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by deporting ukrainians, and targeting civilians. the democratic unionist party says it will not nominate ministers to the northern ireland power sharing executive until decisive action is taken on post brexit trading arrangements. until we get decisive action taken by the uk government on the protocol we will not be nominating ministers to the executive. the boss of scottish power urges ministers to do more to help with rising energy bills. and mps call for more protection for child social media influencers who could be at risk of exploitation we ll hear from one former influencer. good afternoon. president putin has tried to justify the invasion of ukraine on the grounds of national security. in a speech at the victory day parade in moscow s red square, he told soldiers they were fighting for what their predecessors had fought for during the second world war. he also alleged that nato was exploring land close to russia and that he was fighting neo nazis in ukraine ....
that did not happen. the kremlin blaming bad weather for that. as putin was speaking in moscow, ukraine s president released his own victory day message. translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine, and someone won t have any. we won then, and we will win now. happy victory over naziism day. u.s. diplomats return to kyiv for the first time since the war began. it s a big step towards officially reopening the embassy. let s go right to cnn s matthew chance live for us in moscow. mat matthew, what stood out to you about putin s speech this morning is this. this morning? look, first of all, the atmosphere, the spectacle of the display of russian military might was as we expected it to be, quite dramatic. we saw thousands of russian troops on the cobbles of red square chanting patriotic slogans, military bans playing patriotic kind of war songs. there was a march passed and a salute taken by by president putin as the crowd cheered and applauded ....
described and has prohibited the broadcast of information the government regards as false. with that matthew filed this report just moments ago. reporter: this was a much anticipated event amid speculation that the victory day parade would be used to make an important announcement about what russia calls its special military operation in ukraine. possibly a formal declaration of war or a mass mobilization of troops. but neither of those things happened. what we did witness was a spectacular display of russian military might. even though the air display was cancelled because of bad weather, 11,000 troops marched over the cobbles of red square followed by columns of tanks, rocket launchers and interballistic missiles. vladimir putin repeated claims trying to justify the conflict in ukraine that russia was faising an eminent attack and that it had to act preemptively. he also drew parallels between the soviet victory over germany in the 1940s which is what victory day is ....
to keep its promise to make a returnjourney. and by way of preparation, of course, for a mission to mars. my guest, jim green, retired as nasa s chief scientist earlier this year. are problems undermining nasa s mission? jim green in silver spring, maryland, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much, stephen. it s a pleasure to be here. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show, and you have had a pretty remarkable four decades long career inside nasa. but if you are being honest with me, would you accept that nasa s golden era came and went long before even you arrived at the agency? well, indeed. nasa has had actually several golden eras, and it is a matter of perspective. this you know, the programme has not only humans that explore beyond earth s boundaries, but also we have missions that study the universe or move out into the solar system and explore, and we have absolutely exploded in those areas that you may not be aware of. well, i kind of am aware of them, bec ....
top the table. for the first time, a party which is dedicated to taking northern ireland out of the uk is the biggest political force here. it s a huge historic moment for irish nationalism and a massively symbolic shift. sinn fein s vice president, michelle o neill, is in line to become the first minister. no nationalist has ever won the post before. today ushers in a new era, which i believe presents us all with an opportunity to reimagine relationships in this society on the basis of fairness, on the basis of equality, and on the basis of social justice. irrespective of religious, political or social backgrounds, my commitment is to make politics work. cheering another major indication of change is the surge of the party which is neither unionist nor nationalist. alliance has more than doubled its number of seats, moving from fifth place to third in the assembly. its leaders said the breakthrough had come after many years work. people wrote us off and said that ther ....