the people risking their lives to get aid packages to remote ukrainian communites, as russian forces try to stop them. and trouble on the streets of the city of love, as tourists dodge rubbish bags due to strikes. a very warm welcome to the programme. we begin in california. the leaders of the us, britain and australia, meeting in california, have given details of a defence pact that will provide australia with nuclear powered attack submarines. president biden said the aukus pact would boost security in the indo pacific region for decades to come. the agreement comes in response to china s growing military strength and territorial claims. our political editor, chris mason, has more from san diego. a pact of old democracies, coming together to counter a new and growing adversary china. australia and the united kingdom are two of america s most stalwart and capable allies. our common values, ourshared vision for a peaceful, prosperous future unite us all across the atlantic
ministerjan lipavsky, an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenario through the winter. is this a signal that europe needs to do much more to offer ukraine military assistance? sadly, yes. we need to do more in terms of sending more air defence to ukraine to solve this, let s say, very specific issue of russia terrorism against ukraine s population. and it is a clear decision of vladimir putin to send drones, iranian drones to bomb civilian infrastructure and al
targeted relentlessly by the russians, but refusing to give in. we will speak to the proud ceo of the ukrainian railways. tonight with the context, former conservative cabinet secretaryjustine greening and ian brzezinski, a former us deputy assistant secretary of defence for europe and nato under president george w bush. hello, welcome to the programme. just before the mini budget was announced two weeks ago, the former number 10 pollster jamesjohnston ran a survey in the red wall seats. respondents were asked to give their view, in one word, of how they perceived the new prime minister. strong , determined were the words thatjumped out. after two weeks of infighting, a bank of england intervention and a run on the pound, the wider view among members of the british public? not nearly as flattering. liz truss made her conference speech today, to restore the trust in her government that s been so badly damaged. whenever there is change, there is disruption. and not everybody
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the front lines of the war in ukraine, russian forces are struggling, in several areas retreating, which is why vladimir putin is pursuing other strategies. trying to destroy ukraine s civilian infrastructure is one. attempting to undermine european support for kyiv is another. how s that going? well, my guest is czech foreign ministerjan lipavsky, an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenari
This is bbc news. the latest headlines: the us, britain and australia reveal details of a security pact to counter china s increasing military strength in the pacific. more than 100 people have been killed as storm freddy returns to mozambique and malawi. a bbc team has embedded itself with a group of aid volunteers who deliver food several times a month to hundreds of residents in the kherson 0blast region of ukraine. these volunteers have continued to work within the artillery range of russian troops. and as our bbc team witnessed, it oftens comes close to costing them their lives. victoria zhuhan reports. working at speed, with a range of russian firepower, these