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morning. This is Sense seven

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I'm Steven Devin Chenzi. Today

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is Friday the third of February

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twenty twenty three. Starting

0:32

in Europe today, The

0:35

European Central Bank and

0:37

also the United Kingdom's Bank

0:39

of England both raised

0:41

interest rates by zero point

0:43

five percent yesterday. Christine

0:46

Lagarde, the head of the

0:48

ECB, said that another

0:51

rise of zero point five percent

0:53

should be expected in March

0:55

in order to tackle inflation.

0:58

View of the underlying inflation pressures,

1:01

we intend to raise interest

1:03

rates by another fifty basis points

1:05

at our next monetary policy meeting

1:07

in March.

1:09

In Ukraine, a Russian missile

1:12

strike on an apartment building

1:14

in the city of Chromatarsk has

1:16

killed at least three people, and

1:18

others may be under the destroyed

1:20

building 3rd to local

1:23

authorities. Two other

1:25

missiles hit other parts of

1:27

the city. European Commission president,

1:29

Ursula Vondelayen, visited Kyiv

1:32

yesterday for the fourth time

1:34

since Russia invaded Ukraine last

1:37

year.

1:38

Fondelian said that Ukraine was

1:40

fighting for democracy against

1:43

authoritarianism. Europe has

1:45

been by Ukraine's side

1:48

since day one because we

1:50

know that the future of our

1:52

continent is being

1:54

written here. We

1:56

know that you are fighting for

1:59

more than yourselves. What

2:01

is at stake is freedom. This

2:04

is a fight of democracies

2:06

against authoritarian regimes, In

2:09

the last few days, the United

2:12

States has promised another two

2:14

billion dollars worth of military

2:16

aid to Ukraine including

2:18

longer range missiles than

2:20

before. France has

2:23

said that it would deliver twelve

2:25

more artillery guns. 3rd

2:27

Spain has said that it will give

2:29

between four and six tanks,

2:32

which takes the total amount of

2:34

modern battle tanks. Promised

2:36

to Ukraine to around

2:38

one hundred and forty. Jose

2:40

Paredel, EU Foreign Affairs

2:43

chief, said that thirty

2:45

thousand Ukrainian soldiers would

2:47

be trained in the EU in

2:49

twenty twenty three. In Russia,

2:51

president Vladimir Putin made a

2:54

speech in Volgoguros yesterday

2:56

to mark eighty years since

2:58

the end of the Battle of Stalingrad,

3:01

the former name of the city.

3:04

Putin compared Russia's current

3:06

war with World War two. In

3:10

Norway, a defector

3:12

from Russia's Wagner mercenary

3:15

group has been speaking to

3:17

journalists two weeks after

3:19

secretly crossing into Norway

3:21

from Russia. In different

3:24

interviews, Andrei Medvedev

3:26

said that the convicts that were

3:28

fighting for the Wagner Group were

3:31

not treated as humans and

3:33

were systematically killed if

3:35

they refused to fight. He

3:38

also said that he witnessed Ukraine

3:40

prisoners of war being tortured

3:43

and said that he is speaking to

3:45

journalists so that some people

3:47

are punished in the future. It

3:50

is believed that around one in

3:52

four Russian soldiers currently

3:54

in Ukraine are from the Waggoner

3:56

group 3rd most of them are

3:59

prisoners. Who have been promised

4:01

freedom if they fight in Ukraine.

4:06

Asia In the Philippines,

4:08

the United States will expand

4:11

its military bases during

4:13

a visit by US defense secretary

4:16

Lloyd Austin to Philippine

4:18

president Ferdinand Marcos junior.

4:21

It was announced that the US

4:23

would have access to four

4:26

more military bases on

4:28

the islands of the Philippines. China

4:31

said that the announcement undermines

4:34

regional peace and

4:35

stability. Indian

4:38

journalist Sadiq Kapan has

4:40

been released after more than two

4:42

years In

4:45

India, journalist Sadiq Kapan

4:48

has been granted bail after being

4:50

held in jail for two years without

4:52

trial. Kapan, a Muslim

4:54

from the state of Kirala, was reporting

4:57

on a gang rape case in October

4:59

two thousand and twenty when he was

5:01

arrested. He was accused

5:03

of being a member of an Islamic fundamentalist

5:07

group and arrested under

5:09

anti terrorism laws.

5:11

Human rights groups have said that

5:14

Kapan's arrest is an example

5:16

of a decrease in media freedom since

5:19

the government of prime minister Narendra

5:21

Modi took power in two thousand

5:23

and fourteen.

5:27

Africa, In the Democratic

5:29

Republic of Congo, yesterday, pope

5:32

Francis spoke to crowds

5:35

of more than sixty five thousand people

5:37

In a stadium in Kincasa, the

5:40

pope told people not to

5:42

follow regionalism, tribalism

5:45

and ethnic rivalry 3rd

5:48

told people to think of a future

5:51

free of corruption. Today,

5:54

the pope will travel to South Sudan,

5:57

where he will be joined by the

5:59

archbishop of Canterbury the

6:01

leader of the Anglican Church.

6:05

Over eleven thousand Nigerians

6:08

are taking the oil company

6:10

shell to court in the

6:12

UK. The Nigerians

6:15

say that Shell damaged their

6:17

communities and way of

6:19

living particularly through

6:22

oil spills, which damaged

6:24

farms and contaminated drinking

6:27

water. Yesterday, Shell

6:29

reported profits of almost

6:31

forty billion dollars. Its

6:34

biggest profits ever. America's

6:39

in Belize, a prisoner

6:41

who has been held at Guantanamo Bay,

6:44

has been released. Majid

6:47

Khan was held by the United

6:49

States for almost twenty years

6:52

in different locations including

6:54

Guantanamo Bay, the US

6:56

military prison on the island

6:59

of Cuba. Khan, who

7:01

is Pakistani, Saudi Arabian, plans

7:04

to stay in the police. And

7:07

Brazil is planning to

7:09

sink its own ship. The

7:12

aircraft carrier, Sal Paulo, was

7:15

first used by the French Navy.

7:18

In nineteen sixty three, and

7:20

bought by Brazil in the year two

7:22

thousand 3rd could carry

7:24

up to forty planes. The

7:27

Sao Paulo was planned to be

7:29

scrapped in Turquia. However,

7:32

recently, Turquia said that the

7:34

ship had too much hazardous

7:37

material. So now Brazil

7:39

is looking for the correct place

7:42

to sink it. That's

7:44

your world news for

7:46

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