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A European Central Bank bond-buying plan crafted at the height of the euro zone crisis is in line with European law, judges from the European Court of Justice have ruled, throwing their weight behind the ECB and rebuffing a German challenge. As Sonia Legg reports, the ruling comes at a key time for the euro zone, particularly Greece.
The European Central Bank has taken the ultimate policy leap, launching a government bond-buying programme which will pump hundreds of billions of new money into a sagging euro zone economy. (ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)
The final hurdle to QE in the eurozone appears to have been cleared. But as Hayley Platt reports an EU court adviser - ruling on the legality of the last bond-buying scheme - has set conditions which need to be taken into account in the future.
Indigenous celebrate as a majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled against efforts to restrict native peoples' rights to reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners. IMAGES
Ukrainian representative Anton Korynevych brands Russia a "terrorist state", blaming the blowing up a major dam at Nova Kakhovka on Moscow. Ukraine is facing off against Russia in a case before the International Court of Justice relating to Moscow's occupation of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea. SOUNDBITE
UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, says "being relocated to Rwanda is not a punishmentm but an innovative way of addressing a major problem" after judges in the UK's High Court ruled that the government's plan to deport migrants to the central African country was lawful. Speaking in the House of Commons, Braverman explains that "by making it clear that they (refugees) cannot expect to stay in the UK, we will deter more people from coming and make such routes inviable". The controversial partnership was initiated by former PM Boris Johnson in an attempt to curb record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel, and last-gasp legal challenges blocked the departure of its first flight in June. SOUNDBITE
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