democrat senator mark warner. is this ukraine war the wake up call america needed? senator mark warner, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. is there an attitude in this city, washington, dc, that you politicians are now prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure ukraine s victory in the war with vladimir putin? well, my sense, stephen, is that this is not only an attitude that s reflected by politicians, by the american public, quite honestly, i think it is the british government, the british public. what has taken place over the last few months is, you know, the west, nato have come back together, an organisation that candidly a year ago at the end of the trump presidency was totally broken. i think a lot of that was due to the fact that the american intelligence community, along with the british had been very forward leaning up to the beginning of the conflict about vladimir putin s intentions and made the case that he was going to not only invade ukraine, but invade
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our army and passers by that we were tv. there was the first shot. returned and found her on the ground. borisjohnson signed a new host security deal with amanda swindon. both countries are considering joining the nato military alliance. ukrainian forces are advancing against russian troops just north of the country s second largest city, kharkiv. kharkiv is just 30 miles from the border and the operation may pose a wider threat to russia s war in the east. you can see in purple in this map the ukrainian counter attacks, which have taken a number of towns and pushed russian artillery back towards the border. the ukrainian military says it has recaptured four villages near kharkiv in recent days. he air raid sirens. the spectre of russian victory once haunted this city. but no more. for months, the invaders were at the city gates, but kharkiv has cast doubt vladimir putin s foot but kharkiv has cast out vladimir putin s foot soldiers, forcing them back towards the border. this
journalists were targeted. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and times radio presenterjenny kleeman and kate ferguson who s deputy political editor of the sun. hello deputy political editor of the sun. to you both. let at hello to you both. let s have a look at some of the headlines that have come in tonight. uk s new defence pact of sweden and finland on the front pages, including the times. saying britain would help fight any russian invasion. that story also leads the telegraph, showing the prime minister and his swedish counterpart enjoying a boat ride after signing their declaration. the financial times says the eu will retaliate if the uk rips up the trade deal for northern ireland. the guardian claims scores of planned new oil and gas projects could drive global temperatures past agreed limits. the i claims number ten wants new measures to tackle the rising cost of living, but the treas