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Added on the 02/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
"The problem is not that Putin is smart," former US President Donald Trump says during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. "The real problem is our leaders are dumb." Trump says Putin must think he "can take over a whole country" with only the minimal consequence of sanctions from NATO leaders. SOUNDBITE
Poles began voting on Sunday in a polarising election which the governing populists look set to win on the back of welfare measures and attacks on LGBT rights, but their majority is at risk, giving opposition parties a narrow chance to snatch power. IMAGES
Thousands of Georgians take to the streets of capital Tbilisi in fresh rallies against the controversial "foreign influence" bill likened to Russian laws silencing dissent. Demonstrators gathered in front of the Paragraph hotel belonging to the company of billionaire and the ruling party chairman Bidzina Ivanishvili, where a forum of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is taking place and in which members of the Georgian government are also participating. IMAGES
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva welcomes Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia ahead of a meeting to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears alongside Ben Houchen at an event to celebrate the Conservative candidate's re-election as Tees Valley's mayor. The win is a rare bright spot for Britain's ruling Conservative party in local elections which have seen it lose council seats to Labour in results declared so far. IMAGES