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Fort bragg in north carolina will go to poland and germany. 8,500 u.s. troops had been already placed on high alert with over 100,000 russian troops amassed along the ukrainian border new satellite imagery tonight appearing to show those forces growing. >> we do not know if russia has made a final decision to further invade ukraine, but it clearly has that capability. >> reporter: the president has ruled out a combat deployment to ukraine, late today saying putins actions prompted his move. >> a...

With wood parked on the side of the road exploded. the mastermind of irans nuclear programme has been... ..assassinated after gunmen opened fire on his car. iranian security forces first said there were a number of assailants at the scene. then, they changed their accounts. conducted in a surgical fashion, often against moving targets in a major city with no civilian casualties, so this is a tremendous capability, a tremendous understanding of the environment. a former iranian revolutionary guar...

Thank you. were also aided by the partnership of the syrian democratic forces. i want the commend the intelligence community, department of defense and members of the national security team throughout the government whose meticulous and tireless work over the course of many months ensured that this mission succeeded. this operation is testament to americas reach and capability to take out terrorist threats no matter where they try to hide anywhere in the world. im determined to protect the ameri...

Invade ukraine. your thoughts on the state off a affairs? >> well maria it let me add two more we watch deer meat begin to increase it his capability as well by firing longer and longer range initial sync is going to conduct nuclear testing as well. none of us should forget americans are headed back to vienna to negotiate with the irradiance this week. we gave them sanctions relief, we sit here, take what you want to give something in return theyve already rejected that for the going to ask for ...

The significance of that, how much pressure does that put on putin? >> well, basically it would be shaving off another piece of ukraine, russia already did that in 2014 by invading, occupying and then annexing crimea. and then it has been fighting this kind of insurgency campaign in the east, and basically occupying and controlling those territories there. this would formalize this as russia formalized its annexation of crimea. it is a reminder that putin has a whole room servicemen you, right, ...

Want to bring in now retired major general james spider marks. he is a cnn military analyst and head of geopolitical strategy at academy securities. we are so happy to have you on major general. appreciate it. so -- >> thank you. >> president biden says he is convinced putin has decided to attack, and will target kyiv. we are talking about a free capital of -- of a sovereign nation with about 3 million people and potentially massive casualties. how do you see all of this playing out? >> i dont s...

Matt. >> thanks. we dont want to get into specific troop numbers for the russians -- >> youre right, i dont. >> thats right. over the last 24 to 48 hours, and you talked about the capabilities to sustain them. can you say anything more about what the capabilities are? are they more of the same or offensive capabilities? >> just broadly speaking, matt, we talked about the presence as providing him combined arms capability, right? its infantry, its armor, artillery, air missile defense, as well as...

We have reason to believe that. >> to be clear you are convinced -- you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine? is that what you just said a few moments ago? >> yes, i did. >> what reason do you have to believe hes considering that option at all? >> we have a significant intelligence capability. >> other sign russias preparing for invasion a u.s. defense official telling cnn nearly half of russian forces surrounding ukraine are in attack position tonight. i want to go live...

Is a great idea because they are completely at a stalemate right now. >> reporter: so one of the big issues for local residents has been the noise. until just really in the last 24 house, a lot of people have been demonstrating by honking their horns. thats something that the judge cave gave an injunction for ten days saying they could no longer do that. some people are kind of opting to rev their engines and make noise and make their voices heard. this is just one section of an area where there...

Concerns. andrea? >> thanks so much to kelly, and thanks of course to richard engel and joining us is the pentagon press secretary john kirby. thanks very much for being with us. well, weve seen certainly the pace of warnings from secretary blinken in his calls and the fact that his conversation with sergey lavrov got nowhere in terms of their demand about nato and ukraine and are saying that that is a non-starter and the russians also saying that secretary blinkens proposals on arms control wer...