finland and sweden today. countries that historically are neutral but there is growing support therefore at nato membership. this is a reminder of how we have got to this point. this is notjust an attack on ukraine, this is russia trying to reorder the traditional security structures of the world, and in response to sweden and finland, for example, voicing movisport support forjoining nato, the kremlin have said there will be some kind of technical military response to readdress that balance and that will almost certainly involve ukraine once more.- will almost certainly involve ukraine once more. , ., ., ~ ukraine once more. james comer thank ou ve ukraine once more. james comer thank you very much- for more than three decades, scientists have strived to pinpoint exactly what caused gulf war syndrome, which is a collection of chronic health problems that affected more than a quarter of the coalition troops deployed during the first gulf war in 1991. now, findings from a new study
independence and the fear is that if he does this, it could be used as a way of pretending there is a legal basis for occupying the territory of ukraine and breaking it up. thank ou ve ukraine and breaking it up. thank you very much ukraine and breaking it up. thank you very much indeed. ukraine and breaking it up. thank you very much indeed. joe - ukraine and breaking it up. thank you very much indeed. joe inwood, our kyiv correspondent. and that s just about it from us here today in kyiv. i ll now hand you back to the studio in london. thank you. a conservative mp has reportedly been caught watching pornography while sitting in the chamber of the house of commons. it s understood concerns were raised by a minister at a meeting last night. our political correspondent helen catt is in our westminster newsroom. what more do we know about this? we know that there was this meeting of female conservative mps last night, it is a regular meeting. at that, a female minister said she had b
should not take instructions from house of commons officials. his letter was published in the daily mail, which has also written an article saying it has more tory mps that that original reporting. it also pointed to an interview angela rayner had given earlier this year where she appeared to laugh off that basic instinct comparison, although she says in the podcast she was mortified by it. ms rayner has since said that women sometimes tried to brush aside the sexism they face, but that doesn t make it ok. helen, thank ou but that doesn t make it ok. helen, thank you very but that doesn t make it ok. helen, thank you very much. the time is 1:16. our top story this lunchtime: two women whose fathers died from covid 19 have won a high court challenge against the government over discharging patients to care homes. # space, man. and coming up, we meet sam ryder, the uk s new hope for this year s eurovision song contest. coming up on the bbc news channel: ronnie o sullivan makes short w