china says it ll fight to the very end to prevent taiwan from being declared independent. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. hello and welcome to bbc news. reports from eastern ukraine say a huge chemical plant in the town of severodonetsk where hundreds of people have been sheltering is on fire. the governor of the region says the azot plant had come under intense bombardment but was still under ukrainian control. the fierce fighting comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says his troops are running low on ammunition as they try to repel russian invaders in the east. and he s appealed for more help from western powers. helena wilkinson has the latest. this is the east of ukraine, in the donbas region, it s one of the areas russian forces have focused their firepower. ukraine soldiers are still holding out here, but the intense fighting goes on. ukraine s army says it is running l
at these security conferences are aimed at the domestic audience and how much they really play into policy but it should be remembered that the president of china has often talked about the reunification often talked about the reunification of taiwan and there are many analysts who think he wanted to be done within his lifetime so within a lot of policy making circles in china reunification are seen as an event ability inevitability and what general wei fenghe was talking about this morning was the desire for it to be done peacefully worked with talk but with talk of opposition being crushed does get people thinking a bit more carefully. let s take a look at some of the other
president of the party. let s go back to richard nixon. he was the first modern vice president, the first brought into the policy-making circles of a president. prior to that, the vice president was largely a legislative figure who sat around in the capitol waiting for the president to die. vice president nixon, however, gets a very tough job from dwight eisenhower. dwight eisenhower is not a politician. he doesn t like politicians. he wants nixen to core ral the right party. tough job. lbj. poor lyndon johnson. he said yes to ben bernanke john f. kennedy s vice president because he thought he had power. he expected an office in the west wing. oh, no. john f. kennedy had no interest in giving him power. he makes him the head of the national space council. it sounds really cool, but when he did that, he was not expecting to send people to the
the russian federation without prior notification to the attorney general as required by law. the fbi has conducted a multi-year investigation of a network of united states based agents of the foreign intelligence agency. the svr. the targets include covert svr agents who assumed false identities and were living in the u.s. on long term deep cover assignments. these russian secret agents worked to hide all connections between themselves and russia even as they act at the direction and under the control of the svr. these secret agents are typically called illegals. the fbi s investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the u.s. in the service of one primary long-term goal, to become sufficiently americanized such that they can gather information about the u.s. for russia and can successfully recruit sources who are in or are able to infiltrate u.s. policy making circles. in this indictment, donald
intelligence agency. the targets include covert svr agents who assumed false identities and were living in the u.s. on long term deep cover assignments. these russian secret agents worked to hide all connections between themselves and russia even as they act at the direction and under of the control of the svr. these secret agents are typically called illegals. the fbi s investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the u.s. in the service of one primary long-term go goal, to become sufficiently americanized suchb that they can gather information about the u.s. for russia and can successfully recruit sources who are in or are able to infiltrate u.s. policy making circles. in this indictment donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley were called the boston con spiritors. it says the boston con spiritors have received info tasks,