work together, coordinated in unison. with a happy loss if macron didn t stay in power? well, it would certainly be a risk. because marie le pen is one of the french politicians in this electoral campaign who have been very critical of nato in the past. in the past, she is suggested that france should leave natal over the past two weeks. she has been a little bit more subtle about the integrated natal command. but it doesn t change the essence of her proposals. she is very much critical of the western alliance, and the victory certainly, would raise a lot of questions about the future of france s goal in that alliance in the western community. one of the reasons the right house is so concerned, is emmanuel macron s polling. which is weak, weaker than president biden s right now. in large part because french voters, like american voters are furious about inflation. is that what is driving against macron? what that really does seem to be the case. just a few weeks ago, emmanuel mac
sanctions. translator: i invited you in order to talk about the issues concerning the economy and finance. mikhail and i have discussed this, including the sanctions that the so-called western community or the empire of lies, as i call it in my address is trying to implement against my country. moscow s stock market did not open today. the value of russia s currency has taken a major dive. and russia s central bank forced to more than double its interest rate to boost the sinking ruble. senior diplomatic editor nic robertson joins us live from the streets of moscow. what is the latest there? john, that meeting president putin had not just with his prime minister there but his first deputy prime minister, head of central bank, heads of other banks as well. putin is really struggling to do what he didn t expect he d have to do since he last invaded ukraine. he d begun investing, making
is really happening. we don t want to go back there, to this iron curtain. we don t want to be isolated from the society. me personally and everybody who i know, we don t want this. western sanctions, economic and financial, are designed to punish the russian state, the kremlin, for its war in ukraine. but inevitably the russian public will feel the effects, too, and already there s a sense of disbelief here on the streets atjust how quickly russia s international isolation is growing. in the kremlin, an urgent meeting. translation: i invited you here to talk about the economy - and about those sanctions that the so called western community, or as i call it, the empire of lies, is trying to impose on us.
three-years-old and she s far away. me and my husband are unable to pick her up because we are under fire. translation: it was awful in the shelter because of. the conditions, no toilets, no water, nothing. let s look where russian forces are in ukraine. the areas in yellow here, show the parts of ukraine now under russian control, with heavy fighting highlighted in several key cities, including chernihiv and in kharkiv to the north, the donbas region to the east and mariupol and berdansk in the south. these are satellite images of military vehicles heading towards kyiv. they appear to show a large deployment of russian forces and tanks near the town of ivankiv, about 80 kilometres north west of kyiv. the convoy is thought to be at least five kilometres long. in the capital, kyiv, the ukrainian military says it forced back repeated assaults overnight. we go straight to the capital now. the bbc s clive myrie is in kyiv. bring us up to date on the situation
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