from a british business. and there s been an increase in people taking up detectoring in the british countryside but should their discoveries be finders keepers? hello and welcome to bbc news. next week will mark the one year anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. us president biden is scheduled to give a speech on tuesday in neighbouring poland on the same day that vladimir putin is due to give an address in moscow. ukraine s president zelensky has again called on western allies to speed up their delivery of weapons warning that delays would cost lives. it all comes as the munich security conference is underway with calls for nato to give kyiv long term security assurances. rishi sunak will address the conference, telling western countries they need to redouble their military support for ukraine. he ll also tell delegates that kyiv needs security guarantees even after the war has ended. our correspondentjenny hill spoke to me earlier about the general message c
but should their discoveries be finders keepers? hello and welcome to bbc news. next week will mark the one year anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. us president biden is scheduled to give a speech on tuesday in neighbouring poland on the same day that vladimir putin is due to give an address in moscow. ukraine s president zelensky has again called on western allies to speed up their delivery of weapons warning that delays would cost lives. it all comes as the munich security conference is under way with calls for nato to give kyiv long term security assurances. in the next few hours, the uk prime minister, rishi sunak will address the conference, telling western countries they need to redouble their military support for ukraine. he ll also tell delegates that kyiv needs security guarantees even after the war has ended. let s get more now on our top story and cross live to munich which is hosting that annual security conference, this yearfocusing on ukraine o
in addition to a number of bilateral meetings, official ones, he is expected to meet ursula von der leyen, the president of the euchre mission, and that meeting has been described as key in getting that deal done when it comes to the post brexit trading relationship with northern ireland, such a knotty problem. sources are telling the bbc that a deal is coming tantalisingly close. we re not going to see a deal signed and sealed today, but that meeting with ursula von der leyen may prove be crucial in moving it a little bit closer to completion. jenny hill, thank you forjoining us from the munich security conference. joining us now is dr patrick bury, a defence specialist at the university of bath. he s a former nato analyst. thank you for being with us. i wanted to pick up on whatjenny was
of this rather unique annual conference, at which world leaders, security experts and senior diplomats get together, is indeed one of continued support for ukraine. we are expecting to hear from the british prime minister, rishi sunak, in the next few hours. he, like many others, will say it is time to double down on that support. dr patrick bury is a defence specialist at the university of bath and a former nato analyst. he says there needs to be a message of general consensus from member states to deal with the war in ukraine. i think they are trying to prepare the ground, saying we are in this for the long haul and we are doubling down. there are two warnings. one, at home, and importantly, vladimir putin is trying to play along game. that is what wants to do. he wants to test european
special military operation in ukraine to be victorious. vladimir putin is a man who is used to doing what he wants. at the moment he does not see there is anybody perhaps in the world who is able to stop him. thank you very much. it s been confirmed a british man has been killed in ukraine. the man has been named by sources as scott sibley, who s understood to be a military veteran who was fighting with ukrainian forces. the foreign office has not confirmed the man s identity and says another person is also missing. we re joined now by the defence specialist, glen grant, who is in latvia. very good morning to you. first of all, tell us what you make of this news of the first british citizen killed in action. to news of the first british citizen killed in action. news of the first british citizen killed in action. to be honest, i m surrised killed in action. to be honest, i m surprised it s killed in action. to be honest, i m surprised it s not killed in action. to be honest, i m s