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welcome to the programme. there have been further sustained exchanges of gunfire between israeli troops and palestinian militants injenin well into the second day of israel's biggest west bank raid in years. seven people were wounded in an earlier car ramming attack in tel aviv. also on the programme tonight: the metropolitan police is reopening an investigation into breaches of covid regulations at a christmas party at conservative party hq. it's now one month since ukraine launched its counterofensive against russia. there have been a number of gains, but kyiv admits progress has b...

destruction. putin appearing today at a meeting with military industry leaders as his lower house of parliament with absolutely no warning approved a new bill cracking down on soldier who's refused to fight. this bill says soldiers who refused to serve or resist orders could face up to 15 years in prison. and this move is causing a widespread expectation that putin may even in the next few hours announce a form of a draft. in fact, there was an expectation he could appear today for national address just as he did right before his mass invasion of ukraine. and our matthew chance repor...

Evening, russia time, celebrating the anniversary, the 88th anniversary of the victory of soviet troops in the battle of kursk at the same time this was going on. brought up this frame of reference, kind of like the scene in "the godfather i" where michael is at the baptism of his child, and the meantime all the families of the heads of the families are getting executed. so putin is at this grand celebration and his chief rival is taken out of the sky by a soviet ground to air missile. it's a soap opera. >> that's the image he wants to convey. he sees himself as a godfather figure and he appea...

The main and then yes russia i don't think that that's the situation at the moment that being said you know in terms of actual military threats yes i do think that europe is still somewhat militarily by russia and that's why it is important also important to have nato but nato really goes beyond that and that's what i meant with my opening statement about you know political cohesion nato us about the alliance the political alliances between the transatlantic countries so it's not i don't think it's helpful to frame with this idea of you know who's the main threat . we must not be naive about t...

9:00 a.m. russia time and ended at 5:00 p.m. russia time. that's just one other factor that can be used to confirm where the actors are. but looking at the kind of trade craft that's used, they can often identify who it is. sometimes they don't want the perpetrate ires to know they've been found because it can be more useful to just allow the breach to continue, to watch, to see what they're doing, to try to learn about their capabilities and sort of a counter espionage method. >> very interesting. i guess we will be keeping an eye on this to see what, if anything, does become public around th...