divisions within us politics, not least within the republican party. it s that age old clash between isolationists and interventionists. my guest today is the ukrainian born republican congresswoman, victoria spa rtz. how much is donald trump influencing this internal republican argument? congresswoman victoria spartz, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let me start with ukraine. the white house and you guys on capitol hill have worked together to put together a massive aid package for ukraine. it s almost $40 billion. military assistance, financial assistance, humanitarian assistance as well. are you personally satisfied with what the government is doing right now? i think our government is moving in the right direction. i think like in any crisis, speed, agility and really strength, peace through strength is the main determined deterrent to any war in any crisis. so, i think we. this administration has been very slow. west has been very slow. but with pressure from the america
their membership in nato would increase our shared security. president biden says america must do all it can to end hate filled domestic terrorism following saturday s mass shooting in buffalo that left 10 dead. and north korea announces a further eight deaths as it it s six in the morning in singapore, midnight in stockholm and one in the morning in helsinki where finland and sweden have announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll get to that in just a moment but first i want to tell you about this exclusive report: a bbc team have uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than one thousand civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. now the bbc has learned more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. in this special repor
security. president biden says america must do all it can to end hate filled domestic terrorism following saturday s mass shooting in buffalo that left 10 dead. and north korea announces a further eight deaths as it battles a covid outbreak. welcome to the progamme. finland and sweden have announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. to russia s invasion we ll get to that in just a moment but first i want to tell you about this exclusive report: a bbc team have uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than one thousand civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. now the bbc has learned more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. in this special report, the bbc s sarah rainsford has been investigating one case. i want to warn you
How she will remember her daughter. I dont want her to be remembered as a victim of somebody who killed her with a bomb. I want her to be remembered as olivia, the girl that she was. More than half of british summer fruit and Salad Growers could be short of Migrant Workers to harvest their crops this summer with many blaming the fall in the value of the pound and uncertainty following brexit and theres concern the shortage could get worse. Sol soiam at so i am at this robbery farm this morning looking at strawberries and other fruits, to find morning looking at strawberries and otherfruits, to find out morning looking at strawberries and other fruits, to find out what it will mean for the industry. Strawberry farm. He may play a crime boss in his latest blockbuster but well hear why kevin spacey says hes one of The Good Guys on set. Its ladies day at ascot. Carol and sally are there. In sport, The Lions Team is named for the first test against new zealand. Irelands Peter Omahony skippe
more on this in a few minutes time here on bbc news, stay with us if you can. hello there. it s been another unsettled day, a day of sunny skies and heavy showers, some of them thundery. here in wiltshire, you can see storms stretching onto the horizon as far as the eye can see. and then we had, of course, the inevitable downpours like here in norfolk. you barely make out this rainbow. it was raining so heavily. now the rain has been totting up and of course, this month has been wet so far. there are some places that have seen nearly double the amounts of rainfall we d expect in march. and there s more rain