work as a journalist, his widow, our sunday, isn't as confident the report the government will release, will bring closure. you just cannot reconcile and for the people without knowing how can you find you somebody you don't know who look at your husband. how can you forget that person you have to have justice then. then at that me foggy. need a cleanser one before that we need justice for her justice means punish of those responsible for the cramps committed, including jojo, jamie, or she says still has some influence in the gambia. the government says it took this long to ensure a thorough, unsatisfactory job of investigating allegations of rights abuses of you should hold government action on the rights commission's recommendations, could heal woods and reconcile emission struggling to come to terms with its recent past. but most victims, like use of hum, buy, remain skeptical. ahmed edris al jazeera by duel the gambia.

ah, your child is there with me, sill robin in doha, reminder of our top new stories. a gunman has killed 19 primary school children and 2 teachers in the us state of texas. it happened in the city of the val dana san antonio, and st night calls the gun control across the nation. senior leaders in the british prime minister barak johnson's office are being blame for illegal parties at the height of corona virus lockdown. thus, the finding of civil servant sous gray report into what's known as party gate ukraine's president says russia is trying to destroy everything in the eastern dom bass region. laudermill zalinski is urging the west to keep a regular supply of heavy weapons to keith rushes. defense minister says there's no deadline for the fighting, and it will continue until it skulls are achieved. present she,

jim pink has defended china's record to the un high commissioner for human rights. michel bachelor is on the 6th day visit to china. that coincides with the leaking of thousands of photographs, reportedly showing weaker people in so called re education camps, and a shoot to kill policy for escape attempts. those were headlines about the more news in half an hour to stay with us inside story is next. ah no, not a from with a view to what we said or to what the hell that the pull up with

me. i love my love to continue yet. obama a shooting avita, fearlessly ah, has russia achieved any of its war objectives in ukraine?

it's 3 months since vladimir putin launched his so called special operation, is the continued conflict complicating efforts to find a diplomatic solution. this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, jim jim, 3 months into russia, so called special military operation in ukraine. the invasion appears to be turning into a, drawn out war. thousands have been killed. millions are homeless and communities are in ruins. leaders from both sides say they're far from any talk of a cease fire. ukraine's president is warning of a blood bath, as russian forces intensify operations in the east and the south. the low to mid lensky demanded even tougher western sanctions to send a message to the kremlin. that brute force will not prevail. germany's energy

minister says the european union is closing in on an agreement for an embargo on russian oil. and a russian diplomat has resigned in protest, boris bonder, av says he's ashamed of what he calls the warmongers lies and hatred by russia's foreign ministry. same as ravi reports from ukraine's capital. keith. the war in ukraine has not gone as expected. keith was meant to fall to russian invaders in a matter of days. 3 months after missiles shells and paratroopers began landing in and around the capital, ukraine is putting the spoils of war on display. morales and anger at russia are now so high. ukrainian say the only acceptable victory will be taking everything back occupied territories in the east even crimea. duck. yeah, if you do, some was really yes, i believe the return of our territories is possible and i think we should not stop

. i believe there should not be any negotiations about returning to the theme borders we have before the start of this war on, you know, we should get our citizen call me back. this is our so in country and we should defended these numbers. i am. truth is on our side, we are defending our land. we really want and hope for this to happen. so yes, you probably need to weapons and then our, our army, real real do everything and we will wind. i'm not to, i'm sure. there was less optimism when all at war came to ukraine on february 24th . russian president vladimir putin so called special military operation was the biggest assault on a european state since world war 2 the, you an estimate at least 14000000 people have been displaced. so far, at least 6000000 to neighboring countries when missile ukrainian army base at yahoo is near the border with nato member, poland. it was the 1st russian attack in the west of the country. the siege of

mario pole so violent, it wiped the city off the map. leaving little doubt as to how far russia was willing to go to achieve its aims. unable to penetrate ukrainian defences around the capital. russia's withdrawal from future revealed civilian killings that ukraine described as war crimes. the invasion did change the map, but not perhaps has put and had hoped finland and sweden applying to join nato stands to more than double the alliances border with russia. just weeks ago, independent square was under locked down and covered in snow. now people line up to buy stamps commemorating a moment in the early days of the war when ukraine, in no uncertain terms, told russia to leave its territory. i hope was that it is a good weekend that we live in this war and we can survive. so

