hello and welcome to bbc news. dmytro kuleba, ukraine s foreign minister, has warned that countries which mistreated ukraine during the darkest moment of its history will be held to account after the war ends. in an interview with the bbc, he also warned western allies that delaying the delivery of weapons will cost the lives of ukrainian soldiers. he has spoken to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. the battle for bakhmut is now the longest of the war. more than half a year of bloody fighting for control of what is little more than rubble. but ukraine s foreign minister told me holding the city was vital, and notjust for the damage it s causing to russia s army. defending bakhmut is emotionally very challenging, because people find it hard emotionally to take, carry the burden of this death, loss of human life and destruction. it s a struggle to save those who are behind bakhmut from that same destiny as bakhmut is now suffering from. he said what ukraine needs
the top of the hour here on your friday morning. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. there are deep concerns as china s president xi jinping is preparing to meet with vladimir putin in moscow, and the summit is not a surprise, but washington is on edge to see if china makes any move in particular to provide weapons for the war in ukraine. and this st. patrick s day guest in washington, and it is ireland s prime minister. and also, the wild week on wall street comes to a close, and the major company that just filed for bankruptcy. we will get you caught up on that ahead, but we want to begin with the news with that meeting between xi jinping and vladimir putin. will ripley is joining us now with more on that and what is on the agenda for this face-to-face meeting? well, there is the official meeting, and also the agenda that the u.s. is concerned about which is lethal support from china to russia. vladimir putin needs chips can, ammo and all of the tools that he can get t
who have been called up for the war, but there are plenty trying to escape, with long queues forming at the border and, the sixth day of protests in iran, triggered by the death of a woman in police custody what does it tell us about changing attitudes in iran? tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, the co founder of the collective pac, a group campaigning for equal representation in american politics and joe twyman, director of the political research company, deltapoll. hello, welcome to the programme. the un secetary general has told the security council there will be a reckoning for those responsible for a catalog of cruelty in the occupied areas of ukraine. antony gutteres said the investigators are seeing evidence of torture, sexual violence, and summary executions. the high commissioner for human rights has been documenting the unacceptable impacts on this war on human rights. the reports are a catalogue of cruelty, executions, sexual violence and torture and
officials. only the president and some members of his cabinet have access to them. let s bring in shawn turner, national security analyst and former director of communication for u.s. national intelligence. this reporting is quite interesting. what do you make of the idea that document like this was in a country club for 18 months? yeah, you know, when i saw this first of all, thanks for having me this morning. this really struck a chord with me, the fact that we now know that there were highly classified secret restricted access documents being stored at mar-a-lago, this is a game changer for our national security and risks to our national security. i ve been clear from the start that we need to avoid speculating about the intent with regard to these documents until we had more information about the substance of these documents. but now that we know that we re talking about nuclear defense capabilities for another country, this really raises the bar with regard to that i
football stadium because football officially kicks off this weekend. today signifies the beginning of fall. you are reading my mind, empty seats soon to be filled. bank of america stadium, don t know who plays for college ball, does anybody play there for college ball? i am more of a pro football guy. not known for football prize. rachel: something that gets me as excited as you get about football. will: i ve given this speech to my wife. this is one thing. talking about football, for you to carve out one of the largest part of american culture. it is a huge thing. what if you just said i don t know much about christmas. what is this christmas thing? rachel: these are four people who have never seen it s a wonderful life who don t know anything about the golden era of sinema. you don t know who frank capra is so i am not going to be lectured about americana from two got to think throwing a ball is america. there is a lot more going on. will: as we just announced a few moments