for their country will prevail. we ll be hearing from steve rosenberg in moscow, sarah smith in warsaw, and jeremy bowen, who s in kyiv. also on the programme: it s just been announced that strike action by nurses in england is being paused. the royal college of nursing says it is starting talks with the government tomorrow over the long running dispute. some supermarkets begin limiting the amount of fruit and veg you can buy because of problems with supplies. and the world s biggest trial of a four day working week. it took place here, in the uk. it s popular, but does it work? and coming up on the bbc news channel liverpool and real madrid meet again in the champions league with the premier league team hoping to change their recent form against the defending champions. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from kharkiv, in north east ukraine, just 20 miles from the russian border. which is that day. we have been hearing air raid sirens sounding periodicall
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c
analysis from moscow, warsaw, kyiv, and beijing, on china s potential role in the war. and the other main stories on tonight s programme. nurses in england suspend next week s 48 hour strike action to restart pay talks with the government. supply problems with fruit and veg now some supermarkets are limiting the amount you can buy. and liverpool are trounced by real madrid in the champions league. and coming up on the bbc news channel. leeds united have their man at last. former watford boss javi gracia takes charge, following the sacking ofjesse marsch with the club currently in the relegation zone. good evening, live from kharkiv in north east ukraine just 20 miles from the russian border, just over there. air raid sirens have been going off, and we are within the range of long range missiles from russia. behind me is the city but you cannot see it because we are in curfew and also people are trying to conserve energy in the middle of this war. this is the day that pr
viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca a oig. . i m max foster. just ahead russian forces trying and so far failing to make real head way in the opening stages of a new offensive. we re not only up against ukraine, but also against nato and especially the united states. to control the narrative early on. what folks are really concerned about is what happens later, what happens down the road, what happens three years from now. several buildings have collapsed. several people have been confirmed killed. hundreds injured. some of them in critical condition. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, february 21, 9:00 a.m. in london, 12 noon in moscow where vladimir putin is set to deliver a speech to the nation s top political and military leaders on the state of what he calls russia s special military operation in ukraine. mr. putin is expected to lay out his vision for wha
we begin with vladimir putin delivering a major speech doubling down on the goals of russia s so-called special military operation in ukraine that began a year ago. it is a day after president biden s surprise visit to the ukrainian capital. this teach along with biden s planned address in warsaw setting up an extraordinary split screen moment hours apart, the two leaders laying out their vastly different visions of the conflict. we have coverage from every angle. clare sebastian, let s start with you. on the heels of biden s unexpected historic trip to kyiv, what is vladimir putin saying this morning? well, this was unmistakably a tirade against the west. this was president putin blaming the west for starting the war in ukraine and escalating it, blaming the west for the casualties. he said west started it and russia is using force to try to stop it. and he says russia has been trying to work through this through peaceful means. take a listen. translator: i ve done absol