now let's talk to michael martin senior fellow for war studies at king 's college london and russia is preparing for major new offensives. i think this is a continuation of what we have seen in the last few months, but perhaps on a larger scale a group of bombers scattered in different parts of russia about 20% of the air base of the russian air force have cruise missiles, so they can fly over ukraine and strike with several cruise missiles. at the same time, satellite photos also show a large number of cargo planes. what does it say? are these planes used to deliver cargo to where it is required? i ca n't say for sure. what is their purpose, but i think these planes are delivering cruise missiles from somewhere in russia to this air base, and then they loaded on bombers that bomb ukraine in a nightly address to the president of ukraine zelensky said they were preparing countermeasures. what could it be? if you look at the position of the russians in ukraine, we can see that they hold the east donbass and the crimea in the south and the two areas that connect them, but these areas are

london hospital. the health secretary was confronted by sarah pinnington—auld when he met her and her daughter lucy during a visit to king�*s collegetors. we were short of beds going into the pandemic. i think it is really wrong to blame it on the pandemic and actually, the damage you are doing to families like myself is terrible. because it was agony for us as a family, waiting for that call and preparing our children, for then it to be cancelled and people are waiting for care. and i think this problem with beds, a lot of it is the whole health and social care thing, isn�*t it? we have people that cannot get into health and social care and are taking a beds and until you as a government prioritise health and social care, we are not going to free up the already limited number of beds. i want to reiterate, the staff are absolutely incredible. we are so lucky as a nation to have this nhs. in our 2012 olympic games opening ceremony, that is how proud we are of it and i feel like we are moving towards a privatised system like america, where the disparity in the health service between rich and poor is vast. earlier i spoke toour corres

the guardian has a special report on the nhs after it spent 33 hours inside london�*s king college hospital sets out his asylum reforms. the headline says: "i will stop those who get here by cheating". the daily mail also leads on mr sunak�*s plans for the country�*s asylum system. but the front page also features the prince and princess of wales�* christmas card picture, which the paper says will cheer us all up. we need it right now. we have a picture here of two surviving beatles looking very well. mary mccartney has made a film about the abbey road studios. they were at a party to celebrate that. both obviously delighted and proud. the fab four. the sun newspaper are compiling photographs of naughty pets. we love a naughty pet. jumping up and stealing stuff from the tree, opening presents early. look at this. guilty. cats, undecking the holes. you have to be careful. my dog ripped the back of the advent calendar and started eating the chocolate and we had to go to the vet because it is not good for them. and the tree ending up on its side. that look is brilliant. unrepentant. and a love