gabriel gatehouse, henry chu, vera, thank you all very much. vera, thank you all very much. tting longer and the sunshine is getting stronger, and we will see some of that as we go through out week ahead. there�*s going to be a lot of dry weather in the forecast. pretty mild, by day, in the sunshine. chilly at night still, with some patchy mist and fog, and there will be some rain this week but it is most likely to be through wednesday. now, for the here and now, we�*ve got rain clearing to the east, this little area of cloud bringing showers into scotland and one down into the south—west. now, these showers in the south—west may be heavy and thundery and they�*ll drift along the channel coast during the early part of the morning. at the same time, some showers moving out of northern ireland into central and southern scotland, along with northern england, with the best of the sunshine perhaps a little bit further south, into central parts of england and wales with highs of 1a degrees. now, there�*s going to be a good deal of dry weather around on tuesday as well, with light w

joining us this week — henry chu, an experienced foreign correspondent at the la times who, as the usast sleeps, is ensuring its readers are kept up to date on what's happening in ukraine. vera krichevskaya is a documentary film—maker. she helped to found tv rain, an independent channel in russia which has now been shut down. and joining me in the studio, gabriel gatehouse, international editor for bbc television's newsnight programme. good to have you with us. good to have you two with us as well, thank you very much, and to vera, forjoining us for the first time on this programme. vera, i would like to start with you, if i may. how are russians finding out about what the kremlin calls its �*special military operation�*? good evening. can i start with the latest news? in one hour and 30 minutes, instagram in russia will be officially banned before, on this week, twitter and facebook was banned, so but all this started two weeks ago, the first day of the war. the new law was enforced that restricted to say the word �*war�* and to call it, this war, as a �*special operation�*. and anot

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