making short term military gains in russia, but you will fail in the long run. you ve criticized the government for being slow on sanctions. i talked to mr. raab about that a moment ago. what would labor do about mr. abramovich? neither of whom are on the uk sanctions list, as far as we know. we ve been arguing for sometime, for nearly six years since the scale of money that help keep putin in power pushing through london, that actions be required. and for six years, we ve been ordering for a crime bill that the house of commons, only tomorrow, we ll get to debate for the first time. so, the sanctions that the government has been willing to put in place, the legislation it s had in order to do so, has been faulty and flood for too long.
rescue committee staff inside afghanistan, and i can confirm the reports that you ve just quoted that there are people selling their children and that there are people selling their body parts in afghanistan in desperation, given the complete breakdown of the economy. the next point to address directly, we ve argued very clearly that all $9.5 billion of frozen assets of afghanistan, 7 billion in the us, 2.5 billion in europe and elsewhere, need to be released so that a functioning economy and a functioning central bank and a functioning finance ministry can get back into place. the us last week did agree to make clear that sanctions do not apply to organisations that are working with government states, er, government ministries. they apply just to the individuals who are named in the sanctions list, but they ve got to go much further. they ve got to pay the salaries of the civil servants. they ve got to make sure that the assets are released to underpin a properly functioning banking s
this morning, two million people have left ukraine since the war began. the telegraph says britons will be asked to host tens of thousands of refugees with family links in the uk, under government plans to be laid out soon. the other big story is the news that chelsea owner roman abramovich has been placed on the uk sanctions list. the sun focuses on the implications for the club highlighting fears it could go bust. the latest round of sanctions also features on the guardian s front page with more detail of the six other russians who have had their assets frozen. and the back page of the times also focuses on chelsea s uncertain future after its main shirt sponsor pulled out. we will talk through some more of the implications throughout the programme this morning. something else you will notice in the paper says the price of petrol, the price of fuel. if you are walking past a full court this morning are you regularly fill up for work, for
all of these sanctions, these sanctions were partial. we were asking for sanctions for their banks and unfortunately, if you look at the s.w.i.f.t. off, it was switched off for search out of 300 banks in russia, which means they just look to turn to a bank. and if you look at the sanctions on the economist actors, sanctions in the energy sector, which is the main pocket for putin, we have installed sanctions on oligarchs but for some reason the person who owns chelsea football club and has a lot of conditions here in the united states, he has three steel companies in the united states, he is not on the sanctions list, so we keep begging the world to be stronger in their reaction. but unfortunately, so far, we see that everybody s trying to protect their economies, that
russia was basically, i think one commentator said it s like a very small economy with a big gas station attached. and, in some ways, but semi true, that the politics, the foreign affairs of russia were heavily directed by what the leadership could say about oil and gas. and when that became clearer and clearer and clearer, then i think the balance of the advantage changed. talking of forei i n advantage changed. talking of foreign affairs advantage changed. talking of foreign affairs - advantage changed. talking of foreign affairs - and advantage changed. talking of foreign affairs - and with - advantage changed. talking of foreign affairs - and with all i foreign affairs and with all due respect, i have to ask this, because you went back into the oil and gas business even after with a russian oligarch, russian billionaire, mikal freeman who is now on the sanctions list, even after the britain regime annexed crimea. i mean, how does that sit with you vladimir putin regim