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| Hello. Vladimir Putin has raised the temperature in his row over weapons with Western allies of Ukraine. My colleagues are sharing their analysis on what is a new red line drawn by the Russian president. Azeezat Olaoluwa is reporting from north-eastern Nigeria, where a dam collapse as plunged half of a city under a meter of water. I also have news from Malawi, Thailand, and the US. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Western leaders to weigh up Putin's threat | | Allowing Western long-range missiles to strike Russia would "change the very essence" of the conflict, Putin said. Credit: Sputnik | As allies of Ukraine discuss allowing Kyiv to use their long-range missiles to strike Russia, President Vladimir Putin has drawn, once again, a red line on what kind of involvement from the West he would deem unacceptable - and deserving of retaliation. The firing of Western missiles into Russia would "mean nothing other than the direct participation of Nato countries," he told Russian state television on Thursday, while UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was heading to Washington ahead of talks with US President Joe Biden. Now Western leaders and diplomats have to assess whether the Russian president is bluffing. Those who want to give Kyiv more leeway argue that so far, "none of Putin's so-called ‘red lines’ have amounted to anything", writes our security correspondent Frank Gardner. "I would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday morning. His country is a possible target of Russian retaliation against the Nato alliance, even though the Kremlin remained vague on what escalation could look like - if there is any.
The latest: Russia has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats, accusing them of spying. Follow our live page for more.
Storm Shadow: The Anglo-French long-range missiles are at the centre of discussions. What difference could they make?
In Russia: Neighbourly disputes and snitching over alleged anti-war sentiments evoke ghosts of Russia's Soviet past, writes Steve Rosenberg from a town courtroom near St Petersburg. | |
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| City covered in water by dam collapse | Hundreds of thousands of people who have been flooded out of their homes this week, after torrential rains caused the Alau Dam to collapse in north-eastern Nigeria. Aid agencies say at least 37 people have died - but authorities say it is too early to confirm this estimate. |
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| | Azeezat Olaoluwa, BBC News |
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| | Fatima Yakubu cannot believe that she and her six children are still alive. The family were asleep when their house began filling with water in the early hours of Tuesday. “I woke up at 1am when I felt water on my legs,” the 26-year-old told the BBC. “It was rising very fast, and I was so scared. I thought I was going to die with my children.” She cried out in panic for help: “Some men heard me screaming and came to rescue us. I am grateful to God.” |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | The sweet success of banana wine |
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| | | Emily Nkhana used to discard over-ripe bananas or just let them rot. Credit: BBC | More frequent extreme heat in Malawi is causing bananas to ripen too quickly, resulting in severe losses for producers. But when life gave them over-ripe bananas, they made banana wine. The sweet, novelty drink is a testament to the resilience of women farmers in the country, write Anne Okumu and Ashley Lime. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Old is the new black | How vintage clothing has become a luxury status symbol. | |
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And finally... | When seismic sensors all over the world picked up mysterious signals, scientists traced them to Greenland. What they found was weirder than they could have imagined. Victoria Gill explains how a landslide set off a wave that "shook the Earth" for nine days - and why more could be coming. | |
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