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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament for BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 31st of October,

where peers urged the government not to slacken in its support for Ukraine's struggle against Russia.

Or events could gain a momentum of their own leading, I believe, to a major world war.

Also on this programme, a new parliamentary group aims to keep the focus on climate change.

The general public can see climate change. The general public love nature, but there are strong political headwinds around the world

that are meaning that people aren't perhaps speaking out as clearly as they might have once done.

And as MPs prepare to debate a new law to help families caught up in disasters like Hillsborough,

one relative reminds us of the impact on her.

I'm no longer a mum. I'm no longer a wife. Nothing.

But first, a former head of the British army says Ukraine is fighting a proxy war on behalf of NATO

but is being denied the means to win. Lord Horton, who's now a cross-bench or independent peer,

was speaking during a Lord's

debate on the conflict. He said President Putin seemed content to grind the war towards a ceasefire,

but Lord Horton warned as long as the Russian leader remained in power, there'd be a lingering

danger. He will see Britain as Americans proxy. He will have a fully mobilised set of

armed forces, an untouched suite of strategic capabilities, a fully mobilised war economy,

and a window of opportunity to act, whilst NATO, certainly the UK at the moment, still

prioritises welfare benefits over national security. A former senior diplomat and independent peer Lord Ricketts agreed Ukraine should be given more help.

The only way to get Putin to accept a ceasefire is to ratchet up the pressure on Russia

to the point where he feels his grip on power is in jeopardy.

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