thank you so much, catherine belton.f the most notorious child killers in modern times. she was a neo—natal nurse working in a hospital in chester in the north of england, and between 2015 and 2016, she murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven more. her murder trial last year was one of the longest in british legal history. evidence was presented that she deliberately injected babies with air, force—fed others milk and poisoned two with insulin. she was sentenced to multiple whole—life terms, one for each offence, and she joins a small list of prisoners in the uk who will never be released. the case of lucy letby has also become a source of fascination for online detectives, who think they know better than the jury and that it is, in fact, a monumental miscarriage of justice. they claim statistics presented in court had been misinterpreted, they say key facts were withheld from the jury, that letby�*s defence was incompetent and that if she'd had better representation, she would have walked free. the mainstream

we had catherine belton, an author whose book, putin's people, is regarded as a definitive book on putin'srussia, talking about the way the russian orthodox church was promoted in eastern ukraine before and after 2014. you, as a priest in that church, serving in madrid, saw and heard all of these things. i just wonder why it took the invasion of 2022 to become a tipping point for you? well, i think everyone has his own tipping point, and this was really the point of division, which required a choice on behalf of everyone, including the laity and the priests. but, you know, before that, before the full invasion of russia into ukraine has begun, all the russian church was really praying for peace and reconciliation in the east of ukraine. was it, really? was the patriarch kirill praying for peace? well, these were the prayers that were in use, at least liturgically. and something has changed in a very radical way when the war has begun. and from the language of reconciliation, the official language has become that of victory. so, for example, most of the priests who are being repressed now i