The red arrows flew over central london, and there were flypasts in edinburgh, cardiff and belfast. Music a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square by vera lynn i may be right i may be wrong but im perfectly willing to swear. And, ahead of a special evening of celebration, well speak to the welsh soprano, katherinejenkins, who has performed a medley of wartime favourites to an empty Royal Albert Hall. In other news, theres to be limited easing of lockdown restrictions in wales. At 5 00, well bring todays Coronavirus Briefing from downing street, led today by the environment secretary, George Eustice. Good afternoon and welcome to this bbc news special. Well be bringing you all the latest on coronavirus with the downing street News Conference at 5pm. But first, a two minute silence has been held across the United Kingdom to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ve day. Events are taking place all day, but public gatherings have been cancelled as the country remains in lockdown because of coro
That today, well, literally on a daily basis , are violated by the leadership of the parliament, i am sorry to state this, but we should also Pay Attention to the fact that in the same, in the same resolution, it is also very clearly stated about the inadmissibility of collapsing decentralization, which has proven its importance for the success of ukraine, and this is also another serious bell. For the authorities, well, perhaps not only for the legislative, but also for the executive authorities, and i would like , of course, that behind those serious, serious calls for further support to ukraine, which are the main narrative of this resolution, our colleagues also saw growing concern with the fact that today ukraine is rolling back in terms of democratic rights and freedoms. But i want to remind you that precisely if we insist, and we all together insist on in order for the negotiating framework for ukraine to be approved as soon as possible, the first chapter, the first cluster that
, was she ready to start and did she start an attack on ukraine . Mr. Sergey, well, if we look at the biography of the director of the cia, he was generally called the secret weapon of the United States, the secret diplomatic weapon of the United States, by the atlantic magazine in 2019, because this person, he is first of all a highclass, highprofessional diplomat, and who was the United States ambassador to russia. He was also behind the preparation of the, lets say, agreement on iran, so this person, he prefers diplomacy, that is, personal contacts, during which he, you know, he can not only capture the reaction of a person, but also understand that in fact, it happens there, and such visits are primarily related to his professional activities, and again, that is, he gives such personal contacts a priority, just like on the eve of the war, when he visited. To russia, that is, his goal was to make sure , to see, to feel in the interlocutors, that is , in the leadership of the Russian
Heads a state, the Largest Nuclear state in the world, quite a large army and potential, and it is clear that such a person still has to be reckoned with, and with such a person they do not want to foster contacts or the potential, potential possibility of such contacts for in order to avoid a possible direct confrontation between the Russian Federation and nato, and, accordingly, a possible escalation. Nuclear weapons, well, also, i think that both the United States and france do not rule out, do not rule out the possibility of resuming dialogue with putin under certain conditions, when it becomes clear that russia is ready to make certain compromises, or at least, as their will be considered, lets say, in paris and washington , from the point of view of how this war will end, you know, indicative. The example of france, which on the one hand sent its ambassador in order for him to take part in this action, in the masquerade, the socalled inauguration, from another point from another
The Russian Federation, but on the other hand he is trying to keep these channels of communication open, the french and de gaulle tradition plays a role here, that he balances between the west, nato allies in europe and the United States and at that time the soviet union, now the Russian Federation , well of course, that macron wants to play a more leading european role in regulating relations with the Russian Federation in the future. The end of this war or peace negotiations, it is clear that now there is no reason for this, and putin actually, lets say this, this rhetoric of his both during the inauguration and now, that he is not going to start this genocidal war against ukraine, but it is clear that our western partners are still of the opinion that certain successes of ukraine can convince putin that he cannot. To end this war on its own terms and thats why he can return and sit down at the negotiating table, and thats exactly why macron or someone else will appear, who will try