Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of launching air attacks after a limited pause was agreed. Also: Mexico City waves goodbye to bullfighting, and why the JFK assassination has sparked so many conspiracy theories.
Chapter 1: Why did Russia break its pledge not to attack Ukraine?
You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 19th of March. President Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of breaking a promise not to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Turkish police have arrested the president's biggest political rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, the popular mayor of Istanbul.
And the UN says two of its staff have been killed at one of its compounds in Gaza.
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And look at the work of Hans Zimmer, composer of some of the world's most memorable film music. Putin is playing a game, so says the German foreign minister after the Russian president appeared to go back on his promise not to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Russia reportedly hit an electricity system in Ukraine just hours after the Trump-Putin phone call.
President Zelensky said Russia's words didn't match its actions.
Even after Putin's conversation with the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, when Putin said that he was supposedly giving the order to stop the strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector, There were 150 drone attacks overnight, including on energy facilities. There were also strikes on transport.
Unfortunately, two hospitals were hit and there were strikes on ordinary urban infrastructure. That means to say Putin's words are very, very at odds with reality.
For its part, Russia accused Ukraine of attempting to disrupt peace talks by targeting an oil storage facility on its territory. We'll hear from Moscow in a moment, but first to our diplomatic correspondent James Landau in Kiev.
According to President Zelensky, there were a number of drone strikes across the country. And as a result of that, there have been reports of a hospital in the town of Sumy being hit. There's also been reports of an attack on a rail power station in Dnipropetrovsk. directly in contradiction to Mr Putin's promises that he wouldn't target energy.
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Chapter 2: What is the current situation in Gaza following recent attacks?
A lover of horror and evil that is really hard to articulate. It felt like Armageddon. I'm in the pediatric ICU now and I have a little infant only a few months old. She ended up having pretty significant internal bleeding. In the bed near her, we have a little girl that is... I want to say six years old. She has the word Majhul written on her, which means unknown.
We don't know if her parents survived where they are. She had internal bleeding. She was operated on. She also has shrapnel penetrating her brain on the left side and is not moving the right side of her body.
The renewed attacks came after Hamas refused Israel's demands to renegotiate the Gaza ceasefire. The Palestinian group wanted to continue with the original plan to hold talks on a second phase, including a full withdrawal of Israeli troops.
That was always strongly opposed by right-wing members of the Israeli cabinet, like Itamar Ben-Gavir, who resigned over the original agreement and who has now been reappointed as national security minister. Shortly before coming into the studio, we got an update from our Middle East correspondent, Yolande Nell.
We've actually been hearing within the past hour from the UN, which believes that two of its staff have been killed and others have been injured after a UN compound was apparently hit. The Israeli military have been very quick coming out with a statement saying that they did not attack a UN building in Deir el-Balak in central Gaza.
But the BBC has verified footage that does show injured foreign workers. Two of them are still wearing the blue UN flak jackets, arriving in a UN car and in a Palestinian ambulance at a hospital in Deir el-Balak. So we're still waiting for more information there. The UN has confirmed that it's investigating all of this, says that the cause at the moment is not clear.
Otherwise, in the past few hours, we have been hearing about continuing Israeli airstrikes elsewhere in Gaza from local people, suggesting that more than 20 people have been killed, with figures coming in all the time from the Hamas-run health ministry.
We've got those images of people, those all-too-familiar scenes, people fleeing once again from the north and from the east of Khan Yunis, where those evacuation orders have been dropped recently. by the Israeli military.
So all of this adding to the sense that Israel's offensive does go on in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Prime Minister said that this was just the beginning, that the aim is to keep up the pressure on Hamas to release hostages. There has been a failure of indirect talks to extend the Gaza ceasefire in the past months. week or so.
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Chapter 3: Why does the JFK assassination continue to fuel conspiracy theories?
So it's impossible to say if any new information has emerged so far?
Chapter 4: What new information has been released about the JFK assassination?
There are a few nuggets that we don't think we knew before. So, for example, there's a conversation between a CIA agent and someone in the KGB, which was the Soviet intelligence agency. And they're talking about Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot JFK. And KGB say, oh, he wasn't one of ours. But when he was in the Soviet Union, we were watching him.
We know he had a pretty tempestuous relationship with his wife. We also watched him doing target practice with a rifle and he wasn't very good at it. They called him a lousy shot. And then there are other documents and you think, well, how did they relate to the assassination of JFK? It's quite confusing.
So will it be enough to end the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination?
Absolutely not, Ollie, because I think people that are really invested in the conspiracy theories, and many Americans do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. They think it was either another government agency, a foreign government, or the mafia. A lot of people are going to say, well, these records are from the US National Archives.
They were given to them by the CIA, and the CIA wouldn't have handed over anything. Embarrassing. They must still have... secret records about the assassination. The CIA say that isn't the case and they've handed over everything. But there are still some redactions. President Trump said none of the documents would be redacted. You'd be able to see what was on them.
But on a lot of them, you can see that familiar black rectangle, which is blocking out names and addresses, kind of obvious things. But some documents are still redacted. So I think no one is expecting a huge bombshell. There's going to be gems, I think, but there's not going to be a big smoking gun.
Charlotte Gallagher. But why has the 1963 shooting of President Kennedy inspired so many conspiracy theories? We asked author David Aronovich. Because it was so traumatic.
The idea that an incredibly popular president could be murdered by a single deranged individual was simply unacceptable. We had a kind of equivalent of it after Princess Diana died when some people had to have a conspiracy theory. It just wasn't psychologically acceptable to believe that something so kind of contingent could happen. It had to be the result of a much, much bigger story.
And so people have spent 60 years trying to find out that bigger story. One of the words that conspiracy theorists traditionally used about people who don't believe in conspiracy theories is they call them sheeple. Sheep who simply go along with what they call the orthodox version of something or the conventional wisdom. In other words, you know something that other people don't.
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