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be sent back to myanmar. and a helping hand for graduates. president biden cancels $10,000 of student debt for millions of americans. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in ukraine, where the countrys president, volodymyr zelensky, says a russian missile strike on a rail station has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more. mr zelensky had previously warned th...

schneider live at the supreme court with this breaking news coming in. jessica, tell us more about this latest ruling on religious liberty. >> reporter: this is another decision from this court that has the effect here of eroding the barrier between church and state. the court in a 6-3 decision saying a schools concerns about coercion of students and its desires to keep its public school free from these outward displays of religion, the court saying thats outweighed by a coachs free sp...

Russian economy that was originally envisioned. >> only so much that can be when theres big buyers on the market. ambassador, the nato secretary general announced this morning that the alliance thats going to be increasing the number of high-readiness forces in the eastern part of its territory from about 40,000 to well over 300,000, how significant is this? >> this is a prudent measure to defend our east european nato allies from kremlin aggression. moscow is threatening lithuania because they ...

There would be even greater nato support, not just for finland but also for ukraine. and putins had a very bad six weeks as a result of the invasion, and its only getting worse for him. >> and heres increasingly isolated, right? >> extraordinarily so. i mean, he had real soft power only through buying politicians and businessmen in europe. thats almost all gone now as a result of this major invasion. the change in especially german policy from one of kind of appeasement to resolute defense again...

Stopping kremlin aggression right now. that leads to measures which are not quite as good as they could be. >> ranking member mccaul also pointed to the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan and the chaos that ensued as a reason why he believes putin and others, look what north korea is doing right now, are engaging in this provocation. listen. >> you and i talked about afghanistan over the summer, last summer. i think people, our foreign adversaries like putin, xi in china, the ayatollah, kim jong-u...

Light of kremlin aggression. and also hes asking for guarantees from world powers to make sure that russia cannot with impunity go into ukraine again as its done for the last eight years. >> and any kind of neutrality would have to be put up for a referendum vote as zelenskyy has noted. do you think the ukrainian people would vote in favor? >> well, it depends on what type of neutrality. if its neutrality for an independent ukraine, which keeps all of its territory, i think theres a chance they ...

By president biden. so i think it is very interesting to see these two men shoulder to shoulder now in the face of russian aggression. and if vladimir putin was hoping to exploit western divisions that actually the invasion of ukraine has brought the west much closer together. and seeing president biden here in warshaw giving a key speech in the country that was behind the iron curtain, part of the warsaw pact, is very much a sign of unity in the face of kremlin aggression. in one of its largest...

Russian troops have been massing on the Ukraine border for a few weeks, waiting for the go-ahead from President Vladimir Putin on whether to invade. Here, ASU expert Keith Brown helps break down the two countries' complicated past and how it has led to the current situation.

Stopped and a third who has not recently visited the u.s. was asked to voluntarily submit to an interview and hand over documents. sources say the investigators want to know if wealthy russians funneled money illegally through campaigns and straw donors. the trump administration is connectsect expected -- is expe sanction several oligarchs tied to the putin administration. the sanctions will likely be announced later this week. on tuesday, h.r. mcmaster used his final public remarks to lash ou...