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will be needed. i don t think i have ever experienced weather like that here before. it feels like we re on different continent. over here this city gets over certain temperature and it has been brutal. a british man has reportedly died, believed to be volunteering in ukraine he was taken prisoner along with another man back in april. coming up we will be talking to ukrainian grain, with the mp from edessa who represents constituents in a port city by the black sea. hello wherever you are in the uk or if you are watching on public service broadcast then united states or anywhere else in the world thank you forjoining us it is a pleasure to have your company. we begin this hourin to have your company. we begin this hour in the uk with the five remaining candidates in the conservative party taking part in a live debate before the vote next week. then it ll be up to conservative party members to decide the new leader and prime minister. prime minister, here is what some of ....
Interesting there have been some proper blue on blue attacks. rishi sunak is the frontrunner in this race when it comes to mps, the big battle is to be the other person, the person who comes second and gets in the final ballot that goes to conservative members. penny mordaunt has a lot of the momentum in that racejust has a lot of the momentum in that race just now. and she is feeling the heat actually from kemi badenoch another of the candidate who is been questioning some of the policies she had when it comes to self identification for trans people. kemi badenoch doesn t believe what penny mordaunt was my account was of what she did when she was in government. so you can see that the way the issues are being used by the different candidates to try and draw some lines between them. the for her part, penny is saying that she feels. that everyone is coming for ....
john, you can see on the map, mariupol is about to fall to russian forces but the ukrainians are not giving up the fight. there was a brigade from the azov battalion to link up with some ukrainian marines fighting tooth and nail against the russian forces as they pushed forward the marines and fighters closer to the sea. now that these two brigades have linked up, a stronger effort to push back the russian offensive. but in luhansk and donetsk, the russians have made clear they are trying to cut off the donbas region from the rest of ukraine and vladimir putin every sign so far indicates he is willing to put a lot of fire power to the eastern section of the country. john: the big battle is about to begin, we are not sure when they are going to launch here and bring all the forces down and move up from the south toward the north and cut it off. that s something we will watch ....
Elsewhere, in the show me state, also for a state house seat, the republican candidate won by about six points and the district trump carried by an astonishing 59%. it is worth pointing out that republicans won the two other special election races for missouri state house seats last night. so the, john heilemann, the big battle that is coming up now on the national stage is in western pennsylvania, and republicans are worried they may lose a seat that donald trump carried by what 19, 20 points? yes, they are. you look at those missouri races, it is true that the republicans held a couple of those seats they were supposed to hold, but those two swings right there, are stunning and they would be, they re understastunning on their own, they reinforce every piece of electoral data that we ve seen in the off-year elections in virginia, new jersey and mississippi, every ....
Union earlier this morning talking about what lit take to have a make-or-break moment during tuesday night s debate. 15 years of executive experience which i alone will have on that stage of actually accomplishing progressive things. it s not about the words but the actions. thicks we did in maryland to pull together new consensus after new consensus, to pass a living wage, pass comprehensive gun safety legislation, pass the dream act and marriage equality. it s about the doing, not saying. reporter: the big battle that everyone will be watching will be between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. bernie sanders has got to be one of the big stories of this campaign cycle so far. he has come out of nowhere. the independent senator from vermont, the self-described socialist really giving hillary clinton a run for her money in some of the polls out there. over the last 48 hours he has started talking about his iraq war vote back in 2002. he voted against the war, hillary clinton voted ....