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
we begin in ukraine where we re getting a word about a new barrage of russian missile tryings in the south. ukraine says at least 10 millions admit mykolaiv sunday morning as the city still reels from similar strikes on friday. two industrial facilities were hit but no reports of casualties so far. ukraine says russia also fired five cruise missiles in the south but three were shot down. in the east, ukraine said fending off russian ground attacks in the donetsk region despite intense shelling, as in this town near the front line. meanwhile, russia s defense minister was in donbas on saturday ordering troops to increase operations to prevent ukrainian strikes in the region. ukraine s artillery has been stepping up attacks behind the front lines in recent weeks. president zelenskyy says his country is making progress and will keep up the momentum. here he is. translator: we have already managed to liberate part of the territory that was occupied after february 24th. we will
the lead plaintiff in a landmark same-sex marriage case joins me tonight. he with begin tonight with a theme that, by now, may be familiar to viewers of this show. repeal the 20th century. the notion that, for many on the far right, the good ole days start with 17 and 18, as in hundreds. the era where men were men and is womener property. and the 20th century, the american century, was literally the ruin of this country as a christian nation the onset of workers rights and social safety net and income taxes and voting rights for women and black people and liberalized immigration and acceptance of lgbtq people and dangerous cultural things, like jazz, hip-hop, you know, rock and roll. and legalized contraception and apportion. believe it or not, there are people and el with-funded groups in this country who have dedicated their lives to repealing it all. but right now, i hate to say it, they are kind of winning. conservative organizations like the heritage foundation had in
digby is right. they are doing that thing ofjust passing it on. they take it on and pass it on and make whopping great profit at the same time as you have people who are forced to stay at home, and that is the problem, forced to stay at home, and perhaps they are on kidney dialysis or, like tammy, they are doing chemo, they have had to give up doing chemo, they have had to give up theirjob, stay at home. her husband goes out and works 60 hours as a chef. all those people doing their best, trying to make ends meet, when you ve got companies that are raking it in, hand overfist, and not giving anything to help at all, i do not even know if there is any proper hand wringing going on. let me move on, because time is pressing. we ll talk more about this story in our next review at 11:30 p:m.. fairwarning, iwould like p:m.. fair warning, i would like to quicken your thoughts, and your former life, about the impact on businesses. we have heard the talk about politicians helping us,
we ll get the details from carole lending one of the reporters who broke that story an expert legal guidance on what it all means. but first, let s remember how we got here. today washington for only the second time a federal judge sentence a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see. why in screenshots take it from officers body cams in january six, the sky is seen swinging a pull out of police officers so hard it snaps into on the officers riot shield. so the new guy finds another pull and start swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first poll, the one he hit so hard that it stepped into, that was capitol police sergeant alkaline o connell. he gave emotional testimony about the horror that day before the january six investigation. today he sent his at that rioters hearing, saying he suffered mental and physical inju