attack drones, more air defence, a new uk flying school for pilots. the europeans are keen to support ukraine s expected counteroffensive, but can they provide president zelensky with the kit he needs? we will get the view from kyiv and london. at home, rishi sunak is marshalling his troops. a downing street reception tonight, to officially celebrate the coronation of king charles iii. but is it also a much needed charm offensive, amid more splits in tory ranks over brexit and immigration? speaking of which, who s going to pick the spring cabbage and the rhubarb? the farmers said today they need more labour and higher prices to solve the food crisis in britain. and we will take a look tonight at those election results from turkey no victor in round one but early advantage president erdogan. but we start tonight with president zelensky s visit to the uk. ukraine he says, can defeat russia by the end of this year, with the right kind of western help. the latest tranche of sup
hello, i m lucy hockings. russia has blamed the united states for wednesday s alleged drone attack on the kremlin. moscow initially blamed kyiv directly, but the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov, has now told reporters that the decision to attack was made in washington, with kyiv executing it on us orders. he gave no evidence. kyiv has denied any involvement, saying it s focused on defending its own territory. the foreign ministry in moscow has separately accused ukraine of launching an unprecedented wave of sabotage attacks against russia. in the hague, president volodymyr zelensky has called for a fully fledged tribunal to hold russia accountable for its war of aggression against ukraine. he made the comments in a speech after visiting the international criminal court. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. let s listen to what he said at the hague. lasting peace after victory is
with just two days to go into the coronation, excitement is building on the mall where the clouds are camped out. hello, welcome to bbc news. i am lewis vaughan jones. we are starting in russia where president vladimir putin has made his first tv appearance since an alleged attempt on his life. we have got these pictures in the last couple of hours. here he is in these pictures released by the kremlin in a routine meeting with economic development minister maxim reshetnikov. presumably projecting an image of business as usual. russia claims ukraine was targeting putin in this drone atack on the kremlin on wednesday following orders from the united states. both kyiv and washington have denied any involvement. russia launched a series of air raids on kyiv overnight, in apparent retaliation. but authorities say all the strikes were intercepted by air defences which you can see working here. strikes were also reported in zaporizhizhia and odessa. our russia editor, st
Hello, im lewis vaughanjones. Welcome to The Programme. We start in the middle east, where the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an Israeli Attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. Mahmoud abbas is at the World Economic forum summit in riyadh. He will be joined there on monday by the us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken. Other Key International figures are expected in the saudi city and Sideline Meetings are expected to discuss the war in gaza and the way forward. That could include further Ceasefire Talks a hamas delegation is reportedly in cairo for discussions there on monday. This is the appeal from palestinian president , mahmoud abbas, to the us, urging it convince israel to reconsider any offensive in rafah. Translation and i say here whats happening now in gaza, | and what will happen in the coming few days, and what israel will do by invading the city of rafah, all the palestinians from gaza are gathered in rafah and its only one small strike tha
Show you an extraordinary statement from the head of the worlds most powerful military, Generaljim Mathis has issued a statement from the pentagon that this warning. Mathis said north korea should seize any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. That follows Sabre Rattling reminders from the president himself, saying his first order as president was to renovate and modernise our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before. The tough rhetoric comes than ever before. The tough rhetoric co m es after than ever before. The tough rhetoric comes after this statement on north koreas state television. With medium to long range strategic Ballistic Rossouw s sick missiles, we have the ability to hit us air bases on guam. That followed donald trump was burst of anger when he said any further Missile Launchers from north korea would result in fire and fury like the world had never seen. All of this stemmin