captured and held captive whilst campaigning to be president, now ingrid betancourt announces she's back on the campaign trail. and the soaring success of the gaming industry as microsoft buys the company behind call of duty for $70 billion. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. us secretary of state antony blinken is due to arrive in ukraine for urgent talks amid warnings that russia could carry out an attack "at any point." mr blinken also plans to meet the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov on friday, with the white house describing the situation as "extremely dangerous." russia has amassed 100,000 troops on the border, and over the weekend, moved forces to belarus forjoint military drills, but it denies planning an invasion. here's our diplomatic editor james landale. russian forces training near the border with ukraine, just some of thousands deployed there since the autumn, raising fears in the west that russia's planning an invasion. fears that are dismissed by moscow, but exacerbated by this — the arrival of russian forces this week in belarus, nort

and kidnapped by rebels when running for president, now ingrid betancourt is to run for colombia's topjob again. hello and welcome. we start here in london where another difficult day lies ahead for borisjohnson as speculation grows about a plot to remove him by members of his own party. it could be a decisive day. a group of the most recently elected conservative mps are believed to be preparing to submit letters of no confidence in the prime minister having met to discuss the issue on tuesday. one conservative mp told the bbc he believed the threshold needed to trigger a confidence vote would be reached. here's our political correspondentjonathan blake. late night talks in a private members club. a small group of conservative mps met here last night with talk of removing borisjohnson from office on the agenda. after a day of intense speculation, theirs was confidence among some backbenchers that enough to submit a letter of no confidence on the prime minister could be achieved. the prime minister again denied that a drinks party at the downing street party was against lockdown restricti

. >> looking relaxed and ready to face the future, ingrid betancourt announcing her bid for colombia's president 20 years after being kidnapped by rebels. the green party leader has been living abroad since 2008 as part of operation checkmate. she had been held in the jungle mostly in chains and described being forced to walk for days, moving from camp to camp and not being fed. the former rebel leader is leading the polls currently, but with colombia at a crossroads, the country may be ready to believe in ingrid betancourt again. ♪ laura: the winter olympics in beijing begin in less than three weeks and that brings a focus to china's xinjiang region. beijing is accused of abusing the human rights of the weaker minority but china is -- uygr minority but china is looking for snow sports in the region. >> this is the image of china you will see over the next few weeks. beautiful snow covered slopes. communist party leaders hope it will persuade miions to grab boots and come here. like this man. he isn't near the host city of beijing. this is xinjiang, a troubled region hoping for a maj

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and kidnapped by rebels when running for president, now ingrid betancourt is to run for colombia's topjob again.

captured and held captive whilst campaigning to be president, now ingrid betancourt announces she's back on the campaign trail. and the soaring success of the gaming industry as microsoft buys the company behind call of duty for $70 billion.

i mean, ingrid betancourt, who of course is a former congresswoman in colombia, and of course was famously held hostage for six years by the farc guerrillas in colombia, is standing in the elections, the presidential elections. and she says that, you know, "you need the centre to hold a lot more in latin america." absolutely. she's against this kind of polarisation. you agree with that? absolutely. and i think that boric, the new president in chile, is playing to the centre. he understands that he has a programme, he wants things to get done and he needs the other 46%. so, look, you are one of the most famous latina women in the world. how far do you see it as your mission, through your writing, to explain and bring south america to the world, as it were? because a lot of your books are set in a country that could be anywhere in latin america, really, couldn't it? it's not a specific one. yeah. well, i don't see myself as having a mission. i love to tell a story, and the stories that i tell are always immersed in a social and political context. that's why i can't write romance novels becau

ingrid betancourt, announces she's back on the campaign trail. and let's talk about the weather: is the language of climate change used by scientists just plain boring?

the law is sit for the positions in february the colombian politician ingrid betancourt has announced she will be running for president on a centrist ticket 20 years ago, but uncle was abducted by the fork. the country's largest rebel proof and held captive in the jungle for more than 6 years. she returned to politics last year and has promised to fight corruption and economic dispatch. a t and t and verizon have agreed to delay activating some of their 5 g services. off the u. s. airlines wanted could cause catastrophic disruption to add trouble. they say the new technology might affect corporate instruments and random, many aircraft unusable. the canadian province of quebec has introduced new restrictions on alcohol sales for the unvaccinated store, selling liquor, and canvas will now only be accessible to people who are vaccinated against cove. at 19 rebec has been hit hard by a wave of on the front cases. now for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic, germany has talked to 100000 new infections in a day. the country's disease control agencies says it's recorded more tha

no, the columbian presidential hopeful ingrid betancourt has told l 20. her country as quote fed up with extreme political positions and violence. bettingcourt announced her candidacy on tuesday. she ran to the top job 20 years ago, but she was kidnapped by the fog rebels and held for 6 and a half years in an interview with our alexander m p, etc. she outlined her vision for columbia. your 1st bid for the presidency, 2 decades ago was cut short when you were abducted by the resolution regarding the forces of cologne. we are far so many years later what made you want to run? well, i think this is a moment in the, in the history of my country where things are changing a very high speed. this is due 1st, because of the peace process that made colombians look at their reality in a different way. obviously they are very well known internationally as a former hostage, you bring sort of celebrity power to your candidacy. why should colombians vote for you? well, for us, because i'm a woman and we have another vision. war is a man thing. woman is about reconcilia

and colombian, full politician ingrid baton floor has announce that she will be running for president on a centrist ticket. 20 years ago. betancourt was abducted by the farm, the country's largest rebel group, and held captive in the jungle for more than 6 years. she returned to politics last year and has promised to fight corruption and economic disparity. francis president m on one my call has addressed the european parliament. in his remarks, he laid out the political strategy and aims for the french presidency of the council of the you. that includes how to fight the pandemic, the rise of aggressive foreign powers and climate change. here is some of what the french president had to say for the me, i'm a pretty good panoramic is showing this solidarity isn't a weakness. it's a force greater than any other because it allowed us to save lives, protect, job. it allowed us to get together a vaccine for us in europe is the spirit is already, there are 2 that lead us as europeans to be the most open in the world. as far as ex voting vaccine, as a gift, and i hope that our presidency will

she can mean change. betancourt will face a half a dozen candidates in their centuries coalition and the primary march. the question is, if her popularity will translate into votes, i think that ingrid strongest point is how she embodies the reconciliation of columbia. because of her particular history and because of the country's history, she's really trying to mend the conclusion homes. but the country is in a confrontation moment. not really in a reconciliation mode. so to change that narrative from confrontation to reconciliation in a period of 2 months is really a poll order. a challenge that 20 years later ingrid bethany core is ready to face head on convinced that she still the best option for columbia to fight corruption and overcome the country's history of violence. allison, the impurity adjustable with that. ah, no, again, i'm fully back to bo. with the headlines on al jazeera u. s. secretary of state antony blinking has arrived in ukraine to meet president for him. is lensky. as the white house warns russia could attack at any moment. lincoln, his you told talks with russ