public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program the coronation of charles iii. how different will his reign be from that of his mother? we will explore. also, the curious case of the alleged attack on the kremlin. china s power play in the asia pacific and the american economy. our talk about all of that and more with an all-star panel. finally, bernard le vie started filming in ukraine just days after the war began. i ll talk to him about his new documentary slafa ukraine and how he thinks this tragic war will e. but first here s my take. we now have a biden doctrine. the biden administration has set it out in a striking, recent address by the national security adviser jake sullivan. sullivan outlines the administration s international economic policy, but it is really the overarching framework for president biden s approach to the world defining in luc
six cities across iran were targeted, and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious. they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them. there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor. other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports that in the north western town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings have become frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this. the first known case was recorded in november in the city of qom. it s spread to a number of other provinces, including the capital, t
more people were injured on the armancette glacier, where rescue work is ongoing. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for ukraine: how will it end? gunfire. in the mud and trenches of eastern ukraine, this war still hangs in the balance. both sides need a breakthrough. ukraine, with advanced western weaponry, could well now seize the initiative. the ukrainians will continue to fight, whatever happens. so, providing they ve got the tools to do thejob, they can do it. slava ukraini! but russia is not giving up. neither side seems ready to negotiate. so could russia still defy the odds and win this war, or will ukraine prevail? in this programme, we re going to examine how either side could yet win in ukraine. more than a year after the invasion began, the fighting has reached another inflection point. ukraine has the initiative. they re expected to launch a new offensive during the spring and summer. but if they don t make decisive gains quickly, that could put russia in t
tour, has been to london, has been to paris, and now he will appeal to eu leaders more widely for more help withjets and long range eu leaders more widely for more help with jets and long range weapons to bolster kyiv s defences against the expected spring offensive. almost a year to the day that russia invaded ukraine. let s listen the welcome given to president zelensky in brussels. applause we are here today on this historic occasion to welcome the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, to the european parliament. this is an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary time. it has been almost one year since the brutal, illegal invasion of sovereign ukraine by russia. in all that time, mr president, your leadership has inspired your people, inspired every corner of the globe. when the world thinks of ukraine, they think of heroes, fighting the odds. of david beating goliath, they think of the icons of snake island, the warriors of mariupol, the libera
the turkish city of antakya is one of the most severly damaged, with some of the country s significant historic monuments lying in ruins. now on bbc news, our world: on the battlefields of ukraine, you won t just find local soldiers. slava ukraini. ..but volunteers from all over the world. guatemala, portugal, america. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have travelled to help fight back against the russian invasion. many of them came from britain. they needed help so that is why i got up and went. i ve got a purpose in life out there. you didn t have any military experience previously? 100% civilian. from those who d never held a weapon, to experienced soldiers, british volunteers are fighting and dying alongside the people of ukraine. i did not find out until the day before he was coming. a lot of people are like, why you are here and why are you doing this? is there a kind of war tourism? as i tracked down the people who did not have to be in this war,