face is bbc news. it s newsday. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in israel where prime minister, naftali bennett is to step down from his post and dissolve parliament triggering a fresh election. the current foreign minister, yair lapid, will temporarily take over. mr bennett has been in thejob forjust over a year and has struggled to stabilise his increasingly fragile governing coalition. here is the israeli prime minister, naftali bennett, speaking earlier. translation: i held a series of talks with officials - and i realised that in ten days where the expiration of the west bank regulations, israel will experience serious security damages and legal cast. security damages and legal chaos. we spared no efforts to galvanise whomever was needed to pass the regulations, but our efforts bore no fruit. therefore, my friend the foreign minister and i decided to act together to dissolve parliament and set an agreed upon date for elections. i m j
in the meantime, ukraine hasjust received from the us 90 tonnes of what america calls lethal aid, including ammunition for ukraine s front line forces. washington says it s helping ukraine bolster its defences in the face of growing russian aggression. russia denies an invasion is on the cards, but has 100,000 russian troops near ukraine s border in potentially threatening positions, as this map shows. what we have seen over the last few months with diplomatic talks failing, putin s ultimatum demanding nato push back. of course, that was dismissed. but that has given him the pretext to actually say there is an aggressor and that he must act. he has actually boxed himself into a corner, because so much effort has been put into this. but he also recognised that he will never again be as strong as this to take advantage of the west s weakness.
months with diplomatic talks failing, putin s ultimatum demanding nato push back. of course, that was dismissed. but that has given him the pretext to actually say there is an aggressor and that he must act. he has actually boxed himself into a corner, because so much effort has been put into this. but he also recognised that he will never again be as strong as this to take advantage of the west s weakness. i suspect an invasion is now imminent. russia sparked this diplomatic conflict. this week, the us showed it s keen to resolve it peacefully. but it remains unclear how far both sides are prepared to go to placate the other. mark lobel, bbc news. i ve been speaking to the uk s former ambassador to russia, sir andrew wood. russia has sent a huge amount of equipment and a considerable
is on the cards, but has 100,000 russian troops near ukraine s border in potentially threatening positions, as this map shows. what we have seen over the last few months with diplomatic talks failing, putin s ultimatum demanding nato push back. of course, that was dismissed. but that has given him the pretext to actually say there is an aggressor and that he must act. he has actually boxed himself into a corner, because so much effort has been put into this. but he also recognised that he will never again be as strong as this to take advantage of the west s weakness. i suspect an invasion is now imminent. russia sparked this diplomatic conflict. this week, the us showed it s keen to resolve it peacefully. but it remains unclear how far both sides are prepared to go to placate the other. mark lobel, bbc news. nataliya gumenyuk is
on by activists in a few that crack that crack was painted on by activists a few years ago as relations between the two countries deteriorated. and as talks intensify about a possible invasion, the hope is things don t break down completely. tensions are still rising on the border. today russian jets made their way to joint military drills with neighbouring belarus. ukrainian ministers have welcomed the delivery of us military equipment, and now a call for the uk to step up its own support. the british government has delivered 2,000 anti tank missiles this week and says it is open to sending more weapons. what we have seen over the last few months with diplomatic talks failing, putin s ultimatum demanding nato push back, of course that was dismissed, but that has given him the pretext to actually say that there is an aggressor and that he must act. he has actually boxed himself into a corner because so much effort has been put into this. but he also recognised that he will never aga