to send in the leopards. well, my guest is ukraine s foreign minister, dmytro kuleba. are ukraine s strategic options being narrowed by wavering amongst western allies? foreign minister dmytro kuleba in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. it s my pleasure to be with you. it s great to have you back on the show. i m sure you watched very closely what happened in ramstein, germany, when ukraine s allies met at defence minister level to discuss new weapons supplies to ukraine. what appears to have emerged is yet more uncertainty, particularly about whether you re going to get tanks. how damaging is that uncertainty? the meeting in ramstein itself was the quintessential moment of weeks of different talks and negotiations and also public appeals, so everything that was not decided in ramstein, including main battle tanks, will be decided within a short term perspective. i m absolutely confident about that because we continue our work. we hear more and more important messages coming from di
to south africa. and britain s prime minister orders an investigation into how the chairman of the governing conservative party settled a multi million dollar tax dispute. let s start with the war in ukraine. eu foreign ministers have been meeting in brussels amid an ongoing row about whether to send tanks. member countries are putting pressure on germany to provide some of its leopard two tanks, to help fight off russia s invasion. estonia s foreign minister has been at those talks in brussels he s been speaking to the bbc. decisions need to be implemented and the decisions need to be done and there is a moment of leadership which needs to be created. and my strong message is indeed, to all countries, who have weapons and stockpiles to give them immediately without any political caveats or any further considerations or hesitance of the russian s reaction. so let s take a closer look at germany s role in all this. the leopard 2 is operated by about 20 countries worldwide
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Outbreaks of rain pushing northward to bring milder weather to much of the uk, still cold and offers an hill snow in higher parts of scotland. Above 300 metres elevation. Things could be slippy here for a time. The rain reluctant to clear from Northern Areas in the south and west some sun shines, blustery showers following in, relatively mild, 8 10. Overnight, some icy stretches in Northern Areas. Frost in rural parts and showers in across scotland and Northern Ireland england. Later and iit Northern Ireland england. Later and i it should turn a bit Milderfor Wales in south west england, as we see the next system moving in. That will bring another spell of rain on sunday. After a bright start in eastern areas, the rain will push northwards and eastwards. Not Reaching North East England or scotla nd Reaching North East England or scotland until after dark, so here holding onto some sunshine. Highs at best 5 6, milder the south west. Hello this is bbc news, with maxine mawhinney. The hea