Borisjohnson, largely absent up behind him, with the manager, iea boris johnson, largely absent from the table. Clearly not very happy and there is no love lost between the former leader, former Prime Minister and the outgoing First Minister. There was also another tricky exchange when Mark Drakeford discussed simon hart, the Welsh Secretary for the uk government throughout the pandemic. He was giving evidence on friday when she said she felt as though the Welsh Government was making decisions during the pandemicjust for the during the pandemic just for the sake during the pandemicjust for the sake of it, to be different to the uk government. Mark drakeford completely refuted that and noted simon hart did not give any evidence to back up that theory. Also Mark Drakeford said that simon hart got to the stage where he did not have much to do with the start of the pandemic, otherthan much to do with the start of the pandemic, other than essentially borrowing bothering Mark Drakeford about
there s increased security in moscow with what s being called anti terror measures the m4 motorway which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov ,is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. here s mr putin s television address to the russian nation. translation: any actions that split us is a betrayal of your people, - a betrayal of the comrades that are fighting on the front line, a knife in the back of our people. this struck russia in 1917, when russia was waging the first world war, victory was stolen from us. politicking behind the back of the army and the people turned into huge upheaval, the destruction of the army and the state. the loss of huge territories. as a result, it was tragedy, russian killing russians, c
one thing remains certain, the security of our continent depends on ukraine security of our continent depends on ukraine winning this war. i commend the foreign ukraine winning this war. i commend the foreign secretary for hosting ukraine the foreign secretary for hosting ukraine recovery conference last week ukraine recovery conference last week following discussions with foreign week following discussions with foreign ministers. is he confident ukraine foreign ministers. is he confident ukraine will get the humanitarian support ukraine will get the humanitarian support it ukraine will get the humanitarian support it needs in the months ahead question support it needs in the months ahead question mark and when we going to -et question mark and when we going to get on question mark and when we going to get on with question mark and when we going to get on with not just freezing but seizing get on with not just freezing but seizing russian state assets as ou
retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militant groups. the latest on the rising tensions in the region, plus, trump s christmas message lashing out at special counsel jack smith as the former president tries to get his election interference case thrown out. so, is the former commander in chief immune from criminal prosecution? we ll see. we ll talk about that coming up. and later on, the presents opened and the cookies devoured, millions of americans set to travel today in the post christmas rush. i m going to speak to a travel expert about some travel tips to help you survive the misery. hey, everybody. good morning to you. merry post christmas. we begin this hour with the breaking news out of the middle east. president biden ordering retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militia groups in iraq after three u.s. service members were injured in a drone attack in northern iraq on monday. since october 17th, there have now been at least 103 separate attacks on u.s.
legendary singer and campaigner harry belafonte died at the age of 96. the un secretary general sent their condolences to his families and friends. welcome back to our programme. we ve been learning details of that british evacuation effort with the flights leaving cyprus and that centre being opened in the airfield to the north of the capital. we ve heard from the prime minister s also is office that many more flights evacuating british nationals from the conflict torn country into tomorrow. we don t know any numbers in terms of people out, but we ve seen pictures from the military personnel leaving cyprus. let s bring in our political correspondent, jonathan blake. the prime minister s office just giving us a few more details. that mission is clearly up and running. confirmation in the last few minutes that what appears to be a large scale operation by the british government to evacuate british citizens from act iii is now under way, and downing street confirming it has