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Us you took on a roll you did not get us to do with grace and wit and style. And president obama bows out in his final speech with an emotional tribute to his wife. And coming up in sportsday englands greatest goal scorer and Arsenal Ladies striker kelly smith has retired. She says her body has told her its time to stop. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Donald trump has condemned as Nonsense Allegations that russian intelligence has Compromising Material about him. The claims pub...

And at this point, they are hold up in the remains of one of the largest steel plants in europe. it is not clear how much longer these beleaguered troops can hang on. they demanded they surrender by 6 am local time, that deadline came and went. but the surrender of the takeover could come virtually at anytime. they spoke earlier this week to an officer with which is not far right but theyve been leading the defense of mariupol. they sit back on wednesday they were running out of ammunition, we a...

Remember that migrants urge on the southern border a few years ago? it included many displaced farmers from guatemala, and we may expect more of the same. that is because of the impact of fertilizer shortages does not just impact this years crop, but next year, and the following year as well. millions of people in the global south turn out of the option to simply stop farming, but theyll be getting smaller and smaller return on their efforts that they put into their fields. putins violent invasi...

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Joining us now from, columnist for the new yorker and distinguished fellow at the u.s. institute of peace, and the woodrow wilson center. thank you very much for joining us tonight. what did you make of the assessment of letter mere putin, at the intelligence committee testimony today that we just heard, about even though he is talking about nuclear weapons in this way, his actions do not indicate any actual change. >> the big question, lawrence, was whether this was an epic bluff, whether it re...

Right still to come on the day born in a war zone now a chance at a new life why some european countries are taking back children whose parents were islamic state fighters i did a mistake i came here my children are here if i have to sit 20 years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that i stay in prison i would to go to her 2 years in prison reading the lies here is psychologic more testing one time. but 1st a rare meeting in the mediterranean french president is hosting his ru...

Secretary of state when they meet that this is all for show when that putin is really pulling the strings do you think he has that much power when i think that its a much more complicated. story than that so its so you have trump with his ideas and youve got putin with his ideas but trump is not all powerful hes not a dictator he operates in a system where the presidency is totally connected to all sorts of other things connected to congress congress can prevent him from lifting sanctions he doe...

Gets you know it gets sanded down and distorted and pushed in different directions based on all these different interests and so i dont think putin is running circles around anybody i think that putin has. a great hes in a very powerful position because hes unlike trump he doesnt have any constituents whatsoever he can wake up one day just decide what he wants to do you think is a very dangerous medium for the world and the part of your life mission now is to to rein him in right well i mean i s...

Has been a hard nut to crack there are there is more what i would call. desire to be understanding of russia in germany than other countries i mean in apologies well i dont know his apology or there is like theres a lot of history here of course going back all the way to the 2nd world war and for whatever reason its very difficult to get germans to take as hard a line on on putins clear criminal actions as other countries what you do for the former president obama. germany or the german chancell...

A more charitable explanation of why trump is behaving this way is that trump is a real estate developer hes a businessman maybe not as riches as some people think he is and he likes really rich guys and putin is one of the richest guys in the world putin but youre really rich guy too im not a rich guy like a lot of reputing is veteran putin is the richest man in the world and so if donald trump is the kind of guy who wants to suck up to rich guys theres no richer guy than vladimir putin and and...