tv The Interview BBC News July 3, 2022 10:45pm-11:00pm BST
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our first serious injury at all. our first look at the papers and tony and caroline, thank you very much and you're back in about an hour to the same again and hopefully we've had a bit more time as well to peruse those front pages as we all well and thatis those front pages as we all well and that is at 11:30pm. next, in a special interview at the nato summit, my colleague kasia madera spoke to the polish president, andrzej duda. goodbye for now. at the first major nato summit since russia's invasion of ukraine, leaders reminded the world of the purpose of this collective defence alliance. we've reaffirmed that our article 5 commitment is sacred. and an attack on one is an attack on all, and we will defend every inch of nato territory. this was a historic summit. finland and sweden's accession will notjust
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increase nato�*s membership, but will also double the length of its border with russia. as ukraine appealed for more support, the alliance fundamentally shifted its response to russia and made a strong pledge. ukraine can count on us for as long as it takes. and for the first time in nato�*s history, the us military will have a permanent base in eastern europe. translation: here in poland, there'll be a permanent - presence of the us army. the fifth army corps. i was able to speak to president andrzej duda at the nato summit in madrid. president andrzej duda, thank you so much for speaking to me exclusively here on the bbc at the nato summit. what are your thoughts about what is happening here at the nato summit?
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have you heard, are you satisfied with what you're hearing? she translates question. translation: firstly, - i have to say this nato summit is for sure of historical nature. why? because you can say the following. a green light was given during this summit for accepting into nato finland and sweden. this is an incredibly important piece of news for the entire alliance, but especially for its eastern flank. because these are the cities of the baltic sea region, this is a very important piece of information for poland. this also will extend the border a lot between the border a lot between russia and the north atlantic alliance. so, for sure, this is a historic decision. and the second very important issue, all the decisions
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which are being taken on response to the russian aggression against ukraine. this is a process which has been going on for some time, of course, but today, nato is taking crucial decisions on strengthening nato�*s eastern flank. it is taking decisions on changing its approach to russia. let me remind you that according to the previous strategic concept of nato from 2010, russia was seen as a partner country to nato. and, of course, as a result of the invasion of ukraine, this has changed dramatically. today, russia is called directly the biggest threat to nato states, especially to its eastern flank, the flank on which poland is located. and boosting nato in our part of the world, in our part of europe today is the element which is being discussed at length here. here, decisions are being taken, decisions which are reflected both in the new strategic concept of nato, which is being adopted today, but also it is reflected
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in the joint declaration, which says that the countries in a special situation, those which are particularly involved in helping ukraine, can also count on certain special treatment. president zelensky, who has your mobile number, who calls you to talk, to give advice, should he be asking for ukraine tojoin nato? should he be pushing for that? she translations question. translation: first of all, we, poland, have been - claiming from the start, and we're always going to have this position, that the door to nato, just like the door to the european union, should remain open to those who want to accede to the north atlantic alliance. of course, certain conditions have to be fulfilled, but today, and i also stressed that in my speech which i gave
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in the forum of the heads of state and government of nato, i stressed that the open—door policy has to be maintained towards ukraine. of course, today there is a war in ukraine. today, nato is supporting ukraine and ukraine is not part of nato, but ukraine has got the clear support of nato, very strong and very clear as a country whose democratic, independent, sovereign, and which was attacked without any reason and without anyjustification in a brutal way by russia. but are you frustrated that nato didn't heed your warnings? you have been warning about russia for a long time, and it fell on deaf ears. are you not frustrated that it's come to this? she translates question. translation: i cannot say that i feel some kind of frustration. l
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i'm happy that nato responds in an adequate way to what is happening east of poland. and let me put it in the following way. from my perspective, from the polish perspective, this response is satisfactory. today, we have got in poland nato troops deployed. today, we have got 11,000 us troops in poland. today, we have got infrastructure in poland, and today, president biden announced that us presence will be transformed into permanent presence. the president stressed today that the first situation in which us presence is becoming a permanent presence is happening in poland through stationing in poland the fifth corps command of the us army. so, i can say that i'm satisfied because today we feel in a strong way that our security is being boosted. if i can speak about any kind sad kind of satisfaction, when we were warning against russia, i would refer this more to the european union, not so much to nato, because we were speaking that there
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is a russian potential in terms of the possible gas domination. we warned that building nord stream 1 or nord stream 2 gas pipelines, circumventing central europe, poland, but also ukraine, slovakia and other countries, means not only increased russian domination in terms of gas over the european union, but it also means a danger to some eu states and a danger to central europe. to ukraine, for example. unfortunately, this has become a fact and reality in recent months. we were not listened to and everybody can see in a very clear way what russian energy dominance means. poland's done so much for the refugees, so, so much. i saw it myself, the amount of refugees coming and being brought into polish homes. i wonder, are you worried about the safety of poland? do you think poland is at risk from russia? translation: potentially, you can say, as follows -
