following last year s military supplies such as bulletproof vests and helmets, we will support military supplies on a large scale this year. translation: i can happily state that the agreement to transfer i the transport and special equipment including demining cars is already being executed. it helps us save lives. live now to our diplomatic correspondent james landale. we don t often see asian leaders in ukraine. can you give us a sense of the significance of this visit? that s right. we don t often see them there with the president of indonesia went last year, the japanese president earlier this year, china has sent an envoy earlier this year but this is few and far between. kyiv is a conveyor belt of european and american politicians visiting on a daily basis. so it is unusual and diplomats will take comfort from this because one of the great failures of the west, europe and the united states in this war, has been to convince the rest of the world that it matters to them
occasion, and we are all here so proud, so excited. it has been five years since the idea to join cptpp, as we call it, first started, and now we have signed the agreement. this is, it s the fastest growing region, the asia pacific, it is going to be responsible for at least 50% of global growth we are expecting between now and 2035, and countries have been queueing up to join the trading bloc. we have got a seat at the table, and for the uk, it is actually quite a big. live now to marco forgione, who is the director general of the institute of export and international trade. good morning and welcome to the programme. is this a great deal? good morning, and it is a very good day for uk businesses, joining the first night. it provides a tremendous opportunity, notjust for the uk s excellent goods manufacturers but also for the uk s world leading services sector. what world leading services sector. what aood is? world leading services sector. what good is? which world leading
the romantic duetje t aime.moi non plus, sung with her lover, the late french singer serge gainsbourg. it was recorded in 1968 months after they met on the set of the film slogan. in recent years, jane birkin maintained her celebrity status after inspiring the hermes birkin handbag. when it was released, the song je t aime was banned on radio stations in several countries and condemned by the vatican because of its overtly sexual lyrics. speaking in a bbc documentary in 2015 jane birkin reflected on the controversy. the vatican and the bbc banned it just because of the heavy breathing without realising the beauty of the text which is i love you, nor do i. i played it to my mother and father, i used to do itjumping the heavy breathing so my mum said was a beautiful tune and it was of course and their brother came by the health and put the whole thing on with the breathing so mum kept to her thing of saying it was beautiful tune and my father to her thing of saying it was a b
temperatures have been close to a0 degrees celsius in tokyo just over one degree lower than the highest ever recorded figure. extremely high temperatures are being experienced in europe and north africa, particularly in countries which border the mediterranean sea. heat alerts are in place in several countries the mercury touched 44 degrees celsius 111fahrenheit in parts of cyprus. and with this heat comes the increased threat of wildfires. spanish officials evacuated more than 2,500 people on saturday from la palma, in the canary islands because of this blaze. with the latest here s our correspondent in madrid, guy hedgecoe. spain, where i am, is one of several countries in southern europe which has been seeing unusually high temperatures over recent days. although that heatwave is starting to taper off here in spain, other countries are still seeing very high temperatures. for example, in italy and in greece, where the acropolis monument has been closed down tempora
suffer from this heat, - which also lasts a long time. it doesn t stop after a few days, like it did a few years ago. now this heat lasts for more than a month, we really feel the effects. in athens, greece s most popular attraction, the acropolis, is being closed during the hottest hours of the day to protect visitors. but for some, the heat won t stop them. the heat, it s hard but we are going to push through it and, you know, i don t know if we ll ever be back so we have to take advantage of the day. meanwhile, greek medics have been busy working alongside the red cross. we are here again to give people water and also to give leaflets concerning the high temperature period here in greece. in croatia, this man lost his home to wildfires, which have swept along the west coast. how big is that? you can see it over the fence. over in spain, this family were lucky. the field next to us is completely burned. there are a few bits of grass here and there towards the edges that hav