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Russia. they said they have come back to the us with further questions to its ideas of its demands for the ukraine should withdraw from nato and we know those demands are not going to be met thus far as the us has a rule that out but as putin has said he is open to further talks. as long as those talks continue, that might do something to ease worries and all the while troop build—up along the border and ukraine has announced an order to increase its armed forces by 100,000 over three years an...

Rapidly. >> department of the war studies at the university of london, russia current military build up year ukraine is unprecedented. this is not like previous war scares or the build up in the spring of 2021. the amount of russian aerial ground and naval military pour near ukraine now is quantifiable far greater. the view of western government too. the capabilities have been assembled. kremlin intent is unknown. >> enough is enough. coming up on cnn "newsroom," after seven day of protests on t...

Leader, president biden says hell respond "swiftly and decisively" if russia invades the country. 13 people are injured after a mezzanine floor collapses at a pub in east london. and people in switzerland have voted in favour of tightening the countrys tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of tobacco products. more now on the news that the us president, joe biden, and his ukrainian counterpart volodymyr zelensky, have agreed on the need to pursue what they called "diplomacy and deter...

To get involved period. there was a hope against hope that they could get a diplomatic solution be or not to say that one cant still be made but the more and more you see the build up kind of the more expecting intelligence officials are that somethings going to happen. the trick is that the president is definitive that standing next to the german chancellor -- what is that i think germany still getting 50% of his energy from russia. so when you look at that i mean who would they be loyal to? i ...

There had been speculation. that the report might be delayed because of a metropolitan police request. the us has warned that the build—up of russian troops on the ukraine border is the largest since the cold war. earlier, the russian president vladimir putin told french president emmanuel macron that he had no plans for an offensive, but that nato had failed to address russias main demands. doubts have emerged over the timing of the positive covid test which the tennis player novak djokovic u...

Particularly germany, the largest economy for its energy needs. >> trace: thats a fair assessment on the other side. the other side, secretary of defense lloyd austin talked about the troop build-up from russia. listen to this. >> as we look at that number of troops and that amount of hardware that is sitting aboard a region, it far and away exceeding what we typically see them do for exercises. so its very concerning. >> trace: it is concerning what do you think? >> well, i think the additional...

From moscow that its withdrawing some forces from the border. jens stoltenberg said russia appeared to be continuing its military build—up, although the fact it was still open to diplomacy was grounds for cautious optimism. today, moscow indicated it was withdrawing some troops from crimea, the part of ukraine annexed by russia in 2014. jens stoltenberg, speaking ahead of a meeting of nato defence ministers in brussels, says the alliance is still preparing for a russian invasion. more than 100...

Few months, as we have said we predibt a build-up of this kind, our information is telling us that the russians are likely to move in these ways, thus far in november and december and january, that has borne out. so i think when you take all of that together we put forward a credible case. but its not my job to stand up here and convince any of you of anything. its your job to ask the questions and do what you can do. all i can do is based on the best information i have available, that i can sha...

Hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. vladimir putin knows how to probe for weakness in the west. with his troop build—up on the ukrainian border he is testing the unity of nato — in particular, hes putting pressure on europes eastern flank. how will nations once in the soviet orbit respond? well, my guest is kiril petkov, prime minister of bulgaria, which moscow says must not host a nato military presence. now, this is a big test for a new prime minister in t...

Working stronger together? that was one of the examples you just gave as to how you think efforts are working. but how do you gauge whether there is any influence that the u.s. is making on this build-up along the ukraine border? >> well, look, i think the build up is going to happen no matter what we do. but we need to continue making sure, again, that ukraine is in a position to defend itself. and there is night and day since my visit in late december. ukraine had dispersed a lot of the lethal...