the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is in israel for a historic summit with four arab countries. the meeting at a venue in the negev desert is the first that israel has hosted with senior officials from so many arab governments. it follows the signing in recent years of us brokered deals to normalise ties. well, antony blinken has said that the united states has no plans to bring about regime change in russia. his comments come a day after president biden said his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, should not to be allowed to remain in power. speaking injerusalem, mr blinken said any decision about whether president putin should remain in office was in the hands of the russian people. with regards to the president s incredibly powerful speech yesterday, i think the president, the white house, made the point last night that, quite simply, president putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage
everybody here was down in the bomb shelters, down in the basements as air raid sirens sounded across the city. one strike hit a fuel depot which is only about two miles outside the city centre. a big cloud of smoke went up from that and firefighters struggled for hours to put that out. and also a military facility of some sort, possibly a factory, was also hit. now, lviv has for most of this war been a safe place, a place where people could flee to from other parts of the country and have reasonable confidence that they weren t going to be targeted here. russian ground forces are a long way away from here. but there is a sense, i think, that that mood might be changing, that now we ve had air strikes so close to the city that people here may no longer feel quite so safe, that this is somewhere they can stay in. that may well encourage some of the people who were trying to wait it out here in western ukraine to think about moving on towards europe, towards poland, towards the european
what would you say to people in the uk who say you guys are just looking for the excitement of war? there is no excitement to war. it s not nice, it s not pleasant. you know, we ve seen it. there s nothing nice about dead kids at the side of the road. and are you prepared to die here? absolutely. and with that, c], kieran and elliott marched off british boys in putin s war. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, has urged western governments to supply planes, tanks, and missile defence systems to ukraine to help them fight russian forces. in an impassioned late night video address, he said heavy weapons which could defend freedom in europe were instead gathering dust in stockpiles. i asked dr patrick bury, a former british army captain and nato analyst, if the west really
jonah fisher with those men who are going to fight against russian soldiers. we heard anna foster as well in at lviv talking about the fallout from president biden s apparently off the cuff remarks in warsaw about vladimir putin. as the white house scrambled to issue a clarification, the us secretary of state, antony blinken, who s in israel, has said that the united states has no plans to bring about regime change in russia. let s have a listen. with regards to the president s incredibly powerful speech yesterday, i think the president, the white house, made the point last night that, quite simply, president putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against ukraine or anyone else.
to bring about regime change in russia. mr blinken s comments come a day after president biden said his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, should not to be allowed to remain in power. speaking injerusalem, mr blinken said any decision about whether president putin should remain in office was in the hands of the russian people. with regards to the president s incredibly powerful speech yesterday, i think the president, the white house, made the point last night that, quite simply, president putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against ukraine or anyone else. as you know, and as you ve heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in russia, or anywhere else for that matter. in this case, as in any case, it s up to the people of the country in question. it s up to the russian people.