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And dividing europe. let s talk about the unfinished business. let s begin with the unfinished business with the choice of a new prime minister. the voting is over, they have got to do the counting and we will know on monday whether it is liz truss or rishi sunak. do you think it has been at all illuminating about what we can expect of what is likely to be a liz truss government? i think it does seem that liz truss has got it, it would be quite a shock after all the polling we have had so far. let us talk on that basis. i think we have learned quite a lot, but not central things like what she might do to support people through the cost of living crisis. we have learnt important fragments, an uncompromising position, no surprise there, towards europe and the northern ireland protocol. that word from the past that are still with us. and she wants to have defence spending at 3%, although we don t know where the money is coming from and she declared china threat. the phrase that resonates ....
We are not even engaging the question? we are beginning to engage with it, at least with the cost of it and that is where you can feel the fear in british politics and other countries at the moment. bringing in what michael said about the northern ireland protocol, you begin to see the cost, squeezing out all of these other discussions about ukraine, about what on earth europe, and i include in that britain, what are they going to do about their energy suppliers. we are tied up in some of these old arguments as well. and it is presumably the kind of thing which, in theory, could provide a tremendous bond between the uk and europe. given she has been a disruptor, is it possible this is one of the things she will choose to disrupt, in other words, the hostility? she might say that is very old government, i want to be fresh and new and because my reputation and where i position myself, i am the person who could rebuild those links? ....
From the west but he allowed something enormous to happen and it had an enormous effect on modern europe, as we can call it now, and a critical effect on russia. at the west did not understand how big a moment and how big the change would be for russia itself. so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years. one of the interesting things, i don t think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasn t. he was prepared to let the warsaw pact lives. i don t think it was important to him, the economy in russia needed attention. i say russia, i do mean in the soviet union, because he was a man of the soviet union. but the post gorbachev, ....
If nothing else and to get the territory captured before the bad weather makes any kind of on the ground fighting impossible. it is more than just morale, it is more than symbolic. they having a disruptive effect on russia, but i find it hard to call it strategic, in a counter offensive. they are not going to get very far. the other thing is, there is an urgency as well. russia keeps threatening to hold these platter sites, to ratify new russian dominated governments in the area and i think they are trying to disrupt that. make it seem like, you can hold an election if you like, putin, but we are just ten kilometres up the road and we are coming. this will be a disrupting effect on those planned elections. my question is, what effect it might have on european morale ....
Welcome to bbc news. i m rich preston. our top stories: president zelensky of ukraine urges europe to remain united in the face of russia s use of energy as an economic weapon. his wife tells the bbc about the continuing impact of the war on the ukranian people. translation: the prices are going up in ukraine i as well, but in addition our people get killed. so when you start counting pennies in your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties. donald trump accuses joe biden of being the real enemy of the state, days after the president branded him a threat to american democracy. ....