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staff who broke covid rules but the british prime minister isnt among them. after days of violent unrest in sri lanka, a veteran politician is sworn in as the new prime minister. the first ever image of the monster black hole at the centre of our galaxy. life from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. —— live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. hello and welcome to the programme. the kremlin has accused western countries of using the un human rights co...

The war in Ukraine, which broke out in February 2022 with Russia's invasion of its neighbor, shows no sign of ending as both sides intensify attacks t

The war in Ukraine, which broke out in February 2022 with Russia's invasion of its neighbor, shows no sign of ending as both sides intensify attacks t

The war in Ukraine, which broke out in February 2022 with Russia's invasion of its neighbor, shows no sign of ending as both sides intensify attacks t

To 76%, according to the last opinion poll. speaking to finlands foreign minister this morning, he told me that the finns were practical people and were just looking to defend themselves better. we have had security mechanisms in europe like the osce, which should — which is built to to avoid war and military conflicts. and now, we have seen that this security order does not function in europe. russia did not trust this mechanism, we refuses mechanism — instead that planned war against ukrai...

Polls forjoining nato, suddenly to 76%, according to the last opinion poll. speaking to finlands foreign minister this morning, he told me that the finns were practical people and were just looking to defend themselves better. we have had security mechanisms in europe like the osc which are meant to avoid war and military conflicts. and now we have seen that this security order does not function in europe — russia did not trust this mechanism, we refuses mechanism — instead that planned war ...

QUESTION: Hi Martin, I work on defense issues for my job, but I am no Neocon. Second Strike works just fine too or more likely "Launch Under Attack" (LUA), and even with older weapons. Everybody goes down together and most likely via miscalculation especially given possible Nuclear Winter which given Volcano data actually looks plausible. No

Expansion? journalist, broadcaster, and author tim marshall explains how maps may hold the answer. >> its worth a glance at history and a good look at a map. in the cold war, europe was split more or less in two, the nato countries in the west, but post-cold war, country after country wanted to join nato and its moved up to russians borders. to understand why russia feels nervous about that, a topographical map is useful. theres a mountain range running across europe, the carpathian mountains. t...

In the entire post—cold war era"? look, i dont... i think the enlargement of nato was the single wisest security decision taken in europe in the last three decades. imagine the citizens of warsaw, prague, and budapest if they were not guaranteed their security by nato�*s article five. imagine where they would be right today. imagine the citizens of the baltic states and the threat that they would feel from putins russia. i mean, were talking about tens of millions of peaceful citizens across...

After 2014 as well. as far as nato, consider this. if we had not enlarged nato — and by the way, it wasnt nato that decided to expand into other countries — it is countries seeing the threat coming from russia, desperately wanting to join nato so that they could have some protection. well, with respect, its a two—way street, of course. you know, there is a feeling in many of the post—soviet east european countries that they wanted the protection of nato, but the existing nato membership ...