hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the bbc s most experienced correspondent clinic with international journalists to write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, what happens when one of the world s founding nuclear weapons nations goes aerobics? can a strategic deterrent become a tactical weapon for the battlefield? and is war europe s future, no longerjust its past? today s dateline panel. john simpson, the bbc s world affairs editor, is in finland. jeffrey coffman has anchored news programmes in the us and canada, reported from war zones. in the studio with me is thomas kielinger, who s been explaining the british to german audiences since the 1960s, a time
could have access to him have been encouraging him in that. and if i may add to that, when you think of that chilling speech he gave on television, putin, two days ago, when he said he was not being moved from his conviction that the two countries are siblings, as it were, one nation. and to think that when that is his awareness, that they belong together, to punish them in this atrocious fashion, it reminds me of a sort of mad reaction of somebody who is, by hook or by crook, determined to muster his power over his neighbouring countries. which, jeffrey, raises the question of what can be done about it, in a slightly longer term perspective. i mean, the us permanent representative to nato was talking about changing its long term force posture, or at least discussing that with the other nato members. that implies the alliance does not see this as a one off, that this is ukraine and that s it. they worry about the
now on bbc news dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the bbc s most experienced correspondents with internationaljournalists, to write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, what happens when one of the world s founding nuclear weapons nations goes rogue? can a strategic deterrent become a tactical weapon for the battlefield? and is war europe s future, no longerjust its past? today s dateline panel, john simpson, the bbc s world affairs editor, is in finland. jeffrey coffman has anchored news programmes in the us and canada, and reported
Over the next days leading up to the new year the Herald presents a synopsis of the stories from Lethbridge and area that made headlines in 2021: APRIL