to sanctioning oligarchs and actually that idea that there is a consensus about war and peace, that is just not true. i do think that there is a consensus on the broad approach. you do not have one party saying we should not be doing anything or one party saying we should be putting boots on the ground, i think that there are differences and there are differences that are very obvious and i think there are differences of scale, scale and pace, if you like, rather than differences over the whole thing. you know, no one is having an argument saying, we should not be helping and no one is having an argument saying that we should be sending british service people indirectly to be fighting in the streets of ukraine, but you know, there are still tensions and their are are absolutely still tensions and none of this is straightforward and there is a sense, i think of real foreboding in government, notjust about what might happen on the ground in ukraine in the next few weeks, but also about h
now on bbc news, a special edition of ukrainecast and the global news podcast. hello and welcome to a special podcast edition. it s a collaboration between ukrainecast that s me and vitaly and the global news podcast, that s you, jackie. it is. i mjackie leonard, one of the hosts of the global news podcast from the bbc world service. i m vitaly shevchenko, russia editor at bbc monitoring. and i m gabriel gatehouse, i am one of the hosts of ukrainecast, and i m newsnight s international editor and in today s episode, we re going to be trying to answer some of your questions about what s going on in ukraine and some of the issues that are raised by this huge story. and to do that, we will be hearing from lyse doucet, the bbc s chief international correspondent, who is in ukraine. and we ll also hear from james landale, who is the bbc s
vera krichevskaya is a documentary film maker. she helped to found tv rain, an independent channel in russia which has now been shut down. and joining me in the studio, gabriel gatehouse, international editor for bbc television s newsnight programme. good to have you with us. good to have you too with us as well, thank you very much, and to vera, forjoining us for the first time on this programme. vera, i would like to start with you, if i may. how are russians are finding out about what the kremlin calls its special military operation ? good evening. can i start with the latest news? in one hour and 30 minutes, instagram in russia will be officially banned before, on this week, twitter and facebook was banned, so but all this started two weeks ago, the first day of the war. the new law was enforced that restricted to say the word war and to call it, this war, as a special operation . and another law was enforced, saying you cannot quote any source regarding the war,
couple of decades. and maybe they will either try and get him to change course or get rid of him. but if you think, is there a name, who can this person be? no name comes to mind. yes, but that was the same in 1999, when yeltsin picked a no named, unknown successor called vladimir vladimirovich putin, and look what happened to that. and i think that is our cue to say thank you and goodbye to james landale. thank you for talking to us, james. thanks, james. thank you so much, guys. cheers. thanks. and i think that s all we have time for. thank you to gabriel gatehouse and vitaly shevchenko. thank you. and thank you for all your questions from around the world. if you ve enjoyed what you heard, please subscribe to the global news podcast and indeed to ukrainecast, which you will find on bbc sounds, or wherever you normally get your podcasts. thank you. bye bye.
henry chu, an experienced foreign correspondent at the la times, who as the us west coast sleeps is ensuring its readers are kept up to date on what s happening in ukraine. vera krichevskaya is a documentary film maker. she helped to found tv rain, an independent channel in russia which has now been shut down. gabriel gatehouse, internationsal editor for bbc television s newsnight programme, is here in the studio. thank you very much. and to vera for joining us for the first time on this programme. i would like to start with you, if i may, however russians are finding out about what the kremlin because its special operation? the kremlin because its special operation? the kremlin because its special operation? the kremlin because its special oeration? ., , ., operation? good evening. can i start with the latest operation? good evening. can i start with the latest news operation? good evening. can i start with the latest news in operation? good evening. can i start with the latest