was first released. hello and welcome to bbc news. president putin has described the sanctions imposed on russia because of its invasion of ukraine as insane. he said the measures had failed to work, and were impacting the west instead. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training operation for ukrainian soldiers with the aim of training up to ten thousand soldiers every four months. and the question of ukraine s candidacy for the eu is expected to be decided at a european council summit next week. azadeh moshiri has this report. the president told his people there was some good news. translation: there was some good news. translation: now we are one ste awa translation: now we are one step away from translation: now we are one step away from the translation: now we are one step away from the beginning l translation: now we are one | step away from the beginning of a full fledged integration into the european union. we have a positive d
who will host eurovision? the uk s in talks to host the singing spectacular, hello, iam hello, i am shaun ley shaun ley. in what is the fastest decision in eu history, the european commission has formally recommended candidate status for ukraine but with conditions. for ukraine, this has been a long time ambition, and president zelensky was quick to react hailing it as an historic moment which will bring victory in the war against russia closer . meanwhile, president putin said he was not against the idea because the eu wasn t a military bloc, but couldn t see how it would benefit kyiv. here is commission president ursula von der leyen speaking in brussels. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. let s look at where ukraine is in its eu application. the application has broadly three phases. phase 1 is the application to become a candidate for eu membership. ukraine submitted their
in what is the fastest decision in eu history for ukraine this has been a long time ambition, and president zelensky was quick to react hailing it see how it would benefit kyiv. for ukraine this has been a long time ambition, and president zelensky was quick to react hailing it as an historic moment which will bring victory in the war against russia closer . meanwhile president putin said he was not against the idea because the eu wasn t a military bloc but couldn t see how it would benefit kyiv. here is commission president ursula von der leyen speaking in brussels. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. let s look at where ukraine is in its eu application. the application has broadly three phases. phase one is the application to become a candidate for eu membership. ukraine submitted their application in march. first they need the european commission to recommend them which
so, the industry is trying to ramp up services there s huge amounts of demand, people want to travel, people want to go on holiday but the problem is within the airports, the ground handling services so, for example, baggage handling, check in staff, people to refuel the planes, they are not there, or at least not in sufficient numbers. and that means we are starting to see extensive delays in airports, people having to queue for long periods of time and flights having to be cancelled. so, what we are seeing here at gatwick today and at schiphol is an attempt to pre empt that happening over the summer. july and august in europe are the peak months and that is why we are cutting services now, because the gamble that companies like gatwick airport are making is that you can take a bit of pain now and it saves potential chaos occurring later in the year. so, that is what they are trying to do, minimise disruption by taking a hit now, but preventing lots and lots of short term cancel
decided that they were going to lay off staff. and now they re recruiting them back because the industry is recovering, but they can t recruit people back quickly enough, and it is notjust a question in this country or in other countries ofjust going out and getting people and them a job and starting to pay them. if you work in the aviation industry, you need things like security clearances, and those tend to take time, so the industry is trying to ramp up services. there s huge amounts of demand. people want to travel, people want to go on holiday, but the problem is within the airport the ground handling services so, for example, baggage handling, check in staff, people to refuel the planes, they re not there, or at least not in sufficient numbers, and that means that we re starting to see extensive delays in airports, people having to queue for long periods of time and flights having to be cancelled. so what we re seeing here at gatwick today,