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,
against fear and panic back in 2014, when the war in the east of the country erupted that war has gone on ever since and, if you like, the body politic here in ukraine has been inoculated ever since. and i think people feel that they are used to the cost of war, and they have kind of mentally and psychologically adjusted to it. i think that is psychologically plausible, but i think there are also other reasons. president zelensky is obviously deeply worried that any kind of fear and panic could upset the economy and put off investment that his country badly needs. but i think it s also possible that he s not seeing the same intelligence that the west is seeing and that could be a problem. in other developments on sunday more than a dozen countries have now urged their citizens to leave the country. also today, these pictures show members of an international
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