Ukrainian authorities put pressure on west to provide tanks

Kyiv will get a chance to press its case at a meeting today of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Germany. Ahead of the meeting billions of dollars of aid have been pledged but still no mention of tanks that Kyiv says it needs to break the deadlock on the ground.

As a humanitarian crisis unfolds in Afghanistan, the UN is in Kabul trying to persuade the Taliban government to allow crucial female aid workers to be allowed to work.