BBC News Presenter and Correspondent. Previously in Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade & lots in between. Dad. Heart belongs to @PedroZegrePenim.
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Just going to leave this here, as @BenWallace70 tells @BBCPM that it is clear that Trump wants Putin to win.
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Freedom of the press is not optional. We’ll continue to follow the facts wherever they take us and to defend the right to do so every day. @CNN
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BREAKING: President Zelensky tells Piers Morgan he feels 'betrayed' over Trump announcing an energy ceasefire and diesel deal with Putin.
'This is not the right side of history.'
Full exclusive interview dropping soon 👇
📺 youtube.com/piersmorganuncen…
@piersmorgan | @ZelenskyyUa
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How an opposition news channel in Turkey mysteriously ended its broadcast about the latest financial scandal and switched, during the breakfast show hour, to scenes boasting the Turkish countryside.
Halk TV has state-appointed administrators this morning.
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Hungarian MPs scrap Orbán's anti-LGBTQ measures bbc.in/4yfRsYM
Extraordinary reporting by the WSJ team @JoeWSJ @DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @rebeccaballhaus into Trump’s Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle - Don Jr’s ex & former Fox host - has led to her ousting. Staggering to read their exposes on her litany of misconduct. Chapeau.
BREAKING: Trump ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has been asked to resign after allegations of improper conduct, the White House says. apnews.com/live/trump-midter…
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I always love speaking to @marklowen @BBCNews. We covered:
▪️How #Yemen's #Houthis have become so capable (support from #Iran, exploiting truce, experience, zeal)
▪️Saudi's likely response (kinetic surge, engaging allies)
▪️What #America, #Turkey, #Pakistan might do (provide support but avoid being sucked into direct combat unless strictly limited)
▪️Why the airport attacks are so problematic for #Saudi (step change, no good options, damage not just human, infrastructural, economic, but also reputational with significant knock-on effects)
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Wtf!
Just arrived in Tel Aviv for coverage ahead of the Israeli elections
Only to be told the Israeli authorities are denying me entry to the country!
Have reported widely on Israel / Palestine for the past 4 years for @Channel4News
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Air sirens, power cuts, electric trolleybuses out of service. Precious few signs of an “energy ceasefire” in Kyiv this evening.
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White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"
Trump said he’d end Ukraine war in a day. Failing that, he began a war with Iran that made oil price soar. Then pushed Ukraine to stop striking Russian refineries. And cooled on giving Ukraine long-range missiles. Now he’s buying Russian oil pre-midterms.
Am I missing something?
As we wait to hear who’ll win the Nobel Peace Prize, here’s a glimpse of the process with our piece from last year when, exceptionally, we were allowed in to see the Oslo committee begin their deliberations (which didn’t go to the man pushing for it…)
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5e…
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
Read story w/ dream team: @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
Not a bad location for the last live broadcast of a long day, speaking to @BBCRadio4 from the old port in lovely Marseille.
A lot of protesters we’ve met today in Marseille say the government’s priorities are wrong: that they don’t invest enough in education, while focusing instead on the military. Whether true or not, posts like this on a day of such big student protests don’t help the optics.
À bord de la frégate multi-missions Auvergne, j'ai assisté au premier tir du nouveau missile balistique M51.3 depuis le sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins Le Vigilant.
Très peu de nations disposent d'un tel savoir-faire.
Félicitations à tous les acteurs de cette réussite exceptionnelle : DGA, CEA, Ariane Group, Naval Group et Marine nationale. Votre professionnalisme, votre rigueur et votre maîtrise technique sont la fierté de la France.
Ce succès technique est une nouvelle démonstration de la crédibilité de notre dissuasion, dont la pérennité est assurée.
Pour être libre, il faut être craint. Et pour être craint, il faut être puissant.
Pour protéger les Français dans la durée face aux menaces, j'ai engagé dès 2017 le renouvellement de nos moyens pour les décennies à venir. En dix ans, le budget de nos armées aura doublé. Nos futurs sous-marins stratégiques sont actuellement en chantier. Le programme de missiles stratégiques hypersoniques et manœuvrants, qui équiperont notre composante aérienne de dissuasion, a été lancé cette année.
Notre dissuasion nucléaire nous protège et continuera à nous protéger.
Vive la République et vive la France.
Marseille protest still several thousand strong. Peaceful for now. Teachers and students we’ve spoken to talk of decaying buildings and weeks of teacher shortages in schools. Hard to see how this diffuses or ends, especially with government attempts to rein in spending.