for me it's a sign that we have a chance for a good future things, but very different in the ukrainian capital. today. diplomatic missions are reopen and people are returning and ukrainian seemed far more optimistic. all the cautiously than they did at the beginning of this war that the war is not over. russian forces are escalating offensive, and ukraine's east re mobilizing forces to battlefields in the south. all indications are conflict with russia is the new normal. and as long as russia controls the skies over their countries, nowhere in ukraine is completely safe. then basra v o g 0, keith ah. all right, let's go ahead and bring in our guests in levine and western ukraine to meet your show gum european program director at the international renaissance foundations in london. don't tell us sagamore so senior lecturer, insecurity and development in the department of war studies at kings college london

and moscow. dmitri bob, it's political analyst at the you know, asked me internet media project a warm welcome to you all. and thanks so much for joining program. today to meet so let me start with you. is the war essentially at a stalemate? now it has this basically become a war of attrition. that the stage it is an active face. it is a war creation, but at the same time it is not like a belief creek. it's already a 3rd month actually end of the 3rd month. and there is no end of the war inside. so it's like, it's more like world war one, maybe in terms of space. now, what we are having in, in the eastern ukraine, the way the major fighting is going on. dmitri, has russia achieved any of its objectives in ukraine and where do things stand militarily? right? now from the russian perspective, well,

i can get your perspective. said my menu, right? yeah, i also read, for example, you give, you know, the german magazine where i know she gave you the assessment, the situation. and it was very good. russia. he thinks that there were actually 3 stages which was one of their reasons for the war. the 2nd was the decision to invade. in february this year, we was the 2nd stage. and now we have the night, the whole more and more. thank you jim. all the weapons, you know, for $40000000000.00 on the 8th grade, which one shows that they don't want that to be another. they wanted to be an act your war in which russia would lose. as for rush of the goals and they were

part of them where and she because you know, great me it was you know what there is coming to roll mother ukrainian. ready basically have a saw which is. ready was the model was taken i think, however, russians have know that one of the main goal was to do move the front line away from going here, which is a huge mega border which do you need to be bombarded by the brain. so bardo, there were just was, there was no change, which was probably part of the initial was that's why the russian strive to move was from the russian. they retreated now, so the story already changed. so we changed. we can say that this is

delilah. how much is the continued conflict complicating efforts to try and find a diplomatic solution? well, i think at the moment there isn't really a very strong diplomatic initiative. i mean, there were a few proposals that were brought forward for example, but they can government. but they also, they say for example, that there would be a retreat of russian forces from the areas that they have occupied in ukraine. and i think that is probably not going to happen. so i think that at the moment that there is a much higher chance that fight will continue with great intensity on only either a 1. 1 of the 2 sides decides that they want to sort of gave up and play for some kind of diplomatic solution or both sides after quite some time sheet that they really need to reach some kind of that they have reached sort of hurting, stay made. and they decide to sort of reach some kind of ceasefire agreement,

but i really don't think that we are there now. i think both sides seem very determined to continue with a fight. and i think because as was explained, the objectives and whatnot achieved russia has not been able to defeat the ukrainian armed forces, which is one of the main objectives. on the other hand, the ukrainians are states, you know, fighting hard to make sure that they, this large, they're russian occupies from the areas of the east on the south. so i think this, this is going to be a war that's going to take a quite some time study. and i think that any diplomatic efforts at the moment, i'm not going to see any results. so that i'm not very optimistic on that front. but it's also understandable demitra, where it does ukrainian public opinion stand when it comes to the, the possibility of some kind of a potential diplomatic solution. and also in the early stages of the conflict,

it was being reported that the, perhaps president zalinski might be amenable to giving up some territory or, or possibly to agree to neutrality for ukraine. if that were to happen, would the public support, ah, you joining us allowed 0 as women to the british prime minister and his committee set up the suit gray before known as polite gate. let's just think what he says, the cabinet room during which i stood in my place at the cabinet table in which i received a fixed penalty notice. and i also want to say mrs. beaker bubble that i take full responsibility for everything that took place. oh my god, su grey's report has emphasized that it is up to the political leadership and on the 10 to take out my responsibility. and of course, i did. but since these investigations have now come to an end, this is my 1st opportunity to set eyes. some of the context and to

