BBC News Presenter and Correspondent. Previously in Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade & lots in between. Dad. Heart belongs to @PedroZegrePenim.
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In August, Donald Trump Jr went hunting in Mongolia with Umar Kremlev, the Russian businessman who paid for part of his wedding celebrations.
Kremlev has a criminal record – and close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal security service:
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Mark Lowen retweeted
This is quite something ! Serbian RTV channel starts yesterday's bulletin by apologizing to viewers👇
"For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology”
“This victory marks the end of institutional fear. For the first time in years, we can breathe freely.”
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New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.
The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.
WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…
Trump has a new enemy: one of the world’s most democratic countries.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
Incredible news in Serbia, as grassroots student-led movement unseats Aleksandar Vucic, in power for 14 years, widely criticised as an autocrat. If there’s one thing I learnt from my 3 years there, it’s that Serbs know how to party. Tonight will be wild!
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw5y…
Just hit by a huge wave of tear gas, our eyes filled with it, a policeman hitting me on the leg with a baton (I’m fine), pushing the final protesters away from the end of the march. #Paris
The crowds keep coming. Huge numbers walking from Porte d’Italie to Porte de Vincennes. All peaceful for now
Protest filling up at Porte d’Italie on the southern ringroad of Paris as police try to contain the unrest. But even if it’s quiet today, this kicks the can down the road as unions have promised rolling strikes from next month. And Macron has no money to throw at the problem.
Remnants of last weekend’s violence - and preparations for more protests tomorrow in Paris, as France’s interior minister pledges 70,000 police and military units to avoid a repeat of the chaos.
Back in Paris to cover another planned day of protests tomorrow - and we're staying a couple of streets away from the building where I lived from 2005 to 2007 with my two French flatmates as a squeaky-clean 22 year old intern in the BBC Paris bureau... Oh les souvenirs!
Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin, the man who unleashed the biggest war in Europe since 1945:
“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being the humanitarian. You are, you are humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that. I commend you”.
Welcome to the club, @RobJetten, from two dads of two amazing, happy, thriving, stable, loved little people.
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his fiance, Argentinean Olympian field hockey-star Nicolas Keenan, are expecting a baby in 2027, via a surrogate. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much”.
Every day is more staggering than the last.
Just going to leave this here, as @BenWallace70 tells @BBCPM that it is clear that Trump wants Putin to win.
