Russia anger at US Ukraine missile decision
Newshour
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to hit Russia with American long-range missiles has prompted scorn in Moscow. What difference will the move by the outgoing administration make - and might other Western allies follow the US' lead?
Also in the programme: We'll hear from Delhi, the Indian city which gasps under unrelenting toxic smog; and he leaders of the world's most powerful countries meet in Brazil - but are they just marking time until Donald Trump returns?
(Photo shows a file photo of a missile from the Army Tactical Missile System, a surface-to-surface ballistic system, similar to what Ukraine is going to use. Credit: White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in |
| 0:08.1 | Central London. I'm Tim Franks. Tomorrow, Tuesday, will be the 1,000th day since Russia launched its |
| 0:15.9 | full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The question now is whether the course of that grinding, blood-soaked war is about |
| 0:22.2 | to take a significant turn. It's a question that's been fuelled, of course, by the election of Donald |
| 0:26.9 | Trump, a man keen to kick over what he regards as the old failed consensus. But also just now, |
| 0:33.0 | the question is being asked in the context of the reported US decision to allow American long-range missiles |
| 0:38.0 | to strike targets deep inside Russia. It's a move at granting a permission which Ukraine has been |
| 0:44.8 | pleading for for months, years even. And equally, it's a change which the Kremlin is warning |
| 0:50.4 | will only deepen and possibly widen the conflict. What of the US's Western partners? |
| 0:56.7 | Well, speaking in Brussels today, |
| 0:58.1 | the European Union foreign policy chief Joseph Burrell struck a forthright tone |
| 1:03.1 | saying that he hoped EU member states |
| 1:05.4 | who supplied this sort of weaponry to Ukraine |
| 1:07.4 | would now follow the US lead |
| 1:09.1 | and allow a similar ability to hit Russia. |
| 1:12.8 | I've been saying once and again that Ukraine should be able to use the arm we provided to them |
| 1:18.3 | in order to not only to stop the arrow, but also to be able to hit the arcas. |
| 1:24.7 | I continue believing this is what has to be done. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm sure we'll be discussed once again. |
| 1:32.3 | I hope members said we'll agree on that. |
| 1:35.6 | In a moment, we'll try to assess how tactically significant this change could be. But before we do that, let's get a |
| 1:38.4 | sense of how this new US permissiveness is being seen in |
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