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leaving minefields in place. but there is of course the risk the russians could break through. and one of the major concerns for ukraine right now is troop levels. kyiv needs to mobilize an additional 100,000 menjust to maintain current force strength, mobilisation rates we re told are below 50% of their target and may be as low as 15% in some regions. president zelensky said last night without volunteers, he will have to draught of half a million men. but who would volunteer without the weapons to fight? translation: they suggested to mobilise additional- 450,000 to 500,000 people, which is a very significant amount of people. and i told that i would need to have more arguments to support that, cos this is primarily a question of people, it s about the justice and the fairness, it s about the defence capacity and the question of funding. as for the people, i need specifics. the us secretary of state antony blinken said there is no other magic pot of money for support ....
british soldiers from prosecution. i think this is the honorable approach. we are guarantors of the good friday agreement. we believe that the legacy act injures the good friday agreement violates a core part of the good friday agreement, which is the human rights foundations that underpin it. we do it reluctantly because we are conscious of the need, obviously to maintain good relations with the united kingdom. we have great cooperation on a whole range of issues. we have a desired objective in seeing the institutions restored in northern ireland. we re very disappointed that they haven t been restored to date. but nonetheless, i think the good friday agreement is an international treaty that was entered into by the two governments and all of the political parties in northern ireland. and i m very clear that unilateralism is not the way to deal with issues relating to the good friday agreement. there has to be a collective response. let s speak to mark devenport form ....