Thank you all. We will try to answer as many as we can. Hello, im derek from london in the uk. Is there really a stalemate in ukraine at the moment . This is angela from auckland in new zealand. Could you talk please about the changes, zelenskys strategy with the departure of zaluzhnyi, the general. In charge of the army . Well, lyse, first of all, is there a stalemate on the battlefield or has the tide turned in favour of russia . I will answer the question about the stalemate, and i will partially be answering the second question. It was general zaluzhnyi the last Commander In Chief who used the words stalemate in an interview and it is said to have angered president zelensky. He felt it was too negative a description of the situation along the front line. President zelensky himself recently went to visit his troops in the east. He described the situation as extremely difficult. He is saying the Russian Forces are pressing ahead in at least five directions. And he believes russia is
A Family Holiday in portugal has turned into a nightmare. A three year old girl, Madeleine Mccann, has disappeared from the apartment where she was sleeping. There are fears shes been abducted. The disappearance of Madeleine Mccann is one of the most widely reported Missing Persons cases of all time. What happened to the then three year old back in 2007 has gripped the world. Every Single Person can identify with going abroad on a holiday and going abroad on a holiday with young children. And what is the worst possible thing that can happen . Well, its that. The other issue was, is that there was no obvious resolution as to what happened. And that is why that case, still to this day, resonates in the way that it does. Earlier this year, my inbox was full of messages from people asking me whether a young woman in poland was really missing Madeleine Mccann. Shed gone viral online, and so ive tracked her down. And i want to ask her this question why did she decide to post this on social m
This is a very dangerous time. Leaders are not acting responsibly. I want to find out whats brought us from oppenheimers invention to this point. Now i am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation. Right now, itsjust going in the wrong direction. Translation im ordering the Strategic Nuclear forces on special alert. Explosion. In britain, our own weapons are on high alert. Theres always one out at 15 minutes notice to fire. Somewhere out there . Somewhere out there. And american nukes could soon be back on british soil. If we get trump in there next time, and he may press the button, because hes got a bigger button than putin, then we are a target. On computer this is one unseasonably bleak scene which has profoundly moved many people during 1982. Well, heres the greenham peace camp. A0 years ago now. Their peaceful protest against the siting of Cruise Missiles here is into its second winter. When i was a young reporter in the 80s
and new construction plans have angered locals. our world has been following the women who chose to stay, to rebuild their lives and their community. ayfer has lived in antakya, in hatay province, her whole life. it s been two months since the earthquake. 85% of antakya s infrastructure was destroyed when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck. it forced a million people to leave the region, but ayfer has decided to stay with her husband and two sons. in the first months after the earthquakes, ayferjoined volunteer organisations to hand out aid. she also organised community gatherings to bring villagers together. as survivors struggled to build new lives, their children s education became a casualty of the quake. for months, there were no lessons at all. most children now go to makeshift schools. in september, damaged buildings in the village start to be torn down. ayfer s son s school was among them. the school was one of 300,000 damaged buildings across the earthquake region
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking. this week, i ve been down to downing street to number 11 to speak to the chancellor, jeremy hunt, who s preparing his budget. he wanted to tell tory mps not to get ahead of themselves about the taxes that he could cut, but also to have a go at those who are saying he shouldn t cut taxes at all. all those organisations with acronyms the imf, the obr, the ifs. here now is my conversation with the chancellor. well, chancellor, thank you for having us here inside number 11 and a rather grand dining room. yes, welcome, nick, it s great to see you here. we re in 11 downing street, this is your office here, you host meetings and dinners in this particular room, but it is also your home what is it like living above the shop? well, the first thing is that i never expected to be here. and as i