on thursday, leaders agreed to use the interest from frozen russian assets to raise $50 billion for kyiv s war effort plus humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts. the g7 countries, which include the us, canada, britain, france, germany, japan and italy, are sitting on about $300 billion in seized russian assets. meanwhile, speaking in moscow, president vladimir putin on friday laid out his terms for a ceasefire. mr putin demanded ukraine withdraw from four regions of ukraine that are partially occupied by russia, and abandon efforts tojoin nato. both ukraine and the west dismissed the proposal. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky called it an ultimatum similar to a move made by adolf hitler in the past. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale is following reaction and the latest from the g7 in italy. the war in ukraine is being fought on three fronts. you have the fighting on the ground, you ve got the industrial arms race to generate as much ammunition as
ukraine receive compensation for damage caused by russia. here s what presidents biden and zelensky had to say after signing. and we have signed the strongest agreement between ukraine and us since our independence. and this is an agreement on security and thus, on the protection of human life. our goal is to strengthen ukraine s credible defence and deterrence capabilities for the long term. a lasting peace for ukraine must be underwritten by ukraine s own ability to defend itself now and to deter future aggression any time in the future. for reaction here in washington to the us ukraine agreement, i spoke to congressman gabe amo, a democrat from rhode island who serves on the house committee on foreign affairs. congressman, i want to start with the new security pact announced by the us and ukraine that s supposed to show the us s long term influence and also interest in ukraine. what do you make of this agreement? well, look, i think this is exactly the type of commitment t
the late 19905 conflict between serb forces and albanian insurgents for the future of the former yugoslav province of kosovo left thousands dead. serbian forces attempted to rid the region of its ethnic albanian population. the kosovo liberation army retaliated. many civilians died most of them men. around 5,800 people disappeared. 25 years later, and almost 1,600 people are still missing, leaving many mothers, wives, and sisters to lament birthdays uncelebrated, weddings unplanned, and grandchildren unborn. among them, kujtime, an ethnic albanian who s lived all her life in the city that s become kosovo s lasting symbol of ethnic partition. it was during that time that tragedy struck. dragica, an ethnic serb, lived in kosovo until the war forced her to flee to serbia. her 17 year old son, ivan, went missing on the ill fated journey tojoin her. during spring 1999, the war in kosovo entered its most intense phase. nato intervened in the war, targeting serbian forces they a
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in the t20 world cup and they certainly got it. in fact it was a record breaking day forjos buttler s team with the largest win in the competition s history in terms of balls remaining. adil rashid took four wickets as they bowled out oman for 47 the fourth lowest total in the t20 world cup. mark wood and joffa archer contributing with three wickets apiece. england set about their target with gusto and they made it injust 19 balls however, they do need another big win over namibia on saturday and even then it may not be enough to take them through, with scotland also in contention for second spot in the table. but they can celebrate for now. the netherlands may have lost their match against bangladesh but there was a stunning catch by sybrand engelbrecht the dutchman diving to grab it. shakib al hasan made an unbeaten 64 from 46 balls to guide bangladesh to 159, before rishad hossain took three wickets as the netherlands fell 25 runs short. let s turn our attentio