to send in the leopards. well, my guest is ukraine s foreign minister, dmytro kuleba. are ukraine s strategic options being narrowed by wavering amongst western allies? foreign minister dmytro kuleba in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. it s my pleasure to be with you. it s great to have you back on the show. i m sure you watched very closely what happened in ramstein, germany, when ukraine s allies met at defence minister level to discuss new weapons supplies to ukraine. what appears to have emerged is yet more uncertainty, particularly about whether you re going to get tanks. how damaging is that uncertainty? the meeting in ramstein itself was the quintessential moment of weeks of different talks and negotiations and also public appeals, so everything that was not decided in ramstein, including main battle tanks, will be decided within a short term perspective. i m absolutely confident about that because we continue our work. we hear more and more important messages coming from di
to south africa. and britain s prime minister orders an investigation into how the chairman of the governing conservative party settled a multi million dollar tax dispute. let s start with the war in ukraine. eu foreign ministers have been meeting in brussels amid an ongoing row about whether to send tanks. member countries are putting pressure on germany to provide some of its leopard two tanks, to help fight off russia s invasion. estonia s foreign minister has been at those talks in brussels he s been speaking to the bbc. decisions need to be implemented and the decisions need to be done and there is a moment of leadership which needs to be created. and my strong message is indeed, to all countries, who have weapons and stockpiles to give them immediately without any political caveats or any further considerations or hesitance of the russian s reaction. so let s take a closer look at germany s role in all this. the leopard 2 is operated by about 20 countries worldwide
former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. rishi sunak has ordered an inquiry into the tax affairs of nadhim zahawi, the man he appointed as chair of the conservative party. the ethics adviser sir laurie magnus, a former investment banker, has been asked to get to the bottom of everything , following reports mr zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes to hmrc. it is quite the turn around. on wednesday the prime minister told the commons there was nothing further to investigate. mr speaker, my honourable friend has already addressed this matter in full, and there is nothing more i can add. but there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. number 10 says, it was only this weekend the prime minister became aware of penalties mr zahawi had paid to the tax office, while serving as chancellor. in that role, mr zahawi was nominally, overseeing the work of the tax office. a complicating factor. integrity and accountability is rea
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