he didn t plan to forcibly mobilise military age men across russia, and he didn t want to see internal protests spread. but this is where he is seemingly in trouble. my guest is putin loyalist, russian mp and influential state media commentator evgeny popov. if putin is growing desperate, what does that mean for russia? evgeny popov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen, for giving me that floor. oh, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. if i may, i want to begin with words from the kremlin chief spokesman dmitry peskov, on september 13th, he stated quite clearly there were no plans for any kind of mobilisation in russia. here we are less than two weeks later with a major mobilisation. what happened 7 it s not major mobilisation. this is partially mobilisation. wejust mobilised er, 300,000 people from reserve. it s just 1% from our total reserve people. i don t know what is happening with peskov s statement, but i know that we are in war with all nato countr
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the pound has a roller coaster day on the financial markets as the uk government and the bank of england try to offer reassurance. welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the call up continue. it s six in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in moscow where the kremlin has admitted it made mistakes in the way it tried to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in ukraine. the call up triggered widespread protests and there were reports that people with no military experience or who are too old or disabled were being handed draught papers. draft president putin s spokesperson acknowledg
a nasa spacecraft is closing in on an asteroid in an attempt to change its course. it s a test of a technique to re direct any object in space which could cause damage by colliding with earth. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are author and journalist rachel shabi and political editor of the people and sunday mirror, nigel nelson. let s see what came in in the last 40 let s see what came in in the last a0 minutes or so. we will start with dft. with the financial times leads on the continued turmoil in the markets it says neither the government or the bank of england have been able to halt the fall of sterling. the metro appears to put the blame directly on the chancellor kwasi kwarteng the pound, it says, kwar tanks . the daily mail has a different scapegoat, however it blames city speculators whom it says have been making profits from talking the pound down. the i focuses on mortgage lenders pulling th
leaders from around the world gather to pay their respects. i m outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there was growing opposition from protesters citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen in central london. welcome to the programme. it sounds like a hollywood film, but in under 15 minutes time, the american space agency, nasa, is going to crash a rocket into an asteroid. it is the agency s first planetary defence mission and scientists there are about to try diverting the path of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft the size of a small car into it. it s a test to see if something similar could be done if an asteroid was heading towards earth in the future. our science editor rebecca morelle has the details. it s a cataclysmic scenario. an asteroid headed for our planet, with the potential for mass devastation. it s happened before. a space rock wiped out the din
Numbers of one of the UK’s rarest birds of prey, the Hen Harrier, are increasing across the UK, but their future still hangs in the balance according to a new survey.