foreign minister in poland s new government. has support for ukraine become a burden that kyiv s allies are no longer ready to bear? radek sikorski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. hello. good to see you again, stephen. it s great to have you on the programme. let s begin with a simple thought. the portents for ukraine in its grim battle against vladimir putin s forces in ukraine, the portents are really very negative, are they not? the supply of weaponry and of money coming from kyiv supporters is drying up. how concerned are you? that s not quite right. i was in kyiv within days of my appointment in december. my prime minister, the former head of the european council, donald tusk, has just been there, and the ukrainians have achieved a victory that has not been noticed in the western press, namely that, against stiff russian opposition, they have cleared western black sea of russian ships and they have now resumed grain shipments, not under a deal, from odesa via the wester
radek sikorski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. hello. good to see you again, stephen. it s great to have you on the programme. let s begin with a simple thought. the portents for ukraine in its grim battle against vladimir putin s forces in ukraine, the portents are really very negative, are they not? the supply of weaponry and of money coming from kyiv supporters is drying up. how concerned are you? that s not quite right. i was in kyiv within days of my appointment in december. my prime minister, the former head of the european council, donald tusk, has just been there, and the ukrainians have achieved a victory that has not been noticed in the western press, namely that, against stiff russian opposition, they have cleared western black sea of russian ships and they have now resumed grain shipments, not under a deal, from odesa via the western black sea to the bosphorus and to africa and beyond. that s a considerable military success. that s not insignificant. and they als
by prison officials earlier. by by order of the alabama supreme court at 7:53 central time alabama executed mr kennison smith at the correctional facility. it was exhibited for the i988 facility. it was exhibited for the 1988 capital murder of elizabeth dorling sennett in culver county. after the execution, a number of witnesses addressed the media and described what happened. once the execution began within a couple of minutes, kenny began to violently push against the straps. his head began to move back and forth violently. this was the fifth execution i witnessed in alabama and i ve never seen such a violent reaction to execution. in a statement following the execution, governor kay ivey says: mr smith s legal team also came out with a statement: alabama is one of 27 us states where the death our correspondent, tom bateman, was in alabama and visited the facility where the execution took place. hejoins us live. tom, what more do we know about the execution and how it happe
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what is stopping it from spreading to other continents? i will talk to cnn s sanjay gupta and peter piot, the man who actually discovered ebola. now for the latest on the crisis in the middle east, let us go to cnn s wolf blitzer. thanks very much, fareed. it s just past 5:00 p.m. here in jerusalem on the 27th day of operation protective edge. they said ten people were killed when israeli shells lapped near a u.n. run school in southern gaza that was sheltering almost 3,000 people. no official comment from israel on this attack. those ten become part of the sobering statistics of this war. in gaza more than 1750 people over 1800 according to palestinian health officials. more than 80 rockets since midnight and officials there say and officials in israel at least say 64 soldiers, three sill civilians have been killed since the fikting began. israel says at last count it has struck 4626 targets in gaza by attacks from air, ground and sea and last count gaza has launched 318