To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrainian journalists as much. Ukraine and had taken aggressive action there. And you attended something that sounded very fascinating, which was that ukraines civilian Military Liaison Officers were showing films to local people about the invasion. And i wonder what the reaction was to the films as you were there . Yeah, i mean, that was extraordinary, and one of the most extraordinary things to watch. There was a small audience of older people who were watching it. I spoke to one of them afterwards,
Catherine philp is world affairs editor at the times. She s reported from war zones for decades, and recently accompanied ukrainian forces across the border into kursk. So, i was coming into ukraine for. . . I ve been coming on and off since before the invasion, and this was a long scheduled visit. Itjust so happened that it came at a time when ukrainian forces had crossed the border into russia. So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who yo
A teenager accused of killing four people at his High School in georgia was interviewed last year by police about anonymous online threats. At the time, local schools had reportedly been told to continue monitoring him. Four people were killed in the incident, two fourteen year old pupils and two teachers at the apalachee High School in the city of winder. Nine others were taken to hospital. The boy, named as Colt Gray, was arrested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult. People came together to hold a vigil following the shootings in georgia. Students, families, and teachers held candles and prayed for the victims as the community tries to come to grips with the tragedy. The director of the Georgia Bureau of investigation has been speaking to the press this morning, and said the suspect had been questioned last year about threats posted online to carry out a School Shooting. The Jackson County Sheriff S Office identified and located Colt Gray who was our suspect in this case, t
Officials have imposed sanctions on the two top editors of the russian state funded Broadcaster Rt accusing them of interfering with her than Thes President ial election. Eric garland said the goal was to secure moscows preferred outcome in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. These websites were designed to appear to american readers as if they were major us news sites, like the Washington Post or fox news, but in fact, they were fake sites. They were filled with russian Government Propaganda that had been created by the kremlin to reduce international support for ukraine, bolster pro russian policies and interests, and influence voters in the united states and in other countries. Internal documents of the kremlin described the content as, quote, Bogus Stories Disguised as newsworthy events, close quote. This malign Influence Campaign has been referred to as doppelganger. The russian Public Relations companies drove viewers to these websites by deploying influencers and pa
Prison following new legislation in the uk. Welcome to prison following new legislation in the uk. Welcome to the prison following new legislation in the uk. Welcome to the programme. Prison following new legislation in the uk. Welcome to the programme. I prison following new legislation in the uk. Welcome to the programme. I want prison following new legislation in the uk. Welcome to the programme. I want to start with the breaking News from munich. I want to show you a couple of different bits of footage we have. These are the live pictures we have and you can see the Police Presence there in munich. The reason being we have police exchanging fire with a suspect, armed suspect. Let us listen. Gunfire let us watch that again. Gunfire they are the pictures we have from an Eyewitness Filming on their mobile phone. These are live pictures of munich, continued police present. The details of what happened. There was an exchange between Police Officers and unarmed gunmen and an armed gunman