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hello and welcome. president putin is expected to hold a ceremony in the next few hours to declare that four ukrainian regions willjoin russia. the kremlin says luhansk, donetsk, zaporizhzhia and kherson voted to join russia in recent, self—styled referendums. but ukraine and the west have dismissed the votes as a sham. ukraine insists its goal of fully liberating the country will never change, regardless of any statements from moscow. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, has...

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Putin is weakened and fears Nato encirclement. His militarisation of Russia’s northern border is intensifying, says Labour MP Barry Gardiner

Youre looking at a storm thats changed the character of a significant part of our state. i mean, this is going to require years of effort. some chose to ignore the evacuation warnings, despite the authorities making it clear the hurricane would put emergency help beyond reach. this is a storm surge that we talked about, ian fits the pattern of increasingly powerful hurricanes in recent years as a result of warming sea temperatures. scientists monitoring them say man—made climate change is havi...

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This seems more so than with any previous administration, you dealt with a lot of countries, the degree to which trump personalizes everything. >> theres two worrying things about it. one, why does the president really care? doesnt he have more to worry about than the ambassador from a cable two years ago? but secondly, the sense that everything is a battle. actually, the kim darroch relationship with the administration is one that had breadth and depth. and i think that theres a brexit angle to...

Britain is in a terrible mess. but we are in a terrible mess. the wrecking ball of britains constitution, never mind its economy represented by brexit, is really severe. where we are today is that there is a rising chance of a no-deal brexit. it would be lunacy, i think, to go ahead with it. nonetheless, that is the demand of the brexit years. although theresa may is dead, her deal is not dead. lots of people are talking about boris johnson applying some lipstick to this withdrawal deal and tryi...

And i think the indian supreme court judgment plays a big part of that. because many of these former colonies have these laws because of british cologne yammism. after the supreme court judgment came you have seen activists in sri lanka looking how to turn their own laws. singapore, they filed charges a year ago now. there is definitely this movement. and i think it makes a difference when you have a court that relies on its own constitution, looks to its own you jurisprudence. they are not just...

Life imprisonment. a year ago, my next guests were the chief lawyers arguing against that law in indias supreme court. weeks later, it was struck down. indias chief justice said in his statement, criminalizing car tphal intercourse is irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary. section 377 had been on the books since 1861, a relic of the british-colonial era. several laws still exist. indeed, the international lesbian gay, bisexual, trans and intersex association says almost 70 countries ...

March around the world doing trade deals. what i think is becoming clear is britain is more like a cork bobbing on the open sea if it goes ahead with brexit. the no-deal brexit. there is a bilateral angle to it. >> joris johnson, the thing that precipitated the resignation is the likely incoming prime minister refused to support him. all the others, the prime minister, the foreign minister. do you think that was a mistake? >> yes. it was utterly spineless on boris johnsons part. the idea that yo...