colonel brendan kearney, thank _ reactive mode. colonel brendan kearney, thank you _ reactive mode.rney, thank you for - reactive mode. colonel brendan kearney, thank you for your - kearney, thank you for your time. ., ~' ,, schools across england are expected to close again today, as teaching staff return to the picket line for the second time this week, in a row over pay and conditions. members of the national education union say the action is a last resort, and have called on the government to return to negotiations. vanessa clarke reports. a strike with no and inside, today would be the seventh national day of action by teachers in england. they are calling for a pay rise that's above inflation, one that does not come out of school budgets. if your child's maths class doesn't have a maths teacher, if your child puzzling business class is on after me, if their primary class has temporary staff, if your child has special needs and the special—needs assistant has left the school to work in a supermarket because the pay is better, parents know that their child's education is disrupt

live now to san francisco where we can speak to colonel brendan kearney, former us marines chief of staffwarm welcome to the programme. as our correspondent outlined there, it was a difficult first day of the nato summit and president zelensky, saying uncertainty about the timing of ukraine's membership of nato is a sign of weakness. your thoughts?— of nato is a sign of weakness. your thoughts? good morning to ou both, your thoughts? good morning to you both. sally. _ your thoughts? good morning to you both, sally. i— your thoughts? good morning to you both, sally. i disagree - you both, sally. i disagree with president zelensky�*s assessment. he is smart to ask. it would be full if not to. but he is also smart enough to realise nato has to deal with the reality that is far beyond the reality that is far beyond the concerns of ukraine. nato has to maintain the standards that it has used into nato for all the candidate nations over the last 30 years i was involved with it, and ukraine has some problems. they had it before the war broke out in terms of democratic reforms and corruption and

i'm joined now by military expert retired colonel brendan kearney who served thirty—one years with thee emlo in? ~ , ., employing? i think it is a brilliant use of snipers. _ employing? i think it is a brilliant use of snipers. it's _ employing? i think it is a brilliant use of snipers. it's nothing - use of snipers. it's nothing innovative, it's the way snipers have been used for literally well over a hundred years and there are a combination of a terror weapon because of the uncertainty in the receiving end of the snipers bullet and they really impact command—and—control because they do not just target the average russian soldier, they are looking for the leaders, they are looking for the man standing up with a set of binoculars and have a radio man next to them, those of the people they are going after because if you can take them out, you're really going to have a tremendous impact on the russians ability to defend and so, no surprises and i am impressed ukrainians seem to be employing the snipers and an extraordinarily well conducted way. snipers and an extraordinarily well conduc