that the body found in the river is nicola bulley who went missing last month. fractious scenes in israel s parliament, where members are debating a controversial overhaul of the country s judiciary. we begin in ukraine where us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first trip since russia invaded almost a year ago. speaking alongside president zelensky, mr biden said that russia s war in ukraine is failing and that vladimir putin had been wrong to think russia could outlast ukraine and its allies. putin thought ukraine was weak and the west was divided. as you know, mr. president, i said to you in the beginning, he is counting on us not sticking together. he was counting on the inability to keep nato united, he was counting on us not to be able to bring in others on the side of ukraine. he thought he could outlast us. but he is just been plain wrong. one year later, the evidence is right here in this room. we stand here together. president biden took a
translation: it is the us, not china, that is providing | a steady stream of weapons on the battlefield. the united states is in no position to make demands of china. we will never accept the us. pointing fingers at sino russian relations or even coercing us. china s approach to the ukraine issue boils down to one aim, which is to urge peace and promote talks. i m joined now by kristine berzina in washington dc, who is the managing director of the german marshal fund north a think tank. what is the significance of this visit? this has been in incredibly significant surprise visit from president biden to kyiv. it s notable that have been so many western leaders that have passed through, gone to kyiv, american leaders as well but not president biden. so close to the one year mark for this conflict, you saw president biden walk on the streets of kyiv with president zelensky, really showing the true solidarity that he feels in his administration has with the ukrainians and he is not int
missions. irate kyiv says it needs more long range missions. ~ ~ ., ., , ., missions. we know that they have [on . er missions. we know that they have longer range missions. we know that they have longer range systems missions. we know that they have longer range systems which - missions. we know that they have i longer range systems which ukraine wants which is a range of 300 km, which would be very useful if they wanted to target crimea. military targets and crimea, of course the concern is that if you give them long range weapons, would they hit targets inside russia as well? you do sense the british have said they will be providing long range weapons ukraine, they haven t said what is in jeopardy clearly there is movement. some countries not willing to explore that, the us is not one of those countries yet committed to providing those longer long range weapons. but this was more than a chance to announce new military aid, it was also a show of us support days before the anniver
this out, to try and slow it down, to try and derail it. i don t think there will be able to do that because of the 64 seat majority it has. they will be able to vote those three. the issue will be about the scale of opposition, just how vocal those protests become. i think it sort of cuts to the core of the identity of israel is a democratic country, and so they re going to focus with everything they ve got. there was a smart fight this. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story. president biden has said the united states will back ukraine in its fight against russia for as long as it takes, during an unannounced visit to kyiv. it isa it is a mystery that has got people in the uk. the search that followed
we can see what the world are seeing and thinking 20 seat this visit, but how is it being viewed within ukraine itself, the visit of president biden? for your convenience, president biden? for your convenience, it president biden? for your convenience, it was i president biden? for your convenience, it was a i president biden? for your| convenience, it was a total president biden? for your i convenience, it was a total sign president biden? for your - convenience, it was a total sign of solidarity, of hope, of understanding, that the free world, with its leader, is on the side of the goods, which ukraine is fighting for. i even talked with some people who are the survivors of the revolution of dignity, and those days when the state was a firing, nine years ago, on the protestants in this region. they were saying, we have to let president biden know that this is so important that you came, also, especially on this particular day of remembrance of those victims of that first round of