Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.
Ukraine—Long Segment: The Build-Up To War Explained
00:23 UK Column News — 24th November 2017: EU EaP: Eastern Partnership summit 2017 (first item in the news that day, at 00:38)
BBC (2017): PM Theresa May is to warn EU leaders to be wary of “hostile states like Russia” and pledge the UK will stay committed to European security after Brexit
Operation Barbarossa: Soviet Union invaded by Nazi Germany
Theresa May said in 2017:
From agriculture in Ukraine to the tech sector in Belarus there is a huge amount of potential in the Eastern neighbourhood that we should nurture and develop.
Telegraph (2018): Britain to launch counter-propaganda war against Russia as Theresa May unveils 'Fusion Doctrine' defence plan
UK Column News — 5th June 2023: Tobias Ellwood boasts of Bellicose British nudging (first item, at 00:32)
Yahoo! News: How the U.K. helped convince the U.S. and its allies to spend big to help Ukraine in its war with Russia
The Kyiv Independent: Zelensky: First F–16 fighter jet in Ukraine 'will be one of the strongest signals from the world’
The Kyiv Independent: Australia considers sending F/A–18 fighter jets to Ukraine
Financial Times: Serbia backs ammunition shipments to Ukraine in westward pivot
Wall Street Journal (video): U.S. M1 Abrams Tanks
Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: Statement by Russian Minister of Defence General of Army Sergei Shoigu
Battlefield sitrep by Brian Gerrish
James Cleverly tells Volodymyr Zelensky that the UK will back Ukraine until they are "victorious"
UK Government: Foreign Secretary visits Kyiv before Ukraine Recovery Conference
Sky: Mariupol has been turned to rubble twice
UK Government: UK to galvanise support for Ukraine’s recovery at OECD meetings
On 21–22 June 2023, the UK jointly with Ukraine will host the international Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2023) in London
32:44 NATO: U.S. Sixth Fleet, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO kick off BALTOPS 2023
Seymour Hersh: BALTOPS 2022 was the cover for how America took out the Nord Stream pipeline
10 DowningStreet on Twitter: PM Rishi Sunak has arrived in Washington DC on a 2-day working visit
Ministry of Defence on Twitter: Ukrainian military chaplains propaganda
New York Times: Nazi symbols on Ukraine’s front lines highlight thorny issues of history
Sky News: Applicants seeking to join RAF described as 'useless white male pilots' in bid to hit 'impossible' diversity targets
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Private Companies Push For A ‘One ID’
32:28 Kent Online: Southeastern ticket inspectors leave Mayfield Grammar School student in tears after accusing her of lying about age
Professor Arne Burkhardt Died A Hero
35:36 Hero Dr Arne Burkhardt, 79-year-old dies after fatal accident at Langsee—he was trying to save his son
WHO and its new HEPRR: Do They Care About Life Or Data Gathering?
36:24 Total deaths from all causes were above the five-year average (again) in Week 21 2023
WHO: Strengthening the Global Architecture for Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPRR)
Task Force at 76th World Health Assembly
WHO EPI-WIN: Scenario 1: Happy days
WHO EPI-WIN: Scenario 2: I love you, I hate you
WHO EPI-WIN: Scenario 3: Heartbreak hotel
WHO EPI-WIN: Scenario 4: Here comes trouble
UK Government: Commercial clinical trials in the UK: the Lord O’Shaughnessy review—final report
Times: Bonus for GPs if patients join drug trials in plan to lure firms to NHS
Evening Standard: More than 246,000 Londoners take part in research in 2022–23
Yahoo: GPs to roll out innovative cancer test which can be done 'in about 20 minutes'
Rutland & Stamford Mercury (June 2023): Wansford and King’s Cliffe Practice to hold Moderna Covid vaccine trial
Trialscope: A clinical trial of an investigational COVID–19 vaccine for adults and teens over 12
Debi Evans has a list of questions you may like to ask your GP
NHS Organ Donation: 'Dáithí’s Law’ comes into effect in Northern Ireland