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We are using all the means to defend our country, Ukraine’s defence minister said today – as he declined to comment on reports that Ukraine has used the British made Storm Shadow to target sites inside Russia for the first time. 

We were joined from Denver, Colorado by Heidi Ganahl who was the Republican candidate in Colorado’s 2022 election for Governor.

America’s Middle East envoy Amos Hochstein is on his way to meet Israeli leaders to try and agree a plan for ceasefire talks with Hezbollah, after making what he called “additional progress” in Beirut.

The Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi chairs the Defence Committee, he joined us from Westminster.

Even as reports of the Storm Shadow strikes were emerging, the Defence secretary was in the Commons announcing cuts to naval ships, drones and helicopters.

Thousands of miles away at the G20 summit in Brazil Sir Keir Starmer said Ukraine must be put in the strongest possible position to win.

Within hours of being given the go-ahead by the US to use long-range ATACAM missiles within Russia, Ukraine hit the launch button.

Fabrice Pothier is a former NATO director of policy and was an adviser to President Macron.

Moscow accused the United States of ramping up tensions after a change of position from President Biden – allowing Ukraine to use long-range US missiles.

Allegations of a cover up of decades of abuse by John Smyth has sparked debate within the Anglican Church in South Africa where Smyth spent the final two decades of his life.

It appears that US President Joe Biden has limited the cross-border use of ATACMS to Kursk, a small area of Russia which Ukraine invaded in August.

President Trump celebrated his election win last night in New York at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, whose president was one of HIS most high-profile supporters. 

Hezbollah’s media chief is said to have been killed in an Israeli air strike in central Beirut that hit a building which some reports said was the offices of the Syrian Ba’ath party. 

We spoke to Yaroslav Trofimov, who’s recently published a historical novel set in Ukraine. He is also the Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign correspondent. We asked him why this from Russia and why now?

Explosions were heard across Ukraine overnight in a nationwide Russian missile and drone attack, targeting energy infrastructure throughout the country.