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The head of state, the royal family sees it up to individual countries to decide their future, but it will undoubtedly be a emphasis on shared interests and we being together even if not everyone wants the red carpet rolled out for them. breonna mills, sky news, in believes. >> time for the weather. >> look forward to brighter skies, the weather, sponsored by qatar airways. >> more sunshine to come, theres a blocking high over scandinavia, the weekend is approaching, its going to be a chilly sta...

I was there and seen 60% of the city was destroyed and there were so many civilian casualties at that time. kyiv is an extremely beautiful city. its got an amazing opera house and amazing central square and all these beautiful churches around the city. definitely, look, people are preparing for this on every street here youre seeing a fort -- check points, sandbags, trucks and metros and subway trains blocking pathways for potential russian entry. at many of these places youre seeing anti tank g...

Point out there is no reason to do it for young and healthy kids, especially in the state of florida. we never had a mask mended of course, but our guidance from our health department is not to wear these cloth masks, and i think it needs to be said, because people have been lied to for two years, and so i was -- i didnt want it to be thinking that they were told to do this by me because i certainly wouldnt do that. and you know, they talk about oh, by letting someone have a choice to take off t...

Challenging practical questions including how the planes would actually be transferred from poland to ukraine, right. so are they going to fly? where will they depart from? where will they land? those are important questions here, but we are not certainly preventing or blocking or discouraging poland. that is their sovereign country. they make -- they make their own decisions, but it is not as easy as just moving planes around. >> polands president has said his country would not send planes to u...

With direct steps. >> during that interview, zelenskyy again asked for fighter jets. but a proposal to get them from poland does not appear to be moving forward. the idea that has been floated is that poland would give its old russian-made fighter jets to ukraine, and then the u.s. would replace them by sending f-16 jets to warsaw. u.s. officials tell nbc news it is not clear if the logistics would even work. yesterday white house press secretary jen psaki talked about the challenges of this pro...

Insight in how -- you can find that at subscriber ever you get your podcasts. you can just search for sophie ridge on sunday. and it should be available later today. back of course to the destruction brought on ukraine -- by the relentless attacks from russia. the shelling and air strikes on those early years has been a tactic previously used by moscow in chechnya and syria. to try and break the will of local populations. ukrainian government is also accusing russians of blocking aids blaze tryi...

In war, a single bridge can sometimes make all the difference. a bridge and a town determined to keep it from the enemy. and thats what happened here in voznesensk, a quiet farming community that stood its ground. security cameras captured the moment russian tanks roared into town, determined to seize the bridge, and beyond it, a clear road across southern ukraine. but the locals were already setting a trap. all hands on deck. blocking off roads, guiding the russians into an ambush. gunfire a lo...

The beginning and when i first spoke to this i said freedom is going to cost, it is going to cost us as well in the united states. the cost, it is going to cost us as well in the united states.— in the united states. the severe sanctions mean _ in the united states. the severe sanctions mean to _ in the united states. the severe sanctions mean to russias - in the united states. the severe - sanctions mean to russias economy is collapsing. more and more and more household names are holding trad...

Foot. >> how has your job changed? you mentioned that your website is blocked. are you still able to reach fellow russians? >> actually, we have. the blocking hasnt impacted our readership. we still have millions of readers every day, and on our telegram channel which jumped to well north of a million in a few days. so yes, people are seeking out independent, uncensored information, and im just really proud to be able to provide it. >> you recently tweeted that we may have to redefine the word d...

And why have you decided its still worth doing? well, of course, circumventing blocking is nothing new to the bbc world service. theres a number of markets we operate in — so particularly our iranian services, our farsi services foraudiences in iran, but also services we do for audiences in north korea, for example, and whatever information were able to get into mainland china, where weve also been blocked for many, many years. so encouraging audiences to circumvent blocking is nothing new for...