albin kurti, to cool it and quickly. will he listen? and if he doesn t, could kosovo see a new round 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. 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 candidate, 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 populati
welcome to hardtalk. 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 candidate, 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 claiming two of them live north of the river iba
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 candidate, 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 controlling them, for the violent riots, for the violent
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
down outside the city, and blamed ukraine for the attack. an adviser to president volodymyr zelensky has denied any ukrainian responsibility. mykhailo podolyak was asked about the strikes while appearing on a breakfast television show. we have nothing to do with this, he said, but added that kyiv is watching with pleasure and forecast an increasing number of attacks . moscow is more than a70 km from ukraine. in moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg heard the explosions. well, at 6:21; this morning ijotted down the time i heard an explosion in the distance and the windows of my home shook. than half an hour later, i heard another explosion. and i checked on social media and there was a lot of chat, a lot of discussion from muscovites and people living just outside the capital, who d heard blasts, too. very quickly, it became apparent there had been some kind of drone attack. and that was confirmed pretty quickly by the moscow mayor, sergey sobyanin, who said there h