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What to know about Western tanks going to Ukraine – BBC Newsnight
One month short of a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, it’s testament to how far the Western allies have come in their engagement with the conflict that Germany has confirmed it will send its tanks into combat – so far 14 Leopard 2s.
Now other countries with Leopard 2s will follow suit. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a hugely significant moment told the country, “Trust me … the decision is the right one.”Â
At the beginning of the conflict there was outrage when Germany sent just 5000 helmets and a field hospital.
Now, the country is in the top three donors of both military and humanitarian aid. President Biden said that Chancellor Scholz has been “a strong voice for unity, and a close friend,” as he announced the US is sending 31 Abrams tanks, insisting the new deployments were “no offensive threat to Russia”.
Newsnightâs International Correspondent Joe Inwood reports on the Westâs commitments to Ukraine from Londonâs National Army Museum.Â
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Billionaire Man Utd owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says club has âcome off the railsâ | BBC News
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, has told BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan that the football club has âcome off the railsâ.
The 72-year-old spent ÂŁ1.3 billion buying a 29% stake in the club in 2024, in a deal which saw Ineos take control of football operations. Ratcliffe, a lifelong Manchester United fan, is chairman of the petrochemicals company which has a big sport investment arm.
In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Sport earlier this month Ratcliffe addressed the side’s recent struggles on the pitch, as they languish in the bottom third of the Premier League table.
He said some Manchester United players are “not good enough” and some are “overpaidâ. Midfielder Casemiro, striker Rasmus Hojlund, goalkeeper Andre Onana, and wingers Antony and Jadon Sancho – who are on loan at other clubs – were name-checked by the billionaire as players his regime had “inherited”.
Ratcliffe also spoke of the club’s financial difficulties, saying it was set to run out of money by the end of 2025, unless it took action which he admitted was “unpopular”.
Yet despite the financial and team issues he referred to, Ratcliffe repeated a pledge that Manchester United would win silverware by 2028.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Dan Roan.
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Today, we look at the fall out after a journalist revealed that he had been mistakenly added to a groupchat where US security leaders were discussing air strikes in Yemen.
Many of the security officials on the Signal app chat have been testifying at a worldwide threat assessment hearing in the Senate.
Adam is joined by BBC chief presenter in Washington CaitrĂona Perry and former Pentagon top US government security official Celeste Wallander.
Plus, a lawyer investigating former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has found “credible evidence” he and his staff mistreated two female team members. He denies the allegations. Chris is on to explain whatâs happening.
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Heathrow Airport will be closed all day Friday, after a fire broke out at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it with power.
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President Trump has launched a blistering attack on the journalist who was added to a group chat by the administration’s top security officials, who then discussed top-secret war plans about an attack on Yemen.
Mr Trump called Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, “a total sleazebag” and tried to play down the significance of the security breach.
The White House had earlier confirmed that Mr Goldberg was inadvertently added to the insecure Signal chat in which leading US national security officials and the Vice-President debated and planned the military assault on Houthi rebels.
Mr Goldberg read Signal messages between Vice-President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth among other senior officials.. He saw details of classified military plans for the US strikes two hours before they began, including precise details of weapons packages, targets and timings.
Goldberg said he was added to the message chain, apparently by accident, after receiving a connection request from the White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.
Senior Democrats called the blunder “one of the most stunning military breaches of recent times” and officials involved were grilled by the Congress about their actions.
“The attacks on the Houthis have been highly successful and effective,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.”
On 15 March the US launchedwhat it described as a “decisive and powerful” series of air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. Four days earlier, on 11 March, Atlantic editor-in-chief Goldberg says he received the connection request on the encrypted messaging app Signal from an account that purported to be Mr Waltz’s. Signal is used by journalists and Washington officials because of the secure nature of its communications, the ability to create aliases, and to send disappearing messages.
Two days later, Goldberg said he was added to a Signal chat entitled “Houthi PC small group.” A number of accounts that appeared to belong to cabinet members and national security officials were included in the 18-person chat, Goldberg reported. Accounts labelled “JD Vance”, the name of the vice-president; “Pete Hegseth,” the defence secretary; and “John Ratcliffe,” director of the Central Intelligence Agency; were among names in the chain.
Top national security officials from various agencies also appeared in it, including Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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This is the Sudan militaryâs most significant advance in nearly two years of civil war â recapturing a potent symbol of sovereignty from its rival armed group along with much of central Khartoum.
