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Fighting has been intense. but the ukrainians have done a very capable job of trying to win back that territory from the russians. but the fighting is intense. that's why we're going to keep giving them the kind of security assistance they need. i would add that in that area of the donbas, that's really the only area where the russians have made progress and the fighting has been violent. they have suffered. elsewhere along the front, wolf, down to the south, the russians have largely in defensive positions and the ukrainians are doing the pushing on them. >> john kerdir kirby, thank you much....

Tonight with the context, the former labour adviser, comedian and journalist ayesha hazarika, and the republican political analyst and former spokesperson for the republican national committee, doug heye. hello, welcome to the programme. the downing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie in 1988, was one of those moments you neverforget. if you were alive at that time, you most probably know exactly where you were. the bomb exploded as the plane was cruising at 31,000 ft. all 259 people on board were killed, the falling debris killed 11 people on the ground in scotland. it is the biggest mass mur...

Pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland, in 1988 making his first appearance in a u.s. court. the fbi claims he confessed to a libyan officer that he built the bomb that brought down the plane. and in court today, authorities on how he carried out the bombing and how the bomb was made. according to the justice department, abu agila masud brought the bomb -- made from a cassette recorder and hidden in a suitcase -- to the airport in malta, where it was loaded into the cargo system unaccompanied by any passenger. eventually it made its way onto the flight at london's heathrow airport before d...

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is accused of making the bomb that killed all 259 people on board a Boeing 747 en route to the US in 1988, as well as 11 on the ground, in the deadliest ever militant attack in Britain.

This is bbc news with the latest headlines: scottish officials say a libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed pan am flight 103 over the town of lockerbie in 1988, is in us custody. a nursing union leader says a planned strike by nurses could be called off, if the health secretary negotiates "seriously" over pay. the one day of action that nurses are going to take on thursday hasn't created the 7.2 million people sitting on our waiting lists. the job of union leaders is to negotiate on behalf of their members, they do an incredibly important — members, they do an incredibly imp...