he and happen at the european council on thursday.- and happen at the european council on thursday.cil on thursday. he will be in the coronation of the - in the coronation of the willing? —— he will be in the coalition of the willing? i think the countries who have raised their hand and are willing to participate. speaking on british television, you are crucial and a country that has nuclear power and you are crucial in the protection of europe, but also in the capacity to have a real h, so i am pleased to see the franco british relationship restored and the uk willing to take an important part in this new balance that we are finding. thank you for your time. just to say that primer sir keir starmer will be talking to the house of commons in the next couple of hours. you are watching bbc news. israeli police say a man has been killed and several people wounded in a stabbing attack in a bus station in the port city of haifa. officials say the attacker was killed by a security guard. pictures on social media show security personnel running into the building, with several emergency veh

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turkish foreign minister, nato secretary general and the presidents of the european commission and european councill also attend. the italian prime minister, giorgia meloni, has already come here to downing street and met sir keir starmer. he told her they approach the issue of the war in ukraine with a "very similar mindset". ms meloni said it is "very important to talk to each other". talking about the summit, she said: "we are all very committed about a goal that we all want to achieve, which is a just and lasting peace in ukraine. i think it is very, very important that we avoid the risk that the west divides. i think on this the uk and italy can play an important a role in bridge—building." this morning, sir keir spoke to the bbc live on sunday with laura kuenssberg — he was asked for his reaction to what happened in the oval office on friday between president donald trump clearly, you know, there's a lot of tension. the cameras were on. nobody wants to see that. but i spoke to president trump. i spoke to president zelensky. obviously, we then had president zelensky to downing street yesterday

foreign minister, the nato secretary general, the president of the european commission and the european council will also attend. even canada is hopping on the flight to make it to london to have this conversation. and during the summit, it's going to include talks on establishing a european military force to be sent to ukraine that would underpin a cease fire. starmer noted it would involve a coalition of the willing. these are the european leaders arriving to fill the void that donald trump is creating by siding with vladimir putin, charlie. >> what are. >> your what. >> you are describing? >> is the world order being remade in. >> real time right now? >> this is not. >> just a. >> simple adjustment. >> this again. is. >> the world recognizing that, okay, donald. >> trump needs to be taken. seriously and literally and. >> we cannot. >> trust him. >> he is. >> not. >> going to be a reliable ally or negotiator. >> you know, i've. >> given a lot of thought. >> over the years to. >> people like lindsey graham. and by the way, john mccain must be so horrified. to see what his friend is doing right

he's the president of the european councfl president of the european council of leaders.there in mar—a—lago up before the inauguration. she's someone who can be a almost a trump whisperer on behalf of the european union. she's almost she's the closest leader, she�*s the closest leader, i would say, amongst those with a personal friendship with donald trump, which i think even starmer lacks. so i think she could be have a key role. we ask her for a question just now, but she left and got into a car and drove away. we may be hearing more from her from italian media later, so i think we�*ll be watching continental press press tonight, because lots of these leaders will go back to their own audiences domestically and try and convince them of the need to increase defence spending. things are changing very rapidly, i think, on the continent of europe. >> now we know that zelenskyy is being whisked off to talk to the king. what is what are we hoping to achieve with that particular meeting? >> well. >> well. >> i�*m afraid to say that the >> i'm afraid to say that the king doesn'

this cause, including president macron, prime minister meloni, the leaders of nato, the european commission and council, and the prime minister of canada, a vital ally of this country, the commonwealth of ukraine, responsible for trading -- training over 40,000 troops. i also have the privilege beforehand of speaking online to the leaders of estonia, lithuania, and latvia, each of whom, as close as they are to the front line with russia, stressed the urgency of the moment. and, mr. speaker, it was a productive summit. together, we agreed a clear strategy, that the united kingdom, france, and our allies will work closely with ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting, which we will then discuss directly with the united states. it's a plan that has four clear principles, which i will now share in full with the house. first, that we must keep the military aid to ukraine flowing. keep increasing the economic pressure on russia. to that end, alongside our partnership on air defense, we are doubling down on military aid. already this year, we had taken our support to record levels. on saturday, we also agreed a

council to support these amendments. as regards the amendments submitted by european countries they clearly replace the ethicists of the american text and make it into anotheranti-russia ultimatum . we are going to vote against it and call on others to follow suit. >> councilmembers have before them five proposed amendments to the text of the draft resolution contained in document s 40 submitted by the united states of america . three of these amendments are submitted jointly by the greece, slovenia and the united kingdom. and 2 were submitted by the russian federation. rule 36 of the council's provisional rules of procedure states the following. if two or more amendments to a motion or draft resolution are proposed the president shall rule on the order in which they are to be voted upon. ordinarily the security council shall first vote on the amendment to remove a substance from the original proposal. and then on the amendment next to this removed until all amendments have been put to the vote. but when an amendment adds to or deletes from the text of a motion or draft resolution that amendment shall be voted on first. accordi

