the java life person must go thank you, staying with this, let speak to our diplomatic editor, james bayes in brussels. now, james, it's almost one year wrong from the anniversary of the start of the ball. so quite some moment for surprise biden visit to ukraine. oh absolutely, and i think it really does send quite a powerful message, the e u foreign ministers all were actually in the meeting that meeting had already started before president biden will seem for the 1st time in keith. we did have a question this morning though they were supposed to be meeting the ukrainian foreign minister to meet for labor, and he didn't turn up his part of this trip to brussels was cancelled. now we know why it's because of president a biden's trip to keep. we've not any reaction from the foreign ministers of the you but a little bit later into that meeting they were joined by the deputy prime minister of foreign minister of moldova. the cooper pass q. now moldova is a country that claims it's on the hybrid war. it says that russia is trying to destabilize that country. so it was interesting to speak to m

james bayes al jazeera brussels can charles the 3rd is visited ukrainian troops being trained in the south west of england. the monarch watched a defensive training exercise and met recruits. training with british and international partner forces in wilcher, met instructors from a variety of nations including new zealand, australia, canada, sweden, and finland. british horses began training ukrainian soldiers in the u. k. last june. 4 months after russia invaded ukraine, while the 5000 pregnant russian women have travelled to ordered tina in recent months and this week, dozens more on the way the nations rivals are in the final weeks of pregnancy. it's pretty. the war with ukraine is prompting them to seek argentinian citizenship for that on born children. terrible as well. my dear cool. yeah, cool. well arrived in argentina last december, she's from russia, but decided to leave her country because of the war in ukraine. yeah, yeah. right. okay, she was 28 weeks pregnant when she landed in when a site is now she has a son, jo nel was born in january and named after argentina's footba

our diplomatic editor, james bayes has been speaking to leaders at the munich security conference for the war in ukraine, has been the top of everybody's mind. as you might expect here to be an extra caught, here's the conference. we've had a messages from a host of different western leaders saying that they are fully backing presidents lensky and the ukrainians. at this time. one of those was the president of the european commission of on the line. she says that they continue very strongly the countries, the ukraine. but i asked when is it the time for the fighting to stop? and then to go see ations to start. what ukraine is concerned, i think very important is nothing about ukraine without ukraine. it's a sovereign country. ukraine itself has to decide when the time has come for them to make the next move. this is very important. we support fully and back fully as a piece plan of presidency landscape. and at the moment, being 100 percent support focused on the survival of ukraine military wise, that they are strong and economically wise. and again, nothing about your brain without y

james bayes has more, there's real concern here at nato headquarters about president putin's decision on new start ever since the 70s. there have been limits on strategic nuclear weapons from the u. s. and russia. and in fact, after the cold war, both sides reduced their nuclear stock piles. this though, is the last treaty left and the nato sec could general yen salt and berg raised his alarm during a news conference. i asked him if it made the world a more dangerous place, more nuclear weapons and by less arms control makes the world more dangerous. and that's the reason why innate to we are work so hard on to engage russia on issues related to on control and wanted while i so supported the new start. and also why i'm calling on russia today to reconsider it's a decision to suspend its participation. the new, the start agreement mr. ste oldenburg was meeting here with the ukrainian foreign minister, demitra caliber and the you foreign policy chief, joseph burrell. the focus of their meeting was the ammunition that is going to ukraine in particular artillery shells. it's believed that

i'm james bayes in talon, estonia where the nato secretary general has told me the allies will back ukraine for as long as it takes. but we ask whether that support is really that hope amend ukraine has publicly vowed to take all of its territory back including crimea. so what are the prospects for peace? and is there any room for mediation? and present vladimir putin may have to contend with a stronger and larger nato. how long is he prepared to continue fighting? we'll explore some of these questions. but 1st, a snapshot of what world leaders are saying about what's next to it and you name it in it. western leads intent to transform a local conflict into a phase of global confrontation and we will respond accordingly. because in this case, we are talking about our country's existence, renew my. he is not preparing for peace. he is repaying from war war, so we must give you cray and what they need to prevail into some power. humphrey portal, we are ready for a prolonged conflict. i do not wish it, but we must collectively be credible in our ability to last in this effort, give more which a