explain both my understanding of what happened and also to explain what i have previously said to this house. and it's, it's important to set out, oh, over a period of about $600.00 days. gatherings on a total of 8 dates have been found to be in breach of the regulations in a building that is 5300 meters square across fi full size and speeding a flat. mrs peak i, i do think it's important. it is important because is the 1st time i've had the chance i've had to sit on hundreds of st, offering ties into work. and in the cabinet office i, which has thousands of officials. and now as the biggest, it's been in any point and it's 100 year history, not is it. so one of the reasons why the government is look now looking for change and reform miss because they stopped working and dining street were permitted to continue attending their office for the purpose of work exemption on the

regulations applied to their work because of the nature of their job reporting directly to the prime minister. these people were working stream li long on doing their best to give this country the ability to fight the pandemic jury mrs. big. i appreciate that this is no mitigation, but it's important to place just just wanted to just appeal to host expect it to be heard and i will everyone here and i will the same respect to be shown lead to the opposition afterwards. so please, this is a very, very important statement. the country monster here as well. prime minister has become tried to set out the context not to, not to, to mitigate or to absorb myself in any way. the exemption under which they were present in dining street includes those circumstances where officials and advisors were leaving the government. and it was appropriate to

recognise him to thank them for what they've done. let me, let me come to speak and i briefly attended such gatherings to thank them for that service, which i believe is one of the essential duties of leadership. i particularly i became poor when people need to feel that that contribution had been appreciated and to keep her all as high as possible. i'm tried to explain the reason that i didn't clear from what su gray, who talked to say, but some of these gatherings then went on far longer than was necessary. and they were clearly in breach of the rules and they fell out of those. i have to tell the house because the house will need to know this. and again, this is not to mitigate or to extenuating. i had no knowledge of those subsequent proceedings because i simply wasn't back. and i have been as surprised and

disappointed as anyone else in this house, as the revelations have unfolded. and frankly mister speak. i have been appalled by some of the behavior, particularly in the treatment of the security and the cleaning stall. and i would like to apologize to those members of staff and i expect anyone who behaved in that way to apologize to them as well. and i'm happy to settle the record now that when i said i came to this house and said in all sincerity that the rules and guidance would be followed at all times. it was what i believed to be true. it was certainly the case when i was present at gatherings to wish stop farewell at the house. will note that my attendance at these moments brief visit was,

has not been found to be outside the room. yes, but clearly this was not the case for some of those gatherings after i left and at other gatherings when i was not even in the building. so i would like to correct. i would like to correct the record to take this opportunity. not in any sense to absolve myself of responsibility, which i have always taken, but simply simply to explain why i spoke as i did in this house. mister speaker, in response to an interim report. so grade knowledge is that very significant changes have already been enacted. one, she writes, and i quite, i am pleased that progress is being made in addressing the issues i raised. and she adds, since my update there have been changes to the organization and management of

donna's st in the cabinet of his, with the aim of crating, clear lines of leadership and accountability. and now these need the chance and time to bet in number 10 now has its own permanent secretary charge with applying the high standards of governance. there are no easier ways for staff to voice any worries and sue welcomes that to great welcomes, that i quote, steps have since been taken to introduce more easily accessible means by which to raise concerns electronically in person or online, including directly with the permanent secretary the entire senior management has changed. there is a yeah, there is a new there is a new chief of stock, an elected member of this house, who'll say, come on the status of the cabinet minister. there is a new director of communications, a new principal, private secretary, and another,

all of other he appointments in my office. i am confident with the changes and you structures that are now in place that we are humbled by the experience. and we have learned, honestly, and i want to conclude by saying that i missed a speaker. i am humbled and i have lunch yet. and i want to go, and i want to conclude by saying that whatever the failings, whatever the failings of, of it will come to that will come to that or whatever, the failings of not the 10 in the cabinet of his right. it's very difficult for you which admire which i take full responsibility. i continue to believe that the civil servants and the advisors in question, hundreds of thousands of them,

some of whom mister speaker, the very people who perceive fines are good, hard working people motivated, motivated by the highest calling to do the very best for our country. and i will always be proud of what they achieved, including, procuring essential life saving pp crating the biggest testing program in europe and helping to enable the development and distribution of the vaccine which got this country through the worst pandemic of a century. anonymous, a speaker, we must get our country through the aftershocks of co bid with every ounce of ingenuity and compassion and, and hard work. so i hope that today, as well as learning the lessons from the 2 grades report to which i'm glad i commissioned. and i again, i repeat my, i'm glad i'm grateful to my will. i hope very much the now that she has reported, we will be able to move all i on the priorities

