of balkan bloodshed? prime minister albin kurti, welcome to hardtalk. welcome to pristina. and thank you for having me. well, it s a great pleasure to be in your office, mr prime minister, how close has kosovo come to seeing a renewal of conflict in the last few months? it has been very heavy because the two extremist terrorist organisations which are being financed by serbia and from where they also receive their orders, civil protection and the northern brigade have been very active and first intimidating serbs and serbian candidates who would like to vote and run in elections. and second, in attacking our police. journalist but first and foremost, nato s soldiers on 29th of may. you ve chosen in that answer to pile all of the blame on your serbian minority population. that is not the way the international community sees things right now. i never blame serbian minority population. they are 4% of population in kosovo. less than half of them live north of river ibar. but i wa
and that comes with further scrutiny about his ideas and his political record. it s more like a police interview! laughter. he was asked about views he d expressed in the past about vladimir putin. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to al
our political correspondent jack fenwick reports. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to align himself with putin. he s become a putin apologist. mr farage said last night that putin was wrong to invade, the eu was wrong to expand eastward
temperatures elsewhere up a little bit on monday morning s values, at around 12 to 15. but here s the chart for tuesday. low pressure is centred now to the northeast of us, bringing in winds more from a general westerly direction than a southerly one. still got it to begin with in east anglia and the south east. cloud, outbreaks of rain here. could be a while to shift, depending on if we see any wobbles on that weather front develop. most other parts so some sunshine, plenty of cloud at times and frequent showers. some of those, heavy and thundery, especially further north and west. and most places seeing temperatures drop relative to monday. tuesday into wednesday, that low pressure starts to push closer towards western norway, allowing the winds to go more west to northwesterly, so temperatures drop a bit further. a dry and bright start to many southern and eastern areas. showers will develop heaviest to the northern half of the uk, with the risk of thunder, as we re close to that
fragments into showers through monday night. but monday night into tuesday, a band of persistent rain through wales, south west england pushes through the midlands towards east anglia and the south east, drawing in probably the warmest air by night this week 16, 17 degrees here. temperatures elsewhere up a little bit on monday morning s values, at around 12 to 15. but here s the chart for tuesday. low pressure is centred now to the northeast of us, bringing in winds more from a general westerly direction than a southerly one. still got it to begin with in east anglia and the south east. cloud, outbreaks of rain here. could be a while to shift, depending on if we see any wobbles on that weather front develop. most other parts so some sunshine, plenty of cloud at times and frequent showers. some of those, heavy and thundery, especially further north and west. and most places seeing temperatures drop relative to monday. tuesday into wednesday, that low pressure starts to push closer t