him. i can t member a prime minister under quite such a range of different pressures. but he wants to keep going is one of the few certain elements to this saga. you keep going is one of the few certain elements to this saga. elements to this saga. you might need to update elements to this saga. you might need to update the elements to this saga. you might need to update the book. - elements to this saga. you might need to update the book. steve, | need to update the book. steve, thanks very much indeed.- need to update the book. steve, thanks very much indeed. the head of the metropolitan police has told the bbc she has absolutely no intention of resigning , and can provide evidence of the improvements she has made to the force. speaking on bbc london, dame cressida dick said she is seething with anger at the behaviour of some officers, and wants to turbo charge changes to the met s culture. lauren moss reports. marching in and fighting on. arriving this morning after weeks
i m not saying that other issues don t matter, but above all we ve got to focus on cost of living and on taking the country forward. and i think we can tackle both things together with our programme of support for people now, getting the covid recovery plan really humming, getting people back into work. and, you know, the british record on this, our country s record on this, is absolutely amazing when you consider what we have been through, as the chancellor was saying this morning. unemployment is far, far lower than where it was predicted to be, we have got record low youth unemployment. what we need to do now is really a turbo charge that and put in the measures through levelling up that can drive a long term, sustainable, high wage, high skilljobs led recovery. the point about levelling up we think there is talent everywhere, we want to unleash it.
about when they say that russia will manufacture a pretext for war? what might that look like? this is what they have done in the past. they justified the annexation of crimea after a pro russian leader dislodged from the presidency of ukraine in peaceful protest and said that nazis threatening ethnic russians in crimea. in eastern ukraine they acted like an indigenous uprising of russians to prevent domination by ukrainian nationalists and invent pretext and turbo charge it on the propaganda channels and what happened this time is the administration smartly is out in front of that constantly to make clear to the global audience inup and the allies and so far as they can reach the
make ever more gains in the country as a whole. now controlling all the areas in red and there is new breaking news this morning, word that what we saw in kharkiv might be something we see again in other places as well. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who is on the ground in lviv with this reporting, jim. what have you learned? reporter: john, in the latest u.s. intelligence assessments, this is frankly a sobering warning for the 40 million people of ukraine. and that is the u.s. assessment that as russia has suffered setbacks and delays to its original blitzkrieg, rapid fire invasion, that they will use those russian forces will use more devastating, more powerful weapons. that s a concerning point given the weapons that we have seen rolling in to this country. things ranging from the thermal bare ricks system, which is basically a turbo charge long distance flame thrower, the only