in ukraine a russian solider pleads guilty to killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. we have a special report on the taliban s vice and virtue enforcers who have returned to the streets of cable. tonight with the context, former conservative ministerjustine greening and democratic strategist mary ann marsh. hello. welcome to the programme. inflation has hit a ao year high. figures out today showed the rate at which prices are rising jumped 9% in the 12 months to april, up from 7% in march. that is driven by the cost of household energy that rose on average £700 last month. and for millions of people wages are not keeping up. the average pay rise excluding bonuses in the three months to march was 4.2%, which meant given the rate of inflation british workers suffered a fifth consecutive cut to real term wages. the inflationary problems are not unique to the uk, farfrom it, but uk now has the highest rate of inflation of any g7 country an
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corrupt and basically essentially saying he is the villain and he is evil. you have people like thomas massey of kentucky, repeating propaganda and you have tucker carlson who as the most popular program on the right-wing fox news network repeating and pushing out as if it is coming straight from the kremlin. i wonder what effect you think this will ultimately have on republicans ultimate support to do what we need to do as a country to support ukraine? i feel like the political incentives driven by the far right and people like tucker, do you think this starts to crack republican support for ukraine? unfortunately i do. liz cheney described call thorn in the middle of the putin wing
can you envision ukrainians submitting to that? absolutely not. we have come a long way to realize that any new demand will be followed by another demand. a concession will be met by a new ultimatum. we are fed up with that and the only answer to the demands and ultimatums is no. let s talk with the propaganda because the thing that is so distressing and the only thing that donald trump ever accomplished as president was to move the republican party which are he has some putin leanings, move parts of it fully into the putin camp. you have madison call thorn and here he was over the weekend calling the ukrainian president