the celebrated british author martin amis has died. he was 73. his works including money and london fields defined a new era of british writing in the 19805 905. later works investigated stalin s purges and the legacy of the holocaust. amis death was announced by his wife, the writer isabel fonseca, who said he d had oesophageal cancer. he d been living in the us state of florida. ukraine s president zelensky has told world leaders at the g7 summit that peace will become closer after the us agreed to train ukrainian pilots on american f16 fighterjets, paving the way for european countries to supply the warplanes to kyiv. the rules state that countries can only resell or re export us military hardware if america approves it, but moscow has warned the decision could present colossal risks to the allied countries, and china has also expressed its strong dissatisfaction. 0ur political editor, chris mason, reports from hiroshima.
President Droupadi Murmu accepted the invitation of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stalin to inaugurate the government multi-super speciality hospital built at an estimated cost of Rs 230 crore at Guindy in Tamil Nadu s Chennai district, said a statement here on Friday.
if there is a peace deal that keeps vladimir putin in place in russia, the question is, how does ukraine move forward? how does the west move forward with somebody who has adopted some of stalin s worst tactics that s right. there s a lot of thinking in the administration on, you know, what happens when the war ends it eventually will end you know, i think there s certainly going to be concern that europe is going to rush back into the arms, at least some countries, might rush back to normalize relations with russia i think these stories are important to high like the notion of holding vladimir putin accountable for war crimes is really important. because we can t, at the end of the day, you know, let this stand. a lot of people wonder, will putin will brought to justice? at this point, it doesn t matter what is key is documenting these abuses it is critical that, you know,
russia and got their kids back, a small number, but a much larger problem. mika, think of the horror of this no. of children being kidnapped and taken across national borders. this is the kind of thing that happened in the soviet union under stalin crimea, a territory that ukraine desperately wants back crimea was depopulated from the people who lived there, who were just shipped willy-nilly out to uzbekistan because stalin decided it was better to have ethnic russians there than the native cricrimeans these are the things that happened in the worst times of the 20th century, and it s back. it s a scandal that putin is conducting these things. people should see them for what they are they re war crimes, and he needs to be held to account. marc polymeropoulos, this is straight out of stalin s playbook the worst of joseph stalin of course, it begs the question,
they re often guided by the practice of the past. so if this sink seems like a throwback to the past to probably is ceviches being detained in the same center, where they detained you in 1986, a place that has a long, intimidating history that dates back to stalin s purges. if evan could hear you right now , um, what would be your message or advice to him as he sits, essentially in the same place, you said. well when i was in that prison, uh, the one thing that i did not have any access to was information from the outside. i got information from visits from my wife. and so i think one of the things that he could do is demand. to be informed about what s going on in the outside world, and they probably won t comply with that. but you make the demand anyway. do you think there s anything to