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Enters its second month, the countrys president calls for demonstrations of support around the world. nato says itll double the number of battlegroups deployed on its eastern flank in response to russias invasion of ukraine. jamaicas prime minister has told the duke and duchess of cambridge that his country is moving on and intends to become an independent nation. andrew holness has been meeting prince william and kate on their visit to the caribbean marking the queens platinum jubilee. 0ur roya...

This is critically, all of this is critically important because there is great fear among the u.s. that the russians in their desperation potentially, god forbid, could use chemical or biological weapons and theyre even talking about some sort of tactical nuclear weapons. one of the topics on the agenda, theres no doubt about this, will be the deployment of more nato battle groups. u.s. troops. other nato allies troops in eastern nato. eastern nato countries. the u.s. ambassador to nato just sai...

State madeleine albright has at the age of 84. arriving in the us as a refugee in 1948 doctor albright rose to become one of the us most of political figures. she was appointed us ambassador to the un in 1993 and then secretary of state and bill clinton�*s administration. she was a tough talking diplomat, she championed human rights, the expansion of nato and also sought to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons but them in a statement family and said she was a tireless champion of democracy. ta...

Reluctant to commit any u.s. troops on the ground there. that is a line he has said he would not cross. in the conversations that will be taking place today, they will be discussing a number of contingencies should vladimir putin take that next step, including what should happen if some of these radiological or chemical clouds drift over into neighboring countries that are a part of nato, if vladimir putin takes that step. those are questions that these leaders will have to decide upon and discu...

Chemical or biological incident. he said that we would respond in kind. i think that was just a slight misstep in words. because we would not respond with chemical or biological weapons. it signals that we would have a more forceful response. in fact, thats the kind of words that congress was using yesterday as well, this would entail more forceful response. then the last thing i would say is im glad to hear about the new battle groups that are being put together. im glad to hear about the alert...

Further west in the country. so that was a main topic the discussion or priority yesterday. how to shore up the defenses including increasing troop posture in the eastern plank of the nato alliance and of course adding additional battle groups there. sending them additional air defense systems, in order to protect against any potential air missile attacks of course. ultimately there was a agreement as well about sending additional weapons to ukraine. of course theyre trying to raise the cost for...

Permanent and beefed up nato press in the eastern flank and they said they were going to double the number of battle groups in the nato countries of slovakia, in hungary, romania, and bulgaria as well. so, that would put them surrounding the area of ukraine, although bulgaria is removed by one country, romania. that would increase the presence on the eastern flank of nato. we are joined by dana perino on the phone, you were watching this all day, you have been to the nato conferences with presid...

In existence and what theyre going to be doing over the long-term, we dont know yet. thats part of the discussion going on today. it is important that the alliance stay unified and, frankly, wolf, ive never seen the alliance more resolved and more determined than it is right now. >> it is so impress wive when y speak to the nato allies right now. under normal circumstances, when the secretary of defense or a chairman of the joint chiefs of staff calls his nato -- his russian counterparts, they i...

Space. president zelenskyy will address the nato leaders, and the leaders will focus on our support to ukraine. provide support to ukraine for several years and we have stepped up with more military support, financial support, military support to help ukraine uphold its self-defense. natos core task is to protect -- we have increased eastern part of the alliance. today addressed the need for reset of our defense in the longer term. and the first step is the establishment of four new battle group...

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