postponed elections and announced it will stay in power for another 4 years. french president manuel michael justified the decision to pull out us. we cannot remain militarily involved alongside molly and authorities with who we don't share a strategy or you have a hidden agenda. that's the situation we're facing in. molly french, president of monro mccomb speaking then in a joint statement together with its european partners and canada. france said anti tara operations and molly would seize by june. the issue is likely to dominate a red summit between the african union and the european union that is, county underway and brussels. the obvious jack para has more the strained relations between france and molly. after a 2nd military coup in may 2021 which followed one in august 2020 state fuels like this, conducted by the military discount is the underlying instability in molly until now, france has retained a military presence of over 4000 troops in this al region but as long wanted to reduce that numbers, and especially to move them out of the former french colony of molly, after the new cool

michael on sunday, a glimmer of hope. french president manuel macro, juggled the phones between jo bite and vladimir putin. his office said they had agreed in principle to summit the jelly days. but the ukrainian foreign minister welcomed the news. we hope, of course, as human beings to someone who desperately wants to wear the war. we hope that 2 presidents will walk out from the room with an agreement right about russia was rolling, gets forces from ukraine. he was in brussels as a special guest at a meeting of european foreign ministers in japan, i entering lincoln year was ardently appeal to the russian government and to the russian president. they do not play with human lives. the e u has mostly agreed on a package of sanctions. now the debate is about when to apply them before or after a possible invasion. for all the signs of a diplomatic breakthrough, new evidence so far that moscow is de escalating. analysts say this footage appears to show a russian breakthrough formation just kilometer from ukraine or alaska side to the w player, corresponded to thomas sparrow. welcome thomas

that was really chilling, a michael on really to listen to present by and when he explained how of western leaders, including german chancellor schultz and french president manuel mccall, how they found, followed their diplomatic efforts, traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution, while at the same time, president putin was already decided preparing for war. and now the key takeaway of course, is that the notion that diplomacy would always prevail and determines, of course, at this failed. and this is what western leaders are coming to terms with right now . it failed, at least with vladimir putin in the russian president at this point in time. and we might look back at the stay seeing it as a watershed moment for the international order. of course, and so on, of these circumstances, present bio made clear that he will not meet with putin. so that's certainly a really difficult time in russian u. s. relations. on the contrary, both countries also have expelled their deputy ambassadors. and so the situation here in diplomacy between russia and the u. s. will certainly not improve before russia stops his attacks w's, oliver sala

manuel. christine, what is the e used reaction likely to be now that president putin has recognized the to break away regions in eastern new grant. that is the $1000000.00 question. michael, when the e foreign ministers convened their meeting at 9 am this morning here in brussels. nobody could have told you that we would be getting the news of president vladimir putin acknowledging the independence of lou hans and don. yet, in a press briefing, after the foreign affairs meeting, the e u foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, said that he hoped that president putin wouldn't take that step. but in the event that he did that there would be a united response that essentially echoes what we've heard from the chief isn't a bonded line or quoted he has. she says that you and his partners will react with unity firmness. and with determination, insulin charity with ukraine, very little on what that reaction is going to be. i can tell you they're all differing views on that because of the different interests and the positions of member states in the e u. they have different ideas about how to be dealing with moscow. for example, in today's meeting, the ukrainian foreign minister wa

that was really chilling, a michael on really to listen to present by and when he explained how of western leaders including german chancellor schultz and french president manuel mccaul hall, they found, followed their diplomatic efforts traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution, while at the same time, president putin was already decided preparing for war. and now the key take away, of course, is that the notion that diplomacy would always prevail and determines, of course, at this failed. and this is what western leaders are coming to terms with right now . it failed, at least with vladimir putin and the russian president at this point in time. and we might look back at the stay seeing it as a watershed moment for the international order. of course, and so on, of these circumstances present by may clear that he will not meet with putin. so that's certainly a really difficult time in russian u. s. relations. on the contrary, both countries also have expelled their deputy ambassadors. and so the situation here in diplomacy between russia and the u. s. will certainly not improve before russia stops his attacks. d w's, oliver s