radek sikorski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. hello. good to see you again, stephen. it s great to have you on the programme. let s begin with a simple thought. the portents for ukraine in its grim battle against vladimir putin s forces in ukraine, the portents are really very negative, are they not? the supply of weaponry and of money coming from kyiv supporters is drying up. how concerned are you? that s not quite right. i was in kyiv within days of my appointment in december. my prime minister, the former head of the european council, donald tusk, has just been there, and the ukrainians have achieved a victory that has not been noticed in the western press, namely that, against stiff russian opposition, they have cleared western black sea of russian ships and they have now resumed grain shipments, not under a deal, from odesa via the western black sea to the bosphorus and to africa and beyond. that s a considerable military success. that s not insignificant. and they als
well, it means you get attention and people want you to tell the story again and again. do you get sick of that? yeah, except that when they tell it again and again and again, they add a bit of their own. stephen chuckles well, let us together, then, tell the story, well, let us together, then, tell the story, for people around the world who do not know it. and let me take you back to prague, 1938, the end of 1938. how on earth did it come to be that a young man from london, who was a successful stockbroker, had a rather glamorous life, how did it come to be that he found himself in prague in 1938? how long have you got? tell me the short version. well, the short version is that my circle of friends were all those people who were very, very left wing. i mean, my friends were those people from the stafford groups, all those people i was with daily. and coupled with that, of course, my parents, being jewish, we were in direct communication with the jewish population in germany.
this week, alasdair sheds light on the tech behind these dazzling sd displays. something s hand s just come out at me. yeah. it s like a possessed hulk. lara s been checking out the latest health gadgets, including those fending off the calories and those fighting off hair loss. you ve got great hair! are you going to tell me you were bald before? and paul heads to the racetrack to see the high speed cars that don t have human drivers. hey, welcome back to las vegas. this is one of the most famous skylines in the world. and one thing about this sight is it s constantly changing. see, whenever they get fed up with a hotel, theyjust gut it and turn it into something that looks completely different. but in the last year, something really unusual has lit up the horizon, literally. it s that thing over there. yeah, it s called the sphere, and it is a monster. inside, it s an entertainment venue. outside, it s the world s largest video screen, covered in 1.2 million leds. and it
80,000 and now 88 men on the terror watch list crossed. 30 chinese nationals were walking near roma, texas in the rio grande valley. agents responded to process the group. continue to see surge of chinese and here is the president at the white house while meeting house speaker kevin mccarthy. [indiscernible] president biden: much better. you see it. lucas: texas governor greg abbott in the federal government s absence, we as governors must combat president biden s ongoing border crisis and ensure american s safety and send all available law enforcement and resources to the texas-mexican border. ron desantis deploying the following forces including 800 national guard soldiers, drones and vessels. at my direction, state agencies and florida national guard being deployed to texas with assets including personnel, boats anden plas while biden ignores the crisis he created. likely this year terror watch list arrests will surpass the 98 recorded last year. todd: lucas tomlin