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global questions. hello. i m zeinab badawi. welcome to global questions from kyiv, the capital of ukraine. the build up of russian troops near its border with ukraine has raised fears that moscow wants to extend its influence in former soviet states such as ukraine. in this second edition of global questions from kyiv, we ask what is putin s game in his backyard? applause hello and welcome to the mystetskyi arsenal cultural centre here in kyiv. let me tell you who is on my panel, who will be taking questions from our audience here. the deputy prime minister of ukraine is 0lha stefanishyna. she s been very much the international face of the ukrainian government during this current crisis. kristina kvien is the charge d affaires, that s the acting ambassador for washington, here in kyiv. carl bildt is a former swedish prime minister and one of europe s leading statesmen, and professor sergey radchenko is a russian born political scientist based in europe. that s our panel ....
token. it is a non fungible token and we will explain what that means. london s metropolitan police have launched an investigation into parties held in number ten during the pandemic. borisjohnson has welcomed this. he says he s willing to speak to detectives and hopes it will draw in december, boris johnson in december, borisjohnson addressed the christmas party in number ten. then a week later the prime minister said this. i have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there were no parties and that no covid i9 rules were broken and that is what i have been repeatedly assured. that same day 8 december the metropolitan police put out a statement. it read: based on the absence of evidence and in line with our policy not to investigate retrospective breaches of such regulations, the met will not commence an investigation at this time. that was then this is now. ican i can confirm that the met is investigating a number of events that happened ....
in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 11pm in the evening in london, where the metropolitan police is now investigating multiple events since 2020 at downing street and across government to see whether there were breaches of covid restrictions. the commissioner of britain s biggest police force confirmed that her officers are now looking into potential rule breaking as a result of information provided by civil servants who are also compiling a report on what happened. the bbc understands the met police has no objection to that report, by sue gray, being published while their investigation is ongoing. here s our political editor, laura kuenssberg. the law applies in every town, every city, every road and every house, and in the sm postcode of number 10. and the police have concluded they ve seen enough about what happened behind closed doors when the law was lockdown that it merits a full and proper look. i can confi ....
grand jury has been given the green light? well, you know, this investigation has gotten as much attention as january 6th in washington or the manhattan district attorney, but this is a very serious criminal investigation, and the fact that the district a grand jury has been impanelled means there will be subpoenas and possibly search warrants, and this is a big problem for the former president because it all starts with that highly incriminating tape where he appears to be trying to coerce the secretary of state of georgia to commit the crime of election fraud. part of the initial investigation was centered on that phone call, which took place january 2nd. now that a special grand jury has been granted, i mean, do they go wider than that? do they still focus on that? are there other investigative avenues they go down? well, there it has to be broader. because there have to be other people who have talked about the effort that the president made to corrupt the ....
trump candidates peddling the big lie. remember what trump tried to do to georgia s secretary of state who refused to overturn the will of the people. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. there s breaking news on that front today. the request by a georgia district attorney to seat a special grand jury to look into that infamous call and other potential election interference by trump has just been granted. the fulton county georgia d.a. will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. and that is ominous news for the ex-president. this is a criminal investigation and some of the key evidence is on tape. much more on that in a moment. speaking of tape, team trump isn t trying to hide its attempts to overthrow president biden s victory. just confessed on live television a few days ago to taking part in a scheme to replace real electors from seven states with fraudulent ones. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there wer ....