of the british people standing firm against russian aggression, easing hardship caused by the rising cost. the people are facing, fulfilling all pledges to generate a high wage, high skill, high employment economy that will unite and level up across the whole of our united kingdom. that is my mission. that is our mission. that is the mission of the whole of the government, and we will work day and night to deliberate. and i commend this statement to the high. okay. we don't calculated the options they should care style by thank you mister speaker. the door of number 10 downing street is one of the great symbols of our democracy. those who live behind it exercised great power, but they do so knowing their stay is temporary, long after they've gone wrapped all of the democracy it represents,

will remain firm an unyielding. but britain's constitution is fragile. it relies old members of this house and the custodians of number 10, behaving responsibly, honestly and in the interests of the british people. yet when our lead us full shall to these standards, this house has the docked for months, members opposite above the country to wait 1st for the police investigation which concluded that this prime minister is the 1st in our country's history to have broken the law in office then they asked the country to wait for the su gray repose . they need white no longer. that report lays bad, the rocks that under this prime, as has spread in number 10 on it provides definitive proof of how those within the building for each of the sacrifices of the british people. with utter contempt.

here, when the dust settles and the anger subsides, this report will stand as a bull humans, to the hubris, an arrogance of a government, but believed it was wrought moe for them, and another role for every one out. the details are stock. 5 months ago, the prime is to tow this house, all guidance was completely followed in number 10. yet we now know he attended events on the 17th of december. at least one of those attending as received, defined for it, deeming it illegal. we know that on the 18th of december, an event was held in which stopped drank excessively, which others in the building described as a party. on the cleaners were left to mo, pop the red wine the next day. on the 20th of may, i say cove, it press conference was taking place. one of his senior officials was told, be mindful cameras

a leaving. don't walk about waving buckles. it's is now impossible to defend the prime minister's words to this house. this is about trust. yeah, because during that may 20 press conference, the british public would told doable life was we know it is a long way off, but that wasn't the case in number 10. even now off to a $126.00 fines. they think it's everyone else's fault, but there's that expect others to take the blame whilst they cling home. they pretend that the prime minister somehow been exonerated as if the fact that he only broke the little ones is worthy of praise. the truth is they set the ball for his conduct lower than a snake's belly and now they expect the rest of us to congratulate him as he

stumbles, overrides not, but hadn't symbolizes the principles of public life. in this country, selflessness integrity, objectivity accountability, openness, honesty, leadership, but who could read this report and honestly believe the prime as was how up held those standards. the reason the british public effect when jewel this fause was his refusal to admit the truth. yep. all to the decent thing when he was found. so broke could the law this report was necessary because of what so gray describes as ideas of leadership and judgement for which senior political leadership must bat responsibility up. it is that failure of leadership that has now left his government, paralyzed in the middle of a cost of living, crosses. the government has turned the focus of his government to saving his own

skin. yes, it's utterly shameful. it is precisely because he cannot lead that it falls to others to do so. i've been clear what leadership looks like. ah, i haven't broken any rules on any attempt any. it's a couple. oh sorry man, i just made a comment though. quite right. i wanted to the prime minister, i expect the say of the leader of the opposition. no. those you don't wish to you please called love a cup of tea or something. dish homer. i've been clever. i haven't broken any rules on any attempt to compare a perfectly legal takeaway while working to this catalogue of criminality looks even more ridiculous to day. but mister speaker,

if the police decide otherwise, i will do the decent thing and step down for the public nature. no, not all politicians are the same. they're not all politicians put themselves above the country. the honesty, integrity and accountability. my members on the opposite benches now also need to show leadership this prime minister, steering the country, the wrong direction. they can hide in the back sea ice covered, praying for a miracle. all they can stop this out of touch out controlled prime minister from driving britain towards disaster. yeah, we waited for the su grey reports. the country can't wait any longer. the value

symbolized by the door of number 10 must be restored. members, opposite must finally do that bit. they must tell a current inhabitant their leader. this is don't on too long. the game is off. you cannot be a law micah, and a door breaker. and it's, it's time to pot cheese bags only then can the government function of it only then can the rocks be carved out only then can we restore the dignity of that great office on the democracy that it represents? yes, i stuck at mrs. bigger the right honorable gentleman talks about i what went on in a number 10 dining street and the, the events of behind that, that black 2 and the number of the events and, and, and i will, i will say to him, is it.