Back in december, the optimism of the Ukrainian Forces was fading. There were fears it would be a bad winter and the russians were targeting Generating Stations and heating plants. But ukrainian engineers worked like crazy to restore power. And anyway, the winter wasnt that bad. Now some Military Experts in the west are even daring to suggest that the russian army might simply collapse over the next few months. Who knows . President xi jinping of china has presented himself as a deal maker in the war, but his proposals have so far been pretty vague and, perhaps not surprisingly, much more favourable to his friend Vladimir Putin than to ukraine. Theres less noise about a chinese invasion of taiwan, but many taiwanese leaders think itll happen by 2029. In the us, since december, ex President Trump has been accused of various crimes and been sued successfully for one of them. Yet his popularity with the Republican Party has soared, while his main rival, ron desantis, has faded. Now trump
over chelsea in a party atmosphere at the etihad stadium on sunday. city were confirmed as champions on saturday without even kicking a ball after nottingham forest beat arsenal, and that result allowed manager pep guardiola to make nine changes from the side that thrashed real madrid to get into the champions league final. to get into the champions leaaue final. ~ ., ~ ., league final. we all know when it comes to league final. we all know when it comes to manchester - league final. we all know when it comes to manchester city, i it comes to manchester city, the players and the fans know what that winning feeling is. remarkable when you consider in early april there were eight points behind arsenal and fair enough, arsenal have faulted towards the end of the season but manchester city have gone on an amazing run. 15 games unbeaten including 12 wins. this trophy, though, is only the first in pep guardiola s masterplan. first week ofjune they re in the fa cup against manche
and that result allowed manager pep guardiola to make nine changes from the side that thrashed real madrid to reach the champions league final. 0ur sports correspondent nesta mcgregor has more. well, we all know when it comes to manchester city, the players and the fans know what that winning feeling is. remarkable when you consider in early april there were eight points behind arsenal. fair enough. arsenal have faltered towards the end of the season, but manchester city have gone on an amazing run 15 games unbeaten, including 12 wins. today they rested the likes of erling haaland, kevin de bruyne, jack grealish and john stones. you know, real, real quality players that have shown the depth of their squad. this trophy, though, is only the first in pep guardiola s masterplan. first week ofjune they re in the fa cup against manchester united. then a week later, the big one in istanbul, the champions league final against inter milan, going for what will be an incredible historic
as champions on saturday without even kicking a ball after nottingham forest s win against arsenal. and that result allowed manager pep guardiola to make nine changes from the side that thrashed real madrid to reach the champions league final. 0ur sports correspondent nesta mcgregor has more. well, we all know when it comes to manchester city, the players and the fans know what that winning feeling is. remarkable when you consider in early april there were eight points behind arsenal. fair enough. arsenal have faltered towards the end of the season, but manchester city have gone on an amazing run 15 games unbeaten, including 12 wins. today they rested the likes of erling haaland, kevin de bruyne, jack grealish and john stones. you know, real, real quality players that have shown the depth of their squad. this trophy, though, is only the first in pep guardiola s masterplan. first week ofjune they re in the fa cup against manchester united. then a week later, the big one in ist
hello, i m sally bundock, welcome to the programme. ukraine s president zelensky is returning home from a meeting of g7 leaders injapan. he left the summit having secured further promises of financial and military support, including american made f 16 fighterjets. the commander of ukraine s ground forces says they re close to surrounding the eastern city of bakhmut. ukraine has disputed the russian claims to have taken full control of the city. russia has lost thousands of men in the assault on bakhmut many from the wagner mercenary group. our diplomtaic correspondent james landale reports from kyiv. for more than eight months, in what s now the longest battle of this war, ukrainian forces have defended bakhmut. the eastern city is now largely in ruins and largely in russian hands in particular in the hands of fighters like these from the wagner mercenary group, whose leader yevgeny prigozhin claimed to have full control here. from house to house, he said, we took the