Syria-Turkey rescue, Ukraine's call for ammo, ballooning tensions, Sturgeon resigns

What Ukraine needs right now is ammunition. That was the assessment of NATO defence ministers in Brussels this week as they monitored Russia's bloody bid for Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region. For years, alliance members thought cyberdefence and counter-insurgency were the priority. They didn't expect an old school, full-scale ground war in Europe.

In the mix when the US Secretary of State sits down with his Chinese counterpart in Munich will be ballooning tensions over spy crafts. More unidentified floating objects have been shot down over North America.

"In my head and in my heart" it was time to go. Those could have been the words of New Zealand's prime minister when she announced her resignation last month. But in fact, they were those of Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, on whose watch the Scottish independence movement made historic inroads.

Prepared by Alessandro Xenos, Lauren Bain, Laura Burloux.

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