james bayes is a munich and has more zalinski speech. this address exactly one year on was very important, pretty similar language as we've seen. progressive skin is recent speeches. for example, when he spoke recently in london in paris and brussels messages to the international community to do more making the point. what is lacking here is speed. he keeps asking for things. it started with non lethal assistance with the west. it was giving it moved to heavy weapons then to artillery and now tanks. and now he's calling to fight a jazz with everything. he asked for a long period of delay discussion. and eventually the west gives him what he wants . but he would like to see the delivery of weapons speeded up, much, much more. ukraine will stay the top issue, i think, during this years munich, security conference. but it's not just what discussed here in terms of a sort of talk fast. it's also active diplomacy that sometimes takes place. on these occasions, the us delegation represented by vice president common harris bought the u. s. secr

hello, diplomatic editor, james bayes is at those meetings in the stony he's joining me alive now. james, estonia has been mourning of what it sees as going to its security from russia. what's been going on there? ah, well, let me 1st explain what you're seeing behind me and the noise you're hearing right now wrong because it's actually a stone is independence day. sonya gotten dependence from russia in 1918, of course that later it was overtaken by russian forces and became for a long time part of the soviet union. so clearly there's a great history here at that. i think shapes the feeling of this country towards russia. that's i think is why this particular place has been chosen on this day for the native secretary general and the president of the commission to visit brussels has come. it seems today at least to the starting capital tile in the year. i think it's to show solidarity when one of the front line you stains. i think it also shows the military might that you're seeing here. we're seeing sonya and troops rules and seeing all the forces that are here in the sonya. it chan

our diplomatic editor james bayes is joining us now. so james, words of support for ukraine. what else that stolen break out to say? well, we certainly got reaction to that decision on the new start, the suspension of participation of new start here. nato. very concerned about that . this is the 1st time since the 19 seventy's that in a fact there are no restrictions on strategic nuclear weapons they'd be treated in place all the time since that. and clearly that was since the cold war, initially a real reduction in the nuclear weapons on either side of russia and the u. s. i put it to the beta secretary general was the world now a more dangerous place. and it was pretty clear it is that this is a dangerous decision in the world. is it more dangerous territory as a result of what's happening? years has been announced in the last couple of hours by president putin. the meeting today, i think the real focus was on moments and getting more weaponry to ukraine, particularly ammunition and artillery shells. the high representative joseph burrell revealing he's written a letter to

stay on with the president of the european commission and diplomatic editor james bayes is in the capital talon. yes, this is a stone years independence day, but the fact that nato secretary general and the president of the european commission of come here to day, russell says, come to estonia, is sending a clear message about the independence of another country. you crave. 14 has failed to achieve a single one of his strategic goals. instead of dividing the european union, he finds us united and determined to stand by ukraine for as long as it takes. there was considerable skepticism here about the new chinese piece proposals. china . oh, it doesn't have much credibility because they have not been able to condemn the illegal invasion of ukrainian. and there was a sign that just these before the invasion, an agreement between person, she and person couldn't, ah, on limitless partnership with the russia. the nato sec general also announced 2 important new bits of information. firstly, he's invited presidents lensky to join the nato summit that takes place in the baltics in vilnius in july.

james bayes has more from unique that meeting between secretary blinking and wang ye, the talk chinese foreign policy official was interesting and important, but it was brief and it was pretty tense. i don't think it in any way puts china and the us back on much better footing and certainly a new date has not been set for a proper summit between the 2. remember secretary blinking was about to go to beijing when that spy balloon was shot down over a north american aerospace. no new date has been set up for that meeting up. perhaps more important in terms of, of things that of emerged during this summer is the chinese say they've got some sort of piece plan from ukraine. now. european and us officials rather skeptical about that. or they say they're not really going to think that's an important development till they see the details of the chinese suggesting the details might come out in the coming days as we approach the anniversary at the end of next week, the one year anniversary, much of the activity here at the mean security conference as it had been about the war and ukraine in that

james bayes is joining his life from inside the european parliament in brussels. what is blowing the sky saying in his speech to the e. u. well, that speech is underway now. in fact, he was introduced by the president of the european parliament, rebecca met solar. she said this was an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary times, almost a year. of course, into the war in ukraine. the anniversary of the use of us are coming up in about 2 weeks time. presidents landscape has been thanking the european parliament and the people of europe several times. they have risen their feet during this speech standing innovation for the ukrainian president. when he said he wanted to thank the people of europe, a standing ovation from the parliamentarians for their own people on the support they've given to ukraine over the last year. he said, this is europe. these are our routes, making it clear that he believes that ukraine's home is in europe. and he said that ukraine is going to be a member of the european union and that i think he's, he's long term tomorrow. his long term re