tonight with the context, the former labour adviser, comedian and journalist ayesha hazarika, and the republican political analyst and former spokesperson for the republican national committee, doug heye. hello, and a warm welcome to the programme. whatever vladimir putin has planned for the annual victory day parade in moscow next week, it s not going to be the national celebration he might have envisaged back in february. but the belief is president putin will try to claim some phyrric victory in the donbas region, which could mean the russians unleash something altogether more brutal in the coming week. nonetheless, the ukrainians continue to put up some dogged resistance, and have some remarkable success in recent days picking off the russians with kit that s been supplied by the west. in the last 2a hour the ukrainian military released this footage, which appears to show a drone taking out two russian patrol boats in the black sea off the port of odesa. they re also clai
familes of people who died with covid having been reacting with anger to today s news. he is completely untrustworthy and devoid of any integrity whatsoever. he is not fit to lead this country. with the rest of the days news. multiple people have been shot at a subway station in new york. pictures have emerged of passengers covered in blood lying on the station floor. western countries call for an urgent investigation, after ukraine acusses russia of a chemical attack in mariupol. borisjohnson and the chancellor, rishi sunak, are to be issued with fines over breaching lockdown regulations in downing street. breaching lockdown regulations detectives are looking into 12 events in government buildings that may have broken the rules; they ve recommended 50 fines since their investigation began. it comes after the sue gray inquiry and the met police spent weeks investigating alleged covid lockdown breaching parties in downing street and across whitehall. earlier, the met police sa
hello, i m lauren taylor. there ve been further russian attacks on ukrainian cities as kyiv marks the second anniversary of president putin s full scale invasion. for a second night running, targets in the port city of odesa have been hit, killing one person. three others were seriously injured. the anniversary has been marked by a meeting of the un security council, which was told by the secretary general that the conflict was an open wound at the heart of europe. the eu commission chief ursula von der leyen praised the extraordinary resistance of the ukrainian people, as she arrived in kyiv. she was travelling alongside the prime ministers of italy, canada and belgium. and in the last couple of hours, former uk prime minister borisjohnson also arrived in kyiv. in a post on x, mrjohnson said he had no doubt that the ukrainians will win and expel putin s forces provided the uk gives ukraine the military, political and economic help that they need. this is the scene in k
kirsty wark, which is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it s goodnight. tonight, newsnight assesses the state of the battle. as vladimir putin raises the age of conscription to the armed forces from 27 to 30, which side has the initiative in the war? we ll be speaking to a ukrainian mp and to the former uk ambassador to the us lord darroch. also tonight: on the eve of rishi sunak s appearance in front of the inquiry into the infected blood scandal, will the government commit to widening compensation to all those who suffered? we ll talk to a man who lost his father and two uncles to hiv. the saudis are on a sports buying spree and their eyes are on kylian mbappe, the captain of the french football team. is the gulf state trying to use the shield of sport to deflect criticism of its human rights record? we ll be speaking
now, tax experts tell us there are grounds to investigate companies connected with mr barrowman for fraud. | doug loves fine art, fast cars, i and the better things in life. there s no consequences for him. he s just going to keep doing it again and again. so will doug barrowman now face more scrutiny by hmrc? also tonight. nurses, teachers, civil servants, train drivers, midwives, all in their tens of thousands, strike in northern ireland where, without government at stormont, pay is falling behind the rest of the uk. we ll ask the dup s gregory campbell mp why, with the midnight deal for a powersharing agreement looming tonight, his party is still dead against? and to sinn fein sjohn o dowd is the good friday agreement now under threat? beijing calls taiwan s new president, william lai, a trouble maker and a dangerous separatist . his new de facto ambassador to the uk gives newsnight his first interview. we are working to make sure that china believes the cost is going