and founder of the eurasia group. they might also have a view on new research that suggests home working.is not working. google, apple, meta are among those who now demanding their workers spend at least three days in the office. we talked in the first hour of the programme about ukraine s path to nato membership and the obstacles in the way of that. let s concentrate this hour on some of the things that have been achieved at this nato summit. notably, the path that s been cleared for sweden to join. we brought you the news last night on this programme that turkey had dropped its veto and will now put sweden s accession to a vote in the turkish parliament, which we expect will be a formality. there has been reaction in moscow to that today. a kremlin spokesman said russia s security would be furtherjeopardised by sweden becoming a member. becoming a member a concern wholly dismissed within the alliance. what is more important to the swedish prime minister, ulf kristersson,
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asked a question which he, frankly, dodged. he was unable to answer. about what the uk calls for restraint in gaza have really achieved. he said in response to a question that too many civilians are dying but then when asked where does responsibility for that state, he replied that that is an extraordinary question. he clearly was not willing to go as far as the chair of the foreign affairs select committee has previously. she has suggested that israel is perhaps going too far in its actions in gaza. the prime minister was absolutely not willing to suggest that at all and kind of solve it is quite, as i say, in his words, an extraordinary question. the other kind of quite significant exchanges, i think, were around asylum policy. a clear issue for the government, one that is one of its main policy priorities. it s not entirely clear that the government will meet its target to get rid of the 90 or so thousand so called legacy asylum cases. he was unable to say definitively tha
welcome to the programme. in a week s time, it will be one year since russia invaded ukraine, and world leaders are gathering in europe. us vice president kamala harris has arrived in germany for the munich security conference, which starts tomorrow. european leaders rishi sunak, olaf scholz, emmanuel macron will all be there, as will nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg and a vast array of key defence and intelligence officials. discussions in munich will be accutely focused on the danger of a further offensive from russia, especially after the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko a key putin ally spoke to members of the western media, including our russia editor steve rosenberg. few people know vladimir putin as well as he does alexander lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of belarus. he s agreed to take questions about the war in ukraine and his role in it. one year ago, i say, you let russia use your country as a staging ground for invading ukraine. are you