in northern italy. and, irish boxer katie taylor, bids to become only the second fighter in the modern era, to hold all the major belts, at two different weights. in london, joanna simpson s husband killed her in a vicious attack. he is now due for release after serving half his sentence. her mother desperately wants him to stay behind bars. good evening. vladimir putin cast a shadow over two major international summits today. in a significant shift of policy, at the g7 meeting of the world s most advanced economies injapan, america signalled it s willingness to back the supply of f 16fighterjets, and the training of ukrainian pilots, in the war with russia. meanwhile moscow s closest ally in the middle east. syria s bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia, after years of international isolation. during syria s bloody civil war, it was only massive russian military support, that allowed assad condemned by many as a war criminal
assad will recall and he might have reminded vladimir putin that the leaders who were telling him he had to go were david cameron and barack obama who have gone now into political history. i think certainly that president zelensky s appeal for them to basically agree with him that ukraine needs support, that isn t really going to wash very well because the arab states, particularly the rich oil states which are considerable military powers in their own right, have stayed very neutral in all of this like most of the global south. this is really nato and ukraine against russia. will this mean that suddenly gulf money will go flooding into syria? no, idon t gulf money will go flooding into syria? no, i don t think so, because there are still severe sanctions attached to syria and there will be retaliation, no doubt, from the americans if they tried to do anything like that. but this is a symbolic moment. president assad, a
things to watch. first is, this is a precarious moment for ukraine. after significant gains in the offensives in the fall, as the fighting grinded to a halt for the winter, russia pulverized the energy grid. those additional mobilized troops that putin called up have had some impact in at least stemming some of the russian losses. you see potentially an offensive from belarus, another run at kyiv is something they have been worried about. ukraine needs support. they need it now. they need to figure out how to deal with the hard winter. they need to deal with the planning for the spring, how they re going to hold the gains they have made and potentially make more. critically, i think this is why it s smart this is happening, they need more support from the u.s. congress. there s an enormous bill before the congress right now. ukraine needs to know congress is going to be there for them going forward. with kevin mccarthy coming in
economy became, they invest not in economy, not to the people, they invest this money to the army. and we have horrible results in different countries, and we have horrible pictures from our country, from ukraine. stop the economic relationship with russia is important. never support the war in ukraine. it is very important. very important to understand and right now, sanctions work very well. we need, ukraine needs support, economic support, political support, financial support. we need more than weapons because we have to defend our country from one of the strongest army in the world. and our soldier is heroes, heroes who have will and spirit