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Around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines today. polls have been open all day in three parliamentary seats where byelections are being held. voters are casting their ballots in the south—western tory stronghold of somerton and frome, in borisjohnson s old seat in the west london suburb — uxbridge and south ruislip, and in selby and ainsty in north yorkshire. the chairman of the commons defence committee tobias ellwood is facing a no confidence motion — after he tweeted a video praising the taliban and describing afghani...

To avoid a fresh wave of terrorism, a senior tory mp has claimed. on twitter tobias ellwood, who chairs the uk parliament's defence select committee said that afghanistan had now been �*tra nsformed'. security vastly improved, corruption reduced and the opium trade had ended, and made a call to re—engage with the taliban. the taliban's sudden sweep into power back in 2021 upended lives across the country. mr ellwood has just returned from afghanistan before we came on air, he told me what he saw on his recent trip. yes and no. i was in helmand in 2010, where there was a turbine that the br...

A dictatorship based on fear. this is not uncommon. this happens. and in the book, we describe the example of venezuela, where mr chavez was the spin dictator, while his successor, mr maduro, is a bloody, 20th—century, repressive, totalitarian dictator, who is using mass repression. 0k. so, that's an argument which allows you to say, "you know what? "i didn't get putin wrong. "i didn't misjudge him. "it's just that he's fundamentally "tra nsformed and changed. "so, it's not my misjudgement. "it's putin's change. " so, explain to me, if i'm to believe that, you've got to really persuade me of...

A dictatorship based on fear. this is not uncommon. this happens. and in the book, we describe the example of venezuela, where mr chavez was the spin dictator, while his successor, mr maduro, is a bloody, 20th—century, repressive, totalitarian dictator, who is using mass repression. 0k. so, that's an argument which allows you to say, "you know what? "i didn't get putin wrong. "i didn't misjudge him. "it's just that he's fundamentally "tra nsformed and changed. "so, it's not my misjudgement. "it's putin's change. " so, explain to me, if i'm to believe that, you've got to really persuade me of...