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the leaders of the european union commission, council and parliament sent out a joint statement tellingsident zelenskyy he is not alone. they said that your dignity honors the bravery of the ukrainian people. be brave, be strong, be fearless. kim. >> looking forward now, there's a meeting between european leaders sunday. there have also been calls for an eu u.s. summit over ukraine. what are we expecting? >> we're expecting president zelenskyy to attend that summit in the uk. he's actually on his way right now. it's being hosted by prime minister keir starmer, who was also at the white house, ingratiated himself to president donald trump, offered a state visit, a letter from the king. and that is what they were hoping that president zelenskyy would do. he didn't do that because he felt he had to stand up for his people. and so these leaders, when they meet in the uk, have to figure out a way to salvage this relationship between the uk, between ukraine and the donald trump administration. even though president zelenskyy did tell fox news that he feels it can still be salvaged. so that's

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host: you are also a former national european security council foreign affairs director under president remind our audience or tell our audience about your background and work in the area of u.s. foreign policy. guest: my family arrived to the u.s. as refugees in 1979 from the soviet union, fleeing communism and soviet oppression. we got here at the age of four, arrived in new york city, when off to university in the military and served for 22 years. served in combat and i was in iraq and then posted in kyiv, ukraine, moscow, russia, obviously all the news, and then in the pentagon, i looked at the russian strategy and was invited to join the white house where i was responsible for russia, ukraine, a bunch of countries, and gained notoriety or infamy pending on how you look at it when i reported a scheme to extort the investigation of vice president biden at the time going into the 2020 elections, perceiving the dangers of the impact of russian aggression towards ukraine and the potential for an even larger war that started in 2014 as well as the impacts on our own free and fair electio

host: you are also a former national european security council foreign affairs director under presidentemind our audience or tell our audience about your background and work in the area of u.s. foreign policy. guest: my family arrived to the u.s. as refugees in 1979 from the soviet union, fleeing communism and soviet oppression. we got here at the age of four, arrived in new york city, when off to university in the military and served for 22 years. served in combat and i was in iraq and then posted in kyiv, ukraine, moscow, russia, obviously all the news, and then in the pentagon, i looked at the russian strategy and was invited to join the white house where i was responsible for russia, ukraine, a bunch of countries, and gained notoriety or infamy pending on how you look at it when i reported a scheme to extort the investigation of vice president biden at the time going into the 2020 elections, perceiving the dangers of the impact of russian aggression towards ukraine and the potential for an even larger war that started in 2014 as well as the impacts on our own free and fair elections

this cause, including president macron, prime minister meloni, the leaders of nato, the european commission and council, and the prime minister of canada, a vital ally of this country, the commonwealth of ukraine, responsible for trading -- training over 40,000 troops. i also have the privilege beforehand of speaking online to the leaders of estonia, lithuania, and latvia, each of whom, as close as they are to the front line with russia, stressed the urgency of the moment. and, mr. speaker, it was a productive summit. together, we agreed a clear strategy, that the united kingdom, france, and our allies will work closely with ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting, which we will then discuss directly with the united states. it's a plan that has four clear principles, which i will now share in full with the house. first, that we must keep the military aid to ukraine flowing. keep increasing the economic pressure on russia. to that end, alongside our partnership on air defense, we are doubling down on military aid. already this year, we had taken our support to record levels. on saturday, we also agreed a

former national security council director for european affairs, retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is here. he's also the author of the new book, the folly of realism how the west deceived itself about russia and betrayed ukraine. let me start with you, michael crowley, and the latest on how this day has been completely, completely thrown into chaos in terms of what was planned between two countries and their leaders. >> thanks, nicole. >> where to begin? i mean, this was a completely astonishing spectacle. and people who i've been in washington for a long time, but people who have been covering the white house and washington even longer say what i believe, which is that this is something we've never seen before. you know, donald trump, you think this president has run out of ways to kind of stun and amaze us, and then he comes up with a new one to have this kind of a confrontation in the oval office. and what, remember, was not even supposed to be a press conference, but a brief pool spray. basically, a photo op is totally astounding. and,

this, alexander vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and former director for european affairs on the national security councilhe's also the author of a new book, the folly of realism how the west deceived itself about russia and betrayed ukraine. so, lieutenant colonel vindman, thank you for being here. we all know your name because you reported on the phone call between trump and zelenskyy during his first un administration, and that led to impeachment hearings. what was familiar to you about their interaction on friday? >> there was a significant element of deja vu, frankly. i put myself in this back in the seat in the white house and thought about the damage control that all the professional staff, frankly, even the political staff that were not entirely aligned with the president, were going to have to undertake. frankly, this administration is also very different. last time around, there were there was wise counsel saying, mr. president, we need to adjust this, this, this is not going to be good for you. now you have basically folks toadying up to donald trump and catering to him and frankly, feeding his

really might leave the europeans like trumps as they all are undermining them. jumps as they are undermining the base agreement and the coolest front and britain have you in security council vito's. so the united states rush here in china conte team up and get a resolution to prevent these western european powers that i call them the european rump of your asia from acting some sort of madman strategy. do they not realize russia has the largest number of nuclear weapons and that they would be against policy in washington, moscow, and aging? i'm not sure that they do, frankly. um, i've been approved by the lack of serious strategic thoughts in europe. i'm. but as i say they're just not used to is i, you know, i mean the bushes tabs and basically so many years. and i was being used to getting its orders from washington, and in a sense it is still a bad and the orders of the last us administration. and when i have to, it seems still fully taking account of the fact that, you know, you have a very different us administration. i mean, my theory is that this is so deeply, i mean, it was kind of genetically embedded in your pin for an insecurity establishments. that they had to s

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he's a former director of european affairs for the u.s. national security council. he also formerly served as a political military affairs officer for russia, for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and as an attache at the u.s. embassy in moscow. he's the author of a brand new book, the folly of realism how the west deceived itself about russia and betrayed ukraine. wow. first of all, i'd like the audience. i think i'd like them to think that we book our show really well on the news. but you were actually going to be here. we were. we had planned this a while ago because of your book, which literally could have been written overnight and published. what what we saw happen. i don't even know what you make of it. it's about 24 hours. >> it is. i wrote this thing years back, actually, to finish up my doctoral work and then rewrote it, timing it for the release on the third war, recognizing that we were still going to have regardless of what party was going to be in power, democrats or republicans, we were still going to have war, and we were going to have decen

point that is easy to say that this is all performative, but the entire european commission and leadership and the leader of the council and 13 heads of state are today in kyiv to mark the anniversary. that has to turn into money. that has to turn into more weapons. but i think it would not be quite fair to say that is not meaningful. all the people i met meant it deeply and i think my generation knows this is the conflict of our lifetime and the future of europe depends on its resolution. fiona: although in might not feel it from the united states, the further you get from washington, d.c., it definitely does not feel it. i spent a lot of time going around the country talking about why ukraine is relevant to the united states. because of the dependence that america has had on the larger your national system rooted in the transatlantic alliance over this time and we have kind of forgotten all of that as time has gone on. in the u.k., they forgot why europe was relevant and voted for brexit, for example, so it is not unheard of to lose the plot over time and forget about where things are, but in europe right now people

council. and where do they u.k. and europe stand in all this as sir keir starmer prepares to host european leaders in london this weekend through what happened at the white house today. things started off cordelia and as per usual for these events between the two presidents. but doing questions, tensions ran high. voices were raised and an angry president trump warned president volodymyr zelenskyy that he was gambling with world war iii. following the meeting, ukrainian president zelenskyy left the white house without sending that deal on minerals in ukraine, and canceling a planned press conference. as the ukrainian president departed, president trump wrote on social media, "i have determined that president zelenskyy is not ready for peace if america is involved. he disses back united states of america in its cherished oval office. he can come back when he is ready for peace." let's go back to the start of that meeting, which began in friendlier circumstances with both leaders saying they were ready for an agreement that could help to bring an end to the war in ukraine. let's have a listen back. >> your soldiers have b

council. after this, by the the russians and the americans are talking again, the media is about as about ending sanctions. the europeans, as usual, are angry, confused, and divided. in short, there are high expectations about dramatic change. so where is the trump piece plan the welcome back to going under, and i'm still here with a full i'm a director of the kind of the most cassandra now member of russia's foreign and defense policy council, dr. dimitri trend and dr. trenton you were expressing caution at the end of the one about the trump policy visa be russia, ukraine. i mean, i've got to ask you whether uh, in the light of the fee is clearly that he's pursuing some sort of imagine re nick sony in line. i mean it's that is that because the trump administration doesn't really appreciate the times of change and the tone to between badging and most cool can no longer be split apart, like richard nixon did as well. i think they've loved also from trump's 1st stand up to whitehouse. not a frontal attack on this. i know russian relationship with you. few if any results. so the they're likely to get smiled at this time. b

