Weeks jailing of another prominent putin critic. I will be joined by bill browder who was once the largest foreign investor in russia. Then, china under lockdown as covid comes back to the country where it originated with a vengeance. 25 Million People in shanghai alone are under very strict measures. I will check in with one of them, cnns david culver. But first, here is my take. Ukraines brave and brilliant response to russias attack is rightly being celebrated across the world. But it might be obscuring a growing danger. While the assault on kyiv and the surrounder region has failed, moscows strategy in the south and east of ukraine could well succeed. If it does, russia will have turned ukraine into an economically crippled rump state, landlocked and threatened on three sides by Russian Military power, always vulnerable to another incursion from moscow. It will take much more Military Assistance from the west to ensure that this catastrophic outcome does not come to pass. As a Mili
Prime minister carl bildt. And, understanding the breadth of putins clampdown inside russia, including this weeks jailing of another prominent putin critic. I will be joined by bill browder who was once the largest foreign investor in russia. Then, china under lockdown as covid comes back to the country where it originated with a vengeance. 25 Million People in shanghai alone are under very strict measures. I will check in with one of them, cnns david culver. But first, here is my take. Ukraines brave and brilliant response to russias attack is rightly being celebrated across the world. But it might be obscuring a growing danger. While the assault on kyiv and the surrounding region has failed, moscows strategy in the south and east of ukraine could well succeed. If it does, russia will have turned ukraine into an economically crippled rump state, landlocked and threatened on three sides by Russian Military power, always vulnerable to another incursion from moscow. It will take much mor
accused the sector of not doing enough to recruit and train british workers. 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed reports. hello! the hospitality sector holiday parks, restaurants, hotels is all about entertainment, making customers happy. hello! but this is a sector with its fair share of worries, as brexit approaches. it has relied for years on workers from the eu. could that supply be about to be cut off? i love british culture. agnieszka is from poland and works for butlins in bognor regis. she s concerned about her future. there s loads of question marks, and we lost the stability now. my son, he s eight, he knewjust a basic thing about the brexit, but his concerns that we are going to leave his school, that he will leave his friends, are huge. the hospitality industry employs 3 million people and is the fourth largest sector in the uk. of those workers, 24% are from the eu. and in some sectors, the figure is much higher. 75% of all waiting staff are from the continent.
the show was will be dotted around almost anywhere across the uk today. call sort of day, out and show was brewing. 16 in london, 13, 1a for most of us. clear dry night, clear morning, damages will be ranging from four or five morning, damages will be ranging from four orfive in morning, damages will be ranging from four or five in the north to seven 01’ from four or five in the north to seven or eight in the south. and sunday promises to be a sunny day. cool. no showers in the forecast, dry most of the time from dusk till dawn, might get the odd one developing across eastern parts but overall, it is a fine day on sunday. good morning, this is bbc news. the headlines: the government reassures gibraltar after spain was accused of using brexit to advance its claim over the rock. bbc news learns that only five percent of prison staff in england and wales will get new pay allowances of up to £5,000. a pay increase for over two million, as the national living wage goes up. p
a year have benefited from the help to buy housing scheme in england. our business correspondent joe lynham has the details. but for the government s help to buy scheme, lina hannon and her husband would have needed an additional five to ten years before they could afford their own place in harrow. she does worry, though, that some high earners were also allowed to use the scheme. it does bother me a bit that some people that didn t really need the scheme use the scheme. but, to be fair, i think that the fact that the scheme was able to help people like me, and i know that a lot of people benefited from this scheme, it makes me feel happy. introduced four years ago to encourage house building and help mostly first time buyers get on the ladder, 250,000 properties have been bought using the help to buy schemes. but research suggests that existing homeowners from wealthy households have benefited as well. using official data, research found that around 4,000 households in engla