last year and the year before, where coven restrictions may have been flattered. prime minister barak johnson has come on the heavy criticism, taking part in at least 2 of those gatherings. near miles military later has older the creation of new public security teams and villages and towns across the country . the new units will be given weapons and assist in the army in fighting rebel groups. florence louis has more from political the use of paramilitary forces in myanmar is not new. the man, my military had in the past provided weapons to civilians in ethnic controlled areas to help it fight civil wars. and 5 years ago it gave weapons to non ringo villages in northern reclaimed state. after it launched a brutal crank down against they, mainly muslim rang and minority there. now this time, the creation of power, military forces, india, is thought to be, to help the june, to crack down against the resistance movement, especially in central niana, where security forces have been engaged in fierce battles with resistance fighters, known as the people defend force. now, armed resistance against

k. prime minister barak johnson who is speaking, let's listen it crisis and, and indeed i, we have to chose to show so many times in the last 100 years that crisis is now upon us. is 126 hours since by new britain mooney aggression. oh, cold turkey. every principals who lives behavior betweens states he's hold his wishing on people who ukraine fellows country. he's been bothered to been talking broad, wilkins, of loss of life. he's responsible for hundreds of civilian casualties, including growing up those children and also cause from the death of many russian and ukrainian soldiers. we must accept the room reality, that protein will continue to tighten the voice. and if you go by the sheer size and follow the bridges will machine the also always be heavily against ukrainian on forces. bah, one thing is already clear. and one prediction, the earth mateus i made last time is being proved, right? this is the nation of a free and sovereign country in tragedy. it is a colossal mistake. putin has lied to his people, into his troops. about how this conflict with good, he's not included in t

the russian border yet installed in poland and is then now joining the british prime minister barak johnson going to see troops, nato forces, additional forces have gone there in recent weeks in estonia, here in brussels, i'm inside europe in parliament, and that has been the center of attention for the last couple of hours. we've had presence and keep been didn't here with a speech, he got a standing ovation. he's calling for europe to fast track membership for ukraine to become an e. u member. you had very positive words about that from the senior european leaders. but the reality is it's a long process. the european parliament is voting and that we're expecting realtor in about an hour, quite likely they'll vote to say that the membership should be false drive. that's not something the parliament can actually decide themselves though. it's a long process. european commission has to come up with an opinion. it's then put to the leaders of $27.00 countries. the european council that 1st meeting in the near future is in just over weeks time in paris. they would have to vote on it. and if th

the main thing that you're seeing out of this meeting and you've got the british prime minister barak johnson who's speaking the news conference right now. he just said a short time ago, the message from both the g 7 and nato is ukraine is not alone. this is a, a message they're trying to portray of unity among these allies of these 3 groups. but they're all on the same side of nato, of the g 7 and later on when the president biden joins the e. u of the european union. yes, there are some new things in the pipeline. mainly they're just rubber stamping things that were already agreed. there are now going to be 8 nato battle groups. they're going to strengthen those forces that are on the east and flank the countries. nato countries that are closest to rough sir, extra protection against chemical and biological attack by russia. those are some of the measures with regard to nato. i think the big question is that the measures that a for ukraine, because president zalinski came here with a very clear list of things he wanted. i asked the nato secretary general about those presidents lensky. when

confirmed by the foreign secretary, liz trusts, and also with the tweet by the prime minister barak johnson as well. let's trust mentions that confirming their reports, that means they are reckless and a new a new shot. sure. re returning from iran on wednesday and also with british national iran in american morale has been released from prison on photo, which means that he will be now to his house in iran. and this comes off to a sustained amount of time that during which this has been a real sticking point between iran and the u. k as well. this has been going on for these already ratliff families since 2016 and for a new a story is since 2017. they have been really on the very, a lot of tremendous amount of strain from this is been punctuated by hunger strikes both from and not the mean and her husband. richard ratcliffe, who took place hunger strike just last october for 21 days. he has been very vocal about campaigning to the british government about the release of not the mean. and so she can come home as soon as possible. and it has been really supported by the prison prison sentence

conference that has been coming from number 10 downing street in london between you came prime minister barak johnson canadian prime minister, just in toronto, our mark router, the prime minister of the netherlands, both her prime as turbos, johnson and prime minister just in to door had been talking specifically about the level of humanitarian aid that there had been supplying to ukraine. a mock router. the prime minister for the netherlands was making the same points. but interestingly, that the domination of the, the, the meeting of the press conference was around concerns particularly put forward by mark rotor and deborah's johnson that are about to europe's dependence on energy supplies coming on from russia and the lead to of the difficulty of an picking though is i want to bring in a nadine baba who's been following this from us or for us for london and nadeem in all of that needed cover a, a fair amount of ground. were there any surprises in the press conference or rob for me a surprise or was something that wasn't really arced or to a very much if at all. and that was a, again, about ukraine

they're but the prime minister barak johnson said that this is really going up to the line now. and they seem to be right on the cost of being able to guarantee that she is able to leave the country . of course these things cloaked in, in shadow secrecy, as well as the officials on both the iran in the bush or side, a running to sort of get everything underlined as quickly as possible and securely as possible. sonya, this has been an ongoing thing for many years. can you give us sort of a pricey look at the events that led up to here the, the, the jailing, the, you know, being separate from a daughter, hunger strikes her husband, all these things. well indeed, i mean in this all started back in 2016 when nothing was in iran for a holiday with her daughter who was not even 2 years old. and she was arrest at the airport, removed from, from her family and, and placed in into prison. as you mentioned earlier, was to do with the fact that she was accused of attempting to over throw the iranian government and being a spy. and these are accusations which she has always denied. so she s

this is an idea put forward by prime minister barak johnson at the meeting we were talking about earlier. how much of an instance do you think that might have i don't actually think sanctions against northern circle actually will change the dynamic. they're basically using russia zone bank. it's not actually uses cash where the money that he has. and so i just don't think that's going to be a strong to turn in many and actually in his inner circle, consider personal sanctions to kind of be a badge of honor. we're getting. we just had a department of defense u. s. department of defense briefing from the senior defense official being quoted as saying that they now assess that perkins committed nearly a 100 percent combat power in ukraine of pre stage forces. can you kind of give us a comparison of what that means now, as opposed to the situation that the russians were facing, say a week ago, ryan sicily shows me the ground offensive install. i'm in recent days in the russian military, it's hard over said outwardly they perform so are and so it's not surprising that they commit most of that