we've ever seen in a un resolution around the security council america side with china and russia, and condemning what putin did and not their europeancans and democrats have been saying in lockstep. we've taken trips together over to europe to stand with ukraine. we've had zelensky multiple times meeting with us, meeting with us as senators and private, him receiving standing ovations. we had a joint session of congress where he addressed us and we stood up. and people have said time and time again that this is a stand not just in defense of ukraine, but defense of democracy. and if we lose in ukraine, then authoritarian leaders around the world will be more emboldened and america will be dragged into more and more conflicts defending democracy against autocracy and authoritarianism. so this is a significant moment and a significant shift in american history, where we have our president, who is taunting a world leader, lying about his approval ratings, lying about who started the war, lying about who is the dictator, accusing zelensky of being a dictator, not the obvious one in vladimir putin taunting him before he came in. this is

this really rejection of not just ukraine, but european security that was on display over the course of the past week. the u.n. security council resolution, in which the u.s. voted with russia, voted with north korea. and then voted, actually abstained from its own resolution because there was a effort to define the reality of the ground that russia was the aggressor. so the europeans know this and feel this very, very acutely. it's in their own backyard. the brits have been, you know, they were also our allies during the cold war. they understand what the threat of a russian empire and russian resurgence means. they understand that russia's aspirations don't end with regards to just ukraine or belarus. it's it's looking to rebuild that russian empire and the soviet union. so what they're doing is they're sending a strong message. and that's only going to go. yesterday was a clear break that the u.s. wasn't going to be there. that's only going to be clearer as the europeans continue to embrace ukraine, demonstrate ironclad support for ukraine, because russia needs to be warned off, because ukraine needs to exit this war with s

he previously covered russia and ukraine for the paper, former national security council director for europeanst of msnbc's politics nation. reverend al sharpton. >> good to have you, katty kay. much, much to obviously talk about and digest from everything that's happened since friday. there is word that the white house does believe a minerals deal will still go through, that there will be a deal done. i just wanted, though, to talk to you as somebody who obviously knows britain very well about this past weekend and how it's remarkable in all the time. i've, as i said earlier, i visited london an awful lot post brexit and there was a real crisis of confidence, a lack of direction. i thought the images from london, from britain this weekend were stark and showed a very confident britain, a confident that really because of what happened on friday and because of what's been happening over the past couple of months, britain and a europe that understands what its purpose is and seems very motivated by it. talk about that. >> yeah, i think i think. >> london had a moment. >> this weekend. keir starm

we expect a european council meeting on thursday. that's of all the european, the 27 eu leaders. keir starmer mayfield wants to go there, otherwise he might see control of this issue and lose the idea of this issue and lose the idea of being this gap between this bridging that gap between the us and europe. so lots to play for. but i think it was yeah fascinating by the questions, the answers which we didn't get from the prime minister there an element of trumpian ness there from the prime from the prime minister nana, he's announced 1.6 billion of export finance to buy 5000 air defence missiles made in belfast, making british jobs for british workers. and thatis jobs for british workers. and that is what he's been saying to us out in washington, dc. he wants to use the money being spent on the defence budget, from the aid budget spent on uk industry creating quality uk jobs. you�*re almost out of the donald trump playbook. >> it will be interesting whether those weapons will be used for ukraine, or whether we might actually keep some for ourselves. our army is quite depleted, so

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we�*re expecting 16 leaders, plus the leaders of the european commission and the council of europe.ald tusk arriving with what looked like a broken leg, hobbling in. and also there's nato secretary general mark rutte. it's a very, very big day here. we heard earlier from sir keir starmer they the uk government is trying to lead the establishment. what they're calling here, a coalition of the willing set up by the uk and france. it sounds to me like a peacekeeping force of some sort in ukraine to enforce the peace we also need as a country, according to what answered earlier, is a uk, us backstop. that means radar support. that means fast jets looking over the european force on the ground. the badging of that force isn't clear. russia say they won't accept nato troops in ukraine and nato troops. it can�*t be european union. that will be acceptable, i think, to the uk. 50 it might be the creation of so it might be the creation of a whole new idea of a european border force patrolling that eastern flank with russia. a lot is changing very quickly here, but it's all happening here. and

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european leaders summit in london later today and the presidents of the european commission and european councilalso attend. earlier this morning, the prime minister sir keir starmer, he was asked for his reaction to what happened lets have a listen. clearly, you know, there's a lot of tension. the cameras were on. nobody wants to see that. i spoke to president zelensky. and i spoke to president macron after that and then to president trump. been to bridge this, if you like, and get us back to the central focus. president trump on the phone. we've now agreed that the united kingdom, along but it's really important that we keep our central nobody wants any more bloodshed. of what the proposals might be that you are trying but what happens matters so much, because it's about president trump. president trump said it's difficult to do business like this. in that moment, very much sympathy for ukraine. he was berating president zelensky, telling him and i think, prime minister, anyone who's known you for did you? yes, i felt uncomfortable. nobody wants to see that. one is to ramp up the rhetoric as t