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Russia and ukraine. and, you know, this is -- this is not a country that has been doing the same sort of trench warfare, this part of the country i should say as it has in other parts like the donbas where you see that front line activity continue. this is thriving city of young people, and its just astonishing, frankly, to actually imagine some kind of military incursion unfolding here. now, everybody of course is hoping that wont be the case, that this crisis will be averted. but as i said bef...

Resigned, because the leverage we once had, which is ultimately energy -- russia supplies 10% of the worlds oil, one-third of europes oil, 60% of germanys oil. back to ronald reagan, we were trying to stop pipelines from the ussr to europe. donald trump wanted to stop it, so they had that leverage, those opportunities. we are just an observer at this point. dana, we were talking as we were watching about "wheres the pound the table moment?" this is a challenge between what vladimir putin wants t...

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentator jo phillips and nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday people and the sunday mirror. tomorrows front pages... the observer front page says if russian forces occupy ukraine, countries in the west are planning to arm resistance groups. the sunday telegraph also looks at the russia—ukraine crisis, saying theres a cyber attack warning for britain. the home secretary says...

You control the messaging. but not 100%, because today, many russians do get their news and information online, and there, they see a very different picture. so if you use the words attack, invasion or war...? we can say only special operation. yevgenia edits an online magazine. like other independent russian media, the authorities have banned it from calling this a war. what is the kremlin trying to do to the truth now in russia 7 what they always do. listen, you know, they always, you know, tu...

Echo, moscow, an independent radio stations broadcast here in moscow. we think you can still hear it on the internet. not on the radio waves. wikipedia moscow is saying that it has been threatened by the russian prosecutor to be closed down over and article invasion of ukraine 2022. yet, yet, people are still protesting. 6,700 according to an independent observer arrests of protesters now so far and a petition online and even bigger number. more than 1 million people signing that petition in rus...

An investigation into whatsapp messages made by staff at a firm paid by the home office. the sunday times front page looks into the wealthy donors for the conservative party, said to have joined a secret advisory board. and the mail on sunday says that former deputy pm nick clegg is at the centre of a leak inquiry, after concerns were raised he was receiving secret information on plans to regulate facebook. lets start off with the observer front page and a lot of the pages concentrated on the cr...

Of the union about support from the people of ukraine, but also rallying the world against russia and taking new aggressive steps toward not just freezing but seizing russian assets to try to turn the russian government around on this. how do you imagine this will be greeted in russia as a new day breaks here? >> you know rachel, for the 6700 protesters arrested so far, according to an independent observer, more than 1 million people who signed the petition here in russia against the war, you ca...

Bans, media, the russian media should not have the right to broadcast in western countries, the state owned media. this is what we need right now. it needs to be introduced in a number of hours, not days, we do not have that much time. ukraine is getting a strong response to the russian invasion, despite the difference in capacities. but we need your help. and the number of cities across ukraine remain under russian control. they remain occupied, we do not know how long we can hold this ground w...

Matter~ — president putin does is another matter~ i— president putin does is another matter. i think its in anyones interests _ matter. i think its in anyones interests having the kremlin knows this to _ interests having the kremlin knows this to escape this further. it just depends— this to escape this further. it just depends on how far he pushes it. taking _ depends on how far he pushes it. taking the papers as a whole, we looked at the observer, the front page of the telegraph as a war...

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentatorjo phillips and nigel nelson, political editor of the people and sunday mirror. tomorrows front pages... the observer front page says if russian forces occupy ukraine, the west plans to arm resistance. the sunday telegraph also looks at the russia—ukraine crisis saying theres a cyber attack warning for britain. the home secretary says russia could be preparing a cyber assau...