altogether untrue. so on one sense it s material condition of the ship and secondly it s just very difficult to conduct our defence against a modern antiship crews missile. these are ukrainian missiles that were indigenously built in ukraine and appearto were indigenously built in ukraine and appear to be quite capable missiles. i ukraine and appear to be quite capable missiles. capable missiles. i am no military capable missiles. i am no military expert. capable missiles. i am no military expert. i d - capable missiles. i am no i military expert. i d imagine most people watching aren t military experts but what we can see over the last month or so is that the underdog ukraine has defended itself well. what is the sinking of this ship and perhaps some of the other failures and setbacks of russia tell us about their military capability? is it weak, is it old, is it ageing, is it ill planned? what s going on, why is russia struggling so much? there are umber of reasons for that and
damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. let s speak to our political correspondent nick eardley who s in westminster. tell us what some members of the prime minister s top team have been saying this morning. goad prime minister s top team have been saying this morning. saying this morning. good morning, victoria. it does saying this morning. good morning, victoria. it does feel saying this morning. good morning, victoria. it does feel like saying this morning. good morning, victoria. it does feel like there - saying this morning. good morning, victoria. it does feel like there is i victoria. it does feel like there is a bit of a concerted effort from the cabinet to get out on the airwaves and say we are behind the prime minister, we agree with what he said yesterday, we think he was right to apologise, and we now need to wait for that report from sue gray, the senior civil servant looking into all these allegations of parties. i ve got to say, although we are getting that mes
fast forward now, to november 2001, and air campaign by the united states and allies had ousted now osama bin laden, and the taliban. they were on the run. and here is the man who the west was pinning hopes of leading afghanistan, he was hamid karzai. here we are in kandahar surrounded by tribal elders and leaders and in about a week s time you will take the helm of the new afghanistan government, what is going through your head right now? it is an exciting time. it is a new beginning for afghanistan. if the world does not fit into afghanistan, if it leaves it weak, and basically a country in which one can interfere, all of these bad people will come again. but what truly sparked the beginning of the end of the right kind of american and other attention on afghanistan was the bush administration s
counts. but we shouldn t get all wrapped up. the bottom line is paul manafort went into court today, chris, and admitted to every bad thing that robert mueller s office said about him. and he s agreed to cooperate and to tell robert mueller everything he knows about any illegal conduct and to do that truthfully and accurately and that is a huge deal. he ran the trump campaign, obviously. he was in sensitive, high level meetings. mueller is investigating whether the campaign coordinated with russia. he got a deal to plead guilty to two counts. this also really validates and vindicates an investigation that the president called a witch hunt. the manafort team for a year is down playing and dismissing this case, calling it weak, selective prosecution. but paul manafort went in today saying i m guilty and he said he admitted to money laundering, bank fraud. pled guilty to two charges and admitted to misconduct and the mueller team had it all nailed
but there will be costs. and what that possibly could mean, and how the reaction might be there in ukraine. well, i don t think the russians will probably be bored by that statement because they ll consider it weak, not much. a foreign minister called it giving the russians carte blanche for war and everyone is going to pay the consequences, including the united states. within the ukraine, i think there will be quite a bit of disappointment because, you know, russians have been told many times that people are watching the situation, that the international community is concerned about things. but the russians really aren t that worried about people being concerned. as a matter of fact, they think it enhances their reputation. it s important to point out, ukraine is key for natural gas and oil moving to europe.