when this would take place, in what context it would take place. one u.s. security personnel did say that the u.s. believes that it has the same information and of those five people who were named on the list, those five ukrainian politicians accused of working with russia to try to disrupt the ukrainian political system, one of them was also on the treasury sanctions list, they were announced earlier this week. again, a similar allegation, that they were working with russia security services to try to destabilize the ukrainian political system, but, again, i would just say at this stage it s not clear how russia would go about trying to impose its own candidate into the ukrainian government. that would imply that there would be a plan imminently to t topple the ukrainian government, possibly in the context of an
and human rights. our south asian editor, anbarasan ethirajan, told us more about what is expected from the discussions. it s the first meeting of its kind for the taliban, they are coming to europe for the first time after they seized power in kabul last august, and for the last five months, they have been running the show there. now, the west wants to engage with the taliban. you may remember the taliban has not been recognised by the world community yet and giving aid to a country where the government is not recognised, and many of these taliban ministers, they are on the un sanctions list, so it is a complicated process to give aid to afghanistan. at the same time, after the war ended, there are millions of people waiting for food aid and almost all activity has come to a standstill in afghanistan and people are running short of food and there is a shortage of currency, so that is why the west wants so that s why the west wants
been discussing so much. how is the west responding? been discussing so much. how is the west responding? looking at the west responding? looking at the west responding? looking at the west are the west responding? looking at the west are not the west responding? looking at the west are not prepared i the west responding? looking at the west are not prepared to i the west are not prepared to put troops on the ground. they do offer some military help in certain ways and deliveries arriving of the past few days but sanctions has been a key target. the eu hasjust published its sanctions list, in fact, naming the defence minister of russia, the chief of staff, the deputy prime minister, the construction and regional development all the way down to the editor in chief of russia today and the foreign affairs ministry spokesperson. 27 high profile individuals and entities been named by the eu and we are expecting more sanctions if novation takes place from america which is being predicte
meeting in moscow of a visual record, a who s who of the new u.s. sanctions list. because all those days at that putin meeting today, it turned out they got sanctioned later this afternoon. all those people i just mentioned, all the companies were sanctioned. the u.s. sanctioned russia s two largest financial institutions, a dozen other major russian financial institutions and those close to president putin. the u.s. set new restrictions on wet technology can be exported to russia. the sanctions were all coordinated with other sanctions from the g7 group which is us, the uk, canada, france, germany, japan, and holy you. you. there is a lot more that still could be happening, though. the u.s. hypothetically could lobby for russia to be cut out of the banking system called swift, essentially a system by which all banks around the world communicate and work with one another. russia has been working to create its own sort of parallel system to swift.
government states, er, government ministries. they apply just to the individuals who are named in the sanctions list, but they ve got to go much further. they ve got to pay the salaries of the civil servants. they ve got to make sure that the assets are released to underpin a properly functioning banking system, and they ve got to get international technical support into the finance ministry and the central bank, so that the economy can be run properly. well, what you seem to be suggesting to me is that the world isn t really paying attention right now. that s the reality. you re right. the world has got to learn to walk, chew gum and play the violin when it comes to humanitarian effort at the same time. we can t simply turn our torch from one crisis to another and expect any of them to be solved. and the system failure that i m speaking to clearly applies and clearly shows that we need a system reboot, a reboot of the diplomacy, a reboot of the accountability against impunity. and it