; and we ask what happened on the dark side of the moon nearly three billion years ago?(IMAGE: President Biden the APEC summit in Peru. CREDIT: Reuters/Leah Millis)
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Zelensky says war will 'end sooner' with Trump
President Zelensky says that with Donald Trump in power in the US, Ukraine's war with Russia will end sooner than expected: does this signal a big change in his thinking? We hear from a Ukrainian MP.Also in the programme: we hear live from South Africa where a stand-off continues between police and illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine; and we follow the Afghans leaving their homeland in the hope of making it to the UK.(IMAGE: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference after the 5th summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, 07 November 2024 / CREDIT: Zoltan Balogh /EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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What RFK Jr could do on US vaccines, food and agriculture
European vaccine shares fall on the nomination by Donald Trump of vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Junior as US Health Secretary. We look at his views on food, nutrition and agriculture.Also on the programme: why the South African authorities are determined to starve thousands of illegal miners to force them out of a mine; and the man caught smuggling hundreds of tarantulas and bullet ants by plane at great risk to himself.(Photo: Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville in July. Credit: Reuters)
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