The criteria for membership. Of the 15 council members, 12 voted yes while britain and switzerland abstained. We agree that the people of the West Bank And Gaza must be given the political perspective of a credible route to a Palestinian State and a new future. And it needs to be irreversible. This is not entirely in our gift but our recognition of a Palestinian State should be part of it. We believe that such recognition of Palestinian Statehood should not come at the start of a new process. But it doesnt have to be at the very end of the process. The palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the us veto as unfair, unethical, and unjustified, saying in a statement that it challenged the will of the international community, which strongly supports palestine s full membership. The push to recognise its statehood comes after more than six months of war in gaza, while israel continues expanding settlements in the occupied west bank. Thats a move widely considered a violation of intern
It differently. They then was talk about iran may be calculating its strike on iran is something that would be slow moving, potentially a bit easierfor air slow moving, potentially a bit easier for air defences to take down but, clearly, that might as well have been something that needed a response. Talk to us about the dangers of how these things are calculated and how these countries go about sending signals with missiles and drones. Its sending signals with missiles and drones. And drones. Its something which i think, and drones. Its something which i think, which and drones. Its somethingj which i think, which strikes western audiences in the us and uk and elsewhere, as unusual, the idea of limited conflict. We are used to the idea of fighting to victory, fighting to win or at least trying to do so so the idea of signalling to Military Force but these things are relatively common, especially between smaller or sort of medium adversaries like we have here. You will engage in smaller
Arseniy yatsenyuk in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. Heres a very simple first question. Do you feel that ukraine right now is going through its bleakest moments in this war since your country survived that initial russian onslaught in late February 2022 . We are at a critical juncture, no doubt, stephen, youre absolutely correct. So we survived two years ago due to an unbelievable resolve of the ukrainian people and due to the real unity among the Western World. As of now, the mood is different, but i still believe that we have the chance to prevail. But we need an enormous effort that needs to be undertaken mainly by our Western Allies. So the mood is different, but chances for ukraine to prevail and to survive are very high. All depends on the actions. Spirit and morale are very important in war. Just tell me what impact the missile strikes on ukrainian cities like kharkiv, like chernihiv where weve seen the Death Toll Rise beyond a dozen what impact do tho
coasts so here it is always going to feel cooler and there will be quite a lot of cloud around as well, the north sea really quite cold at this time of year, so west is best in terms of sunshine amounts and temperature, certainly. now, as we head through saturday, there s a warm front gradually easing its way across the far north of scotland, this will bring some cloud, some outbreaks of rain. further south, it is largely dry but cloudy, drizzly perhaps towards north sea facing coasts. best of the sunshine out towards the west, we ll get to 1a or 15 celsius perhaps here. some of the cloud could break up a little further eastwards, too, and that is also true on sunday, but temperatures towards these eastern coastal areas will really struggle to get much past eight or nine celsius. compare that to further west where in parts of northern ireland we could get to 17 degrees perhaps, feeling warmer here.
at this time of year. so, west is best in terms of sunshine amounts and temperature, certainly. now, as we head through saturday, there s a warm front gradually easing its way across the far north of scotland. this will bring some cloud, some outbreaks of rain. further south, it is largely dry but cloudy, drizzly perhaps towards these north sea facing coasts. best of the sunshine out towards the west it will get to 14 or 15 celsius perhaps here. some of the cloud could break up a little further eastwards, too, and that s also true on sunday, but temperatures towards these eastern coastal areas will really struggle to get much past eight or nine degrees. compare that to further west where, in parts of northern ireland, we could get to 17 degrees perhaps. feeling warmer here.