hello and welcome to bbc news. the russian president says the sanctions imposed on his country because of the attack on ukraine are stupid and insane. vladimir putin said they had failed to work and said they were impacting the west instead. he denied that russia was to blame for the current crisis and for the spiralling inflation that has followed. he was speaking at an economic forum in st petersburg. translation: i reiterate, these are fundamental, truly revolutionary changes and it would be a mistake to think during these tumultuous tranch you can simply sit it out, that everything is going to get back to the way it was and yet it seems like the ruling elite of certain western countries are labouring under these precise delusions, choosing to accept the obvious. particular, they think the domination of western politics and economics is a constant but nothing is eternal. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training programme for ukrainian
was first released. hello and welcome to bbc news. president putin has described the sanctions imposed on russia because of its invasion of ukraine as insane. he said the measures had failed to work, and were impacting the west instead. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training operation for ukrainian soldiers with the aim of training up to ten thousand soldiers every four months. and the question of ukraine s candidacy for the eu is expected to be decided at a european council summit next week. azadeh moshiri has this report. the president told his people there was some good news. translation: there was some good news. translation: now we are one ste awa translation: now we are one step away from translation: now we are one step away from the translation: now we are one step away from the beginning l translation: now we are one | step away from the beginning of a full fledged integration into the european union. we have a positive d
peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
donald trump there doing what he can to flip the script in response to the recent january 6th hearings. we ll have more from his first public appearance since they began, and what we can expect next in the next round. and colombia is poised to lead latin america s green energy initiative. we ll tell you how politics are getting in the way of that. we begin in ukraine, which has just cleared the first hurdle on a path to join the european union. ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side after recommending they be given candidate status. vladimir putin is okay with that because the eu isn t a military alliance like nato. boris johnson made a surprise visit. he offered ukraine a major military training program he said would fundamentally change the equation of the war. and new videos of the wars appeared on pro-russian sites that appear to show two u.s. volunteers missing in ukraine. this is a photo posted earlier. cnn isn t showing the new videos because the men appear to
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