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Weekend: Russia warns US and its allies against arming Ukraine

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Russia warns US and its allies against arming Ukraine

16/04/2022 GMT

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Russia has warned the US and its allies against further supply of arms to Ukraine.

Russia has warned the US and Nato against supplying arms to Ukraine saying doing so could lead to "unpredictable consequences."

The head of the United Nations World Food Programme says he’s not getting a response from Moscow about how to reach people starving to death in besieged Ukrainian areas

Also in the programme: We hear about Somalia's first all female newsroom.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other topical issues of the day are Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist, author, filmmaker and an activist for minority rights and racial and religious equality and Colleen Graffy,  a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and now an associate professor of law at Pepperdine University, Caruso Law School in the US.

(Picture: Service members of pro-Russian troops drive a tank during Ukraine-Russia conflict on a road outside the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 10, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko.)

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