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Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exh...

2. 6 billion by the end of the next parliament. Then, by giving hmrc more money and cracking down on tax that should be paid, but isnt, they think they would raise this 5 billion a year within the next few years. There is a question of ambition here, about how much labour wants to do if it wins power, and what we are hearing is here is a few billion. Small change in Big Government terms, is that it . £5 billion is not small change. It is in terms of government spending. Well, £5 billion will m...

Pivotal moment. A group of swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of human rights. Here they are. The court found switzerland had violated some of their human rights by not taking sufficient action on Climate Change. Switzerlands efforts were called woefully inadequate. This ruling could influence the law in 46 other europen countries, including the uk. It comes after last month was officially declared the worlds warmest March On Record. We start with this...

Looking at here are tanks from the ninth on yunis overnight saturday into sunday. There are dozens and dozens of tanks dozens and dozens of armored fighting vehicles. And what the idf is saying that it is done here is pulled its Ground Forces out of khan yunis. Theyve been in there for the past three or more months since december and the idf says, is this is effectively marking an end of Ground Operations in gaza in there current form. Now weve been down along the border today. The war is clearl...

Also on the programme, the uk prime minister, rishi sunak, accuses china of interfering in democracy after a parliamentary researcher was arrested in march, accused of spying for china a claim he denies. President joe biden ends his trip to vietnam with a warning against the threat or use of force in the disputed south china sea. As the shocking footage of an 11 Year Old Girl being attacked by an American Bully Xl Dog in britain goes viral, the Uk Government looks into banning the breed. Joining...

Destructive israel gaza war, killing over 33,000 palestinians. Speaking at a cabinet meeting, Prime Minister netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages, captured by hamas in october, were released. Translation the achievements of the war are great. We eliminated 19 out of 2a of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. We killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. We purged shifa and many other Terrorist Headquarters as well. We dest...

taking centre stage — rebecca welch will become the first female referee of a premier league game. brighton and west ham are hoping tojoin liverpool in bypassing the europa league playoff round with an immediate place in the last 16 — a possible prize tonight. seven wickets, but a bit of sunburn — englands bowlers have a tough first day of the womens test against india. also coming up on sportsday — a world champion, an olympic champion and pete the horse — theyre all part of...

pathetic joke it is. >> the pepper master in chief donald trump has directed the sycophants to target joe biden as part of an effort to undermine president bidens re-election. >> good morning, everyone. im phil mattingly in new york. erica hill joins me. poppy is off today. republicans in the house are focusing on impeachment unanimously launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden despite many acknowledging there is no proof of high crimes and misdemeanors. and donald...

of 2020 with cut—price meals and has since been blamed for increasing covid deaths. our health correspondent ellie price has the story. katsu curry. it was a dont give up the dayjob moment. his dayjob at the time was chancellor of the exchequer. he didnt give it up, but ended up eventually getting promoted to the topjob. the eat out to help out scheme was his departments brainchild and its something that keeps coming up at this inquiry. rishi sunak has repeatedly said the government ...

the champions in scotland beaten in the lunchtime kick off at kilmarnock. also coming up on sportsday... leicester get off to a stormer — as they come back to win their champions cup opener, with sale impressing in their first game as well. hello there and welcome along to the programme. and it could so well have been one of the upsets of the season. but manchester city found their way against strugglers luton at kenilworth road, to come from behind for victory... they were without s...