Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. Sir Keir Starmer has promised National Renewal in his first speech to the Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister but he warned of tough choices ahead. The Prime Minister insisted that keeping a Cool Head during challenging times would be better in the long term than easy answers. And he pledged to stabilise the economy but made it clear that some of his decisions would be unpopular. Our political editor, Chris Mason is at the conference in liverpool. Conference, please welcome| Keir Starmer, prime Minister And Leader of the labour party. Little wonder the audience in here are whooping. They have waited 15 years to hear a sentence like that at their conference. A party so often crushed by defeat, basking in winning. Take pride that labour won in every single region in england. Take pride that labour won in wales. Take pride that labour won in scotland. Governing is always difficult for every party, and thats before Slip Ups and unforce
clarissa ward, cnn, kharkiv. tuesday was the 36th anniversary of the chernobyl disaster. and rafael rossi, director general of the national atomic energy agency visited the infamous plant. remember only a few weeks ago it was occupied by russian forces. he praised the plant operators who kept working amid the invasion possibly averting a new disaster. and he also met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in kyiv where the two men held a joint press conference. and the end that they would work to restore capacity. and we ll have much more ahead on our breaking news coverage over the war in ukraine at the top of the hour on early start. but for now, max foster has our other top stories. and up next, text messages obtained by cnn are shining new
carelessness, were his words, signals the danger of russians using nuclear weapons. have a listen to what zelenskyy had to say. translator: given the level of the threat, we believe russia has no right to turn nuclear energy into weapons and blackmail the world with the use of nuclear weapons. reporter: and that meeting taking place for context of our viewers on the 36th anniversary of the disaster of chernobyl and while the explosion killed 31 people, millions of course were exposed to dangerous radiation levels and estimate the final death toll for long-term damage are in the 10s of thousands. isa suarez reporting from ukraine, thank you, appreciate that. i want to bring in now, former u.s. ambassador to nato, curt, thank you for joining us here on this program. you just heard president zelenskyy. is he right?
into ukraine, including a new batch of tanks from germany as an increasingly isolated russia resorts to deadlier tactics and more threatening rhetoric. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov drew the attention of u.s. officials monday when he said the danger of nuclear war is real. general milley called the comments irresponsible. well, anytime a senior leader of a nation-state starts rattling a nuclear saber, then everyone takes it seriously. and it s completely irresponsible for any senior leader to be talking like that in today s world. ukrainian president zelenskyy echoing general milley today saying that russia has no right to blackmail, in his words, the world with a nuclear threat. and today another notable nuclear moment. the 36th anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear disaster. and today the iaea director visited the chernobyl site, one, to mark that notable day but also, wolf, to bring radiation
against him much like the has done to other iranian-americans. it s no secret the u.s. was hoping iran nuclear deal with lead to better reef layings. this latest wave of cyber attacks make the improved reef layings much more different. thousands of iranians took to the streets chanting death to america as they celebrated the 36th anniversary. last week republican mark kirk criticized the obama administration for not being tough enough on iran. bill: u.s. intelligence sources saying it was likely a bomb that