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 insane and 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, - truly revolutionary and inexorable changes. it would be a mistake to think that during these tumultuous changes, you can simply sit it out, biding your time, 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, persistently clinging to the ghosts of the past. in particular, they think that the dominat
welcome. he was standing alongside president zelensky, who said the support he had shown that britain had shown, borisjohnson had shown was unparalleled. borisjohnson, of course, the leader who took his country out of the european union. volodymyr zelensky wants his country, ukraine, tojoin. and ukraine actually has got a big boost now with the european commission saying it approves the idea of ukraine starting on the very long path, probably, to full eu membership. of course, borisjohnson s visit comes just 2a hours after the leaders of france, germany, italy and romania were here on a similar sort of visit, and the ukrainians say that they re really grateful for this sort of show of strength, this support, the political strength it shows in the face of vladimir putin s aggression. but if you talk to them privately, they really stress that what they really want at this time, in their hour of need, as they describe it, are heavy weapons coming from the west. they want them to come
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, 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 peremptory, nothing is eternal. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training programme for ukrainian troops with the aim of training up to 10,000 soldiers every four months. borisjohnson was speaking during a surprise visit to kyiv where he held talks with ukraine s president, volodymr zelensky. mrjohnson said britain would support ukrainians until they prevailed. 0ur correspondent nick beake was there when borisjohnson arrived. well, the prime minister was certainly a long way away from some criticism he faced back home for missing a meeting of his own mps. here in kyiv, though, he was given an extremely warm
this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: russia strikes a defiant note: president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv: britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. former us president donald trump has lashed out at the congressional committee investigating his role in the january 6 attack of the capitol in 2021. speaking at a republican event in the state of tennessee, he criticised his former vice president, saying mike pence lacked what he called the courage for refusing to carry out a plan to overturn the 2020 election results. but i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic.
this is bbc news. i m nuala mcgovern. our top stories: russia strikes a defiant note: president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv, britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. police in brazil have confirmed one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of the missing british journalist dom phillips. the heat goes on: parts of europe are on alert this weekend with temperatures still on the rise. # be running up that road. # be running up that hill. # be running up that building. and running up that hill, slowly: the pop single that s a global number one 37 years after it was first released.