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To have new members? you have geographic coherence and depth so that you now have all of northern europe, not including the north atlantic alliance, that gives you coherent oversight and control of the aerospace and the sea space around northern europe and the ability of forces to work together much more seamlessly and operations, whether they asked the 14 the efforts such as we had for a long time in afghanistan, kosovo or any contingencies that may arise in the defence of that part of europe. ...

We look at what the nato secretary general said today, nato makes sweden safer and stronger, we know that finland has joined as well, what does this mean for nato to have new members?— this mean for nato to have new members? you have geographic coherence _ members? you have geographic coherence and _ members? you have geographic coherence and depth _ members? you have geographic coherence and depth so - members? you have geographic coherence and depth so that - members? you have geographic| co...

Here is president biden after the decision came down. >> dissent states in the decision rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. end quote. i break with tf agree with thatm the dissent. the court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions and i strongly, strongly disagree with the courts decision. >> jasmine wright is live in washington, d.c. for us. were learning how the white house has been preparing for the ruling. >> reporter: yeah, even as just as late as ...

Too? it is a good question. the - simple answer is yes, the government is prepared to act. it is concerned about what is going on at thames water and about the situation with the water industry generally. what ministers have been at pains to say is that they do have contingencies in place for every eventuality. they are hoping thames water can raise the money privately. they can go to shareholders, say we need more money to service debt, and it will be done that way. that is the hope. there is a...

Paying dividends to private shareholders over the past years and racking up debt at the same time. how can that be allowed? labour said it would be scandalous. but the main message i think ministers are trying to get over is they are not prepared to get over is they are not prepared to let the company fell. water will need to be flowing and they are adamant that will happen, the taps will not suddenly run dry, and to ensure that happens, those contingencies are being considered. thank you. lets ...

And we are having to re—hire engineers, bring talent in, really rebuilding a broken business. that takes time. a picture emerges of a creaking system that when money was cheap saw debt piled on mainly to the benefit of shareholders, and now when the public demands more investment and better services, faces funding difficulties, with the taxpayer having to wait in the wings. quite a few things to talk about with faisal islam. first of all, customers watching wondering what the future is in term...

Understand that responsibility to consist of? what did lead government departments in the civil contingencies field mean to you? it means if that risk begins to materialise, it is the departments responsibility to act appropriately. also, before that stage, it is the department was not responsibility to have adequate surveillance to that sort of risk. and therefore, a secretary of state, it was my responsibility to ensure, as much as possible, given all the other pressures, that there was adequa...

Think the west should prepare for some claps of the russian government, do you think that is correct? >> i think we have to prepare for a wide range of contingencies and thats one of. that does not mean that its likely. you would have to prepare for high impact, low probability affairs. >> what does all this mean for ukraine? >> very beneficial for ukrainians. making slow progress in their offensive and so any disruption to russian command and control in addition to the destruction of their logi...

His report to the inquiry, it has been said that what sounded complicated on paper proved complicated on paper proved complicated in practice. the blood statutory overlap between local authority, secretary of state and the civil contingencies act duties would and could create a significant operational confusion over prime protection responsibility during emergencies. damejenny, do you agree that there was some confusion over roles in emergency preparedness, resilience and response arising out of...

Management structure for dealing with civil— management structure for dealing with civil contingencies and emergencies which again perhaps failed _ emergencies which again perhaps failed to— emergencies which again perhaps failed to focus on preventing sufficiently the devastating consequences as opposed to dealing with them _ consequences as opposed to dealing with them. but exercise signus wrote was a _ with them. but exercise signus wrote was a seminal moment because it was designed _ was...