News for you . Premieres tonight at nine On Cnn . Youre, in the cnn newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York and we begin with President Biden on the verge of a major decisions in that could dramatically reshape the war in ukraine. The president is considering whether to allow ukraine to use a western longrange missiles that could strike at targets deep in russian territory. Uks prime minister keir starmer, refusing to answer whether that came up in his meeting with President Biden, but russian president Vladimir Putin is warning that if biden does give The Green light, russia will quote, be at war with nato. Cnns Kevin Liptack is following this for us. Kevin, what are you hearing about the president s thinking around this . Will President Biden certainly seems more open to this idea. Then he had in the past. And i think that tells you enormous amount of pressure that President Biden is feeling not only from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, but also members of congress, includ
It s fu him to end this but today was about having the chance to not talk about a tactic but a strategy in relation to ukraine. Russia s president vladimir putin says lifting these restrictions would represent the nato alliance s direct participation in the ukraine war. We heard the same argument from russia s representative at the un. Translation: if the decision to lift restrictions is really taken, from that moment, nato countries are conducting direct war with russia. In this case, we will have to take the relevant decisions with all the consequences for this that the western aggressors were phase. Ukraine very much wants to be able to use these weapons. Our security correspondent gordon corera explains why. These are the western weapons at the heart of today s debate. They include american atacms and this, the british storm shadow system, which has a range of at least 250 kilometres. Storm shadow has already been used by ukraine against a russian base in occupied crimea last year,
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Russias expulsion of six british diplomats from moscow accusing them of spying and sabotage. The foreign offices dismiss these claims is completely baseless. The kremlin have stripped the officials of their accreditation. Our correspondent is in washington with what is on the agenda of the meeting. With what is on the agenda of the meeting with what is on the agenda of the meeting. The main thing on the meeting. The main thing on the agenda the meeting. The main thing on the agenda between the meeting. The main thing on the agenda between the the meeting. The main thing on the agenda between the two. The agenda between the two leaders is the big Question of whether or not to let ukraine use western long range missiles to fire into russia at specific targets and this is something that it was discussed earlier this week with the uk Foreign Secretary and the us Counterpart Antony blinken were on a visit to ukraine and they heard their pleas from ukrainian government from president zelensk