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The eastern part of romania. Authorities are creating displacement camps and sending emergency aid to those forced to evacuate their homes. The cyclone rains have also hit several other countries in the region including the czech republic, where 38 locations have declared the highest flood alert. Authorities there say the worst rainfall and flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. Our correspondent in warsaw, adam easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall which is leading to dangerously high river levels water levels in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and that s causing flooding in many countries particularly as you mentioned in romania, where four people have been found dead in the east of the country by the river danube delta. 5,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding and the romanian authorities have, as you sa
He is the great survivor of the years of tory turmoil. Appointed by borisjohnson, promoted by liz truss and kept on by rishi sunak. He s now in the final four candidates to become the next leader of the conservative party. All of them will make their case before conservative activists and members at the tory conference in a couple of weeks time. James cleverly, welcome to political thinking. Cheers, nick. This the first time we ve spoken since that election day? how does it feel to go from having one of those great offices of state and all that comes with it, the red boxes and the chauffeured cars and the security and all the rest? suddenly it s gone. So it s not that paraphernalia that you miss. It s the being able to do stuff. And particularly in the portfolios i ve held, foreign secretary and home secretary, they re both very much in the news at the moment. The situation with ukraine, the decisions around the uk s posture, how we further support the ukrainians in their self defence
Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this put down there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability, that wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space, which we took, and the time, which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that the change with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen here is some of us may get loosened
Was aimed at exploiting divisions in us society. So everything from being against the war in ukraine to exploiting divisions on race, on lgbtq issues, on criminal issues. And this was quite an interesting conspiracy in that it really was two employees of rt, which is a company that is banned basically from broadcasting in the united states, europe, the uk, has been since the start of the ukrainian war, and they were both working but representing multiple individuals behind the scenes, trying to make it seem as legitimate an operation as possible, and posing as a billionaire who ended up being fictitious. To say that it was a billionaire with a background in france, in brussels, who was a banker, who was trying to get this information out. And really, it was these two rt employees posing as him and employees that worked for him. Ok, let s, yeah, let s unpick it a bit more. You mentioned that company, that tennessee firm, tenet media. Just tell us about the company. What does it do? yeah