A power struggle between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) exploded into conflict in April 2023 and has created what the United Nations called the worldâs worst humanitarian crisis.
The military now believes itâs on course to retake the rest of the capital from the RSF. That could reset the direction of the war or harden the territorial division that divides the country between the two foes.
Our correspondent Barbara Plett Usher was at a military staging point when the latest offensive was launched, and looks at how civilians bear the brunt of the countryâs brutal conflict.
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@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will be killing Russian murderers in no time!
@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
We have parts and they have mechs….its weeks not months….
@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
It's bs….thos ukrainians are killing our enemy?…we have c5 galaxies and they know where start button is….
@Steinstra-vj7wl
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
…they don't go.
@cestwhat1317
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Iâm embarrassed by the gutless wonders our leaders are. This trickle down defense support is bs. As if our leaders wish to watch thru a sadistic lens the slaughter of Ukrainian people.
@gilbertozuniga8063
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will not make a difference!
@nopsevdonim333
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
fuck your tanks. they will burn like your entire economy. even if the war had not ended and we would have walked up to you, for your supplies, to be answered.
@tasmigz4076
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Residents of Staromlinovka saying russians soldiers are treating them well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgdqVhQVBY
@gigie555
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Ukraine is winning this war, according to the western media, but they need more weapons? While the Russians have 10 times more artillery than Ukraine, they are losing 10 times more men, also according to the western media. Seems someone is not being entirely truthful.
@m4d_mark_xtr3me79
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
When you add in other promises…
Yeah, so we can do 59 tanks, is that okay?
-No we need 300
Well we've already given you millions and sent volunteers.
Some how I don't think that's 130, someone's telling porkies
@acidbot666
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
If the objective is to get to global thermonuclear incineration asap we must agree that the west is doing extremely well!
@ckwaiutube
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
depleted uranium shells together? it's endless catastrophic to the people there. looks what happen to balkan war and iraq war, peoples health suffered. satanic unleashed.
@SmokeDog1871
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Its good that the germans have developed a national conscious but its unforunately now something that the russians are using to take advantage of them and cause the same trauma that the nazis did. At some point this development of germany must evolve into the idea that they are no longer nazis and are willing to stand up for others who are being attacked.
@rosskious7084
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
What we know about Western tanks? Thanks to the Grandstanding and public fight the Western Countries has done and the amount of training that is needed the Russians know when to launch their assault to be the most effective. We need to get them massive amounts of Artillery guns, Himars, Tow missiles and ammo to do until the Training is finished and help with the coming attack. All the tanks they already know how to use needs to be sent ASAP and the training accelerated on the rest. Any MIG fighters or Russian attack helicopters the world can find needs to be scraped up and sent to help blunt the attack.
@mray8519
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
The Abrams uses a turbine engine, the worst choice possible. Complex, extremely vulnerable to dirt ingestion, expensive to maintain, difficult to repair. Total POS.
@basedglennuk
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Excellent đŞhttps://youtu.be/8EVrYAu-3B0
@first8208
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
US has nothing to lose! All these weapons are taken from our tax money
@chrissharkey6172
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will burn đĽ shame on you Germany đŠđŞ
@GerardVaughan-qe7ml
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Clayton Morris talks with Scott Ritter.
Tanks to Ukrain ?!
https://youtu.be/UL5RR3xnq_w
@Samy.Channel
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Yes send panzers back at eastern front
@user-ly6pl5ot9m
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Thanks to all nations who help Ukraine to resist russian madness and Putin's fascism!
@phil20_20
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
If NATO was there, you would be running all these different tanks anyway… mostly they shoot the same ammo. At least Challenger uses 120mm. They also want to change to the caseless ammo, so I'm sure they can part with the old stuff.
@leonardmayer2362
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
The sending of tanks to Ukraine could not happen soon enough! What the Germans did in WWII is let an intellectually incompetent man like Hitler lead them into a war. They did not need Hitler. He was economically illiterate and a cognitive failure. What Germany needed was an educated and cognitively competent person to lead Germany out of its economic problems and prosper as it could. It is a problem in the world where you have intellectually incompetent people taking the reins of power. Putin is one example. Putin has stolen the right of self government and the right of liberty from the Russian people. He is trying to do the same in Ukraine by killing women and children and taking over the country. He is so incompetent that everything he says or does is fraudulent.
@CieplinskiPawel
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
My late Grandpa, WW2 survivor:
In 1945 when Soviet tanks crossed Poland WE WISHED IT WAS GERMANS 39' AGAINâźď¸