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Into ukraine? it is very interesting, you - into ukraine? it is very interesting, you know, into ukraine? it is very - interesting, you know, actually president putin has put a number of offers on the table in the recent years that nato and the united states have resisted picking up, for example, he made an offer to start constraining intermediate range missiles again in europe, and of course the russians violated the treaty, and that is why the treaty, the united states withdrew from it. but he put some decent offers on the table, and now all of a sudden the united states and nato are saying,...

Process takes years and one of the conditions is that you can't be at war. the country has been at war for eight in the east, but signing up would also put it in direct conflict with russia. the kremlin has made that clear, saying it would welcome a guarantee of not drawing though my joining, that it would ease security concerns. and they want an agreement... joining nato, in the words of the uk's uk ambassador of ukraine, that is not going to happen by wednesday. find ukraine, that is not going to happen by wednesday-— ukraine, that is not going to happen by wednesday. and to you, caroline...

The question now is whether they will be met. claire marshall, bbc news, herefordshire. time for the weather. hello there. much of the country today had a fine one with plenty of sunshine. it felt quite warm, too, but there were some heavy, thundery showers across parts of the midlands and northern england. these will tend to fade away. many places turning drier tonight, but we start to see some rain pushing into western areas, courtesy of this new area of low pressure which is going to be with us for quite a few days. you can see ahead of it very light winds. it turns drier as we start the ea...

We'll start to see some rain, which could become more persistent and heavy at times and the breeze picking up, too. temperatures lifting across the south —12—15 degrees, one or two cooler spots further north and east. so, for the end of the week, it's looking a lot more unsettled with low pressure pretty much slap bang on top of us. that's going to bring showers or longer spells of rain, and it's going to turn windier, too. it moves very slowly, affecting western areas through thursday morning, and then eventually starts to reach eastern areas through the second half of the day. so, it doe...

Watching. bye—bye. hello there. much of the country today had a fine one with plenty of sunshine. it felt quite warm, too, but there were some heavy, thundery showers across parts of the midlands and northern england. these will tend to fade away. many places turning drier tonight, but we start to see some rain pushing into western areas, courtesy of this new area of low pressure which is going to be with us for quite a few days. you can see ahead of it very light winds. it turns drier as we start the early hours of friday for many central, southern and eastern areas, but the cloud continues...