facilities used by rebel forces. energy bills for millions of households in britain are to rise by 80% in october. now, though, hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it is six months since vladimir putin ordered a multi front military invasion of ukraine. he set in motion a war which has already taken a terrible human toll and had profound consequences for european security, big power relations, and the world economy. putin calculated it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t want to believe it. but by mid january, kyiv s defence minister, oleksii
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. a national emergency has been declared in pakistan after almost 1,000 people died following severe monsoon flooding that began injune. more than 33 million people have been affected by the country s heaviest rainfall in decades. hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed, and thousands of people have taken refuge in relief camps. the worst affected areas are in the provinces of balochistan and sindh in the south, from where our pakistan correspondent pumza fihlani reports. moving to higher ground. families wade through the water with the only belongings they could salvage. in southern pakistan, many streets have been turned into rivers. families have set up tents on the few roads that are still visible. it s been more than ten days of heavy rains and yet the streets are still flooded. this is one of the main roads linking this community to the outside world. something has also happened here. many of the
This has been a deadly failure of deacon flexion. Complexion is the by which humanitarian agencies engage with Defence Forces to ensure they are protected in conflict zones, and it was obviously a deadly failure. It cannot be rushed aside or covered over and i do not believe that any australian would expect us to do anything other than to continue to demand the transparency and accountability. The former United States House Speaker nancy pelosi a close ally of President Biden has signed a letter together with almost forty Congressional Democrats calling for a halt to Weapons Transfers to israel. The letter urges the white house to conduct its own probe into an israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers on monday. It says the strike against the humanitarian convoy along with the ever worsening humanitarian crisis in gaza makes it unjustifiable to approve further weapons deliveries. So along with the growing number of countries aid organisations have stressed the need for an indepen
[sound of gunfire] u.s. embassy in lebanon tells americans to evacuate as the fighting between hezbollah fighters and israeli forces ramps up on israel s northern border. good evening i m jon scott and this is a special two-hour edition of the fox report. jon: we have team coverage for you this evening alexandria huff following president biden s response in beach delaware steve hagan on the ground in northern israel and congressman andy biggs joins us on the latest developments in the ongoing conflict. but first alex hogan joins us from tel-aviv with the latest on israel s push into the gaza strip. alex. reporter: as israeli forces push forward in to northern gaza idf says in last several hours it managed to take out a hamas control center outpost as well as targeting some of those underground tunnels it s about a week since we saw a multibranch effort really ramp up today we saw the head of israel s general staff meeting with other demanders and he congratulated his