this is bbc news broadcasting in the uk and around the globe. president biden has ordered federal aid to be sent to mississippi, as emergency services work to help hundreds of people who ve been left homeless by a tornado. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside. and these are the latest drone pictures after the tornado struck carving a path of destruction 170 miles long. at least 25 people were killed in mississippi, and one person in alabama. dozens have been injured. our north america correspondent, sophie long, reports from rolling fork in the mississippi delta. this is rolling fork, a small, close community in mississippi. there is little left. they ve lost loved ones, their homes everything. we get storms, like bad rain, or, you know, probably high winds or something, but we never experienced nothing like this where you can wipe out a whole town you know, schools, children, parents, loved o
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home
first tremors finally collapsed. the 6.4 magnitude quake struck close to the border with syria. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in vladimir putin s mind, ukraine is a fake state manipulated by the west. his effort to drag it back into the russian world began long before his all out invasion a year ago. back in 2014, he showed his contempt for kyiv sovereignty in crimea and the donbas. ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i
that the suicide attack that killed 22 people might have been avoided. now on bbc news, talking movies: berlin film festival special. hello from berlin! i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in today s program, highlights from the berlin international film festival. over 11 days, some 280 films are shown with big names from the world of cinema gathering here in the german capital. we sat down with sean penn, whose documentary superpower on president zelensky was one of the festival s big attractions. british acting royalty was in town with dame helen mirren portraying israeli prime minister golda meir. cate blanchett, oscar nominated for her performance in tar, walked the red carpet, as did steven spielberg, at the festival for a lifetime achievement award. and we look at queer cinema in berlin, which was making quite an impact. berlin has a long history of embracing political cinema in fact, it is an avowedly political film festival and this year, because the fir
this. thank you all for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening, would be content with breaking news. exclusive reporting on a story we were first to bring the discovery documents of classified market inset mike pence indiana home. tonight, we know just what kind of material the former vice president had. a special correspondent joined us now with the very latest. what have you learned, jamie? according to multiple sources, we learn that among those roughly 12 classified documents that were found at the home, our materials described as background briefing memos, that were prepared for then vice president pence foreign trips. we told some of the classified documents, were likely used to prepare pence for foreign meetings, and actually may have been overlooked during the packing process. because they were found tucked into old binders, kind of interspersed with other papers. perhaps, they would not have been visible unless the packers actually went through these binde