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You will find zs on billboards, on government buildings, even on the side of theatres. and here, this is the home of human rights activist 0leg 0rlov. those who criticise russia's onslaught in ukraine have become targets of abuse. translation: russia is heading towards, in fact has almost - arrived at, something very similar to what we saw in germany in the 1930s. everything feels very familiar. and that's important. in russia right now, there is no room for alternative views, for public expressions that contradict official opinion. and that is particularly true of events in ukraine. the kreml...

Completely, it controls the messaging, and it has been using these images to paint a very different picture to the russian public. for example, iwatched different picture to the russian public. for example, i watched the main political talk show today on russian state television. they broadcast the bucha pictures, but with the word fake in big red letters plastered all over the screen, to make viewers believe the claims of russian war crimes are simply invented. in the same way that the kremlin uses television to try to persuade russians that what is happening in ukraine isn't a war but a spec...

Scattered along a road, but because the kremlin controls television here completely, it controls the messaging, and it's been using these images to paint a very different picture to the russian public. so, for example, i watched the main political talk show today on russian state television. they broadcast the bucha pictures, but with the word "fake" in big red letters plastered all over the screen to make viewers believe that claims of russian war crimes are simply invented. in the same way that the kremlin uses television to try to persuade russians that is what is happening in ukraine isn't...

I am happy that they are... that they are interested, engaged, they want to talk about these ideas. and i am very, very relaxed about them taking alternative views for me. if they want to call in, i'll leave my number at the end of the programme. liz truss, thanks forjoining us. what a difference three years can make. not only has liz truss gone to a leading candidate to replace boris johnson, but she's gone from a woman happy to joke about her past, happy to tell anecdotes and wanted to present herself as the serious foreign secretary, and who knows? perhaps a serious candidate to replace bor...

Bigger, widely discussed. certainly there has been huge progress, in the last few years, the bbc in particular has started to avoid false balance and presenting on the one hand a climate scientist with years of experience and then some guy who writes blogs for the telegraph, presenting them as alternative views, as though they have equal weight. there is much less of that now. coverage is better, more weight on scientific outputs, i would say it is sometimes going to the point where we are overstating. to the point where we are reading articles about people saying they are not having children ...