so much fear, pain and tears. we ll have the latest on the grim milestone in ukraine and what might happen in the next 12 months. also coming up on newsday: disgraced hollywood film mogul harvey weinstein is sentenced to a futher 16 years in prison for rape on top of the 23 year sentence he is already serving. and the european union tells its staff to delete the social media app tiktok to protect data and increase cyber security. hello and welcome to the programme. it s exactly one year since russia began its full scale invasion of ukraine and the un general assembly has voted to demand that moscow immediately and unconditionally withdraw its troops from the ukraine. 1m countries backed the motion which has no legal weight while seven opposed it and 32 abstained, including one of moscow s staunchest allies, china. this is how ukraine s foreign minister reacted to the vote. 141 1111 countries, member states of the united nations, reiterated their unequivocal support
of the year. let s cross live to brussels. finline has become the 31st member of nato and nato secretary general jens stoltenberg is holding a press conference. let sjoin it. at jens stoltenberg is holding a press conference. let s join it. conference. let s oin it. at times like this friends conference. let s join it. at times like this friends and conference. let s join it. at times like this friends and allies - conference. let s join it. at times like this friends and allies are - like this friends and allies are more important than ever and a fenland now has the strongest friends and allies in the world. president putin wanted to slam nato s today we show the world that he failed. that aggression and intimidation do not work. instead of less nato, he has achieved the opposite, more nato. and our door remains firmly open. thank you for your outstanding leadership and commitment, president, and for leading finland into the most successful alliance in history. so welc
tonight, bringing us the context are stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and former ukjustice secretary and chief secretary to the treasury david gauke. welcome to the programme. for several days now western leaders have been providing political cover for the german chancellor, while privately venting frustration at his reluctance to send the leopard tanks to ukraine. according to german newspapers his refusal to approve the deliveries on friday, at a meeting of nato defence ministers, led to sharp words between him and the us secretary of defence lloyd austin. olaf schulz s office deny that, saying neither the tone nor content of the reports were true. but certainly there was frustration, and you could hear it when the bbc spoke, earliertoday, to the polish prime minister, who has decided to go it alone. let me put it this way, poland and the free world cannot afford not to send leopard ta
borrowing. super typhoon noru sweeps through the philippines capital, manila bringing winds of up to 175 kph. i evacuated the house i m living in because i m scared. the floods there get really high and i don t want a repeat of what happened to me before. cubans give their verdict on legalising same sex marriage and whether gay couples can adopt in a landmark referendum that s divided the nation. and less than two months ahead of the men s football world cup in qatar, concerns that there may not be enough affordable accommodation. italy has never had a female prime minister. but exit polls suggest that is about to change, with the far right brothers of italy emerging as the biggest party in the new parliament, and putting its leader giorgia meloni on course to become the prime minister. her party leans further to the right than any government since that of mussolini 80 years ago. the opposition democratic party have already conceded, and she said the voters had indicated
anyone is celebrating. even you? we celebrate the - anyone is celebrating. even you? we celebrate the fact| anyone is celebrating. even i you? we celebrate the fact we it happened, we celebrate the fact that it happened, we celebrate the fact that we beat the global establishment, we celebrate the fact that establishment, we celebrate the fact that after years of trying to stop fact that after years of trying to stop it, we got there but now to stop it, we got there but now there is a growing sense of frustration now there is a growing sense of frustration amongst exit supporters, it s not how they imagined supporters, it s not how they imagined it. supporters, it s not how they imagined it imagined it. what are you frustrated imagined it. what are you frustrated about? - imagined it. what are you i frustrated about? frustrated the government frustrated about? frustrated the government has - frustrated about? frustrated the government has not - frustrated abou