Richard Galpin

#Kremlin backed #WagnerGroup apparently recruiting prisoners for the front lines as #Ukraine forces make significant advances in the ongoing war

Kharkiv Offensive: Russian Forces Flee as Ukraine Makes Rapid Eastern Push - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@NormanIvison Hi Norman thanks for reminding me about this, it was corrected as quickly as possible. I think too many 5am starts had scrambled my brain!

@RgalpinBBC You've probably spotted this already but in the Peter Brook item on the 1300 bulletin, you mistakenly called Shakespeare's play A Midnight Summer's Dream. Hope you manage to correct it before it's run again.

@martinwebber2 @bbcworldservice You have had a great innings!

A sad day - my last in charge of the wonderful ⁦@bbcworldservice⁩ business team. I presented the first World Business Report in April 1991 and I was on air this afternoon summing up what my great team achieved over 31 years.

The Russians were hunting us down: the war on journalism in Mariupol - This is an incredible piece of journalism - extremely brave and revealing the reality of this awful war Of choice started by Vladimir #Putin. #Ukraine #Russia war #Kremlin — theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…

‘I offer you a chance to survive’: Zelenskiy urges Russian troops to surrender – video #Echobox=1647312994" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/world/video/20…

@BBCSteveR Congratulations Steve, there couldn’t be a better person for this role,particularly in the current circumstances

A little announcement.

Alexei Navalny: He was poisoned. He was jailed. His organisation was banned. Now he’s been added to a list of ‘terrorists & extremists’ (along with several of his allies).

A year ago today Alexei Navalny boarded a plane in Germany, returned to Russia and was arrested. What followed was a demolition of the Opposition by the authorities: a year of ‘foreign agents’, 'extremist groups', ‘undesirable organisations’ & Kremlin critics driven into exile.

#Russia,s #Covid nightmare driven by vaccine rejection - our piece from #Vologda in north west Russia where just 26% of the population has chosen to get vaccinated in the midst of a devastating epidemic #anti-vaxx bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

#ConservativePartyConference I've tried & failed to understand what #LevellingUp actually means. I know what levelling means. It can only be done down. Building up, yes. Redressing the balance, yes. If you have to wonder what Levelling Up means, it doesn't work as a slogan.

15.40 hrs, October 1st 2021: Just got a package from @amazon delivered by a cheerful but exhausted @DPDgroup_news driver. It was his 132nd delivery of the day, fifteen to go. He started at 6 am and had to load his van himself. I didn't ask him what he is paid. #gigeconomy

2,000 days since she was arrested - a family separated for well over 5 YEARS. Nazanin's husband, Richard, and daughter Gabriella will mark the day with the family of Anoosheh Ashoori calling for government action. Last night, Iran again demanded the UK repay its £400 million debt

via @NYTimes - #NYT has evidence indicating the #US drone strike in #Kabul which killed 10 people, hit an aid worker and other civilians not members of ISIS who were supposed to have been the target nytimes.com/2021/09/10/wor…

President Biden to unvaccinated Americans: “What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see? We’ve made vaccinations free, safe and convenient.”

#AFG Water- boarding Taliban style. Hands and feet chained and tied. There are genuine concerns about revenge and grievances at a village&district level- especially when the families of government officials and soldiers living inside Afghanistan.

#MI5 boss warns of morale boost' for extremists due to #Afghanistan situation +says risk terrorists will reconstitute with more sophisticated attack plots - in last 4 years 31 terrorist attack plots in #UK disrupted, mostly Islamist + Rightwing terrorists bbc.co.uk/news/uk-585129…

#Russia TV reporting that the Emergencies minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after rushing to try to save a cameraman who fell off a cliff during an interview. The cameraman who also died had slipped and fallen into water

#SavetheChildren reporting that 6 children were killed in the US air strike targeting suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber