welcome to pristina and thank you for having me. well, it s a great pleasure to be in your office. prime minister, how close has kosovo come to seeing a renewal of conflict in the last few months? it has been very heavy because the two extremist terrorist organisations, which are being financed by serbia, and from where they also receive their orders, civil protection and the northern brigade have been very active and first intimidating serbs and serbian candidates who would like to vote and run in elections. and second, in attacking our police, journalists, but first and foremost, nato soldiers on 29 may. you ve chosen in that answer to pile all of the blame on your serbian minority population. that is not the way the international community sees things right now. i never blame serbian minority population. they are 4% of population in kosovo, less than half of them live north of the river ibar, but i was blaming two specific organisations and also belgrade, who is also contr
of balkan bloodshed? prime minister albin kurti, welcome to hardtalk. welcome to pristina. and thank you for having me. well, it s a great pleasure to be in your office, mr prime minister, how close has kosovo come to seeing a renewal of conflict in the last few months? it has been very heavy because the two extremist terrorist organisations which are being financed by serbia and from where they also receive their orders, civil protection and the northern brigade have been very active and first intimidating serbs and serbian candidates who would like to vote and run in elections. and second, in attacking our police. journalist but first and foremost, nato s soldiers on 29th of may. you ve chosen in that answer to pile all of the blame on your serbian minority population. that is not the way the international community sees things right now. i never blame serbian minority population. they are 4% of population in kosovo. less than half of them live north of river ibar. but i wa
start tomorrow with storm jocelyn still very much in charge of our weather. the centre of this area of low pressure tracking to the north of the uk. lots of izabela squeezing together on this chart. still very windy, particularly in scotland and northern england. they will spread time. the wind is slowly easing through the day but to the eastern side of the pennines, we could keep some really gusty conditions right into the afternoon. bear that in mind if you are travelling. however, the winds will slowly ease. not a bad day, some spells of sunshine, showers in the north west, some cloud gathering in the south later as a frontal system starts to push its way in. this front will work northwards and it brings a lot of cloud with it. some outbreaks of patchy rain. but with that extra cloud, we will see some really mild weather on thursday. this is what logan s life would have been, what our life would have been like. except it would have been even better because logan would have
But why the flare up now . All of these things are interconnected, and thats why its really dangerous right now. So the big question now is, could this Red Sea Conflict become the next war in The Middle East . First of all, lets start by looking at what has actually been happening In The Red Sea. In mid november, 2023, the houthis, an iranian backed rebel group in yemen, began targeting commercial shipping off their coast. So, who exactly are the houthis and what is it motivating them . The houthis, who are a so called rebel group in yemen, they hail from the north west of yemen. They have been very active in this area for about a decade. Its only now that were noticing because our global trade is being impacted. They hijacked this ship called the Galaxy Leader and they fired missiles and drones at others. Us and british warships went to their defence. The houthis vowed revenge. The world economy, every economy will suffer if ships keep coming under attack in this illegal and unaccepta