Say the worst Rainfall And Flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. The government in poland has warned of a critical night ahead with the country facing severe flooding. Authorities have shut a Border Crossing with the Czech Republic after a river flooded its banks. Theyve also closed several roads and halted trains. Polish prime Minister Donald Tusk has been visiting flooded areas in silesia. Translation the low pressure that brought translation the low pressure that brought these translation the low pressure that brought these heavy translation the low pressure that brought these heavy rains i that brought these heavy rains to poland and the Czech Republic is not entirely predictable. These forecasts has changed within 48 was but generally they are not optimistic. What awaits us Tonight And Part of sunday will be heavier, record breaking rainfall in many places. Our correspondent in Warsaw Adam Easton has the latest
In england and wales. That policy sees the proportion of sentences which some inmates must serve behind bars temporarily cut from 50 to A0 . But latest government figures suggest more than a quarter of prisoners will go on to reoffend within a year of being released. The problem is there are no guarantees that anybody who is released early will not reoffend, because weve got to do ourjob in our prisons of trying to rehabilitate people. We simply cannot do that if theyre used as Human Warehouses and were overcrowded. We must be given a chance to give people hope. The Ministry Ofjustice says it cannot comment on individual cases but insists that anyone who breaks their Licence Conditions upon release, or who commits further crimes, will be punished, and the government says without the early release scheme, police would not be able to make arrests and the courts would not be able to hold trials. The Prison Population in england and wales has dropped by more than 2,000 in a week following
Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldenIng VladImIr PutIn wIth Its hesItatIon over long range mIssIles. PresIdent bIden and SIr KeIr Starmer had met to decIde whether to allow kyIv to use Storm Shadow mIssIles agaInst targets InsIde russIa. I dont thInk much about VladImIr PutIn. DespIte thIs put down there Is stIll a cautIous approach and no offIcIal change In polIcy. ThIs wasnt a meetIng about a partIcular capabIlIty, that wasnt why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space, whIch we took, and the tIme, whIch we took, to have a strategIc dIscussIon. These long range mIssIles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplIes Storm Shadows to ukraIne, but only for use wIthIn ukraIne. The comIng weeks could see that the change wIth them beIng allowed to be fIred Into russIa at mIlItary InstallatIons. Some mIlItary observers say UkraIne IsjustIfIed In wantIng to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen here Is some of us may get loosened up
Countries in the region including the Czech Republic where 38 locations have declared the highest flood alert. Authorities there say the worst Rainfall And Flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. Our correspondent in warsaw, Adam Easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall which is leading to dangerously high river Levels Water levels in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and thats causing flooding in many countries particularly, as you mentioned, in romania, where four people have been found dead in the east of the country by the River Danube delta. 5,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding and the romanian authorities have, as you said, set up Displacement Camps and are providing blankets and food for people who have been forced to evacuate their homes. In romania and in the Czech Republic, the floods have caused Tens Of
It s fu him to end this but today was about having the chance to not talk about a tactic but a strategy in relation to ukraine. Russia s president vladimir putin says lifting these restrictions would represent the nato alliance s direct participation in the ukraine war. We heard the same argument from russia s representative at the un. Translation: if the decision to lift restrictions is really taken, from that moment, nato countries are conducting direct war with russia. In this case, we will have to take the relevant decisions with all the consequences for this that the western aggressors were phase. Ukraine very much wants to be able to use these weapons. Our security correspondent gordon corera explains why. These are the western weapons at the heart of today s debate. They include american atacms and this, the british storm shadow system, which has a range of at least 250 kilometres. Storm shadow has already been used by ukraine against a russian base in occupied crimea last year,