and james joins us now. where are we this lunchtime in terms of the agreement, the tone of all the conversations there?- the conversations there? look, if esterda the conversations there? look, if yesterday was the conversations there? look, if yesterday was a the conversations there? look, if yesterday was a difficult - the conversations there? look, if yesterday was a difficult day - yesterday was a difficult day because president zelensky simply didn t get what he wanted over promises of a time and how and when ukraine is going tojoin nato, today everybody has been falling over each other to try and put on a united front. you had the prime minister, yen stoltenberg, all making warm words about the prime minister saying that ukraine belong to nato. we had a secretary general saying, look, we meet today as friends and i hopein look, we meet today as friends and i hope in the future we will meet as allies. you also had president zelensky being very confident, saying this is going t
landlords will be forced to raise rents or sell their properties. we have actually seen over the last year around about a 5% increase in rents and that is a product of the pressures that landlords are facing, at least in part, partly from the change in financing conditions and also other pressures that they have. if they don t bump up the rent, the report says many more landlords will run into trouble. last year the proportion of buy to let mortgages where the rent was barely enough or too little to cover their interest payments was 3%. within two years, that number would leap to a0%. buy to let landlords also cant offset their interest payments against tax any more. all in all, its a lot less profitable than it used to be and we can expect many more landlords to sell up. the prime minister says he s yet to make a final decision about whether to accept recommended pay rises for workers
of a new council where he can raise concerns as an equal partner. yesterday, ukraine s leader said it was absurd nato would not say when and how his country could join. today, he sounded more optimistic. translation: nato needs us just as we need nato. and i believe that this is absolutely fair. i am confident that after the war, ukraine will be in nato, we will be doing everything possible to make it happen. that confidence came after meetings with allies like the prime minister, who was full of warm words. good to see you here where you belong. but he also came bearing gifts, plans to guarantee ukraine s security before itjoins nato. we can have success with security guarantees. yeah. those guarantees will not come from nato, but from individual countries such as these g7 leaders who met
leader and the leader of the sweeting are meeting the nato secretary general yen stoltenberg to see if it s possible to hammer out some kind of a deal that nato would dearly hope to get results that they can demonstrate a bit more unity of the next couple of days. [30 can demonstrate a bit more unity of the next couple of days. the next couple of days. do stay with us. the next couple of days. do stay with us- we the next couple of days. do stay with us. we can the next couple of days. do stay with us. we can see the next couple of days. do stay with us. we can see pictures - the next couple of days. do stay with us. we can see pictures ofl with us. we can see pictures of president biden coming down the steps of air force one wearing his trademark sunglasses as well. while we re watching these pictures how crucial is this for president biden? 0f crucial is this for president biden? of course remembering that he also has a message to send back home if he wants to win the democrat
future of ukraine lies in the alliance. future of ukraine lies in the alliance- future of ukraine lies in the alliance. ,, ., , ., , alliance. yen stoltenberg was talkinu alliance. yen stoltenberg was talking about alliance. yen stoltenberg was talking about it. alliance. yen stoltenberg was talking about it. well, - alliance. yen stoltenberg was talking about it. well, this . talking about it. well, this was a symbolic meeting. the first time since the full scale invasion, you have the head of nato, the alliance which binds all of ukraine s western allies together, in kyiv meeting volodymyr zelenskyy. what did the ukrainian leader want from this? he called for a timeline for ukraine to be officially invited by nato, something it dearly wants, by the alliance. yen is stoltenberg wouldn t be drawn on that. he said they d be high up on the agenda at a coming nato summit injuly which mr zielinski is invited to butjens stoltenberg was keen to point out the billions of euros that have