The competition with the major authoritarian powers, the transnational threats from climate change, drugs, and cyber crime, and the regional conflicts in ukraine and gaza that could yet cascade into something much bigger and far more dangerous. All three challenges are affected by trends in new and emerging technologies, environmental changes, and economic strain that are stoking instability and making it that much more challenging for us to forecast developments and their implications. These dynamics are put in unprecedented burdens on the institutions and relationships that the United States relies on to manage such challenges, and perhaps more than ever, frankly, highlight the need for sustained us leadership to uphold the rules based order. Lets speak to Lieutenant General mark schwartz, former United States security coordinator of the israel palestinian authority. Thank you for being on the programme. What did you Hearfrom Avril Haynes to date that concerns you . Avril haynes to d
we begin in uvalde, texas, where a long awaited report into a deadly school shooting has been highly critical of the police. it found, what they describe, as a cascading failures of leadership, decision making, tactics, policy and training. when the gunman burst into robb elementary school in 2022 hundreds of police officer rushed to the scene but it took more than an hour for them to confront him. in that time, the gunman murdered 19 students and 2 teachers. that delay sparked outrage among the victims families and across the us more widely, and it prompted the us department ofjustice to investigate, producing today s report that runs 600 pages long. the us attorney general merrick garland visited families in uvalde, said the victims and survivors of the mass shooting deserved better. the law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 24th, 2022, and in the hours and days after was a failure that should not have happened. we hope to honour the victims and t
this is bbc news, the headlines. a scathing report concludes the failure of the police chaos and confusion and a lack of urgency in helping victims. the bbc understands have the seal is to close in south wales. up to 3000 jobs are at risk. the back to award nominations are out. we take a look at the juggernauts aiming for the top prizes. before all that northern ireland has seen its biggest day of strike action in 50 years without more than action in 50 years without more than a hundred public sector workers walked out in a dispute over pay. schools closed, health services and transport lacking. the dispute has been complicated by the fact that there s been no functioning government at stormont for two years with the union leaders say workers are used as palms in restoring power shower in northern island. schools closed without the gritting of icy roads finished at midnight. it s been a day of disruption and demonstrations across northern ireland. some people are pointing the
against its journalists. the 76th annual british academy awards take place in london later with the german language film, all quiet on the western front, leading the field with m nominations. the us secretary of state antony blinken has alleged that china is considering supplying weapons and ammunition to russia for its war against ukraine. he was speaking to cbs news after meeting china s top diplomat wang yi on the sidelines of the international security conference in munich. he said he d warned mr wang of consequences if material support was provided to moscow. mr blinken told cbs that chinese firms were already providing non lethal aid for russia s invasion. he was asked if support given to the mercenary group, wagner, amounted to military support for moscow. there is open source reporting that chinese companies are providing. surveillance equipment to that mercenary group, the wagnerl group, fighting in ukraine. does the us consider this to be providing military. suppo
the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has alleged that china is considering supplying weapons and ammunition to russia, for its war against ukraine. he was speaking to cbs news, after meeting china s top diplomat, wang yi, on the sidelines of the international munich security conference in germany. he said he d warned mr wang of consequences, if material support was provided to moscow. mr blinken told cbs, that chinese firms were already providing non lethal aid for russia s invasion. james landale reports. for months now, vladimir putin has been wooing china s president so is all that diplomacy about to pay off? so far, china has neither endorsed nor condemned russia s invasion of ukraine, calling instead for a peaceful solution. but the us believes russian forces in ukraine are already getting surveillance and other information from chinese firms. and america s top diplomat now believes that china could be going further and providing weapons. we have seen them provid