The government in poland has warned of a critical night ahead with the country facing severe flooding. Authorities have shut a Border Crossing with the Czech Republic after a riverflooded its banks. Theyve also closed several roads and halted trains. Polish prime Minister Donald Tusk has been visiting flooded areas in silesia and he spoke to reporters there. Translation the low pressure that brought these heavy rains i to poland and the Czech Republic is not entirely predictable. These forecasts have changed within 48 hours, but generally they are not optimistic. What awaits us Tonight And Part of sunday will be heavier, actually record breaking rainfall in many places. Our correspondent in warsaw, adam easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall, which is leading to dangerously high River Levels, water levels, in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and thats causing flooding in many countries, p
The latest attacks in ukraine s sumy region. Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this putdown, there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability. That wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space which we took, the time which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that change, with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen
And senior adviser at the non profit razom for ukraine. She shared her insights on the discussion around permitting ukraine to target russia. When we spoke a few days ago, you are pretty optimistic that we would have a decision on these long range missiles. What do you think is holding things up? do you think is holding things u ? , do you think is holding things u ? , ~ , do you think is holding things u. ? ,. , ,,. , , up? hey, lucy. So there is still up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t know up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t know if i up? hey, lucy. So there is| still. . . We don t know if the decision has been made. Formally it has not been made. There is rumours that the storm shadows are going to be allowed, but we certainly don t know, and we have to say that is a possibility that london will begin to allow ukraine to use them, and that one probably makes a lot o
The latest attacks in ukraine s sumy region. Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this putdown, there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability. That wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space which we took, the time which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that change, with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen
Hed persuaded the president That Authorising Ukraine To Fire Western Missiles at russia was a good idea. Instead, he said well, theres only one reason were having these discussions, and that is because putin has illegally invaded ukraine. And the quickest way to resolve this obviously lies through, you know, what putin actually does, because its for him to end this. But we are having the discussion. Weve stood with ukraine. Ukraine has a right to self defence. And weve stood united, not just with our allies here in the us, but across with our nato allies. Thats very, very important to us. These are the long range Anglo French missiles. Ukraine would love to fire into russia, the uk making the argument to allies, its a request that should be granted. They rely on american Satellite Systems to work. You might ask why the Prime Minister has been so keen to dash here, to visit a president who we know will be gone in just a few months time. His answer is there are urgent issues that need ad