nato would increase our shared security. president biden says america must do all it can to end hate filled domestic terrorism, following saturday s mass shooting in buffalo that left 10 dead. and north korea s covid crisis a further 400,000 cases and eight deaths are reported. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the progamme. finland and sweden have announced their intention tojoin nato, in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll get to that in just a moment but first, i want to tell you about this exclusive report. a bbc team have uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. now the bbc has learned more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. in this special report, the
that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? well i speak to dcms plenty, you know, i ll be speaking to them later on today. i spoke to them last week. we have a lot of interaction with them, we ve had a lot of interaction with them during the pandemic where they ve been a very supportive department in the industry. but obviously now i m speaking to them a little more than usual. you say they ve been supportive, but they did say your recent proposals for channel 4 were based on flawed assumptions. so clearly, at some level, you re not successfully managing to make your case. i m sure you ve reflected on why. why do you think that hasn t happened? well, i think my position on privatisation is very clear on the public record, but the decision ha
divisions within us politics, not least within the republican party. it s that age old clash between isolationists and interventionists. my guest today is the ukrainian born republican congresswoman, victoria spa rtz. how much is donald trump influencing this internal republican argument? congresswoman victoria spartz, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let me start with ukraine. the white house and you guys on capitol hill have worked together to put together a massive aid package for ukraine. it s almost $40 billion. military assistance, financial assistance, humanitarian assistance as well. are you personally satisfied with what the government is doing right now? i think our government is moving in the right direction. i think like in any crisis, speed, agility and really strength, peace through strength is the main determined deterrent to any war in any crisis. so, i think we. this administration has been very slow. west has been very slow. but with pressure from the america
spots in the north of scotland where we will have had some clearskies, perhaps as low as eight. so the broad message for monday is, northern half of the uk often cloudy, outbreaks of rain possible almost at any time but through the morning and the afternoon. southern half of the uk, from around about yorkshire southwards i think there will be lengthy spells of sunshine cloud, showers will brew during the daytime and some of them thundery. monday night into tuesday, the big low pressure sell out in the atlantic and around it weather fronts. this weather front is going to brush western parts of the uk during the course of tuesday so there will be a west, east split. at the west you ll have the outbreaks of rain in cooler weather. 0ut towards the east it will be much warmer, in fact turning quite hot in london, 26 celsius, it will be the warmest day of the week. the forecast for bid week still shows a large area of low pressure in the atlantic, around it weather fronts basically brushing
so the broad message for monday is, northern half of the uk often cloudy, outbreaks of rain possible almost at any time but through the morning and the afternoon. southern half of the uk, from around about yorkshire southwards i think there will be lengthy spells of sunshine cloud, showers will brew during the daytime and some of them thundery. monday night into tuesday, the big low pressure sell out in the atlantic and around it weather fronts. this weather front is going to brush western parts of the uk during the course of tuesday so there will be a west, east split. at the west you ll have the outbreaks of rain in cooler weather. 0ut towards the east it will be much warmer, in fact turning quite hot in london, 26 celsius, it will be the warmest day of the week. the forecast for bid week still shows a large area of low pressure in the atlantic, around it weather fronts basically brushing the uk. large gaps in the weather for sure, they ll be lots of sunshine around but it s good to