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He is working to increase the capabilities of the army. they are preparing. theyre training civilians, training the territorial defense forces. you have been reporting on this. they are preparing, not panicking. they need to have the support of the united states and nato and getting it in terms of weapons, getting it in terms of commitments on the sanctions. nic nic and kylie mentioned the attack, should it come, im hopeful it wont come, that putin will decide to take off. if it does come, it wi...

Well, we can speak now to tim gardner, whos a senior policy fellow at the health foundation, a charity aiming to improve health care across the uk. will health care across the uk. the governments plan w think will the governments plan work? i think the plan is quite realistic and the scale of the challenge that theyre going to face in terms of addressing this backlog and some of the complexity and uncertainty that is going to need to manage as it does that. there are some very welcome new commit...

Fair player? >> yeah, we need them, and a fair player would help. >> farmer bob taylor, 13th generation farmer. he was saying, we need china. thats because theyre still our third biggest exporter. this is where it all comes to a head for the biden administration, because china is that x-factor. new data released yesterday by the federal government shows that from that phase i of the trade agreement that was struck by the trump administration two years ago, they essentially committed to buy more ...

For, a whole lot more control over the region in ukraine. he is blaming the ukrainian government. putin is blaming the ukrainian government for not meeting the terms of the peace dleel in its entirety. secretary of state antony blinken a few hours ago, earlier today, said it was the other way around. that ukraine is meeting most of its commitments and russia is not fulfilling the commitments so these are the beginning headlines that were getting from this press conference underway right here in ...

Way that, and make a decision. >> you have announced that the president is ordering 3000 additional u.s. troops to eastern europe. but already with the public pledge that they will not be engaging russian troops at any point, what is the effect of that? what is the point of ordering those troops into this arena? >> as you know, we are seeing really incredible russian aggression with the deployment of 100,000 troops at the border of ukraine. we assured our nato allies in europe that we are going ...

This week, will that affect the secretarys schedule at all while hes in europe? >> the secretary is leaving tomorrow morning for brussels. >> and the plan is to stay for the entire time no matter what? >> well have to see, obviously, how things play out. the secretary is looking forward to his trip, and commitments to nato allies. >> what role is china playing in this whole ukraine-russian, and is the defense secretary worried about the role they are playing? >> we certainly have been watching t...

>> why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we are unified by one constitution. and one rule of law. and the values under our constitution. here it is an aspiration, it is a challenge to us. the constitution should not be some kind of fetish document. it should be, the living commitments that we all have, to make democracy work in the service -- of >> be sure to catch love in the constitution, it is this ...

Leader of measurable strength in europe, germany is beginning to wane. german government cites german law, we cant support lethal support to ukraine. obviously president biden will talk to scholz about it this afternoon. what general jack keane suggested biden should do today. >> i hope president biden takes out his wire brush today and deals with the chancellor on this. he has no intention of ever firing a shot at russia. think of that. that is what he has said to many of the people or his insi...

They face the largest threat ever in their new history of independence after the collapse of the soviet union. in practice, it can be compared to, you know, with the situation when somebody faces someone who feels very deeply offended and wants to take revenge. so, russia obviously feels offended by nato�*s expansion eastwards and the promise of open—door politics, policies for ukraine in the future so ukraine might become a member of the alliance in the future. i think this gives the unders...

Security and stability for europe if europeans dont have the ability to defend themselves and deter. also if we dont have the ability to build a common solution with all of neighbors. >> the u.s. has already sent additional troops to eastern europe. a move aimed at demonstrating natos unity and strength. france has also offered to send troops to romania. >> i dont think we can say this a provocation. the responding to commitments that we have made in the frame work of our nato presence. i dont s...