and the us announces new sanctions, and an additional $2 billion support package aimed at helping the ukrainians in the fight. welcome to the programme. i m shaun ley, it s good to have your company. we mark this hour, as we have the last 24. it s the first anniversary of the ukraine war, one year since vladimir putin ordered his forces to launch an all out assault on ukraine with the aim of taking kyiv within days. the strategy failed. ukrainian resistance has been fierce, though it has come at an immense cost. many have died on the battlefield, and accusations of war crimes by the russian troops have shocked the world. the war has changed europe, and the world leaving russia diplomatically isolated, and revitalising the nato alliance. one that a former us president had suggested was already past its sell by date. our international editor jeremy bowen has reported on the conflict from the very beginning. he s kept in touch with many of the ukrainians he s spoken to along the
and the other main stories on tonight s programme. junior doctors in england announce three consecutive days of strikes in march over pay it will affect both routine and emergency care. and a third candidate slips in before the deadline to run to succeed nicola sturgeon as snp leader and first minister. on bbc london, a year after the war in ukraine began, and coming up on the bbc news channel: a semifinal shock as england lose to south africa at the women s t20 world cup and the hosts go through to play australia on sunday. good evening. welcome to the ukrainian capital kyiv, where exactly one year ago today, before dawn, the people of this city were woken up by the sound of air raid sirens, signalling russia s invasion. what s followed has been a year of tears and savagery, defiance and hope. many thousands have died. we ve seen the worst fighting and refugee emergency on european soil since 1916. there s world food insecurity, a major energy crisis and rising global infl
ukrainians in the fight. it s the first anniversary of the ukraine war one year since vladimir putin ordered his forces to launch an all out assault on ukraine with the aim of taking kyiv within days. the strategy failed. ukrainian resistance has been fierce though it has come at an immense cost. many have died on the battlefield and accusations of war crimes by the russian troops have shocked the world. president zelensky says the country has endured a year of pain, but victory is inevitable, he says, with continued western support. our kyiv correspondent, james waterhouse, reports on how the anniversary was marked. the morning war rained down on ukraine. air raid siren. a shadow with haunting consequences. the once unthinkable playing out as the world looked on. 150,000 russian troops moving in from three directions. ukraine s leader had offers to leave. but he stayed. ..and is still here. this is a bittersweet day for ukraine. day for ukraine, a reminder of remarkable
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murdaugh waits his fate. we are an hour and a half away from the start of this morning s sentence hearing. brian: it took the jury less than three hours of jury deliberations to convict murdaugh. griff: live outside of the courthouse, hey charles. hey, good morning alex murdaugh expected back in court at 9:30 local time this morning. sentencing after a jury found him guilty of killing both his wife maggie and son paul on the property in 2021. really a tough day for alex on thursday who immediately after the verdict was read and out of the courthouse in handcuffs for the entire world to see. the 54-year-old staring 34 years or life in prison after the jury came back three hours of deliberations with unanimous verdict of guilty on two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the condition of a violent crime here this verdict coming after weeks of testimony, including testimony from alex himself who was forced to admit he lied to the police for almost