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imperialism is something that we have known in poland historically very well, and that is why we have adopted such a robust stance, that is why we have demanded support from nato to make sure that the polish people can feel safe and secure. but this is also why we're making decisions in poland to adopt a new law regulating the polish army, armed forces. this is the act on the defence of homeland. we've increased our defence spending up to 3% of gdp in poland. that is why we are making purchases and we want to increase the number of troops in our armed forces in order to boost our deterrent potential. we want the polish armed forces to be so strong that it would not pay off to anyone to attack us. if we add to this nato support resulting from our membership of the alliance, we can be sure of our security because attacking such a strong state with such strong support would be madness simply. and it would be doomed to misfortune. and this is what we are striving at in a consistent way,
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and we are consistently implementing our policy in this respect. president andrzej duda, thank you very much for speaking to us exclusively here on bbc world news. thank you so much for your time. i'll let you get on, thank you so much. so, we just saw there president andrzej duda speaking about the support that poland is getting, the union of nato, how important this is for poland specifically. and he was saying about the sadness that he feels that they had been warning, poland was among those countries who had been warning about the risk of threat of russia for a long, long time, and it was falling on deaf ears. and, now, there is this sense that if only they'd listened a little bit earlier, if only the international community had heeded what poland had been saying for a long time now. he even mentioned how at the summit the last time the strategic concept for nato was put together, the russian president
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was at the summit himself. it was president dmitry medvedev. he was at the summit, later was talking about partnerships with russia. and so that was kind of sense of sadness that had the international community, had they had listened to poland a little bit earlier, you hear that expressed by the president as he is here, as he is listening to what volodymyr zelensky has said to the delegations here, to the leaders here. president zelensky asking for more support, for more weapons, for more money, but also the idea that all of the people, the millions of ukrainians who have been displaced, most of them going into countries, neighbouring countries, most of them coming into poland, it is the situation that the president is discussing here and is making sure that the rest of the nato alliance, the 30 members, soon to be 32, have an understanding of.
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president andrzej duda very much, like i was saying with him, volodymyr zelensky does have his mobile number, they do talk, they met. president andrzej duda is one of those people that volodymyr zelensky will call up. they have a strong relationship. poland and ukraine historically have such a strong relationship in terms of culture, in terms of history, in terms of language as well. so, it's very fascinating to hear him talk about how the warnings that poland had made had fallen on deaf ears previously, but he is happy to see a stronger nato, a united nato, and that is exactly whatjens stoltenberg wants from this summit. hello there. the weather story for this upcoming week looks rather benign. we've got high pressure trying to build in slowly
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from the south—west. that will slowly settle things down for northern and western areas, and we should start seeing increasing amounts of sunshine and warmth across southern and eastern parts. for monday, low pressure still to the north of the uk, higher pressure to the south. it's close enough to bring further showery bursts of rain at times, most of it across the north and the west of scotland. a few showers for northern ireland, one or two across north west england and north wales. the band of cloud will sink southwards, where after a sunny start in england and wales, it will turn cloudier for a bit through the afternoon. most places should stay dry across southern and eastern areas. the majority of the showers will be across the north and the west of scotland. temperatures again mid to high teens in the north, could see the low 20s in the south east. so, for wimbledon, it'll be a sunny start. could be a bit of cloud tending to push down from the north west by around lunchtime, but i think it should stay dry through the day and fairly warm, 21—22 degrees with a light north—westerly breeze. through monday night, dry for most with clear spells.
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a bit more cloud pushing into northern ireland, across the irish sea, into western england and wales. lows of 9—12 celsius. tuesday itself, then, more cloud around for northern ireland in towards parts of england and wales, and then a weather front will arrive later across western scotland to bring outbreaks of rain here. will stay quite breezy across the far north of scotland. elsewhere, lighter winds, variable cloud, some sunshine. again, top temperature on 22, maybe 23 degrees, mid to high teens further north. could see this feature bring some wetter weather to the northern half of the country as we head into wednesday. it'll be quite windy as well across scotland. i think most of the rain slowly peters out through the day, just a few showers affecting western scotland, maybe northern ireland. but for england and wales, variable cloud, some spells of sunshine and a slightly warmer, muggier air mass. could be highs of 2a degrees in the south east, the high teens further north. now, as we move towards the end of the week, although we could see further rain at times on thursday
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in the north, by friday, this area of high pressure will exert its force across the country. so, it should turn drier for all areas with some sunny spells. the best of the sunshine across southern and eastern areas. will actually turn quite warm through the weekend in here. always a bit more cloud, though, in the north and the west.
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welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... in denmark, several people have been killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. translation: suddenly we heard shots. - i think there were ten. we ended up in a toilet, where we all huddled together. there were about 11 of us. we were so scared. it has just been a terrible experience. police say a 22—year—old danish man has been arrested in connection with the attack. we'll have the latest from copenhagen with our reporter on the scene and eyewitness accounts. and in other news for you today — ukraine's troops have withdrawn from the strategic city of lysychansk. russia says it now controls the entire region of luhansk.
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