of primaries in several us states that could set the tone for november s mid term elections. the democrat representative, charlie crist has won the primary in the us state of florida. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it is six months since vladimir putin ordered a multi front military invasion of ukraine. he set in motion a war which has already taken a terrible human toll and had profound consequences for european security, big power relations, and the world economy. putin calculated it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t
six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t want to believe it. but by mid january, kyiv s defence minister, oleksii reznikov, felt only massive pre emptive western sanctions could stop putin launching a full on attack. the main message let s show to the kremlin that you seriously understand all threats and you can make this invasion very expensive for them. and you can start with the sanctions on this moment before, not after. if they do not, will you regard that as a betrayal? it will be very late because it will be a lot of blood in the land and it will be a lot of refugees, it will be disaster for europe, because this war i
canceled. can travelers expect more of this as we enter peak travel this summer? also new questions on whether the former vice president, mike pence, will be the next witness the january 6th committee subpoenas to testify. ahead of tomorrow s fourth public hearing in an exclusive interview with cnn, committee member adam schiff said trying to speak to pence for the investigation remains on the table. we re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. we would still, i think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee. so mike expense a possibility still? you know, certainly a possibility. we re not excluding anyone at this point. central to the investigation certainly. new cnn reporting. homeland security and national security officials fear that russia could significantly exploit u.s. political divisions during the upcoming midterm elections. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, let s br
election fraud. trump and his advisers knew he lost the election. a fox political editor will be one of the witnesses called to testify. last night, the committee gave a damming two-hour opening presentation that argued that the former president led a sophisticated 7-point plan to overturn the 2020 election, incite the capitol riot, and subvert american democracy. all americans should keep in mind this fact, on the morning of january 6th president donald trump s intention was to remain president of the united states despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relen inquish pow the committee aired testimony from his closest advisers, they knew he lost the election. they told him that. the panel revealed never before seen video of rioters storming the capitol and attacking law enforcement officers. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, now what? where do we go. reporter: last nigh
killed. phoenix, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down and 8 others shot at a strip mall in south carolina, where bullets tore through a graduation party, leaving one dead and others injured, six children. in texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. add those numbers up with the other mass shootings over the first months of 2022, and you get 240 mass shootings. let me say that again. 240 mass shootings already this year, in a year that s not even half over. what will republican governors, legislators, and members of congress do to stop the continued killing of our children in schools, our teenagers at malls, our mothers at graduation parties, our families in church, our grandmothers in supermarkets, our friends at country music festivals? it looks like nothing. nothing to speak of. i just want to know, this so-called party of life, which is anything but, when will they ever respect the life of those who are actually drawing a breath? i don t know. it looks like never. but i will