prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedonia definitely want to be in the european union. it is still not clear whether the european union truly wants you. do you find that very frustrating? well, i can answer this question very straightforward that the european union needs north macedonia and it needs all the western balkans to be part of the european union. if you have asked me this question a year ago, then my answer would have maybe been more neutral. but now, after the new geostrategic situation which we have in europe, and after the invasion of russia on ukraine, and after all the security, energy and economic issues which are at stake in europe, it is clear and it has been confirmed by all the leaders of the european union, starting from president macron, c
of charity, but because the people of ukraine and the future is in our strategic interest. foreign correspondent, richard engel has more from ukraine. reporter: it is not as a traditional piece summit as you would think. russia is not there. they are not negotiators there trying to work out a cease- fire. this is a summit on peace in which president zelenskyy and his close advisors are meeting with allies of ukraine, including representatives of the white house. they are trying to come up with a formulation for a peace agreement. what a future peace agreement could look like that is acceptable to ukraine, that guarantee means their autonomy, security, guarantees security of western countries. a thing potentially could be acceptable to russia, as well. they are trying to come up with terms that they can accept and potentially enforce strata comes on the heels of the 10 year agreements where president biden said the next decades we will support ukraine with money, trainin
We are continuing to see very unhealthy air quality in the Spokane area due to local wildfire smoke. An air quality alert in place until further notice as a thick
or four hours of potential rain. northern ireland have had 150% of their average 0ctober rainfall and november s set to get off on a wet start. it might be late in the day that it reaches the south and east but you saw those gusty winds, gusts up to even 40, 50mph inland, so that ll temper the feel even though temperatures will be back up a degree or two again. there is a question mark as to how quickly that rain then clears away from southern areas on thursday, so it could really be quite wet here, and still quite windy and blustery further north on thursday, with some drier weather, of course, in between. and there will be drier interludes of weather, less windy interludes through the week. and thursday may be that for parts of central britain, but towards the south and east, as you can see, we ve got that potential rain dragging its heels. so that s one we ll keep you updated on. once it does finally move away, it might be that we see an extended period of drier weather late on thur