are nearly out of life saving medicines as an economic crisis continues. the sri lanka medical association said hospitals no longer had access to imported medical equipment and vital drugs. some have suspended routine surgeries. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together leading uk columnists and the foreign correspondents, who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. in the studio today are agnes poirier of the french news magazine and website marianne, michael goldfarb, former foreign correspondent with us public radio, now host of the frdh podcast that s the first rough draft of history catherine pepinster who is a former editor of the catholic newspaper the tablet, and writes in british newspapers on politics, religion and ethics. a fratricidal war is how a group of dissenting priests from the russian orthodox church describe their country s invasion of ukrain
the following. he s a cnn special report december 5, 1989? it was a cold night in dresden, east germany and it would change the course of vladimir putin s life the berlin wall had just formed all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets lashing out at symbols of communist rule that night in dresden they found a target. the local kgb headquarters a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger inside, peering through the curtain this was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin he was terrified that they re going to storm the building putin was a junior officer but the boss was away. he was in charge the berlin wall had come down, policework going to help and he called for instructions desperate for help. putin diouf kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally, one official told him simply, moscow is silent and i think it felt like a deep the trail vladimir putin was on his own he went
december 5, 1989 it was a cold night in dresden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladimir putin s life the berlin wall had just formed all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets lashing out at symbols of communist rule that night in dresden they found a target. the local kgb headquarters a mob surrounded the building as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger inside, peering through the curtains, was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin he was terrified that they re going to storm the building putin was a junior officer but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down. police weren t going to help. and he called for instructions desperate for help putin diouf kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again finally one official told him simply, moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to vladimir putin was on his own he went down into the bowels of the building an
video, soldiers can be seen raising the russian flag over that key city after ukrainian forces were compelled to withdraw. this comes as authorities have reportedly detained hundreds of people across russia for honoring alexey navalny, the prominent critic of russian leader vladimir putin, russian police you can see this right here, shoving one man s face into the snow simply for trying to pay his respects to the all an opposition leader here in washington, there is no sign that lawmakers are close to any kind of a deal that would send more military aid to ukraine while president biden has had arming ukraine would be the best way to punish vladimir putin. house republicans are sitting on their hands yielding to pressure from trump, who has demanded that aid to kyiv come in the form of loans ukrainian soldiers run out of ammunition. and as putin tightens his grip over russia, let s discuss that and more. now, a cnn political commentator, republican strategist, alice stewart an
after the most dramatic challenge to his 23-year rule. the mercenaries ended their march on moscow when they were about 120 miles away from the city. the revolt appears to be over for now. the fallout, likely just beginning. we don t know where the wagner mercenary group s leader is this morning, after he supposedly struck a deal with the kremlin to stand down and go into exile in belarus. these are the last images we have seen of yevgeny prigozhin, leaving a military headquarters that his troops had seized in southern russia. putin has vowed to punish him for treason. this is a look at moscow, a city that was preparing for a siege. the security measures imposed over the weekend are now lifted. meanwhile, ukrainian forces say they re making gains on the battlefield in their counteroffensive as president putin grapples with the fallout from the rebellion at home. matthew chance is live for us in moscow, tracking the latest developments. matthew, what are we hearing from the