Meanwhile, russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the Unted Nations General Assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. The collective west has a calling card and it has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then theyjust dont fulfill them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. For more on this im joined by phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at St Andrews University welcome to you. Good to have your own. What you make of the comments of Sergey Lavrov . To be as expected . On the one hand absolu
Translation the collective west has a calling card and its long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, written ones and legally binding ones and then theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. Earlier i spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He told me there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from the Point Of View of weakness on ukraine, that he couldnt even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion of russias right to invade ukraine, of russias annexation of ukraine, the parts of ukraine. So, in that sense, it was really running away from the story of the moment which is th
about the war in gaza this weekend to be mindful of the fear and distress injewish and muslim communities . it comes as the chancellorjeremy hunt has distanced himself from the home secretary s controversial comments yesterday, when she accused the police of showing favouritism to pro palestinian demonstrators. mr hunt said suella braverman s remarks were not words that he would have chosen. some senior conservatives claim what she said was unacceptable . our political correspondent charlotte rose reports. did you forget your resignation letter, home secretary? - with less than 2a hours until tomorrow s protest march in central london over conditions in gaza, the row over suella braverman s future as home secretary rumbles on. this morning, the chancellor became the latest cabinet member to distance himself from the remarks in her times article. the words that she used are not words that i myself would have used, but i have a productive relationship with her as a colleague
with an ankle problem. he s withdrawn from the england squad today. micky van de ven will be out for a similar period with a hamstring problem. it s a big test for the manager ahead of their game at wolves. all the absences kind of have an effect on the team. i guess the unusual one for us, and again, i ve known many times and again, not many times in my career where we ve had such disruption in one game, we ve lost 4 5 starters in one game. so that s kind of where we get affected more than anything else. if it was just mickey, you would miss him because of the qualities he has, it wouldn t affect us as much, but we have three players from the back four, and that s a real challenge for us. manchester united lost midweek in the champions league, courtesy of a dramatic late goal in copenhagen, a match in which marcus rashford was sent off in. but manager erik ten hag is confident the england striker, who s only scored one goal for united this season, will come good. he s not in
on duty, as people from people from across the uk come to the capital. it comes as downing street says the prime minister has full confidence in home secretary suella braverman after growing calls to sack her over an article accusing the police of bias. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young has more. at 11am tomorrow morning, crowds will gather here to mark the end of the first world war. later, in another part of london, tens of thousands will take to the streets, calling for a ceasefire in an ongoing conflict in the middle east. a political row has erupted about the policing of these two events. scotland yard says a huge security operation is under way, far greater and more complex than previous years . we do have intelligence that there will be people coming for a counterprotest, and the police s job this weekend is to keep everybody safe, whether exercising their right to protest, whether coming down to counterprotest, but particularly for those veterans and our really