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Again. there are so many different dimensions to this crisis and lets focus on energy first of all. to what degree do you think gas calculations will affect how the west place this?— calculations will affect how the west place this? from the german standpoint. — west place this? from the german standpoint, natural— west place this? from the german standpoint, natural gas _ west place this? from the german standpoint, natural gas in - west place this? from the german standpoint, natural gas...

Are about to hold a joint news conference following face—to—face talks. as thats happening in moscow, in washington, the german chancellor is about to meet president biden — olaf scholz has been criticised for not doing enough to help ukraine. in other news, a man who was paralysed in a motorbike accident five years ago is able to walk again, in a medical first. i stand up, i walk where i want alone, i can do the stairs. candidas capital ottawa has declared a state of emergency —— cana...

Them. it is a good sign that the kremlin is still voluntarily speaking to european leaders, the chron is talking to putin in moscow, but i think putin very understands... —— macron talking to. macron needs to be seen as a peacemaker, somebody who has achieved something. i would not expect putin to be willing to help him a lot in this situation in this case, and of course moscow was more keen to talk to their us counterparts, and putin is more keen to talk with biden, he sees him as the only ...

Over european security, and i would like to thank you for the fact that france is always trying to keep the decision—making process free and open and has provided a fair perspective since the start of the relationship. translation: i think todays meeting will begin to point us _ in the direction where we need to go, a de—escalation — the terms of which were already familiar with — the political and military situation, the question of ukraine, which has a great importance, and the normand...

Ukrainians are reassessing their cultural and linguistic ties to russia. our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford has been to the eastern ukrainian city of dnipro. there she met veterans who fought against the russian—backed forces despite coming from a predominantly russian—speaking city.

We have been invited to meet a band whove made a conscious decision to stop singing in russian, to focus only on ukrainian. thats quite a curious choice in a city like this, where actually russian is the main language. questions of families, my bandmates also, its quite normal, but when we speak about the self—identification of a person who lives in ukraine and this person creates lyrics for songs, language, ukrainian language, is an instrument and a weapon at the same time. fighting for what?...

And the feelings about russia are complex, even now. sarah rainsford, bbc news, dnipro. stay with us on outside source. we will soon talk about the beijing

Ben wallace met his polish counterpart in london earlier — and we heard from him. it is absolutely right that two of europes closest allies meet to discuss what we could do to deter russia and any further steps being taken and, indeed, what we would do if russia were to make the foolish mistake of invading a sovereign country. and in that spirit of solidarity and helping share each other�*s challenges of resilience, we will add to those 100 royal engineers by sending a further 350 british tr...

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