thank you, poland. thank you. thank you, thank you for what you re doing. god bless you. [ applause ] right now on andrea mitchell reports president biden s keynote speech in poland, reaffirming america s and nato s ironclad support for ukraine, pushing back against vladimir putin. framing the work as a life and death battle for freedom and autocracy and aggression. but there should be, no doubt, our support that ukraine will not waive are. nato will not be divided, and we will not tire. biden s address following on his widely celebrated wartime visit to kyiv yesterday, appointed u.s. rebuke to putin who delivered his annual address to his nation earlier today. putin announced he s suspending russia s s.t.a.r.t. treaty with the u.s. the announcement by russia that it is suspended the situation is unfortunate and irresponsible. we ll, of course, make sure that in any event, we have posturing appropriately for the security of our own country and of that our allie
Of settle to carlisle rail line. The world famous train is back on its scenic route through the Yorkshire Dales and the eden valley, a year after a major landslip closed the line. And, Recycling Rockets a Californian Company has made history by launching a rocket into space for a second time. Good morning. Its friday, 31st march. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The eu has outlined its strategy for brexit negotiations, suggesting talks on a trade deal could begin once sufficient progress is made on a Separation Settlement with the uk. The Draft Guidelines, issued by the president of the European Council donald tusk, argue for a phased approach in talks. The document will now be sent to the 27 Member States for approval. The Draft Guidelines, seen by the bbc, will outline the tone of the talks ahead and say a non member of the union, that does not live up to the same obligations as a member, cannot have the same rights and enjoy the same benefits as a member. They also r
speech to his nation earlier. putin announcing he s suspending the new start nuclear arms control treaty, a 30-year-old treaty eliminating missile deployments by the u.s. and russia, but moscow stopped inspections of missile sites in its country, making russia s compliance with the treaty unverifiable. joining us now, barry mccaffrey and former nato supreme allied commander general admiral james stavridis. well, before you call me out, putin said today russia is suspending its participation in new start but they put out a statement saying in the interest of peace, they re not going to change their numbers of missile deployments. strictly observe the quantitative restrictions. so was that just for effect, for domestic consumption that he s canceling new start, when they re not going to change the number of missiles? look, putin is an angry man. he is failing in what has turned
number of options that they are prepared to lay out, including sanctions, including blocking certain technologies to russia, among other things, and including pressing up troops, nato troops in the region if putin were to take that step. they ve also built things for confidence building things, things they might offer russia if they are indeed serious with negotiations and that s a willingness to talk about things like missile deployments and the scope and scale of military exercises, things like that. now, the white house says that they are not considering cuts to u.s. troops in the region, but our own reporting shows that there are certain options that have been under discussion that would reduce the u.s. military footprint in the region, but, steph, all of this depends on whether or not russia shows that they are serious about negotiations and that s something that the u.s. just isn t sure of and that they re hoping to get a sense of in these first initial negotiations. richard en
reporter: it s an excellent question, jose. one which, unfortunately, we ll have to wait another hour or so before we get word from the deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman, what exactly transpired from these conversations. essentially what we know so far, are the things that the united states was not willing to move on. one of which, of course, was the end of nato expansion on europe. they said that s a non-starter for them. nato allies agreeing with that statement. there have also been conversations that we understand taking place about the potential to be a bit more transparent when it comes to military exercises. that s something that has rankled those in the kremlin for many, many years. and one of the things they wanted to move on was missile deployments in eastern europe. they want to make sure that there will be no missile deployments, for example, in ukraine. and while antony blinken seemed to suggest over the week that was also a nonstarter, a conversation around potent