campaign video to position himself as a donald trump style conservative without the drama. mr desantis is widely seen as donald trump s main republican rival in the race. but the former president remains the dominant force in the republican party. now, ron desantis s announcement itself wasn t a suprise, but the way he made it was unorthodox a conversation on twitter spaces with elon musk. here s some of what he said. i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. look, we know our country is going in the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones. our southern border s collapsed. drugs are pouring into the country. our cities are being hollowed out by spiking crime. the federal government s making it harderfor the average family to make ends meet and to attain and maintain a middle class lifestyle. and our president, well, he lacks vigour, flounders in the face of our nation s challenges, and he takes his cues
in the so called a family photo with leaders of the world s most powerful democracies. it s part of a multi day diplomatic tour to solidify support for an expected spring counter offensive against russia. later, mr zelensky will address the leaders and also have a meeting president biden. earlier, the french president emmanuel macron said mr zelensky s presence at the g7 is a way to build peace and emphasized the need for a solution to the conflict based on international law. and new comments from german chancellor olaf scholz, who said training programs for ukrainian pilots on f16 fighterjets are a message to russia that it should not expect to succeed, even in a prolonged conflict. live now to the bbc s nick marsh in hiroshima. thank nick marsh in hiroshima. you forjoining us. with the thank you forjoining us. with the g7 summit under way volodomyr zelensky is dominating conversations? hello from a very dominating conversations? hello from a very hot dominating conver
james waterhouse. thank you forjoining us. what do you make what the ukrainian president said there?- you make what the ukrainian president said there? well, it s clear that bakhmut, president said there? well, it s clear that bakhmut, this - president said there? well, it s. clear that bakhmut, this eastern city, has once again become a distraction as president zelensky continues to engage in this never ending diplomatic treadmill, he is on an extraordinary overseas trip where he has addressed the arab league summit, spoke of the nations that have previously sat on the fence when it comes to russia s invasion of ukraine, he is now meeting the g7 economies injapan where his priority in his mind is to secure the long term further military and financial help, he does seem to be doing that, not least with america giving the green light for f i6 fighterjets to be provided potentially by other allies, but the questioning this morning has mostly been about this eastern city of ba
hello. i m helena lee. great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f16 jets. a move moscow had criticised. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic talks