around the world appear to agree. and, of course, putin will not be removed from office, still less arrested. well, my guest is the world renowned human rights lawyer geoffrey robertson. is the campaign for global cooperation to uphold international law and human rights going backwards? geoffrey robertson, welcome to hardtalk. how big a deal is the icc s decision to charge vladimir putin with war crimes and issue an arrest warrant? it s very important because it has removed a credibility that he would otherwise have had. he is banned now from 123 countries. so, in addition, he may well end up in the hague, not soon, of course, but in years to come, there may be a coup and he may, like milosevic, be handed overfor. to ease sanctions. he may, in time, he s only 69, be stumbling into the dock like some old nazi, as there are at the moment in germany, so it is not without significance. i m imagining people listening to you in moscow and giving a look of complete disdain to what t
we have a special report from taiwan where the government is taking steps to protect itself against what it sees as a growing threat from china. and nasa unveils the four astronauts who will prepare for a return to the moon the crew of artemis ii. it s six in the morning in singapore, and six in the evening in new york, where donald trump is spending the night ahead of his arraignment on tuesday. this is the seen life in new york. he s in his suite in the trump tower in manhattan, presumably conferring with his lawyers for what will be an unprecedented moment in us legal history. that s because never before has a us president, sitting orformer, faced criminal charges. the case is complex and hasn t yet been made fully public. we ll look at what could happen next and we ll be live with our correspondent in new york injust a moment. but we begin with this report from our north america editor, sarah smith. it s not quite a presidential motorcade, but as donald trump leaves h
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home
mexico s former security chief is found guilty of taking bribes in return for helping drug dealers. and empty food shelves in the uk why are some supermarkets having to limit sales of fruit and veg? live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we have a tale of two presidents for you this hour from the us and russia. we ll get to the american presidentjoe biden in a moment but first russian leader vladimir putin. he s announced he s suspending russian participation in the last major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. in his two hour state of the nation address, mr putin accused the west of starting the war in ukraine and seeking to destroy russia in a global confrontation. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility for fuelling the ukrainian - conflict, for i
carrying out more searches of the rubble after another earthquake on monday, just two weeks after two massive quakes devastated the region. buildings weakened by those first tremors finally collapsed. the 6.4 magnitude quake struck close to the border with syria. now on bbc news, click. this week, it s game on in helsinki. a cityjust the size of glasgow that houses some of the most innovative, influential and successful mobile games companies in the world. we re going wild in the scottish town that s turning your phone into a one stop tourism shop. it turns visiting - a city into a game. absolutely. look out, alasdair! there s a lion on the loose! and we re crossing the multiverse to see the bedroom artist behind the bafta nominated everything everywhere all at once. there s something very big and bright going on in north london. come on in and we ll show you. this is an exhibition called luyang netineti. chinese multimedia artist luyang takes us on a journey through their we