but will that be enough given russia s evident vulnerabilities? my guest is vetreran russian foreign policy analyst and kremlin adviser sergey karaganov. is putin s invasion turning into a longterm disaster for russia? sergey karaganov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome and let me ask you a simple question, after almost a year of war in ukraine is russia ready to acknowledge that it is going badly wrong? it is a war. and we will be winning the war, there is no question about that, the question is of course, the casualties, the destruction of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in order war of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in our war with the west, i sympathise with them. but it is their fate. i m surprised you say that because a month before the invasion began on the 24th of debris, on the 19th of january you actually said this i am sure we have no plans to invade ukraine because it would be and to quote your
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
The global average temperature on Friday was more than two degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels for the first time on record, Europe's Copernicus climate monitor said Monday, adding Saturday likely continued the unprecedented warming str
for northern ireland. for england and wales into the afternoon. a lot of cloud around you may still encounter some light rain or drizzle, but there ll also be some brighter spells developing in a few places too. and as for temperatures, there will be a little bit higher than they were on thursday, up to around 13 14 celsius for, say, hull and for london. now on through friday night, we ll keep a good deal of cloud around. it s western areas that are most likely to get some further light rain or drizzle very of wet weather poised to move into scotland as we go on through saturday. another mild start to the day. so here s the weekend under way. we ve noticed a lot of cloud around during daylight hours. for england and wales it ll stay mainly dry. there will be a few sunny spells here and there. whereas for scotland and for northern ireland, we ll see this band of rain working its way southwards during the day, and temperatures for many still in double figures. it will be turning colder i
and northern england, particularly mild here though, double figure temperatures from the word go. now, any early rain will clear away from northern ireland and northern england and push north across scotland. so any early sunny spells here will be short lived for northern ireland. for england and wales into the afternoon. a lot of cloud around you may still encounter some light rain or drizzle, but there ll also be some brighter spells developing in a few places too. and as for temperatures, there will be a little bit higher than they were on thursday, up to around 13 14 celsius for, say, hull and for london. now on through friday night, we ll keep a good deal of cloud around. it s western areas that are most likely to get some further light rain or drizzle very of wet weather poised to move into scotland as we go on through saturday. another mild start to the day. so here s the weekend under way. we ve noticed a lot of cloud around during daylight hours. for england and wales it ll st