welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in italy, where president biden and ukraine s leader volodymyr zelensky have signed a ten year security agreement following the g7 s approval of a plan to use profits from seized russia assets to fund kyiv s war effort. joe biden said it would include intelligence sharing, troop training, adhering to nato standards and investment in ukraine s industrial base to make more weapons. mr zelensky described it as a bridge towards nato membership. the g7 deal sees a loan of $50 billion sent to ukraine. the group leaders agreed it showed moscow that ukraine s allies weren t backing down and president putin couldn t simply sit the war out. back in 2022, two days after russia s invasion, members of the g7 european union worked together to freeze $280 billion in russian central bank funds outside of russia. i m very pleased to share that this week, this week, the g7 signed a plan to finalise, unlock,
The United States has allocated over $125 million to train more than 26,000 Ukrainian troops since the 2014 coup in Kiev, with Washington’s allies providing instruction to tens of thousands more. What are the strategy s risk?
georgia and we ll see it again if they have nothing but a green light in situations like this. they use economic leverage, whether it s turning on or off the spigot of gas and oil or other kinds of economic inducements. they use troop training and material assistance to these countries. and then they use ethnic russians in these geographies to flew politil influence politics, as well. not just ukraine. critics of president obama say he is passive, he is inattentive to the dangers posed by syria and iran, the latter country receding in developing nuclear weapons. so do you sooe view thyou view consistent pattern? doi do. and it matters less what american critics might say, but people who are against the for yourselves abroad, whether iranians under oppression, syrians under a civil war, and
things, troop training that wouldn t slash troop training. if the president of the united states or john boehner think that either one of them are going to escape blame for this? i think they underestimate the american people. you my friend of your tenses wrong, it s not are going to be damaged, have been damaged. they ve already been damaged. senator kaine, i d like to ask you, the shipyard workers, furloughed nurses, teachers who will get notices in april or may they re not being re-hired. give us a timetable. sequester happens friday. give us a timetable. when do these things roll out? i think these things are layered in so some of the warren notices went out. shipyard repair send out 1500 last week. another guy i talked to will do 300 out of 1500 employees if get to march 1 and no deal. some of it is right away. the 90,000 dod furloughs could start as early as april one and people have to start planning