The Fourcast

Russia is at war with Ukraine, with cities under siege, civilians being killed, and millions fleeing the country. 

While western allies have provided some military aid to Ukraine, they have mainly responded with a different type of weapon. An economic war. Sanctions on Russia.

Our business and global trade correspondent Paul McNamara explains those sanctions and asks if that will be enough to stop Putin.

In the space of just two weeks, the lives of Ukrainians have been completely transformed, upended, changed forever.

Some remain there to resist the invaders, but more than two million have left in just two weeks. 

Our correspondent, Paraic O’Brien, has been travelling along the border of Ukraine since the war began, speaking to people as they make a journey they thought they would never have to make. 

When the war began in Ukraine, the people in the capital city of Kyiv had to make a decision, to stay or to flee.

Thousands of people packed up their lives and left the city. Sasha, a journalist living in Kyiv was one of them.

This is his story.

Sources: UA:PBC Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, AFP, Oleksandr Ielstov

In a matter of days, Europe and the world has been transformed. 

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has upturned the post-Cold War consensus that has dominated our lives for three decades. 

Is the West itself despite all this a stronger entity? Where does America lie in all of this? And what about Russia, the old enemy turned new menace today? 

Emma Ashford, a senior fellow at the American foreign policy think tank, the Atlantic Council, takes Kiran through the geopolitics of then and now and tries to unravel what went wrong, as well as what could happen in the next few months. 

Sources: ABC Nightline

Are we heading for nuclear war with Russia?  Russia has invaded Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin has told all his generals to put their entire armed forces, including nuclear team, on high alert. 

But could the UK and its Western allies end up at war with Russia? 

In this episode Georgina Lee from our FactCheck team explains how close, or not, the world is to a possible nuclear conflict. 

Sources: BBC NEWS

Last week in sunny Orlando, Florida, a large group of Republicans got together at the Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC, to discuss what their movement needed to do next to change America.

Mr Trump, keynote speaker at the event, has described Ukraine's President Zelenskyy as brave, but repeated his admiration of Vladimir Putin, describing him as a smart, strong leader.

In today’s podcast, we look at where American conservatives stand on Russia and Putin, why some seem to admire the man who invaded Ukraine, and whether they are more concerned with enemies at home than those abroad.

Sources: NBC, Fox News, Twitter/@BenLorber8

A week is a long time in war.

The Ukrainian resistance has been strong, but the Russian response, led by an increasingly isolated Vladimir Putin, has become just like his bombardment of Syria. 

Our Europe editor Matt Frei has been on the ground in Ukraine ever since the war began, witnessing missiles hitting tower blocks in Kyiv and seeing thousands flee their homeland from the relatively safe western city of Lviv.

Sources: AFP

We’re almost a week into a war in Europe.

Vladimir Putin, in his quest for land and legacy, has begun bombing civilian areas in Ukrainian cities.

But his war appears to not be going to plan. The Ukrainian army is strong, the resistance is strong and the West has united against Russia with sanctions and support.

But what will Putin do next?

Today, Kiran Moodley speaks with foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman about the Russian advance on Kyiv, what’s going on in Putin’s mind, and whether the Western squeeze on Russia will bring this to a close.

Sources: NBC News, BBC News. 

Can we finally see the light at the end of the Covid tunnel?

After nearly two years of living with strict lockdowns and curbs on our civil liberties, all remaining domestic restrictions have now been removed from law in England.

Today, Minnie Stephenson talks to our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald as we try and make sense of the past two years.

With Boris Johnson himself not ruling out the possibility of new variants in the future, we ask is this really the right time to be ending all restrictions?

Are we right to be treating Covid like flu or are we all breathing a sigh of relief too soon?

Russia has invaded Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that Moscow's response will be "instant" if anyone tries to take Russia on.

People have been trying to flee the capital Kyiv as Ukraine urges the UN "to do everything possible" to stop a full-scale war.

In today’s podcast, we bring you reports from on the ground in Ukraine, on the day when war came to  

Europe’s shores once more.