Good evenIng. PresIdent putIn wIll not prevaIl. The words of PresIdent BIden, who has been HoldIng Talks wIth SIr KeIr Starmer In the WhIte House talks whIch could pave the way for ukraIne to use long range mIssIles, supplIed by the west, on russIan terrItory. It comes as moscow contInues to warn of the consequences of any such move wIth Its ambassador to the un tellIng the SecurIty CouncIl that It would mean nato was conductIng dIrect war wIth russIa. In another sIgn of the raIsed tensIons, sIx brItIsh dIplomatIc staff have been expelled from russIa, accused of spyIng. The ForeIgn OffIce says the claIm Is baseless. Lets joIn ChrIs Mason, whos In washIngton for us now. Yes, good evenIng to you, reeta. The Central QuestIon here tonIght buIlds on those remarks from the presIdent. How does the west avoId vladImIr putIn from prevaIlIng In ukraIne . And there Is a subtlety of dIfference In InstInct, both wIthIn and between countrIes that are allIed to ukraIne, partIcularly on thIs Central Q
Those poor children, the victims. Lets take a quick look at a few of the stories on the front pages. It isa it is a varied bunch. The Daily Telegraph, the secrets of how five tory mps were felled, from a memoir. The mirror celebrates the life of Sven Goran Eriksson, the former england manager, whose funeral was today with David Beckham one of the guests. The times looks at the story, Volodymyr Zelensky, putin burns our city as west delays. The plea from Volodymyr Zelensky to allow. Any computer has died and i will have to read it from here. The ft, I Cant read it. An economic story on ft weekend. The Daily Express Prime Minister, please keep promise to change cruel law. Relating to assisted dying and the campaign to bring in assisted dying, Ester Ra Ntzen campaign to bring in assisted dying, Ester Rantzen has said. A surge in uk private Health Care as people turn from the nhs. Those are the papers. You can get tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who has come on the show. Alison, john and e
repair shop presenter, Jay Blades whos been charged with engaging in controlLing and coercive behaviour against his estranged wife. And the i newspapers lead analyses the surge in private Health Care saying record numbers of people are turning away from the national health service. Hello there. It was an unseasonably chilly start to Friday Morning with A Touch Of Frost for some, but lots of blue Sky And Sunshine throughout the day and we started to draw in that warmer feeLing air. Now that trend is just set to continue over the next few days. So warmer by day, milder by night, too. For the weekend some sunshine, but also some outbreaks of rain here and there, too. You can see all of the sunshine clearly with the lack of cloud on the SatelLite Picture here. We will see this frontjust gradually continue to push its way further eastwards through the rest of the night, bringing outbreaks of Rain Across Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. More cloud here, too, and some of The Cloud will
Leadership and standing with us. Leadership and standing with us,. , leadership and standing with us. ,. ,. , us. Significant elements of these talks us. Significant elements of these talks in us. Significant elements of these talks in the us. Significant elements of. These talks in the deployment of these long range missiles. The uk already supplies Storm Shadows to ukraine but only for use within ukraine. In the coming weeks, we could see that change and allow them to be fired into russia, posing one big question, with what consequence . Fora big question, with what consequence . For a start, big question, with what consequence . Fora start, how about Vladimir Putin responding, the russian president hosting a Meeting Today as his ambassadors to the United Nations made this threat. Ii United Nations made this threat. ,. ,. , threat. If the decision to lift restrictions threat. If the decision to lift restrictions is threat. If the decision to lift restrictions is really threat. If the
Countries, are at war with russia. Russia editor steve rosenberg has more on putin s warning to the west. A clear warning to the west do not do this, do not allow ukraine to use your missiles to strike russian territory. What we didn t hear from vladimir putin was what russia s going to do if this actually happens. He talked about taking appropriate decisions but without any detail. Now, what might those decisions be? well, in the past, president putin has proposed providing advanced long range weapons to western adversaries, to strike western targets abroad. He s also suggested in the past deploying conventional missiles within striking distance of america and its european allies. Now, russian officials many times have accused the west of fighting russia, waging war against russia, on the territory of ukraine. Putin made it clear today that if this goes ahead, if western missiles are used to target russian territory, this will take things to a whole new level. So, in a sense, wester