hello and welcome. ukraine s application to join the european union looks set to take a step forward today. senior eu officials will give their recommendation on whether to grant the country what s known as candidate status . but it s a long and complicated process to actually become a member. in his nightly address, president zelensky said ukraine has never been closer to the european union than it is now. here s azadeh moshiri. ukraine s president called it a truly historic day, describing a visit to kyiv by some of europe s most powerful leaders. from france, germany and italy, three of the eurozone s largest economies as well as romania, and while president zelensky has grown accustomed to receiving politicians who wish to see the war first hand, this time he had clear demands, more weapons and shoring up support for ukraine s candidacy to the european union. translation: ukraine has felt the support of four powerful european states at once and in particular support for
here s chris fawkes. this is the hottest day of the year so far. temperatures in the last hour have reached 30 degrees at london s heathrow airport and continue to climb across east anglia and south east england, more widely, temperatures into the 30s. when i go on holiday for beach action, more often than not, somebody takes the sun loungers by putting towels on them, but not here in thejurassic coast. this is swanage in dorset looking absolutely glorious an hour orso looking absolutely glorious an hour or so ago. the heatwave has been building across western europe. across spain, we have had temperatures reach the mist 40s for much of the last week. the earliest heatwave we have seen here for over 40 heatwave we have seen here for over a0 years. and the heat has been spreading northwards. just yesterday, reaching southern france where temperatures reached a0 degrees as well. this is the earliest in the year we have seen temperatures that high. the heatwave is ferocious and
degrees heat. jean luc melenchon was knocked out of the presidential election in france this year but he harnessed his supporters to a new alliance of green and left wing parties. that is press that is threatening the allies of emmanuel macron in the presidential race on sunday. the presidential race on sunday- the presidential race on sunday. the presidential race on sunda. ., ., , sunday. for most of my life i have been sunday. for most of my life i have been voting sunday. for most of my life i have been voting for - sunday. for most of my life i have been voting for the - sunday. for most of my life i l have been voting for the lesser of two evils are now for the first time in my life we have a green alliance on the left and it is exciting. it is exciting. the alliance finish neck it is exciting. the alliance finish neck and it is exciting. the alliance finish neck and neck - it is exciting. the alliance finish neck and neck with | finish neck and neck with emmanuel macro
jean luc melenchon was knocked out of france s presidential election this year, but he s harnessed his supporters to a new alliance of green and left wing parties that s threatening president macron s allies in sunday s parliamentary race. for most of my life, i ve been voting for the lesser of two evils. and now, finally, we have, for the first time in my life, a big alliance on the left and it s exciting. the alliance finished neck and neck with mr macron s party in the first round of voting. the president broke his silence ahead of sunday s vote to warn against disorder in france. the alliance candidate in toulouse says there s a difference between disorder and democracy. translation: everyone needs to be reassured. l we are the united left, so we re not going to bring in soviet tanks.