barbara starr, senior fellow at _ yet. barbara starr, senior fellow at the _ yet.or fellow at the us - yet. barbara starr, senior fellow at the us the - yet. barbara starr, senior- fellow at the us the annenberg school of communications, leadership and policy and bat pentagon correspondent. good to talk to you, as ever. thank you. another country that featured in the us president's speech: china. i spoke with democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. he's the ranking member on the house select committee on china. congressmen, thank you for joining us again on bbc news. this editing address is now being digested. some people have reacted to it, calling it a campaign speech.- have reacted to it, calling it a campaign speech. what you make of that _ a campaign speech. what you make of that assessment? i l make of that assessment? i think it was the presentation of the contrast in positions the president has taken and people on the other side have taken a number of issues whether it is ukraine or the border, orwhether whether it is ukraine or the border,

i've been speaking to barbara starr about all this.uthern california's center for communications leadership and a longtime pentagon correspondent. yet his defence minister is already here speaking to officials. the secretary of the cathy latham the defence secretary of state today. do we know what they've discussed in relation to the impending rafah invasion? the word is that the israeli defence minister yoav gallant came to the pentagon today to discuss with secretary of state lloyd austin more arms sales to israel. but that isn't necessarily what austin wanted to press on. by all accounts he spoke about a moral imperative, a moral and strategic imperative, to take care of civilians, that if the israelis are going to make a move on rafah, they need to have a credible plan for the protection of civilians. the us feels it hasn't seen such a plan. not that the pentagon said it will hold up arms sales, but they are pressing the point that they want to see a credible plan for civilian protection in rafah and equally important more aid cros

barbara starr, she's a senior fellow at university of southern california's center for communicationsd the detention of evan gershkovich, by three months as he awaits trial. mr gershkovich was arrested on espionage charges nearly a year ago while on a reporting trip, making him the first western journalist to face those charges since the fall of the soviet union. the us ambassador to moscow has called the allegations �*categorically untrue' and �*fiction.’ mr gershkovich has now spent almost a year in moscow's high—security lefortovo prison, and his pre—trial detention has been extended to june 30. bbc�*s russia editor steve rosenberg has more. we weren't allowed in to the moscow city courthouse. nothing personal — all journalists were being kept out. instead, the court released its own video — just six seconds of evan gershkovich. ajudge ruled he must stay injail. evan, how are you? this week marks one year since the wall streetjournal reporter was arrested in russia. evan gershkovich, the first us journalist here since the cold war to be charged with spying. he and his employer insi

barbara starr, thanks for being with us.a security council vote calling for an immediate ceasefire in sudan during the month of ramadan — a resolution that has yet to be adopted for the war in gaza. the british—drafted resolution urges a truce between the sudan's army and paramilitary forces during the month—long holiday which begins early next week. war broke out back in april of 2023, prompting widespread turmoil, displacement, and hunger. the un says nearly half of sudan's population is in need of aid. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky met with his turkish counterpart recep tayyip erdogan in istanbul on friday. officials say the two presidents agreed to joint defence projects and signed a deal to streamline trade. mr erdogan ended by declaring his country would be open to hosting a summit between ukraine and russia to end the war. this comes as the european union plans to put forward a negotiating framework for ukraine's accession talks as soon as next week. earlier, i spoke to jovita neliupsiene, the eu's new ambass

for more on president biden�*s comments on the israel—gaza war, i spoke with barbara starr, senior fellowe usc annenberg school of communications, leadership and policy and veteran pentagon correspondent. barbara, everyone is analysing what the president biden had to say on stage. especially with regards to israel. i want to play you something that was said off stage, and get your take on it. president biden saying he would have a come tojesus with prime minister netanyahu, bibi. there is no such thing as off the record on a state of the union night. what you think the contours of that would look like? what do you think he meant by that? front and centre, the president is pressing the israelis on the issue of aid and assistance and civilian casualties. the whole idea i think is to get an immediate ceasefire, to get more aid in, to get the hostages out of there. so far the immediate ceasefire does not appear to be going anywhere. release of hostages, we had a lot of mixed reports but it does not seem like it is imminent at this point. on more aid, this is now a crisis. there's been no acco

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