from today cutting off its gas supplies to poland and bulgaria retaliation for sanctions imposed on russian companies. translation: we have received threats from the russian - federation, from gazprom. poland had previously prepared to diversify gas supplies. we will be able to protect our economy, protect households and poles against such a dramatic step by russia. as thousands continue to flee the fighting, russia has now said it has the right to attack specific targets in ukraine even if a western adviser is present, as tensions between russia and the west increase. germany has now said it will send around 50 anti aircraft tanks to the fights, a major change in its policy. meanwhile uk foreign secretary liz truss, in a speech later today, will vow to support ukraine for the long haul and say britain and other western powers should send will place in the country, something ukraine has
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they do say britain has draughtiest homes and i have never been able to pin that down, find out what it actually means. latika, australia has experienced energy politics and the rough and tumble at the last election where it looked like the conservative small c liberal national coalition was going to lose, yet it won, and it appeared to win because what labor were saying on energy the voters didn t like. can you remind us of that and will that still play this time? sean, not even the last election the last decade in australia, basically all the elections have been written by this climate change politics orthodoxy that s been going on, and i don t expect that will change too much of this election. however, what we had for the first time as a bipartisan commitment for net zero by 2050. the incumbent centre right government led by scott morrison was very reluctantly dragged, kicking and screaming, to that position by boris johnson at cop26 in glasgow. and so, we have that bipartisansh
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well, it is a good question. as you say, britain have won medals in the skeleton at the last five winter olympics but fair to say they won t be winning a medal here. at the halfway point in the women s event laura is in 20th place and her team mate in 20 second place. such disappointment in particular for laura who won a bronze medal four years ago. she has had a tough season. once again the speed just wasn t there. and when you bear in mind that britain s two competitors in the main s event both also outside the top ten then safe to say britain will not be winning any medals in the skeleton here in beijing. it has also not been a great day for britain s curlers because in the last hour britain s women have lost their latest group match against south korea. they led the match 6 5 going into the closing stages but south korea came back to take the match 9 7. that means that the britain s women s team has lost