ping up goodbye to one area another one will ping up out of nowhere to move back across the uk. it is that repeating pattern we will see over the next few days and it s exactly why the weather is this damage was all so preventable. this programme continues on bbc one. for sexually explicit pictures. tonight, lawyers for the individual say the claims in the newspaper are rubbish . the bbc has been on the back foot for days, the sun is standing by its story, the high profile star remains unamed officially, and we don t know how the young person at the heart of this story is. where does all this leave the corporation and its bosses a question we have asked before in recent months and years, surely they have learned from previous scandals? tonight we ll talk to alison hastings, former chair of the bbc s editorial standards committee who s dealt with a number of bbc scandals, and top agentjonathan shallit. also tonight, as temperature records are broken around the world, we ll
Joining us as Hillary Clintons former spokesman, suggesting we worked for Vladimir Putin for daring to ask about nato and montenegro. Its a serious question because Defense Guarantees or serious promises. Why would the United States promise to defend montenegro . Speak out the nato treaty has kept the peace since world war. I dont want your son to fight and montenegro. I dont want him to fight in germany or any of other of the9 nato countries but you are presenting nato as something likely to trigger a war when nato is in fact what has avoided war. While the soviet union has fallen, the russians are incredible tucker the reason i thought of montenegro and suggested there was some putin reason why you did, there was a much more prosaic reason because it just joined nato. Are you suggesting we owe them a Defense Guarantee . Im not looking at montenegro im looking at the full 29 countries. Tucker thats how bad decisions get made, one people to look at the statistics. How many times as the
its security guarantees for ukraine can t mean what we have in nato, which is a collective defense guarantee. in other words, an attack on one is an attack on all. i think they really mean cast iron assurances we will go on supporting ukraine with arms, the latest equipment, with finance, with economic reconstruction aid to ensure that they are strong and spiky enough as a country that no future russian leader will want to give this another go. i think that s what it really means. as ukrainian troops fight on, struggling to turn the tables on the battlefield, the diplomats will be attempting to find the right language, trying to square the circle of why a country that does so much for western security cannot for now join the nato alliance. i am nowjoined by former us ambassador to nato under the trump administration, kay bailey hutchison, in dallas, texas. thank you very much for talking to
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s speech on Tuesday at the Wilson Center on strengthening Western alliances rightly placed U.S. alliances in Europe front and center for U.S. national interests.
that nato summit next week, former u.s. ambassador to nato, kurt volker. he s also a special representative for ukraine. ambassador, thank you so much for taking part of your weekend to share your expertise with us. what do you anticipate is going to come out of this summit? thank you for having me. this is an incredibly important summit it s being taken on extraordinary basis in the midst of a military crisis. it s in part to make sure we and our allies are on the same page but also a signal to vladimir putin. what will he read at the end of this summit. and there s several messages that i think are key here. go ahead. walk us through those messages. okay. well, first off, i think the most important thing is to reinforce article 5 which is the defense guarantee of nato. an attack on one is an attack on all. we need to show, not through words but also through