Politics

The American Government says they have “communicated directly, privately to the Russian at very high levels that there will be catastrophic consequences for Russia is they use nuclear weapons in Ukraine”. It’s a sign of how high the tension is here, and how high the stakes are here. The Ukranian Government is anxiously watching voting…

The Commons Speaker is understood to have refused a request to allow a Chinese delegation to attend the Queen’s lying in state.

We spoke to Nigel Povoas, a British prosecutor who is part of an international team investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian MP, Mariia Mezentseva, , who represents Kharkiv city centre in parliament. 

The authorities in Ukraine have begun the painstaking process of exhuming hundreds of bodies whose graves were discovered in a forest near Izyum. 

We spoke to Auriol Miller, director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, an independent think tank based in Cardiff, and Adam Johannes, from Real Democracy Now, a group which supports Welsh independence and is anti-monarchy.

So how has the royal visit been going down with the people here? 

We spoke to the First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, and began by asking him to reflect on the different dimensions of today’s visit.

It may be the last stop on his week-long tour of the nations, but, speaking in Welsh, King Charles assured the Senedd that, as much as his late mother had loved the country, so did both he and the new Prince of Wales, his son William.

We were joined by the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper from Westminster.

This morning the King addressed MPs and Lords from the same spot in Westminster Hall where his ancestor Charles I was tried for his life.  

Liz Truss will announce that major plan on energy prices tomorrow in the Commons.

Vladimir Putin has hit out at Western sanctions on Moscow, describing them as a “fever that poses a threat to the entire world”. Speaking at an economic forum in Vladivostok, Putin said the measures – imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – were an act of economic “aggression” that had left Europeans…

We spoke to Ben Warren, who runs Concept Taverns with 11 pubs across West Yorkshire, Helen Barnard, associate director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Henri Murison, who’s chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

We spoke to Shadow Secretary for Business and Industrial Strategy Jonathan Reynolds.

The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985. Does this mean the markets are losing confidence in Britain?