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joining me now is bill browder.ming one of vladimir putin's most outspoken critics. and he wrote about that experience in the new york times excellent bestselling book, red notice. it was great to see you. i know you were in munich for the security conference this week, and i want to ask you about that as well. but there's so much news today coming out about how top trump officials are heading to saudi arabia for negotiations with russia. ukraine has not been invited at this point. trump officials will meet with the russian officials first. i just wanted to start by getting your reaction to that and helping our audience understand how they what that all means. >> well, i think we should back. >> up and look at. >> what where we are. >> so three years ago, vladimir putin invaded a peaceful neighbor. ukraine invasion has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. it's been an absolute economic, humanitarian and political disaster for ukraine. and now all of a sudden, and i should say that putin was totally isolated by th

caitriona: sir bill browder, thank you so much for joining us here on bbc news with those insights. k you. caitriona: the israeli military has withdrawn from tents and villages in southern lebanon. the united nations says that is a violation of the terms of the cease-fire agreement that ended the 13 month conflict with hezbollah. november truce said that israeli troops are withdrawn within 60 days, a deadline that was extended to the 18th of february. the military is holding onto five outposts to protect israel, according to a minister, to protect israel from hezbollah. the lebanese army troops have deployed in the areas that hezbollah has vacated. the lebanese are returning to their villages and have seen widespread destruction. our middle east correspondent in southern lebanon and has this report. >> this is the village in southern lebanon, and today was the first opportunity for residents to come and see the destruction caused by the war. that is to see what is left of their homes. and for many of those families, there's nothing really left to go back to. this is a village right n

all right, that's where we start today with bill browder, ceo of hermitage capital management and head of the global magnitsky justice campaign, which seeks to expose corruption and is named in honor of a kremlin critic, sergei magnitsky, who died in a russian prison. we wanted to talk to you for days now, and it feels like all of this is as public facing as it's been both trump's embrace of putin's view of the war in ukraine, of course, started by putin and the republican party's complete capitulation to things they said 48 72 hours ago. when it comes to how they see putin the way a lot of ways similar to how how normal people, how you and i see putin, but nothing, not a word, not a peep, not a meeting, not a face to face with trump to slow this down. where are we heading? >> we're heading to a not good places, is. my prediction. we have a really an unbelievable situation. i mean, the one that particularly got me was the us as a member of the g7. doesn't want to call out russian aggression on the third anniversary of the war. i mean, it's that's not a very hard thing to do. and that's