and, diana ross helps bring the first glastonbury festival for three years to a close. welcome. leaders of the g7 group of nations have been meeting in germany for the first day of talks in a key week of diplomacy over ukraine. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, said ukraine should not be forced towards making a deal with russia. president biden called for western unity to be maintained so that russia could be defeated. our political editor chris mason reports from bavaria in germany. the leaders of the world s richest countries gather to work out what to do next about ukraine. they begin by mocking president putin. the canadian prime minster suggests they should mimic the russian leader by riding barerback on a horse, as he has done. beyond the jokes though, there are differences of emphasis in approach here about how much and for how long ukraine should be helped. the uk insists it must be for the long haul. the prime minister acknowledges, though, some are tiring of
when the three storey stucture came down in the western city of espinal. colombia s president elect has called for amateur bullfights to be banned. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week is better known, he s more trusted, he s arguably more influential than many politicians. chief executives and chancellors of the exchequer have good reason to fear what martin lewis says. the founder of the moneysavingexpert website and the newsletter has many millions of followers who hang on his conclusions about how, yes, they should be saving money. the ft once dubbed him the most successfuljournalist in the world ever. he s called the current cost of living crisis shocking and scary and anxiety driving. and he warned at one stage that he was running out of tips to help people to get through
to be banned. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. russia s war on ukraine has turned culture into a battleground in countries supportive of ukraine s resistance to putin s invasion, some russian artists, musicians and dancers have been stripped of their platforms or they ve been asked to denounce russia s military aggression. when does solidarity turn into censorship? my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkovjoins me now, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so, maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. leningrad was a ci
the first glastonbury festival for three years to a glorious close. leaders of the g7 group of nations have been meeting in germany for the first day of talks in a key week of diplomacy over ukraine. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, said ukraine should not be forced towards making a deal with russia. president biden called for western unity to be maintained so that russia could be defeated. our political editor chris mason reports from bavaria in germany. the leaders of the world s richest countries gather to work out what to do next about ukraine. they begin by mocking president putin. the canadian prime minster suggests they should mimic the russian leader by riding bareback on a horse, as he has done. beyond the jokes though, there are differences of emphasis in approach here about how much and for how long ukraine should be helped. the uk insists it must be for the long haul. the prime minister acknowledges, though, some are tiring of it. i think that the pressur
when the three storey stucture came down in the western city of espinal. colombia s president elect has called for amateur bullfights to be banned. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week is better known, he s more trusted, he s arguably more influential than many politicians. chief executives and chancellors of the exchequer have good reason to fear what martin lewis says. the founder of the moneysavingexpert website and the newsletter has many millions of followers who hang on his conclusions about how, yes, they should be saving