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BBC News with Roisin Hastie.
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has come under attack from Russian ballistic missiles. Local officials say at least one person has been killed and a dozen injured. The city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said a warehouse building had been destroyed and rescuers had pulled two people from the rubble. Olga Malchevska has more details. There is fire, according to the Kyiv's mayor, in several areas of Kyiv and mostly those are the storage buildings, but some civilian buildings are also affected. We don't know how many casualties have been there verified so far, but that is the latest we've been hearing. We also see the lines from the Kyiv mayor again that there has been a leak of ammonium in one of the Kyiv areas, which can be potentially quite dangerous because that is a very poisonous substance. An Indian merchant ship has come under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. India's shipping minister said the ship sank after being hit by a projectile. The Yemeni Coast Guard rescued the crew of 14, most of them Indian nationals. The U.S. State Department says it's revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to Washington. The decision comes after the Brazilian government refused to grant visas for two U.S. officials who wanted to visit Brazil. They had intended to meet the main right-wing candidate in October's presidential election, Flávio Bolsonaro. Ione Wells reports. Brazil's government blocked the visas for these U.S. officials, fearing they would try to interfere in Brazil's elections, something the U.S. said was baseless. Brazil has also not yet approved Donald Trump's pick for the next U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Perez. The U.S. has responded by now revoking the visa of Brazil's top diplomat to the U.S., although this will not mean she's expelled from the country. It is the latest in a series of disputes between the U.S. and Brazilian governments, which have flared up in recent months after the U.S. reimposed tariffs on Brazil and designated Brazilian gangs as terrorist organizations. The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has called senior leaders of football's world governing body to an executive meeting in Morocco on Wednesday. It comes after another day of fierce criticism at the president and his now scrapped plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and other tournaments to private investors. Temesghen Debesai reports. Gianni Infantino is facing mounting pressure over his proposed-forward enterprise initiative. FIFA's head of Global Football Development, Arsene Wenger, and Secretary-Gerald Mattias Grafström have publicly opposed the plan. Mr. Wenger said the decision to withdraw it was "absolutely necessary," while Mr. Grafström described the past week as a "sad and reproachable series of events." Last week, Mr. Infantino's senior adviser, Carlos Cordeiro, resigned after calling it a "bad deal for football." The European Football Federation has also threatened to trigger a vote of no confidence unless Mr. Infantino resigns. World news from the BBC. Officials in California say a deadly fire in the Los Angeles area in 2025 was caused by sparks from an out-of-use transmission tower owned by the regional power company. A report concluded that an electrical discharge had ejected hot particles onto dry vegetation, starting the fire in the suburb of Altadena, which killed 19 people. Chile's congress has approved a comprehensive package of economic reforms put forward by the right-wing President José Antonio Kast. The so-called "mega reform" is intended to boost economic growth and attract foreign investment. Its measures include reducing corporation tax and providing support for areas affected by wildfires. However, critics warn that the fall in tax revenue could put pressure on public spending. Conservationists in Kenya have told the BBC that it's unlikely that the mysterious deaths of 15 elephants near the Amboseli National Park in the south of the country were caused solely by cyanide used in tomato pesticides. The Kenyan Wildlife Service, which is investigating, had suggested the elephants may have been accidentally poisoned by pesticides used on nearby farms. But experts have cast doubt on that claim. Paula Kahumbu has worked with elephants for almost 30 years. "I've been working with elephants for more than 30 years. I have never seen elephants dying in numbers like this and some information has been released to the public but it's not adding up. Because elephants will have to eat a huge amount of tomatoes to actually consume enough to kill them." And scientists in China have discovered a new carnivorous plant - the first in its botanical grouping. The small, yellow-flowered plant grows on rocky terrain in mountainous areas in western China. Researchers were able to confirm that Saxifraga candelabrum attracts, traps and digests insect prey thanks to microscopic hairs on its surface. BBC News. |