authorities on both sides say they are taking immediate steps to end the violence. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. 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 0lesya 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? 0lesya 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
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
up in their face. new reverend revelations that representative jim jordan s quote, weaponization committee, heralded by those in the right as a way to bring down the so-called, as they re calling it, deep state. this is the tinfoil hat committee. there is nothing here. they are trying to do whatever they can to lay the groundwork for donald trump to come back to the white house. these are trump loyalists. the only reason, jonathan, this subcommittee was formed was so that kevin mccarthy could become speaker. this is the deal he made. i m going to speak to jordan s democratic colleague, congressman raja christian murphy, in the moment. also this hour, alec murdaugh gets a quick introduction to a new reality as begins serving a life sentence for killing his wife and son. this hour, we re going to delve into the twisted world of the murdaugh family. we also have the latest on the huge decision on insulin prices, which impacts millions of americans as well. and later on thi
days after a memphis traffic stop. lawyers for nichols family tell cnn preliminary results from an independent autopsy show the 29-year-old died from, quote, extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. the family says this is consistent with what they saw on the video of his encounter with police. nichols beaten for three minutes. just think about that. a boxing round, three minutes. three minutes this man was allegedly beaten by five officers. five black officers were fired even before the video of that arrest has even been publicly released, and two members of the memphis fire department have also been fired in the week of nichols death. i want to bring in steve mulroy, the shelby county district attorney dealing with this very investigation down there in memphis. steve, it s good to see you this evening. there are a lot of questions being asked about what happened to tyre nichols. and when the public might be able to see this video for themselves. any idea when it wil