there from the uk where early he met king charles and he met prime minister rishi sunak. he is on his way for a nato summit and my colleague, a diplomatic correspondent james landau also colleague, a diplomatic correspondentjames landau also in vilnius covering the events. james, what can we expect from this summit? what is on the agenda over the next few days? what is on the agenda over the next few da s? ~ ., ., few days? whether or not ukraine should become few days? whether or not ukraine should become a few days? whether or not ukraine should become a member- few days? whether or not ukraine should become a member and - few days? whether or not ukraine i should become a member and what language they use is a big subject. lots of other things to discuss. nato is going to be agreeing a massive new strategy, perhaps a radical new strategy since the end of the cold war about how to deal with the long term threat from russia. in recent years they have had small pockets of western a
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general betrayers and former head of the cia speaking with james landau and key. dr patrick bury, defence and security expert at the university of bath and a former nato analyst gave me his reaction to this interview. i think he speaks a lot of sense and obviously he s got some more ground truth having been out in kyiv. it does chime with what i had beginning to coalesce around my own thoughts and analysis on this. just in terms of i think that the ukrainians are getting themselves into a position where we i hope i expect them to be able to break the russian line somewhere. we ve seen the pictures of the defences. yes, they re considerable in places, but it doesn t make breaking through them impossible. itjust makes it more difficult, especially when you use, as general petraeus just said, combined arms effects. so making sure that everything, all the different pieces of the puzzle are integrated and communicating and working in synchronicity with each other. and then it becomes very,
if western risks for kyiv in this. particularly if western allies start fearing incidents like this might escalate this conflict, but the foreign secretary was asked about this when he was secretary was asked about this when he was on secretary was asked about this when he was on a secretary was asked about this when he was on a visit to estonia and he didn t he was on a visit to estonia and he didn t seem he was on a visit to estonia and he didn t seem unduly concerned, saying that ukraine had every right to project that ukraine had every right to project for us outside of its borders project for us outside of its borders. i think people here will agree borders. i think people here will agree with that because what they would agree with that because what they would view as a small attack on moscow. would view as a small attack on moscow, they would say is not comparable to the blood he onslaught that the comparable to the blood he onslaught that the city has endu
ukraine s long expected counteroffensive. that was james landau, reporting there from keith. , kyiv. talks aimed at reaching an international treaty against plastic pollution are taking place in paris. government ministers from around the world are attending the event. the stakes are high, given that annual plastics production has more than doubled in 20 years, and is on track to triple within four decades. the french president emmanuel macron warned that plastic pollution is a time bomb. translation:. today there is not a single place on the planet that has escaped plastic pollution. and this pollution is accelerating. if we do nothing, we will generate triple the amount of today s plastic waste by 2060. plastic pollution is therefore a ticking time bomb. as well as a plague that