correspondents in russia and in ukraine. also this lunchtime. a fresh earthquake in turkey and syria leaves more people dead, two weeks after the tremors that killed tens of thousands. a claim that the clock is ticking for british farmers as they struggle with high inflation, labour shortages and climate change. and it s empty desk friday the world s biggest trial of a four day working week where you do fewer hours for the same pay. and coming up on the bbc news channel england take on pakistan in theirfinal women s t20 world cup group game looking to win and remain unbeaten in the tournament. good afternoon. the russian leader vladimir putin has accused the west of starting the war in ukraine. almost a year after launching the invasion, mr putin has made a two hour state of the nation address delayed from december. he claimed the west is seeking to destroy russia in a global confrontation. the existence of our country is at stake, he said. he also announced he s suspendi
center, the north hall of the convention center and they will slowly move students there. police at the same time are going building by building, and from what we understand, this is a large campus. they re going building by building, floor by floor, making sure that they can go in and clear each floor, making sure there s no one else that may be injured, making sure that if there are people who are still scared, hunkering down, that they are helping them get them out of the building, and get them to safety and get them back with their loved ones. so these are all some of the things that we have been seeing, along with some of the images that we have been looking at, coming out of las vegas where they re showing armored vehicles, s.w.a.t. vehicles making they way to the scene as they expanded the perimeter around the campus. all of that making people very nervous in the area, but at the same time, police are say thing is now a time where we don t have any other threat. but th
We ve had some response from senior government officials describing vladimir putin as confused and irrelevant, and for them it underlines their belief that russia needs to be repelled completely and crucially for ukraine punished for what it s done. but i think the reason there is less fear coming out of kyiv certainly is because vladimir putin has already escalated, in the words of so many people you speak to, how much worse can it get? as we ve heard following his visit to ukraine yesterday, president biden will deliver a speech in poland this afternoon, in which he ll respond to mr putin s claims. mr biden is expected to describe the war in ukraine as a struggle between democracy and autocracy. well, many people in poland see the war being foughtjust across the border from them as a real threat to their own security as our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford reports.
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