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by deporting ukrainians, and targeting civilians. the democratic unionist party says it will not nominate ministers to the northern ireland power sharing executive until decisive action is taken on post brexit trading arrangements. until we get decisive action taken by the uk government on the protocol we will not be nominating ministers to the executive. the boss of scottish power urges ministers to do more to help with rising energy bills. and mps call for more protection for child social media influencers who could be at risk of exploitation we ll hear from one former influencer. good afternoon. president putin has tried to justify the invasion of ukraine on the grounds of national security. in a speech at the victory day parade in moscow s red square, he told soldiers they were fighting for what their predecessors had fought for during the second world war. he also alleged that nato was exploring land close to russia and that he was fighting neo nazis in ukraine ....
victory over nazi germany. we ll also have a special report from the east of ukraine, where the fighting in this war, is most intense. the big picture here in the donbas is that the kremlin s offensive is largely stalled. they ve taken hardly any significant towns, and the ukrainians are making them pay a heavy price for every scrap of land. and bbc news has revealed how untreated sewage is being dumped illegally in rivers across the uk, putting health and nature at risk. and birmingham airport admits it was chaos this morning as thousands queued for hours to get through security. good evening. welcome to the programme. the labour leader sir keir starmer says he will quit if he s fined by durham police for breaking covid rules last year during lockdown. he s been under pressure after the police announced they would be investigating an event at which he drank beer and had a curry with party workers at an mp s office. in a statement this afternoon sir keir insisted repeat ....
would, of course, do the right thing and step down. tonight with the context, former policy advisor to the national security council hagar chemali, and christopher steele, former british intelligence officer. hello and warm welcome to the programme. there was no claim of victory, no assurance that the fighting would end soon. instead president putin use the victory day parade to tell the broader russian public they could carry on as normal. the generals would handle the special operation, he said reading ukraine of nazis. the president, dressed in black, cut a sombre figure as the ranks of russian troops marched by, a parade full of the pomp and militarism we have come to expect, and on the podium he listed many of the familiar grievances we have heard before. he compared today s struggle with the great patriotic war, blaming nato and the west for the threat they posed to the motherland. translation: preparations were 0 enl translation: preparations were openly under t ....
the latest. welcome to the show, everyone. it s 9 a.m. here in ukraine, but all eyes are on moscow where russia s annual victory day parade is about an hour or so away. this is video from rehearsals from saturday. the holiday marks the defeat of nazi germany during world war ii but today under the shadow of a new war in europe, the event taking on new significance. it s been warned russian president vladimir putin could use this holiday to make a major announcement about the war in ukraine. the victory celebration comes one day after ukraine marked its own day of remembrance with president volodymyr zelenskyy accusing russia of failing to learn the lessons of world war ii. russia has forgotten everything that was very important to the victors of world war ii, but ukraine and the whole free world will remind it so that no one will forget so that really important words never again which are repeated all over the free world every year on the days of remembrance of t ....
that did not happen. the kremlin blaming bad weather for that. as putin was speaking in moscow, ukraine s president released his own victory day message. translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine, and someone won t have any. we won then, and we will win now. happy victory over naziism day. u.s. diplomats return to kyiv for the first time since the war began. it s a big step towards officially reopening the embassy. let s go right to cnn s matthew chance live for us in moscow. mat matthew, what stood out to you about putin s speech this morning is this. this morning? look, first of all, the atmosphere, the spectacle of the display of russian military might was as we expected it to be, quite dramatic. we saw thousands of russian troops on the cobbles of red square chanting patriotic slogans, military bans playing patriotic kind of war songs. there was a march passed and a salute taken by by president putin as the crowd cheered and applauded ....