think some of the adversaries potentially, let s say china russia, other nations. how do you think they will view and understand what the president united states? we re saying today what i think firstly, allies will be incredibly grateful because he recommitted america. that s the only remaining superpower. and the leader of the nato alliance to committing to protect that alliance. and europe, this is, this is crucial and it s a incredibly differentiating point between him and the way donald trump talks about nato and the commitment to the alliance so it s very differentiating, of course, allies are incredibly worried about what might happen on november 5th or whenever the election is, they re very concerned about what happens in terms of the survival of the alliance and the, and the survival of europe frankie, when they face right now with a great threat to the survival of europe in putin s invasion of ukraine. so i think that s, that s on that part. and then on the other
thank you for coming on newswatch. you have been a bbc reporter for a while but it s your first time in a war zone. did you feel in danger? it certainly was a nervy time in the first few days of the invasion. when i arrived it was a marine crisis but it was the speedin a marine crisis but it was the speed in which war descended on notjust kyiv but the whole country. the size of the advance and we saw russian forces moving on from the south, east and north, that really took everyone by surprise and it was that huge unknown that was pretty difficult to deal with. of course it is dangerous but it s about the personal level of risk which you are happy with and we have got a high risk team, a bbc team that solely deal with that and our safety which is the biggest priority. and watching you reporting, seeing you wearing your protect clothing, one wonders what sort of training you would have before going up there? yet so the bbc puts before going up there? yet so the bbc puts on
country s borders. welcome to the show, everyone. it is now 8:00 a.m. in lviv, ukraine, and we re getting a clearer picture about russia s goals in ukraine. russia s military now confirming its objective is to take full control of ukraine s black sea coast. and key to that is a city that we ve been talking about for days now of mariupol, where an unknown number of ukrainian troops as well as civilians are trapped inside a large steel factory, a large steel complex as you can see it on your screen. ukraine s prime minister spoke about the dire situation as he met with u.s. officials in washington. have a listen. the situation in mariupol is terrible. this is the biggest humanitarian catastrophe during this and maybe during last centuries because many thousands of people, maybe many thousands of people are died in mariupol, and we will see the terrible atrocities and terrible war crimes in mariupol when it will be liberated from russians. that s the situation in mariupol.
looming large over the d-day commemorations in europe and volodymyr zelenskyy is making sure world leaders remember the ukrainian president address france s parliament de this morning, telling lawmakers that europe is no longer at peace. he also accused russia s vladimir putin of crossing. a red line after red line. just like hitler did. and later in paris, zelenskyy sat down with president biden, who announced the new aid package for ukraine and also did something that world leaders rarely do. he publicly apologized, blaming what he called some conservatives in congress for the delay in providing military assistance to ukraine. the ukrainian leader thanked president biden and stress the importance of continued us support. listen and our meeting here is symbolic it s very important that you stay with us this bipartisan support with the congress. it s very important that in this unit, united states america, all
This week was a week of disappointment for the Ukrainian leader in terms of financial support.EU leaders missed the mark by failing to agree a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine at a summit in Brussels, a Western diplomat told the Financial Times.