50 migrants are told that the government intends to send them to rwanda the first to be removed under new immigration plans. police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi and killed at least 27 people. can liverpool keep their quadruple hopes alive? they face chelsea this afternoon in the fa cup final at wembley. # up in space, man. # bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight s eurovision. but will it be enough to hold back the favourites ukraine? good afternoon. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that russian forces have withdrawn from the kharkiv city area and are heading for the russian border. ihor terekhov said russian shelling had stopped and residents were gradually starting to return to ukraine s second largest city but warned that many residential areas were badly damaged or destroyed. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this
and there would have been protests in moscow and possibly an armed uprising. and the fact that putin abandoned the kremlin at that point may have meant that he wouldn t have returned. i mean, what you seem to be suggesting is some kind of. potentially, some kind of civil war, which would lead, potentially, to massive bloodshed, lead to even more instability in the country and around russia s borders. and even more fears about russia s nuclear weapons. translation: today, russia is waging war l with a neighbouring state, with ukraine, but also with russia itself. it is already a kind of civil war. the issue at stake is, should we let this war spread orjust do away with the regime? this is a risk. but having putin as president for the next five or ten years is a greater risk and will mean the collapse of the regime, the threat
would love, i m sure, to be a fly on the wall for that particular phone conversation, it must have been an interesting one. it is a paradox, given that the war was apparently about preventing nato encroaching on russia s borders, and apparent aggressive moves by nato, as moscow put it, that the consequence of it has been to move nato even closer to russia. ~ ., , ,., , has been to move nato even closer to russia. ~ ., , , ,, russia. well, absolutely. if you look at the russia. well, absolutely. if you look at the map russia. well, absolutely. if you look at the map of russia. well, absolutely. if you look at the map of what - russia. well, absolutely. if you look at the map of what the - russia. well, absolutely. if you i look at the map of what the nato footprint would look like, you know, with those two countries joining, you have the likes of sweden and finland right in the north, all the way down along the russian border, you know, obviously belarus is an ally of russia, but