visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine, but still not at the speed and scale kyiv would wish. my guest is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome. thank you so much for having me. a pleasure to have you. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government is more on the gratitude for what european partners have already delivered or more on the urgency to give more now? i think it is 50 50. what we learned over this last year is that you have to create alliances, you have to keep it and you keep the alliances with gratitude but also we want the world to keep supporting us. the war did not start a year ago. it started in 2014 and what was the most painful is after a year, it became a new normal. a new normal for everyone and we still had to fight our figh
nicaragua has freed more than 200 opposition political prisoners and deported them to the united states. they were greeted at the airport by a crowd waving flags. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the first anniversary of russia s all out invasion of ukraine is fast approaching. there s both a feeling in both kyiv and moscow would herald a new phase in the war. president zelensky is visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine, but still not at the speed and scale kyiv would wish. my guest is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome. hello. thank you so much for having me, stephen. a pleasure to have you on the show. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government is more on the gratitude for what european partners ha
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tonight. just short of weeks of an attack by an intruder who was trying to get to nancy pelosi. paul pelosi is out in the hospital. chief medical correspondent gupta joins us what the recovery from a skull fracture might look like. also tonight, the president, and two former presidents all helping candidates and close races. making their closing arguments with control of congress not just up for grabs, but in reach for either party. we begin though tonight with breaking news. exclusive cnn reporting on how the justice department could proceed with cases against former president trump, if he decides to run. as his surrogates, are allowing a hinting for president again. sarah murray has the news, where joining us right. now what are you learning? sources are telling our team that the justice department is considering whether a special counsel is considered necessary to oversee the investigation surrounding donald trump. if he decides to run for president in 2020. for which as
new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la