this was the moment he arrived at the prime minister s residence in rome, where he was greeted by italian president sergio mattarella. shortly after this, he met the italian prime minister, giorgia meloni. she s been one of ukraine s more vocal backers, although polls suggest that italian people overall are opposed to sending ukraine more weapons, as are some of her coalition partners. more now from the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. more than 1000 security officers have been deployed in rome today. this is the first time the president zelensky visits italy since russia invaded ukraine last year. he has had a meeting with his counterpart, the italian president. they had a private meeting that lasted for about 25 minutes and some of the things that they discussed were economic sanctions against russia, the kidnapping of ukrainian children, the need to step up the fight against pro kremlin fake news and ukrainejoining the european union. after the meeting, president zelensky said
this was the moment he arrived at the prime minister s residence in rome, where he was greeted by italian president sergio mattarella. shortly after this, he met italian prime minister giorgia meloni. she s been one of ukraine s more vocal backers, although polls suggest that italian people overall are opposed to sending ukraine more weapons. as are some of her coalition partners. live now to the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. out, members of the rmt union are back on picket lines. another 24 hour strike at their long running dispute, with live now to the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. president zelensky has had a meeting with his counterparts. this private meeting lasted for 25 minutes and some of these things discussed were economic functions against russia, the kidnapping against ukrainian children, and they need to set up. after the meeting, president zelensky said i want to thank italy each italian one by one for to show italy s continued support for ukraine. quite a few sym
the people of this country. people here in the south of turkey saw a slow and what they deem to be an inadequate response to earthquakes. he may pay for this at the polls. the challenger, kilicdaroglu, who represents a disparate group of opposition parties who have come together with one goal in mind to try and unseat the current president. at this stage, the race is incredibly tight. when the results come out on sunday night, one of these men need to get more than 50% of the vote in order to run turkey the next period of time. if it is closer than that then they will come back for a run off into weeks time and that s why they are putting energy and effort into these last few hours to try and secure final result in the next three days. anna foster reporting from turkey. now, despite his unceremonious departure from office last year, former british prime minister boris johnson still has plenty of support
figure and someone who talks about the strength of turkey and infrastructure and being a really strong country on the geopolitical stage but he is overseeing problems here, problems of the economy, which has been struggling desperately in the last three years, soaring inflation which has made life enormously difficult for turks and also the outcome after the earthquakes. many people here in the south of turkey saw slow what they deem to be inadequate response and it may be that president erdogan will pay for that at the polls. the challenger, turkey opposition two 30 church one of these men needs to get more than 50% of the votes in order to run turkey for the next period of time. it is closer than