address to the country since anti government protests erupted last month. his brother, the prime minister, resigned on monday. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from washington, i m stephen sackur. when vladimir putin made that momentous decision to invade ukraine, maybe he calculated that the us was too weak, too polarised to offer anything more than ritual condemnation. if so, he was wrong. american weapons are now flowing into ukraine. unprecedented sanctions have been imposed on moscow. my guest today is the senior democrat senator mark warner. is this ukraine war the wake up call america needed? senator mark warner, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. is there an attitude in this city, washington, dc, that you politicians are now prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure ukraine s victory in the war with vladimir putin? well, my sense, stephen, is that this is not only an attitude that s reflected by politicians, by the american public, qu
democrat senator mark warner. is this ukraine war the wake up call america needed? senator mark warner, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. is there an attitude in this city, washington, dc, that you politicians are now prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure ukraine s victory in the war with vladimir putin? well, my sense, stephen, is that this is not only an attitude that s reflected by politicians, by the american public, quite honestly, i think it is the british government, the british public. what has taken place over the last few months is, you know, the west, nato have come back together, an organisation that candidly a year ago at the end of the trump presidency was totally broken. i think a lot of that was due to the fact that the american intelligence community, along with the british had been very forward leaning up to the beginning of the conflict about vladimir putin s intentions and made the case that he was going to not only invade ukraine, but invade
$40 billion in aid for ukraine. most republicans joined democrats in supporting the deal. the funds will be used to provide military support to ukraine and humanitarian assistance to the civilians affected by the russian invasion. now on bbc news, stephen sackur is in washington, with hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from washington, i m stephen sackur. when vladimir putin made that momentous decision to invade ukraine, maybe he calculated that the us was too weak, too polarised to offer anything more than ritual condemnation. if so, he was wrong. american weapons are now flowing into ukraine. unprecedented sanctions have been imposed on moscow. my guest today is the senior democrat senator mark warner. is this ukraine war the wake up call america needed? senator mark warner, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. is there an attitude in this city, washington, dc, that you politicians are now prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure ukraine s victory in the war with vladimir
call america needed? senator mark warner, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. is there an attitude in this city, washington, dc, that you politicians are now prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure ukraine s victory in the war with vladimir putin? well, my sense, stephen, is that this is not only an attitude that s reflected by politicians, by the american public, quite honestly, i think it is the british government, the british public. what has taken place over the last few months is, you know, the west, nato have come back together, an organisation that candidly a year ago at the end of the trump presidency was totally broken. i think a lot of that was due to the fact that the american intelligence community, along with the british had been very forward leaning up to the beginning of the conflict about vladimir putin s intentions and made the case that he was going to not only invade ukraine, but invade in a massive way, as he has. i remember as recently as ten days
philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. well, it is a pleasure to have you in the studio, but i am very mindful thatjust a few days ago you were in gaza looking at your unrwa relief operations on the ground. you ve come out, you ve had a chance to reflect on what you saw. what were your overriding impressions? it was the second time i went to gaza since the war started, and my impression was that the humanitarian situation has significantly deteriorated. as you said in the introduction, we have 1.7 million people who have been displaced. among them, one million are sheltering in united nations schools or warehouses and premises across the gaza strip. i visited one of these places in khan younis. it s a vocational training centre. we have 35,000 people there. it looked, in a certain extent, like a prison because people shut the door of the compound to prevent new people to come in this shelter. hang on. just let me get my mind around this. 35,000 disp