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Fourteen EU states are expelling Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the nerve agent attack on a former spy in the English city of Salisbury, EU President Donald Tusk says. SOUNDBITE
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is hopeful of securing a quick deal to get fighter jets from Western partners, after meeting British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Chequers. Zelensky confirms the pair talked about the issue during a meeting at the prime minister's official country retreat northwest of London, adding that he was "very positive" about the prospect of creating a "jets coalition" for the war against Russia. SOUNDBITE
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that the US and it's European allies are prepared to take "united, swift and severe action" against Russia if they pursue aggressive action against Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
Berlin (Germany), Feb 9 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Filip Singer).- Germany, Poland and Sweden responded to Moscow Monday, each of them expelling a Russian diplomat from their territory, in a coordinated action with Russia on the same day that the EU called for new sanctions against Russia following the Kremlin's decision to expel three European diplomats on Friday. FOOTAGE OF THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY AND THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE IN BERLIN.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says that the Middle East needs "calm heads to prevail" after Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory. "We'll be working with our allies to de-escalate the situation and I look forward to speaking to G7 leaders later this afternoon," Sunak tells reporters in Downing Street. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
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