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On the disputed chagos archipelago in the indian ocean. the islands were claimed by britain more than 50 years ago to allow the us to build an airbase there and residents were forcibly removed from their homes. crowds of protesters opposed to covid restrictions in canada are reported to be building up again near the ambassador bridge, linking the province of ontario with the us state of michigan. police managed to clear the area of big trucks but a small number of pick up vehicles are still ther...

Coming. at every stage we saw the cyberattacks, the wave of cyber hacking and attacks the targeted ukraines governments, earlier today. and then, with the actual military operations, you are seeing a barrage of missile and air strikes, artillery fire. exactly what was really warned about, and its that euphemism that the military uses, shaping the battlefield. its a way of trying to strangle and decimate and damage ukraines military, before really any sizable land force moves across the border in...

Stalwart nato allies. thank you for your gracious welcome and for the very productive conversation. i also look forward to meeting with the president and travelling to an airbase to visit with us and polish military personnel later on today. since the american revolutionary war when polish heroes fought side by side with us to gain our freedom, poland and the united states have developed a special bond in the defence of liberty. soon after world war i american volunteer aviators provided a cover...

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Limited vantage point. i did see some ukrainian forces, you know, earlier today on the outskirts of kyiv as i was going towards that airbase that i reported from earlier today where i actually met up with russian special forces sort of unexpectedly. um, and they looked tired. they look worn down. some of them looked like they -- they, you know, had not had sleep for a long time. and that compared very unfavorably to how the russian forces looked because when i met them -- after i realized they w...

The city and for the residents who are sort of bunkered down inside. those lights, that you can see right behind me here -- um -- are the flyers burning lighting up the sky south west of the city, near the region about 30 kilometers, 20 miles or so from where i am standing right now in the heart of the ukrainian capital. the reason it is sig nif dant because there is a strategic airbase that we believe has been target of russian special forces to try and secure it, so they could, you know, bring...

I mean, i encountered special force troops from russia much closer to -- to kyiv than that. maybe, about 10, 12, 15 miles away at -- at an airport. an airbase that they had at that time taken. they were choppered in, and they -- they battled ukrainian forces to establish control over that airbase. it is not clear what the status of that -- of that position is now. but clearly, there are a growing number of russian forces in various strategic positions around the ukrainian capital and i can tell ...

East. earlier the mayor said they thwarted and russian air assault in an air base about an hour from here. some 60 russian paratroopers coming out of three helicopters. not sure how many were killed casualty figures are unknown. the ukrainian forces say it shows the russian strategy, martha. the russian forces have been looking at taking throughout the country. earlier tight spoke with a young man who spoke with me some cell phone video and assess family since his grandmother had filled another ...

Named after the airplane maker which makes the biggest planned in the world to come up with the question is you have the ability to fly anything you want in there, and if youve got tanks that are surrounding the capital of kyiv, and the actual capitol building, you have some kind of control, it makes it a lot easier to be able to transfer things in and out which is a huge benefit as we saw in afghanistan by giving up the bob graham airbase. its a huge benefit to have that kind of a platform to b...