2024-12-29
32 分钟The Russian president apologises over the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace - without directly taking blame. Also: chess champion walks out of tournament over jeans row.
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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday, 29th December, these are our main stories.
President Putin has issued a rare apology after the Azerbaijan Airlines crash on Wednesday,
but stopped short of confirming that Russian missiles brought down the plane.
Lebanon has expelled dozens of former Syrian military figures who'd fled across the border
as the new authorities in Damascus pursue supporters of the deposed president,
Bashar al Assad, an influential Sufi religious leader, has been kidnapped in northern Mali.
Also in this podcast, Magnus Carlsen certainly shifted the image of chess grandmasters,
and at the Rapid Chess Tournament in New York, he refused a demand to wear smart trousers.
A problem at a major chess event, the wearing of jeans.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to Azerbaijan's president
for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane,
describing it as what he called a tragic incident in Russian airspace.
It's been widely claimed that Russia accidentally shot the plane down as it tried to land in Grozny on Wednesday,
but Mr.
Putin did not accept direct Russian responsibility, according to Kremlin reports of the conversation.
Mr.
Putin added that there needed to be an objective and transparent investigation from Moscow.
Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports.