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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada abides by an international treaty prohibiting the use of explosives that scatter small bombs across a wide terrain

What he meant to say is were having trouble with the counter offensive and need a way to figure it out. >> bill: here is what i see. reflection of a war of attrition, right for both sides. the public admission that we have to now do cluster munitions, you know how controversial they are worldwide for a time these were the type of bombs that would explode ten feet above the ground and they would scatter in every direction possible. 50 years later were spending millions of dollars in laos trying t...

Raffles and Fairmont Doha appoints new cluster director of sales

According to the numbers you are describing, this sounds like a fairly large failure rate in the cluster munitions, many left on the ground —— these were weapons. the official numbers, - these were weapons. the official numbers, the - these were weapons. tue official numbers, the estimates were 5% and we saw as much as 30% when we were clearing. what 3096 when we were clearing. what is our 3096 when we were clearing. what is your reaction _ 3096 when we were clearing. what is your reaction t...

About ukraine in nato today or even next week. we are talking about the president just said, which is good. which is a path. an invitation to nato to join. an invitation for ukraine to join nato, thats what we are looking for. were not talking about now, were talking about a pathway. and there is another big summit coming up next, year its going to be here in washington. that is a great time to have ukraine in nato. >> so with, this i want to have the cluster bombs as well. the president promisi...

Weapons are meant to bolster Kyiv’s arsenal as Washington ramps up production of howitzer artillery shells, the White House says

The -e sovereign territory. these are the type of — sovereign territory. these are the type of cluster _ sovereign territory. these are the type of cluster munitionsl the type of cluster munitions the type of cluster munitions the us will supply. they scatter tiny bomblets but they are highly controversial. the munitions scatter indiscriminately over a wide area, some so—called does not explode. leaving a threat to civilians often for years into the future. in civilians often for years into ...

Any period of time, its hard to say at this point the president and our nato allies have said we are in this for the long haul. so in the meantime, we are trying to accelerate the production of more 155 munitions. this stockpile that we have of the cluster munitions is a result of we phased them out in 2016. so we have a large stockpile of them. those will be used in the interim until our manufacturers can really accelerate the production of the conventional munitions, as opposed to the cluster....

The billion dollars that is up for grabs coming up on "cnn this morning." this morning the biden administration is defending the highly controversial decision to include cluster munitions in this latest military aids package to ukraine. the new package includes armored vehicles and various types of ammunition, but it ee really these cluster of munitions thats sparking widespread concern. >> small but lethal bomblets theyre called over a wide area. the issue is some of those do not detonate, an...

>> reporter: yet but we are hearing a full out defense to those controversial cluster missions munitions to ukraine. he had internal debate with his own leaders and other national allies. he framed it as a necessary step the president needed to take as the us again to be worried basically weather or not ukraine had enough ammunition to actually successfully carry out the counteroffensive against russia, saying that they needed these to be able to do something. we hear jake sullivan yesterday fro...