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it s time to boost your news. i q. ah . the annual end of year media briefing by russian president vladimir putin has wrapped up the briefing, though not so brief running over 4 hours. ortiz mirage guys. the ad brings us some of the key points from there. so we had questions ranging from, from issues with mortgages and provincial towns to big gates in questions. lou did questions even from foreign journalists, asking vladimir putin if he can guarantee that russia won t attack you crazy. so will you guarantee unconditionally that you will not invade ukraine or any other southern country i should use to believe your actions will depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with russia. security, in this sense, we ve made it clear that any further movement to the east, and we is unacceptable that we are not threatening anyone. we didn t come to the u . s. a. u k. bo does know they came to ours, love an inch to the east, that was a nato guarantee in ....
incident, and we re hoping to do that. we re now 35 seconds away from launch. this is going to be this is of course blue origin. this is a jeff bezos company. we know that richard branson and elon musk have got projects like this. this is blue origin, jeff bezos s company. let s watch this launch. seven, six, five, four, main engine star . as long as i live, this is never going to get old for me. i can watch launches all the time. this is picture perfect so far. we are, i believe, still awaiting separation, but so far this has gone very well. you saw a drone shot of it, this allowed us to take the takeoff. you see the con trails behind it. this is a view down to earth from the rocket. this is only going to be a ten-minute flight, and they re four minutes into it now. so far going very well, and we hope that continues. it is a little bit of a hope on a day that is filled with tragedy. so at least we got something that we can be happy about today. but we are of cou ....
of failings in the years leading up to the grenfell tower disaster, and says it s deeply sorry. your employment here is terminated, effective immediately. and if you ve joined this zoom call, you re fired. the boss of an american firm sacks 900 of his staff in one go online. good evening and welcome to bbc news. dysfunctional and chaotic that s the damning verdict of a foreign office whistleblower on the way it handled the evacuation of people from afghanistan after the taliban took over in august. raphael marshall, who resigned from hisjob in september, has told a committee of mps it s clear some of those left behind have since been murdered by the taliban. he says thousands of emails pleading for british help went unread, and that the foreign secretary at the time dominic raab was slow to make decisions. mr raab has denied the claims. this afternoon, the committee also heard evidence from the most senior civil servant at the foreign office, who said he regrets bei ....
this video. it got off to an awkward start. please don t. there you go. hello. [laughing]. good to see you again. the last time we didn t get to see one another in g20. i hope next time we meet, it s in person. john: one of the most important days for biden s foreign policy agenda going up against a trained agent with his sights set on ukraine. ukraine could become the next afghanistan. some democrats calling for more lethal aide to ukraine. sandra: keith kellogg, general, good of you to be here. that call ended 12:08 p.m. eastern time and last 2ed hours. got off to a rough start with president biden s microphone was not worked. he got it back on and waved at the russian president. i saw the same picture you the president was there and putin by himself. that s typical putin. that the call went for 2 hours that s not surprising because it s translated. putin understands english. i sat between 18 calls with president trump and vice-president pence. he wo ....
happen if russia invades ukraine. the conference and allies this afternoon. we are live with the latest on this high profiles, high stakes conversation. i m halle jackson in washington. here to start us off, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engle in ukraine. also with us, former cia director john brennan and senior national security and intelligence analyst. districtor brennan, i m going to turn to our reporters. mike, are you near steps from that briefing room. we already know some of the highlights about this video discussion between president biden and president putin. what are the outstanding questions you have for the national security adviser who we will see in a matter of minutes here. reporter: it s important that jake sullivan will be in the briefing room to offer the white house s fuller readout a. lot was made in the early hours as that meeting was beginning just after 10:00 the first pictures we were getting, the first picture was from russia, ....