also coming up ukraine. what does its troops out of severe it on yet stop after weeks of fighting, authorities say trying to defend their positions no longer makes sense. as russia rub up at the tax on the city and response teams raised to reach survivors of afghanistan s deadliest earthquake and decades, aid is now trickling into the remote mountain region. the people say more health is urgently needed. ah i menu. oops, makennan. welcome to the program. european union leaders have wrapped up their summer and brussels, which so ukraine and moldova approved as candidates to join the block. german chancellor will have charlotte s welcome the historic vote, but he said it was now time for a new chapter. so that western balkan nations can also see their beds for application, move forward. acknowledge that any expansion meant the use internal decision making processes would need to be reformed. yes, yeah. yes. yeah. we demonstrators outside the you council building here in brussel
weeks of fighting authority say, trying to defend their positions, no longer make sense. russia wraps up its attacks on the city. ah, i m anthony, how broken to the program this hour will be going live to an 8 you summit in brussels a day after. and a stark shift in europe, a you let us have approved ukraine, n, moldova bids for candidate status. the 1st official steps toward joining the european union. it s a political boast for ukraine as it faces big challenges on the battlefield. leaders from germany, france and italy had all back g cranes, application. but all 27 member states were needed to give the move to go ahead. yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah, we demonstrators, outside the council building here in brussels, found their views reflected by the 27 european leaders meeting inside. all of them agreed to grant ukraine e u candidate status, along with moldova french president emanuel my call spoke glowingly after the vote . the pupil unusual to confirm that from day one of this c