the pop single that s gone to number one, 37 years after it was first released. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 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 not only failed to work but 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, i truly revolutionary and inexorable changes. it would be a mistake to think that during these tumultuous changes you can simply sit it out, biding yourtime, that everything is going to get back to circuits, that everything is going to be as it was it won t. and yet it seems as if the ruling elite of certain western countries are labouring under precisely these very delusions, choosing to ignore the obvious, persi
who will host eurovision? the uk s in talks to host the singing spectacular, hello, iam hello, i am shaun ley shaun ley. in what is the fastest decision in eu history, the european commission has formally recommended candidate status for ukraine but with conditions. for ukraine, this has been a long time ambition, and president zelensky was quick to react hailing it as an historic moment which will bring victory in the war against russia closer . meanwhile, president putin said he was not against the idea because the eu wasn t a military bloc, but couldn t see how it would benefit kyiv. here is commission president ursula von der leyen speaking in brussels. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. let s look at where ukraine is in its eu application. the application has broadly three phases. phase 1 is the application to become a candidate for eu membership. ukraine submitted their
the pop single that s gone to number one, 37 years after it was first released. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 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 not only failed to work but 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, i truly revolutionary and inexorable changes. it would be a mistake to think that during these tumultuous changes you can simply sit it out, biding yourtime, that everything is going to get back to circuits, that everything is going to be as it was it won t.
during these tumultuous changes you can simply sit it out, biding yourtime, that everything is going to get back to the circus, that everything is going to be as it was. it won t, and yet it seems as if the ruling elites of certain western countries are labouring under precisely these very illusions, choosing to ignore the obvious, persistently clinging to the ghosts of the past. in particular, they think that the domination of the west in global politics and economics is a constant, but nothing is pre emptory. nothing is eternal. vitaly shevchenko from bbc monitoring says vladimir putin was trying to send a message when he said russia was entering a new era as a powerful sovereign nation. it was a message of defiance and denial. clearly, president putin s objective is to present russia, or turn russia, into a major force in the international arena,