Alongside this morning’s election results - the UN Sec Gen’s spokesman on the hope of more evacuations from Mariupol but the lack of it on an overall ceasefire - and the soldier we spoke to in the steel plant is still there and sent us an update
"There are lots and lots of people who would love to leave a personal testimony"
Journalist Robert Peston and Barbara Altounyan, founder of The Hospice Biographers, discuss the initiative which records the lives of people living in hospices
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"We don't yet have tools where you take the vaccine once and you're protected for life"
Bill Gates, whose book 'How to Prevent the Next Pandemic' has just been published, tells @MishalHusain that this would help to put the pandemic behind us
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This morning @BBCr4today - I’ve been talking to Bill Gates about his new book, plus being the target of conspiracy theories, Elon Musk, Twitter & Tesla, his meetings with Epstein - and life after divorce. 0730
Also with @bbcnickrobinson@MishalHusain hear about the people in their 90s sent to quarantine facilities, the man detained for showing his pork shopping and the green fences dividing community’s #china#COVID19#Omicron
Eyewitness account from inside the Azovstal - defender Mykhailo Vershynin tells us of the 500 wounded, 200 are critical. Food tightly rationed with priority for the wounded. Defenders range from 18 year olds to men over 60 - many have been in the plant for 68 days #Mariupol
This was an A level text of mine eons ago .. thanks to @francescasegal I discovered the Juliet Stevenson audio version and re-discovered the story. Loved Dorothea and Will as much as I did when I was 18. 35 hours of brilliance (it’s on Audible)
Andrei Kirilenko @AKirilenko_True is a Professor at Cambridge who grew up in Mariupol. He spoke to us a few times on @BBCr4today about the city and trying to make contact with his mother after the siege began. It’s hard to imagine a sadder end to this one Ukrainian story 1/2 twitter.com/AKirilenko_Tru…
You can listen back whenever you like on @BBCSounds but our Today Debate, Ukraine: Where’s the Line? Looking at what it would take for NATO to intervene further in Ukraine is repeated this evening on @BBCRadio4 at 5pm.
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In the video, filmed 2 days ago, women & children talk of living underground at Azovstal for c. 2 months, trapped by the fighting. Food is limited. They ask to be evacuated
A little boy says he plays games on his phone but he’d prefer to see the sun again
Video x Azov media twitter.com/lindseyhilsum/…
Can lawmakers be lawbreakers - @MishalHusain asks Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.
"Sadly we have seen over the years, whether it's been Labour or Conservative ministers, having fines for different things, " he replies.
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Looking forward to working at the other end of the day today. I’m producing The Today Debate this evening ‘Ukraine: Where’s the Line?’ presented @MishalHusain who will be joined by an expert panel and an audience. Live at 8pm on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSoundsbbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Just had this on air update from Sergei Orlov, deputy mayor of Mariupol:
- City in ‘deep blockade’
- no supplies, no evacuations, city has been closed for last 5-7 days
- Russians giving civilians ‘war duties’ or tasks in return for food
- Ukrainians still hold south
What impact could the sinking of the Moskva warship have on the conflict in Ukraine?
Listen to @CliveMyrieBBC's full analysis as he joined us from Kyiv plus @MishalHusain spoke to former CIA director David Petraeus
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News coming up @BBCOne shortly: French elections with @LucyWilliamson , Imran Khan calling his supporters out with @SecKermani in Islamabad, Dover delays with @kprescott - and @marklowen eyewitness account from another devastated area in Ukraine
You think you know the Savile horror and then you see this.. The many clips of him hinting at his own criminality, the testimony of Sam Brown and the way it is all put together - really worth watching
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Scoop 1/ Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife, Ashkata Murty has volunteered to pay UK income tax on her worldwide income. Ms Murty owns £700m pounds in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys founded by her father from which she received £11.6 million in dividend income last year...
We have @edsheeran on @BBCNewsnight tonight, talking exclusively to us after his courtroom victory over a claim of plagiarism- it’s a fascinating interview about creativity in the age of streaming
‘She Was Just Walking Home’ includes one morning early in the Sarah Everard tragedy, when we brought together Jess Philips, Maya Tutton, Julie Bindel - it was like a collective cry of grief and anger. And Mina Smallman on Bibaa and Nicole, plus Justin interviewing Cressida Dick
Working on a daily news programme you don’t often have a chance to stop and think back properly to moments that had a real impact on both team and listeners. These nominations for @BBCr4today give just that 🙏twitter.com/radioacademy/s…9
With #Ukrainian forces now in control of areas outside of #Kyiv, more possible #Rusia war crimes are coming to light - like the family home hit by a missile, burying a two-year boy under the rubble.
With @colmonews@wburema@n_sosnytska @dariasipinga @Mysoshnichenko_
Desperately sad story from just outside Kyiv, about a woman called Iryna whose son was killed by Russian soldiers. We were the first outsiders she'd seen since the Russians left her village on Friday. Shot and edited by @leedurant. Produced by @ProducerKathy
Tonight - in the latest reporting from Ukraine @BowenBBC and @OrlaGuerin have again been into areas near Kyiv recently held by the Russians - and hear harrowing accounts. Do join us @BBCOne in a moment
"The Chancellor has offered a buy now, pay later scheme"
Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor, tells @MishalHusain Labour is pledging to use money from North Sea oil and gas companies to reduce household bills for families most in need
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Will Carrie Johnson disclose publicly if she receives a fine, @MishalHusain asks Justice Secretary Dominic Raab
"The prime minister has said he would make it public but it's not the same position for the spouse of a politician", Raab replies.
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Over the past month, @bbclysedoucet has been a daily fixture on @BBCr4today bringing clarity, insight and empathy as she's reported from Ukraine. Tomorrow, as she prepares to leave, she'll present Today from Kyiv, alongside @MishalHusain in London #r4today from 6am on @BBCRadio4
One of them - Rhiannon Davies - has talked to us for tomorrow morning’s @BBCr4today. The long road she’s travelled began with the loss of her daughter Kate, who would now be 13. twitter.com/BBCMBuchanan/s…
"There is no other word than genocide for what they are doing"
Oleksandr Lomako, Secretary of Chernihiv City Council, tells @MishalHusain the city has suffered from the 'biggest and cruellest' attacks by Russian troops since the war began
Full interview: bbc.in/3iPma6M