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The high court has ruled the governments use of a so—called vip lane for the awarding of contracts to supply personal protective equipment during the pandemic was unlawful. campaigners brought the case arguing two companies were given lucrative deals because of their connections. 0ur correspondent, lucy manning, has been following the ruling: this is all about the enormous amounts of money the government spends in the first stage of the pandemic and things like masks and aprons and overalls fo...

Wrapping up, and speak to sam asi, whos producer and presenter of bbc cinematic at bbc arabic, as well as being a member of the hollywood foreign press association. sam, thanks for joining sam, thanks forjoining us. i mean, it seems like an odd question to say what is the atmosphere like there, but what is the atmosphere like there? its very calm. its actually very nice. im enjoying it. its not bad. yes, we dont have all of the noise and the clamour, all of the stars and the glamour of the style...

Newspaper claiming that a drug known to treat chest pain was detected with reports in russia that it is not performance enhancing, however, that drug does appear to have been the basis of other bans from olympic competition in the past. but again, the ioc has not commented on why they have halted the ceremony. nbc news has not been able to independently confirm any of those reports circulating in russia right now. weve reached out to the international skating union, to the russian olympic commit...

So we dont make us make any predictions and listen to your children. [laughter] so much fine once again. that does it for us we will be back next watching, enjoy the super bowl. ♪ ♪ >> i am sandra smith. americans in ukraine told to leave now as the fears arrive of of a whole scale russian invasion. ♪ ♪ >> if you stay you are assuming a risk with no guarantee there will be in the other opportunity to leave. >> russian troops conduct military exercises along ukraines border, the white hou...

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Far as london and washington are concerned. i think thats slightly amateurish move shows the importance of somebody who really understands putin can hold their own ground as angela merkel did. interesting that it is the finnish leader who stepped into that role. not someone who has as much clout in europe however as of course angela merkel did. rachel, the cost of living _ of course angela merkel did. rachel, the cost of living crisis _ of course angela merkel did. rachel, the cost of living cri...

Shaping his thinking. i think you have western leaders, macron and others, president biden, who have tried to reiterate for putin that it may not be quite as easy as he thinks it could be. >> and youre also professor mcfall. so, put on the professor hat for a moment. because i was reading some of the history some of us may have forgotten, if we ever knew it, which is how ukraine won its independence. in 1991, from boris yeltsin as a move to exacerbate the soviet union and gorbachev and awarding ...

Today the international testing agency revealed that russian skating sensation kamila valiyeva failed a drug test before her olympic performance. more importantly, russia knew about it. now, a hearing will decide if she can compete next week. and it is still unclear if the gold she helped win with her team on monday will be revoked. the scandal continues to delay at warding of medals include the silver to team usa and the bronze to team japan. and shaun white, he has ended his legendary olympic ...

Change could be severe storm lots become more common. stormy tides hitting the black france. the total after storm everyone could reach £500 million. the male does feature the 02 but the main story the my5 who describes britain from hostile nations including russia and china. in the ft officer and of the light would not lead entirely continued tensions on the ukrainian border as tensions on the ukrainian border as tension is mounting with president biden is warding tonight that there is more tr...

Because we have to... im afraid this is a highly contagious disease and we have to do what we can to stop its spread. the uk—wide inquiry into covid wont start work until next year but the snp has called for it to start immediately, accusing the uk government of "ramptant cronyism" over the awarding of contracts during the crisis. the partys westminster leader said the uk had seen "the very best in our society" during these tough times. but the pandemic has led to opportunism, for greed and fo...