it s seven in the morning in singapore, and midnight in london, i m monica miller borisjohnson has been referred to the police by the cabinet office, over new claims he may have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. in the statement, mrjohnson s team says the assertion by the cabinet office that there have been further covid rule breaches is totally untrue . and says, many will conclude that this has all the hallmarks of yet another politically motivated stitch up. our political correspondent jonathan blake has more on the story. there is no investigation yet to what happened here is the lawyers going to boris johnson s a ministerial diary during the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for forthcoming public inquiry which will examine the uk s response to the pandemic came across diary entries which w
let s start with the aftermath of what appears to be the largest incursion into russia s territory since the full scale invasion of ukraine began. russia now says it s used air strikes and artillery to defeat the armed insurgents. the kremlin claims it killed 70 attackers who crossed into the belgorod region on monday. it says the rest were driven back into ukraine. belgorod s governor said one civilian died in the violence. russia insists the fighters were ukrainian, and used us supplied weapons, but both kyiv and washington deny any involvement. instead, two russian paramilitary groups have posted these images on social media, saying this was an attempt to overthrow vladimir putin s regime. our security correspondent frank gardner explains how the development is likely to be not welcomed by the west. this raid launched from ukrainian territory and carried out by russians could turn out to be a little bit of a mixed blessing for kyiv. why? on one hand, it is embarrassing for
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a very warm welcome to the programme. i m sally bundock. we start here in the uk. allies of the former uk prime minister, borisjohnson, have condemned the cabinet office for releasing details about possible covid lockdown breaches to scotland yard and thames valley police. lawyers preparing the government s case ahead of the public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic have sent the police information about meetings held at downing street and the prime minister s country retreat, chequers. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. his team says. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more details. there is no investigation. what has happened here is that the lawyer through borisjohnson lawyer through boris johnson cosmic ministerial diary from the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for a forthcoming public enquiry which will examine th
intelligence, the gur. and there s another factor here and some of those involved in this raid are reported to be linked to far right extremism and this is a tiny group that no one has heard of, almost no one has heard of and they don t represent the path of ukrainians or ukraine. nevertheless, in the battle for pr, this is bad optics ukraine if they turn out to be linked to neo nazis or fascism that reinforces the kremlin narrative that it is fighting and rid ukraine of neo nazis that is a bad look for ukraine. borisjohnson has been referred to the police by the cabinet office, over new claims he may have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement.