are being asked to step in. what happens to him, then? he will get a letter. and what will that letter say? don t do it again. we investigate britain s killer roads. he should be there, and he s not there, and it s not fair. i m going on a road trip. ..from here, at the bottom of cornwall. ..to the very top of scotland. i want to find out more about the risks we face when we get behind the wheel, and why britain s roads are getting more dangerous. the thing is, it shouldn t be like this. cars are getting safer. roads should be getting safer. but that is not what s going on. for 30 years, the fatality rate the number of deaths per billion miles travelled was falling. for the past decade, it stayed broadly the same. but in 2020, the death rate rose by 5% the most significant increase in a0 years. last year, we ve even seen an increase in the rate of fatalities, so it s very, very worrying. it matters because these are real people that are dying on our roads, and many of t
i m so sorry. welcome to bbc news. the united states has, with the backing of its european allies, warned russia that if any of the tens of thousands of its soldiers massed at the ukrainian border invade, there will be grave consequences. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, and his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov, are scheduled to have crucial talks in geneva later, but moscow denies planning to invade ukraine. here s our diplomatic correspondent james landale. it s notjust the russians who are conducting military exercises. these are pictures released by ukraine s defence ministry, showing their forces training close to crimea. it was annexed by russia in 2014 and the kind of incursion that ukraine and its allies are trying to deter once again. i ve been absolutely clear with president putin, he has no misunderstanding, if any any assembled russian units move across the ukrainian border, that is an invasion. but it will be met with severe and co ordinated economi
being asked to step in. what happens to him, then? he will get a letter. and what will that letter say? don t do it again. we investigate britain s killer roads. he should be there, and he s not there, and it s not fair. i m going on a road trip. ..from here, at the bottom of cornwall. ..to the very top of scotland. i want to find out more about the risks we face when we get behind the wheel, and why britain s roads are getting more dangerous. the thing is, it shouldn t be like this. cars are getting safer. roads should be getting safer. but that is not what s going on. for 30 years, the fatality rate the number of deaths per billion miles travelled was falling. for the past decade, it stayed broadly the same, but in 2020, the death rate rose by 5% the most significant increase in a0 years. last year, we ve even seen an increase in the rate of fatalities, so it s very, very worrying. it matters because these are real people that are dying on our roads, and many of them
hello. thanks very much for joining us. us secretary of state antony blinken is due to arrive in ukraine for urgent talks amid warnings that russia could carry out an attack at any point. mr blinken also plans to meet the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, on friday with the white house describing the situation as extremely dangerous. russia has amassed 100,000 troops on the border, and over the weekend, moved forces to belarus forjoint military drills, but it denies planning an invasion. here s our diplomatic editor james landale. russian forces training near the border with ukraine, just some of thousands deployed there since the autumn, raising fears in the west that russia s planning an invasion. fears that are dismissed by moscow, but exacerbated by this the arrival of russian forces this week in belarus, north of ukraine, for what moscow says are joint military exercises to repel external aggressors. but nato s secretary general said the risk of conflict was