poland says it cannot bear all the risk over supplying jets to ukraine. poland shares a border with the russian exclave of kaliningrad, where in 2018, moscow installed nuclear ca pable missiles. our correspondent adam easton is in warsaw. parliament says we didn t agree to that unilaterally. we are not taking sole responsibility for that. we have got. we, our country, has shared the border with the russian exclave of kaliningrad, where there are nuclear capable missiles deployed, which could hit warsaw in a matter of 20 minutes. so, basically, the poles are saying, we have not agreed to do this on our own. we will agree to do it as part of nato if nato takes this decision as a whole alliance. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has been meeting his uk counterpart liz truss in washington. he s some of what mr blinken had to say. departing from a us nato base in germany to fly into airspace
in germany. these are mig 29jets on combat drills at an airbase in poland. poland had said it intended to send its jets to the ramstein air base in germany and put them at the disposal of the united states urging other nato members to follow suit. but the us says it wasn t consulted, and that the plan would raise serious concerns for nato. duncan kennedy has more from washington. 20 or 30 mig 29jets appeared to be part of a deal that poland was offering to send to ukraine. no details are worked out as to how those planes are going to get to ukraine. but the whole deal had, initially, the backing of the americans, the secretary of state, antony blinken, was saying that if poland can get these jets to ukraine, then america would backfill the polish aircraft with new american planes. but then over the past day or so, the poles seem to have got a bit of cold feet about this, perhaps because they felt intimidated by what russia might do by way of retaliation. so, yesterday it came up with t
have been wounded. here is more footage shared by the city council you can see the damage. this was president zelensky s response he called it an atrocity and asked how much longer the world would be an accomplice in terror. a ukrainian mp was being interviewed by the bbc when the strike hit here s his reaction. it was hit, that s the only information i know because there is no cell phone network there. but the information is that the maternity hospital was hit, yes. britain s foreign secretary has also been reacting to the attack in mariupol during a visit to washington. the attack on the hospital is absolutely abhorrent. reckless and appalling. and the uk is at the forefront of supplying humanitarian aid into ukraine. we ve already pledged 220 million of humanitarian
let s turn to diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. russia has confirmed that its foreign minister sergei lavrov and his ukrainian counterpart, dmytro kuleba, are set to meet in turkey on thursday. turkey s foreign minister will mediate the talks in the city of antalya. they are set to be the highest level talks between russia and ukraine since the conflict began. turkey is a nato member, but says it is keen to maintain strong relations with both sides despite the conflict. here s what germany s chancellor olaf scholz had to say earlier today about how to end the crisis: translation: a military solution | to this conflict makes no sense. l what we need now is a diplomatic solution, and that s what we re trying to do in close coordination with other international partners. and we have hope that there will be solutions in the talks between
feel compelled to do so before something goes terribly wrong, if not actionable then at one of the other nuclear plants in ukraine. in terms of those other nuclear plants, what can be done to secure them, or to minimise the risk that you describe? work out a arrangement with the russian and ukrainian authorities that there was in a protective zone around them. so the fi . htin: protective zone around them. so the fighting does protective zone around them. so the fighting does not protective zone around them. so the fighting does not come protective zone around them. so the fighting does not come as protective zone around them. so the fighting does not come as close - protective zone around them. so the fighting does not come as close to l fighting does not come as close to these nuclear facilities. fighting does not come as close to these nuclearfacilities. i think these nuclearfacilities. i think the greater likelihood of getting something wrong, as happened at chernobyl, an a