February 2a News Today

of the invasion. ukrainian forces have launched a long—awaited counter—offensive in the south of the country. a very good early morning to you. now on bbc news, its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. not only has ukraine been irrevocably changed by vladimir putins military aggression, so has russia. putin has used the conflict to crack down harder on dissent and instil an ever more strident brand of nationalism that made life in moscow unbearable for my guest today. ...

of wales will never again handle large cash donations to be passed to his charities. charles faced criticism after being presented with millions in cash from a former qatari prime minister. singer r kelly could face decades in prison as he awaits sentencing after being found guilty of ringleading a violent scheme to lure women and children for him to sexually abuse. and coming up in sport, britains emma raducanu is out of wimbledon after being defeated by frances caroline garcia in str...

are a clear and present danger to american democracy. after a second resignation in as many years, downing street says borisjohnson is looking at whether the role of an adviser on standards is needed after lord geidt stepped down last night. and the bank of england hikes up interest rates to a 13—year high and warns that inflation could hit 11%. tonight with the context, chief political commentator at the i newspaper paul waugh and former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria. w...

president biden makes an impassioned call for stricter gun laws — following a string of mass shootings in the us. atrain is a train is derailed in southern germany. and its 100 days since russia launched its invasion of ukraine, with fighting continuing along the entire front line in the east of the country. a service of thanksgiving honouring the queens 70 years on the throne has been taking place today at st pauls cathedral. prince charles represented the queen, who withdrew from t...

hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. the polish president, andrzej duda, has been given a standing ovation in the ukrainian parliament after he delivered a passionate speech in support of ukraine. its the first address in person by a foreign leader to the parliament in kyiv since the russian invasion began. president duda, who earlier met with ukraines president zelenskiy, said that only ukraine has the right to decide its future. if ukraine is pushed to s...

The february 2a cease—fire lines to get a respite from war, that is their choice and we should not be present in to do that and in fact we should be doing everything we can to help them build a modern military tenable of that russian aggression. and eventually to see ukraine welcomed as part of a transient clinic family. fin welcomed as part of a transient clinic family.— welcomed as part of a transient clinic family. on that point, how united is nato _ clinic family. on that point, how uni...

Regional centre. so i think we already won and he already lost. but how it will happen next, i think that after russia will be completely exhausted with the attempts to gain some successes in the east, ukraine will launch a counterattack which should be successfully enough to liberate our land. that is our aim. to liberate at least, before february 2a, so russian troops should retreat to this line. after this i think we need to have negotiations and look for a political decision about the rest o...

Close the ukrainian army, they are currently in that region, the situation there is bad. they do not have electricity, for example, any more. it is very important to say, for russia, the donbas region it is an issue of ambition, not from february 2a, but from 2014. this an issue of ambition, not from february 24, but from 2014. this is very important and the damage is getting bigger and bigger every day, at least 100 ukrainian soldiers are killed in donbas and many civilians, because russian roc...

Being able to travel to a competition venue because of where youre from or which passport that you hold. thats the kind of issues that well be addressing. yeah, and i do want to address that work with you later in the interview, but lets take this piece by piece. lets go back to february 2a, the news that went around the world that vladimir putin had launched this invasion of ukraine. as soon as you read and saw that news, did you realise it was going to have very serious implications for you? s...

Went into overdrive, backing the assault, claiming ukrainian soldiers were surrendering en masse. a different mood here at one of russias last—surviving independent papers. to show solidarity with ukraine, tomorrows edition will be in russian and ukrainian. the papers editor, dmitry muratov, won last years nobel peace prize. he believes that president putin has done irreparable damage to his country. translation: unfortunately, i have to say very bitter words. i think that today, february 2a, ...