sitting australian prime minister anthony albanese becomes the first sitting australian prime minister to march in sydney s gay and lesbian mardi gras. he has described it as a celebration of modern australia. you are watching bbc news. now, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. counting the cost of war as ukraine marks a year since the invasion, we re going to take a look at the toll it s taken on the economy. ukraine s vast farms were feeding the world, but the country is now reliant on billions of dollars of help just to get through every month. ukraine s finance minister tells me how he s kept the economy functioning despite the missiles and the deliberate targeting of infrastructure, including the power grid. also, i m going to be hearing from a leading business voice on how private companies have managed to keep doing business in a war zone and how t
he pleaded. this after russia warned if nato further arms ukraine with battle tanks and long-range missiles, it will lead to a whole new level of war. it s been nearly a year since the russian invasion t. united states perspective has shifted during that time. remember the unwillingness to be a participant in a three-way deal that would have had the united states backfill poland s fleet of fighter planes after they give mig 25 fighters to ukraine? the biden administration said no. they were willing to acknowledge providing stinger anti ar craft missiles. with a passage of time has been a softening of the biden administration s reluctance to go all in. today ukrainian are in oklahoma being trained on the system that the u.s. is supplying. as part of a new and massive $2.5 billion aid package. reports suggest a u.s. willingness to green light efforts to target crimea, annexed illegally by russia in 2014. what accounts for this change? has the western perspective changed from ge
Across the country. Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at the university of Southern California in los angeles. At the university of texas in austin, the governor sent in State Troopers in riot gear to confront demonstrators who waved Palestinian Flags and chanted free palestine. These demonstrations have spread since the arrest last week of more than a hundred protesters at Columbia University in new york sparking debates about free speech and the right to protest. Our west coast correspondent emma vardy sent this update from the university of Southern California in los angeles. Protesters arrived here on campus around eight oclock this morning. They have stayed for much of the day. Earlier on tents put up by protesters, police asking them to take those down, that led to some scuffles and clashes between protesters and Campus Police here. One person was detained but we understand they were released pretty quickly. In the hours that followed the protest here in los ang
Midnight in london and either 6 30am or 7am in the morning in the Korean Peninsula depending on whether youre in the north or south. But tensions continue to rise on both sides of the demilitarized zone. Pyongyang has carried out a huge Live Firing Exercise. And the us is preparing for similar large scale manoeuvres with the south korean armed forces, which will most likely include this Nuclear Powered submarine, the michigan, which sailed into a south korean port on tuesday. South korea is going to buy two advanced Radar Systems to give warnings about incoming ballistic missiles. But the message coming from north korean state tv remains confrontational. Translation now that the us has pulled out a sword to kill us we will also pull out our grand sort of justice and fight to the end, and we will kill the us imperialists with oui will kill the us imperialists with our strong and nuclear power. Our Nuclear Forces stand at the core. Earlier i spoke with dan sneider, who is Associate Direc
Midnight in london and either 6 30am or 7am in the morning in the Korean Peninsula depending on whether youre in the north or south. But tensions continue to rise on both sides of the demilitarized zone. Pyongyang has carried out a huge Live Firing Exercise. And the us is preparing for similar large scale manoeuvres with the south korean armed forces, which will most likely include this Nuclear Powered submarine, the michigan, which sailed into a south korean port on tuesday. South korea is going to buy two advanced Radar Systems to give warnings about incoming ballistic missiles. But the message coming from north korean state tv remains confrontational. Translation now that the us has pulled out a sword to kill us we will also pull out our grand sort of justice and fight to the end, and we will kill the us imperialists with oui will kill the us imperialists with our strong and nuclear power. Our Nuclear Forces stand at the core. Earlier i spoke with dan sneider, who is Associate Direc