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Lizzie greenwood—hughes. hello, thank you, good evening. the biggest names in world sport are paying tribute to the former australian cricketer shane warne, whos died at the age of 52. one of the greatest players of all time, warne is said to have suffered a suspected heart attack at his villa in thailand. in his 15—year test career, warne took 708 wickets, the second highest total in history, and he still holds the record for the most ashes wickets. he simply loved playing against england, ...

Prayers and fasting. what is your reaction? >> president biden: i was with the cardinal this morning and came over to give me ashes and we both prayed for that, for the people of ukraine. >> support abortion? >> president biden: i tell you what, i dont want to get in a debate with you on theology. anyway im not going to make a judgment for other people. >> putin is targeting civilian areas. >> bill: interesting exchange on all these topics back and forth between reporters as the president heads ...

As well. that is three hours from here on a vehicle. so that feeds into the encroachment on the ukrainian capital. so the scale of what the country is facing a still continuing to be realised. shes what the country is facing a still continuing to be realised. as we seak, continuing to be realised. as we speak, president _ continuing to be realised. as we speak, president zelensky - continuing to be realised. as we speak, president zelensky has l continuing to be realised. as we - speak, presiden...

This week, that were president trump in the white house, mr. putin would never have appeared to be so audacious, so brutal, so aggressive. do you agree with that? >> its hard to know. its hard to know. there -- there is an element which president trump was highly unpredictable. and i think putin was not sure what trump would do. i also think that he believed that trump was comfortable using force. the way we took out the head of the iranian revolutionary -- or pushed back in syria and against is...

Putting his nuclear forces on alert? i have another question, if you dont mind. are you surprised that we have not seen more -- we have seen some denial of services but are you surprised we have not seen a more massive cyberattack against ukraine or other nato nations or against us? do you think the legislation that just passed improves our ability to defend against such attacks? if i could impose on you one more question. i talked today to is part of the democracy summit this year. you know how...

>> not directly yet. were establishing contact with them. >> reporter: permanent military presence in poland and other eastern european countries now after whats happening in ukraine? >> weve always been all there, all nato countries. >> reporter: im talking about permanent basis. >> thats a decision to be made. im sorry. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> nothing is off the table. >> reporter: do you think russia is committing war crimes in ukraine? >> we are following if very closely. its early to...

To the foreign minister coming to us from an undisclosed location he said, when it comes to president putins actions, sths madness as you know, there is a 40-mile russian convoy. he said it seems as if they wont be satisfied until kyiv is in ashes. ukrainians continue to fight on. i asked, is this a fight ukraine can win. he said, we will win. >> what is the impact expected to be on the u.s. economy? >> this is a bigger story. wir talking about a currency that lost as much of 20%.

What will be happening in the days and weeks ahead in ukraine. >> im curious what the reaction is, when russian leaders keep talking about nuclear war, threatening nuclear war. weve heard frit vladimir putin. we heard it from people on russian tv about reducing enemies to ashes. weve heard it from russian diplomats. an hour ago, "reuters" reporting sergey lavrov starts talking about nuclear weapons and world war iii. certainly, russians understand if a nuclear war begins at russias hand, itll be...

That russia makes about the treatment of russian minorities in a lot of countries. i suppose there is a danger of saying they claim into the country so therefore its a fictitious claim but is it possible there is some truth in this idea the ethnic russians are mistreated? i5 ethnic russians are mistreated? i3 actually not, and its been looked up actually not, and its been looked up very carefully. russia is trying to build a case that is grounded in a pretence that it takes international law ser...

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