western reporters actually inside the country. look at the unrest going on in iran right now, the unrest in russia right now. yeah. people say they ve never seen protests at this scale. it s getting serious. a lot of mothers getting out there. they don t want their sons being dragged off to war. we begin with a new development on the war in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskiy is accusing russia of nuclear blackmail and says he does not think president vladimir putin is bluffing, this as the u.s. announced an additional $457 million in civilian assistance to ukraine. nbc news foreign correspondent erin mclaughlin has more. reporter: days after russian president vladimir putin issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat, u.s. officials sending a message of their own. if russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for russia. the united states will respond decisively. reporter: that warning coming the same weekend that outrage, fear, and brutality swept
their final hearings before releasing a report of their findings. but exactly, what exactly the committee will be presenting is largely under wraps shall the panel member adam schiff says this hearing is expected to be more sweeping than some of the others and when asked where they go from here he echoed his colleague liz cheney s belief that the panel will move forward unanimously and there are criminal referrals very much on the table and received 8,000 pages of communications from the secret service in response to their subpoena. yesterday, members say they were still sifting through that information. while the new material is not a substitute for the january 6th-related messages that were deleted, it is expected to offer some additional color to the internal back and forth between staff members, before, during, and after the insurrection. and as the committee continues to beat the drum for the evidence it is set to unveil on wednesday, it is also downplaying new comments
of the hall by officials. and of the hall by officials. giorgia meloni is sworn in as and giorgia meloni is sworn in as the country s first female prime minister. i as the country s first female prime minister. prime minister. i ust don t like you t prime minister. i ust don t like you know prime minister. ijust don t like you know more. - and we speak to colin farrell and brendan gleeson about their new film about the end of a friendship. to officially enter the conservative leadership race after securing the backing of more than 100 mps. penny mordaunt was the first to formally declare on friday. mr sunak has the public support of more than 100 conservative mps, thatis more than 100 conservative mps, that is the threshold required for the leadership contest. former colleagues have warned borisjohnson against returning to downing street. damian grammaticus has been following the events of today. are you running. for the leadership? he was tight lipped this morning, but
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the front lines of the war in ukraine, russian forces are struggling, in several areas retreating, which is why vladimir putin is pursuing other strategies. trying to destroy ukraine s civilian infrastructure is one. attempting to undermine european support for kyiv is another. how s that going? well, my guest is czech foreign ministerjan lipavsky, an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenari
taking up the habit. and after a two year pause due the pandemic, europe s largest street party kicks off its final day at the notting hill carnival in west london. nasa has cancelled today s launch of its most powerful rocket, artemis one, which had been due to take off for an uncrewed test flight to the moon. the us space agency said one of its engines had developed a bleed that couldn t be fixed in time; the next possible launch date is friday the second of september. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon. if successful, the plan is for astronauts to be on board the flight in two years time. our science correspondent, jonathan amos told us what went wrong frustrating day today, ben, it really was. we had a number of little issues that cropped up. when we got here, it was pouring with rain and that delayed them tanking, putting all the propellants that they needed to go in this monster rocket over my shoulder. then they thought they had a crack halfway up