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Need food, water, people cannot take their winter tour hospitals for example in places like lashkar gah. took me through what you think is going through the taliban�*s mind, because we were talking about the militant group promising to pay great attention to the protection of civilians. clearly they are not, so where does this leave the peace protest? where does this leave the peace rotest? :, :, :, , :, , protest? from what i have been able to observe on — protest? from what i have been abl...

Capital where people here feel they have so much to lose should the taliban try to take power again. >> the u.s. in recent days has been conducting limited air strikes in support of afghan security forces on the ground. do those forces, their commanders believe that u.s. help from outside the country is sufficient to back them up? >> i think theres no question that its a help, right? theyll take anything that they can get in this given moment, particularly in lashkar ga in helmand which has been...

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Just operating for the commanders. >> you bring up nuremberg as a potential model for this, and that makes me think of the famous line just following orders here. in terms of legal standards for war crimes, does that hold? in other words, can you go up the whole chain of command? there are prisoners of war, could commanders, officers from russian military currently in ukrainian hands, whether you get putin or not, can you prosecute at that level? is there any defense, right, in saying i was just...

Like if they focus their offensive just on the donbas and that part of eastern ukraine. courtney kube with that report. thank you. let me bring in a former defense secretary, bill cullen. mr. secretary, let me talk about that. listen to what courtney just described. so, we have this idea, our commanders have this idea, they think they know what the russians are going to do here. theyre going to regroup, try to sort of get their act together, and focus on the east and make these gains. what sho...

Up on site. if you are looking at prosecuting officials making decisions from afar you may need other information than just the fact that the crime was committed. in general, the -- there is a principle under international law that commanders and superiors are responsible for the acts of their subordinates and they have a responsibility, if they understand and know that war crimes are being committed to do something to take appropriate action to prevent it. so it would be in trying to -- that wo...

Reality check. >> we need to talk about war crimes. thats what president biden accused russia of committing as horrific images of civilians in mass graves and bodies strewn along the streets of bucha come to life. lets be clear, the deliberate targeting of unarmed civilians is a war crime by any definition. the evidence being collected could one day lead to a war crimes trial at the hague for vladimir putin and his commanders. but true to form, the kremlin is trying to say it is all fabricated, ...

The targeting of facilities is taking place. this is precisely the kind of notice that you need to demonstrate command responsibilities because its rare that you get a direct order to commit a war crime. but thats not the only way to command responsibility for war crimes. if you show commanders were aware of abuses and didnt take steps to stop them, then they too are guilty war crimes. >> so on that note, ken, joe biden has repeatedly referred to vladimir putin as a war criminal. in your view, d...

Notice to the chain of command that these low-scale atrocities on the ground are taking place. they already are on notice that the indiscriminate bombardment, the targeting of facilities is taking place. this is precisely the kind of notice that you need to demonstrate command responsibility, because its rare that you get a direct order to commit a war crime. but thats not the only way to command responsibility for war crimes. if you show commanders were aware of abuses and didnt take steps to s...

Completely lost touch with reality and encouraged their troops to these atrocities. this is beyond anything we even saw down in mariupol. this is horrid, and we need to now look to hold the commanders and mr. putin to account. >> john: how does this change the whole tone of this conflict? it was bad enough as you pointed out as it was in mariupol, but now that we see all of this, will this rally the world to put more pressure on putin, what do you think? >> one can only hope that that would be t...