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That is set to liberate us. fergus walsh, bbc news, newcastle. let me bring you some breaking news now on ukraine, and in the last few minutes, the chief of defence intelligence has been giving his assessment of those claims that russia has made, that soldiers are being withdrawn from the border of ukraine. lieutenant general sirjim hockin hoare said, we have not seen evidence that russia has withdrawn troops from ukraines borders, contrary to their claims, russia continues to build up military ...

That, but its one of many indicators that we are seeing and hearing about from u.s. officials in recent days. another is the large-scale buildup along the border you were just referencing, and ukraine is saying russia has somewhere in the neighborhood of 130,000 troops along the borders and in crimea. thats an enormous number. we are talking about a huge buildup of russian forces that we have not seen in decades. thats another reason theres a lot of concern here at the pentagon and here among th...

Directly about the assassination of mohsen fakhrizadeh. we have our intelligence capabilities. we have ou— intelligence capabilities. defensive capabilities, which are the state of the best in the world. im sure the iranians know what are the things that im not willing to speak about. the war in the 21st century is not with, you know, massive tank brigades going into the battlefields. this is war and those — israel and iran — are fighting a fierce battle over hegemony. if youre an iranian ...

Discussing and bilateral ways with additional forces and capabilities to those nations. its not just the united states. it is other two allies doing this. you talk about this vote thing. lets be clear. what youre getting at is the nato response force. that is a 40,000 person strong force that is designed for high readiness and that is a decision that the alliance and only the alliance can make. we have a contribution to that and we have countless forces alerted to be ready to go if needed and th...

They have definitely lost a lot of their resourcing, a lot of their authorities and certainly a lot of their capabilities. that said shs and we have seen this over the last year or so, they have been trying to reconstitute, trying to grow, trying to get stronger, trying to metastasize outside the region, and certainly we have seen locations that they have designs attacking the west skand even our homeland. haji abdullah was a prominent leader. his father was more of a policy guy. he was very ani...

Suffer serious consequences, really crippling sanctions. and i think the point is to make it clear to him that its not worth this exploration. >> what do you think the ukrainians expectations are in terms of the u.s. military involvement if theres an invasion? >> well, i mean, the ukrainians are seeking help not only from the united states but from many of their european allies both in terms of weapon systems and ammunitions and all the things you need to fight. but what really struck me is the ...

Organizing. >> martha: how do you respond to that? >> hes right. abdullah was a leader trying to do that, trying to metastasize the isis threat. we are aware of that were constantly trying to improve our over the horizon capabilities and organic capabilities as well pass partnerships around the world where we see isis growing to try to deal with that threat. we showed last night that we do have the ability and this was a unilateral u.s. operation. we got assistance from syrian democratic forces....

Continues to grow more ready, theyre exercising. so we believe that he has a lot of capabilities and options available to him should he want to use military force. and as we said, it could happen any day. andrea, id go so far as to say that we could see him move with little to no warning. >> as you heard kirby allude to, forces continue to amass at the border. russian warships continue naval drills. the united states has evacuated most of its staff from its embassy kyiv as a dozen other countrie...

I think we made it eminently clear in my opening statement, these troops will not be going to ukraine to participate in the defense of ukraine. the president has been very clear about that. these forces are going to reassure and to bolster capabilities inside natos eastern flank. and as for the florida national guard trainers, they are still in ukraine. theres been no decision to change their status. they are still there, providing advice and assist to ukrainian armed forces. and if and when the...

Ukrainians expectations are in terms of the u.s. military involvement if theres an invasion? >> well, i mean, the ukrainians are seeking help not only from the united states but from many of their european allies both in terms of weapon systems and ammunitions and all the things you need to fight. but what really struck me is the ukrainian people incredibly proud and they are prepared to fight for their own country. and they made it very clear from -- everyone we met said, we are going to fight ...