authorities on both sides say they are taking immediate steps to end the violence. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in vladimir putin s mind, ukraine is a fake state manipulated by the west. his effort to drag it back into the russian world began long before his all out invasion a year ago. back in 2014, he showed his contempt for kyiv sovereignty in crimea and the donbas. ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is 0lesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? 0lesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home
first tremors finally collapsed. the 6.4 magnitude quake struck close to the border with syria. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in vladimir putin s mind, ukraine is a fake state manipulated by the west. his effort to drag it back into the russian world began long before his all out invasion a year ago. back in 2014, he showed his contempt for kyiv sovereignty in crimea and the donbas. ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i
Thank you all. That is all in on this tuesday night. Today donald trump was back in a court where hes facing 34 Felony Counts related to the Hush C Money Payments he paid t adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair and specifically to keep ms. Daniels quiet in the leadup to the 2016 election. Today the lawyer that negotiated that T Hush Money Agreement for Stormy Daniels, keith davidson, took the stand. And were going to get to that in justto a minute, but the big news out of todays trial happened before any witnesses actually b testified. Today the judge in this case, judge juan merchan, ruled on two matters pertaining to trump himself. One is that trump will be allowed to attend his very tall son barons graduation on may 17th, so he can look forward to that. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for donald trump. Today judge merchan found trump in Criminal Contempt for violating his gag order. The judge ruled that trump violated the gag order nine tim
Alex, good evening. It is a kinetic situation at columbia. We will follow that through the air. Thanks for that coverage. We stay in new york city, where today, donald trump was back in court, where he is facing 34 Felony Counts related to the hush money payments he paid to adult film store star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair, and particularly to keep ms. Daniels quiet up until the 2016 election. The lawyer, keith davidson, took the stand, and we will get to that in just a minute. At the big news out of todays trial happened before any witnesses actually testified. Today, the judge in this case, judge one russian juan merchan, said trump will be allowed to attend his very tall son, behrens barons graduation. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for donald trump. Today, judge merchan found trump in contempt of violating his gag order, ruling he violated the gag order nine times. As punishment, judge merchan find trump 9000, 1000 per violation. And he warned