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Military, underestimated their militarys own capabilities, which have proven to be, you know, pretty poor in many respects, that does not mean it could now make indiscriminate use of artillery, which theyre already doing, bombs, which theyre already doing against civilian areas, essentially encircling and sieging cities and then going further than that with chemical weapons in an effort to achieve its goals. weve seen this in conflict after conflict from chechnya. weve seen a maternity hospital ...

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Israelis and the turks are also continuing their own efforts to offer a diplomatic services to act or try to act as brokers between the russians and the ukrainians. and were also seeing the u.s. tonight step up its own security assistance to ukraine, ayman, with secretary of state anthony blinken announcing that the u.s. has authorized another $200 million in security assistance to the ukrainians. that, according to blinken, including anti aircraft capabilities, anti armor weapons, and this is t...

Least rhetorically, butav they havent done anything to really help. th i think,at laura , thats why the long, long phone calls between biden and xi jinping have not been publicly released. i think theres only one word used to characterize the last biden xi xi jinping phone call, which wasgp the word candid. so obviously theres not good news from the chinese. so i think lavrov is quite correct. were seeing the formation of really a major alignmentst against us by two major powers and is statesman...

How do we defend our freedom and our country? and its the same thing happening within europe. latvia and its neighbours say they understand the kremlin more than most. they used to be in the soviet union. forget diplomacy, says latvias prime minister, its a show of force that counts. if putin is not stopped in ukraine, he will not stop. what about a european army, an eu army? goodidea? as long as we keep nato at the centre, the strengthening the europeans military capabilities, this is something...

Ascent by gustave eiffel. i this is bbc news, our main story this hour: president zelensky says hes prepared to discuss ukraine becoming a neutral country, as part of a peace deal, to end the fighting. ice at a moment ago we are going to go to the oscars and we will, injust going to go to the oscars and we will, in just a moment. going to go to the oscars and we will, injusta moment. —— i said a moment ago. lets get some of the days other news. chinas commercial capital, shanghai, is bringin...

Bulgaria and romania. heres natos secretary generaljens stoltenberg on the deployments. so, we are resetting natos deterrence and defence for the long—term. with more troops, with more air assets and more maritime capabilities. we have already increased our presence in the east, and today, we decided on four new battlegroups and the leaders agreed to talks to commanders to provide options for a long—term reset of our presence, our military posture in the eastern part of the alliance and acro...

Destruction theyre causing to these population centers and to the civilian population. and thats something we cant lose sight of. megan? >> so about 14,000 troops you guys have committed to sending to europe in one way or another, either for nato or individual countries, and theres a few thousand left over from whos actually been sent, who you announced youre going to send. are you still trying to get to that 14,000 number? are you looking to source units to get there? and do the peace stalks ha...

Difference between an acute threat and pacing threat. >> we call china a facing challenge. in many of the military capabilities that we know we are going to need to respopdnd to increasingly aggressive china and the potential threats that those capabilities mean for us that were going to have to -- were going to have to stay ahead of those capabilities. again, you look at the budget, you can see the capabilities that were investing in for the future to make sure we are not just keeping up pace w...

Ukraine with an emphasis onjoint training exercises like this one and defence of western territory and way of life. we are living in a new reality. we as forces spent 20 years in afghanistan and iraq. now our main focus is here. how do we defend our freedom and our country? and its the same thing happening within europe. latvia and its neighbours say they understand the kremlin more than most. they used to be in the soviet union. forget diplomacy, says latvias prime minister, its a show of force...