mona lisa with cream cake, a man is held after attempting to deface the world famous portrait in the louvre museum in paris. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary heavily dependent on russian oil resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant for reasons of climate as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward, what we did today, because indeed we now have gotten rid of cole and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to phase out oil in a clear timeframe and we
portrait in the louvre museum in paris. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary heavily dependent on russian oil resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant for reasons of climate as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward what we did today because indeed we have now gotten rid of cole and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to phase out oil in a clear timeframe, and we started tonight and we will report tomorrow to discuss the big energy package that the commission tabled which is the basis to be able, over time, t
and stonehenge is lit with pictures of queen elizabeth for herjubilee, we look at the image of britishness that she projects around the world. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary, heavily dependent on russian oil, resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant for reasons of climate as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward what we did today because indeed we now have got rid of coal and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to face out oil in a clear timefram
ukraine, biden has done a good dealfor ukraine but he has done it incrementally and timidly. if he was resolute in supporting ukraine, sending all the weapons ukraine has been asking forfor months, then our experts understand the situation they believe ukraine needs. the russian offensive in eastern ukraine which right now is enjoying some incremental success would be stopped in its tracks. so you would have no issue, john of providing the sales which could be fired well into russia? correct although i don t think the ukrainians would use those missiles for that purpose. what they would use those missiles for would be to offset the vast russian superiority at the present time in tanks, artillery, long distance muscles and planes, and they can therefore strike russian supplies as they enter ukraine, they could strike russian artillery that is anywhere in ukraine and these would be things
and timidly. if he was resolute in supporting ukraine, sending all the weapons ukraine has been asking for for months, then our experts understand the situation they believe ukraine needs. the russian offensive in eastern ukraine which right now is enjoying some incremental success would be stopped in its tracks. so you would have no issue, john, of providing missiles which could be fired well into russia? correct, although i don t think the ukrainians would use those missiles for that purpose. what they would use those missiles for would be to offset the vast russian superiority at the present time in tanks, artillery, long distance missiles and planes, and they can therefore strike russian supplies as they enter ukraine, they could strike russian artillery that is anywhere in ukraine and these would be things that it makes perfect sense for us to provide because putin s aggression against ukraine is also a sign