PAuse for A second becAuse we Are About to hAve yet Another string of results, notjust from scotlAnd from wAles As well. I will be tAlking As we go Along with soMe of the results of the english locAl Authorities too which Are still coming in. In welsh terms, This is the picture reAlly As we understAnd it. The Ukip Vote which wAs reAlly high in wAles in 2016 hAs pretty much evAporAted. And where it hAs gone As fAr As we cAn MeAsure it so fAr is thAt it hAs led to A kind of 5 boost for lAbour, And 5 for the ConservAtives, with plAid cAn reAch pretty much flAt And plAid cAn reAch pretty much flAt And PlAid Cymru would hAve expected to be not running flAt in This senedd election, they would hAve been expecting to be shown to mAke soMe kind of gAin. We will tAlk to one of PlAid Cymrus Members in A second. But lets look At soMe of these bAttlegrounds first with ritA so thAt we get A bit of context. I Am just being told thAt SwAnseA West hAs been held by lAbour, not A surprise. But A conservA
hello. it was a very mild start to the working week. temperatures quite widely got into the low teens, 61 fahrenheit, which is well above the february average. it was well above average in most places and it will again be well above average during the day on tuesday because we are on tuesday because we re bathed in the atlantic air. weather fronts towards the north and strong winds, high pressure keeping the winds a little lighter further south and the weather fronts at bay. so, not as windy as we go into tuesday across the northern isles as we had monday, but wetter, and some rain approaches towards the west. elsewhere, misty low cloud shrouding the hills and coasts in fog, and some drizzle in the west. central and eastern areas have the better chance of the sunshine, perhaps the north coast of wales, the moray firth, and that s when we ll see temperatures responding sunshine, again 14 15. but then a change as we go through towards wednesday. behind thi
tonight with the context. from edinburgh, alex massie scotland editor of the spectator. bill browder, the ceo of hermitage capital management and long time critic of vladimir putin. and joel rubin, who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. whenjoe biden spoke to vladimir zelensky on this day last year, there wasn t much confidence in washington he would be president for much longer, nor indeed that kyiv could be defended. yet here we are, a year on and not only is zelensky still there, but the us president was today standing alongside him, in kyiv. plans that involved extraordinary subterfuge and secrecy. on sunday night, as is usual, the white house issued the president s public schedule for monday, on which we were told he was leaving for warsaw at 7pm tonight. in fact, he was already in poland. air force one took off at 4:15 sunday morning, the press pool was left behind. and by late evening, the president was
welcome to the programme. exactly six months ago, vladimir putin ordered his army to invade ukraine. it was a decision that not only unleashed the biggest war in europe since world war ii, but it also turned the world on its head. thousands of ukrainians and russian soldiers have been killed in the fighting. today, in ukraine, it is independence day. normally, there would be parades and celebrations marking 31 years of freedom from soviet rule. but not today, it s not safe. and in the past 6 months, russia has clawed away at ukraine s freedom. this was the map of ukraine on february 24th. russian backed separatists already held significant territory in the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk and moscow controlled the annexed crimean peninsula. this is how things stand now. russian forces control large parts of the south of the country, all of the luhansk region and continue to make advances in donetsk. but there is still the threat of danger, everywhere in the country and