after more than 100 days, it s a pleasure to have you on the show, ambassador. let me ask you this, after more than 100 days, would you say that russia s invasion of ukraine is going to plan? well, i think it is progressing. nobody promise to deliver it in three or seven days as some pundits are saying now, that the russian special military operation has stalled and is not progressing at the pace that was initially envisaged. but the progress is being made, that s clear. one of their reasons for the so called slow pace is that we are not targeting civilian infrastructure and there is deliberately we are only hitting military targets and it takes time, we are not doing carpet bombing or anything else. but the progress is there, that s for sure. ambassador, i have to say, you are the most senior russian official whom i ve heard say that the initial operation stalled, that the operation is going slow. is that your recognition that the initial plan to seize kyiv and to install a
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quite extraordinary given how we start ourselves, we watched it play out in real time, there s so much that has been covered byjanuary there s so much that has been covered by january six of a sense. this is the culmination of 11 months of work by the committee. they are basically going to show us what evidence they have. they want to prove to americans, notches using evidence but also live testimonyjust how evidence but also live testimony just how close america came to losing its democracy and how to prevent these events from ever happening again. we these events from ever happening again. we can see that peeple happening again. we can see that people are happening again. we can see that people are gathering - that people are gathering inside this canon caucus room, actually an historic room. this is where the house committee on un american activities held its hearings. tell us about the live witnesses that those people inside the committee room are going to hearfrom tonight. roo
framework for action so that we can deal with us globally together and get some good results. deal with us globally together and get some good results. thank you so much and that s from much and that s from the centre of town traditional hate. thank you. countering digital hate. coleen rooney has been in the witness box at the high court again, as she defends a libel claim made against her by rebekah vardy. our correspondent charlie haynes is there we are now in week two of the trial and we are hearing from rooney, the second day for giving testimonyjust giving testimony this morning and we are going into the weeds of her digital detective skills and the lawyer for vardy, digital detective skills and the lawyerfor vardy, they digital detective skills and the lawyer for vardy, they call it a diyer who and she became convinced of her time that vardy have been
that we are reading investigations into russian influence into the uk and i m thinking particularly about roman abramovich. line oh, you will know about the legal perils of writing about oligarchs. has the risk of litigation from london s top law forms suppress reporting about them? j law forms suppress reporting about them? ., law forms suppress reporting about them? . ., , ., ., them? i am not carrying water for them? i am not carrying water for the the financial them? i am not carrying water for the the financial times, - them? i am not carrying water for the the financial times, but - them? i am not carrying water for the the financialtimes, but i - them? i am not carrying water for the the financialtimes, but i can| the the financial times, but i can assure you that we did write about influence of russians in the uk and i still have letters from the law firms threatening us. this was literally putin s. we ve seen the names of the law firms. we heard this and the testimonyjust th