Security assistance. 9. 5 billion in economic help, in the form of forgivable loans that the us president is authorised to set the terms of and is given the power to cancel. And a much smaller measure includes about 481 million that will be used to help ukrainians resettle into new neighbourhoods and pay for emergency housing. Once the bill is finalised, it would take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield. Congress will be voting in the wake of more deadly attacks on ukrainian civilians. On friday, russian missiles struck a rail station and a Maternity Hospital in the central Dnipro Petrovsk region. Local Officials Say at least seven people were killed, including an eight year old child. President Volodymyr Zelensky told nato members on friday that ukraine needs more air Defence Systems to counter russian strikes. Putin must be brought down to earth, and our skies must become safe again. And it is real. And it depends fully on your choice. Choice whether lif
scary scenario. and before we to a scary scenario. and before we go a reminder scary scenario. and before we go a reminder that scary scenario. and before we go a reminder that you - scary scenario. and before we go a reminder that you can i scary scenario. and before we | go a reminder that you can find all of our coverage of the warring ukraine on our website, thatis warring ukraine on our website, that is bbc .com slash news, and we will have live coverage on saturday of that crucial vote on those foreign aid bills from capital hill, so stay with us right here for that on bbc news. hello there. many parts of the uk had some lengthy spells of sunshine on friday, but there were a few showers around. the remain of some of this shower cloud in wolverhampton gave this fine end to the day, a fine sunset, and the majority of the shower cloud through friday afternoon was associated with a stripe of cloud you can see right here. this was actually an old cold front. the significance of tha
because i think it is just an inability to look at the future scenario. if wejust inability to look at the future scenario. if we just told russia, look, we will stay out of it, i m in the united states, then russia will be encouraged to go further into europe and sooner or later will start attacking the us. it already has, there has been cyber attacks, there has been disinformation and influence campaigns in the us, and i think if we look at what is happening in the american democracy at the moment, i think russia had a lot to do with that as well. crosstalk we are seeing a brewing conflict in the middle east, i am sure you have been watching with israel and iran trading missiles back and forth now, what do you think and what is your impression on how the events in the middle east might be affecting the war in ukraine and public attention, has it increased the urgency for this aid package, or does ukraine feel like attention has shifted elsewhere? i would say initially when 7 october
launched a huge campaign to lobby us legislators but it is the same as what has happened since the beginning of the war, this is a drip feed of assistance to ukraine. diaspora. having said that, a lot of this money, especially military support, will stay in the united states, it will go to defence contractors, but there is a few billion in their dedicated budget support, so ukraine will be able to deploy that to pensions and teacher salaries and things like that. if this aid does not come soon, a lot of analysts are now beginning to think that the russians will get further, they could occupy ukraine within two years and speakerjohnson who i think has had an epiphany overnight, said in the past 24 hours, that if ukraine is not defended, the russians will go further into poland and the baltic states, and eventually us troops would have to get involved. so that is a pretty scary scenario. involved. so that is a pretty
dent to downplay it, the the reaction to this was first to deny it, then to downplay it, then to demand back andhe tl then to accuse us of doingke the same thing. and you talked about now they re getting more aggressive with our our allies and friends in the indo-pacific, with the ph philippines, with taiwan. whpines, with taiwan, y wouldn s they ve had there s been no deterrence from thiswithrespecti administration with respect to china. and i only see this getting worse. scenari we appreciate it. director radclyffe, scary scenario. i think a vulnerable what i nevt thought would exist inbove our lifetime, as is right therer hovering above our airspace. pretty scary. director radcliffe, thank you. so we know that last week s spy balloon came from china, butobjs what about the three other objects shot down over the weekend? apparently, us pilots couldn t even identify how these objects were even be empowered orwe staying in the air. so we seem seem to to know nothg anyway. joining us no