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Putin threatens war. As starmer meets biden to discuss ukraine, what would 3 harris or Trump Victory mean for the west . And its succession for real as the Murdochs Head to court over what happens after Rupert Murdochs death. Hello and welcome to newsnight, the place to be this Friday Night for insight and illuminating interviews on a day when tensions between russia and the west appear to be escalating. As we speak, sir keir starmer s meeting with President Biden to discuss the next steps in the war in ukraine. So, what does the future looks like, for ukraine and the west, after the us election in november . On our transatlantic panel tonight, were joined by the Journalist Michael Wolff whose Book Fire and fury inside the trump White House is seen by many as the definitive work on the former president. Alison phillips, who was the Mirrors Editor in chief until earlier this year is here. And also with us, john ryley, editor of Sky News for 17 years. Welcome to you all and john, in term
Changed his mind. From there reporting, a little more this morning. Officials said the president initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets. The operation was underway in the early stages when it was called off according to a Senior Administration official. Planes were in the air and ships in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. Reuters is reporting overnight this is what happened according to the headline. Tehran received a message from President Trump warning attacks were imminent. Also from reuters, iran told the United States via the swift ambassador that washington will washington for former had no here is how the president sounded yesterday midday in the oval office before a meeting he had with the canadian Prime Minister on irans bringing down that u. S. Spy drone. Here is how he sounded at this point yesterday. [video clip] when i came here, iran was in 14, 18 different sites of confliction, extremely hostile. They were screamin
A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. Vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. He had raised prigozhin and empowered him. Prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. He does not exist without putin. This is a frankensteinlike scenario. Ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the onetime, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. Making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. It is like, we know there is more
This is about an hour. We have two other panelists who will join us virtually. One of them is ambassador alexander. The former ambassador to russia and former deputy secretary general to nato. In our fourth panelist has been delayed, but we hope that he will join us soon. He is a retired army general wesley clark on the former supreme allied commander in europe. Now i will turn it over to these distinguished individuals to present the memo to the president. Thank you very much. This paper is a result of concerns that the group of 42 who signed on to this paper have that we faced an existential challenge are a Great Security challenge from putins russia, is worn ukraine is a part of a much broader effort to restore moscows control. And if its not defeated in ukraine, we will face a major security challenge, direct threat to our interest in europe, possible provocations in the war against our nato allies, both in poland, romania. And, weve settled with a group of people. We did three rou