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The top u.s. defense ministry spoke for an hour on friday, their first since the war began. the pentagon said that lloyd austin appealed to keep the lines of communication open. in the donbas, ukrainian forces claimed to have stopped a russian advance across a key river. >> reporter: this tank has come from a scene of intense fighting over the last few days. 60 civilians were killed in an air strike hiding in the basement of an abandoned school and the ukrainians are claiming they killed a lar...

That europe could face some sort of retaliatory measures, diplomatic energy security measures in the meantime, should those type of draconian sanctions be put on the table by the united states. but essentially, the problem here is that both sides have to keep talking. otherwise, what they cant afford, at least from the wests perspective, is for these talks to end up being a failure, and if that being a pretext to vladimir putin to take action in a place like ukraine. as you said, the backdrop to...

Reuters. saying that us president joe biden on friday will hold a call at 1600 hrs gmt with transatlantic leaders to discuss russia�*s ongoing military build—up around ukraine. this is from the white house. on the call will be the leaders of canada, the eu, france, germany, italy, poland, romania, britain and nato. that is coming from the white house. what do you make of that? i that is coming from the white house. what do you make of that?— what do you make of that? i think it is a very p...

Communication open for other purposes. >> weve seen videos of residents expressing opposition to russias invasion of ukraine, risking their own safety. hundreds have been arrested. between the internet, social media, russians in touch with family and friends in ukraine, how is this all playing out in russia right now? and in any case, whatever gets done on the streets, on social media, whats the likelihood it has any impact at all on vladimir putin? >> reporter: thank you, chris. this is an inte...

Them out of the united nations. i dont think were at that point, nor should we be. what we can do however in other sectors of society, sports, exchanges of museum directors, economics obviously, thats where we ought to be turning off the taps. ultimately we want to keep the diplomatic and military lines of communication open, because what we really ought to worry about here is a miscalculation. some young russian pilot launches a missile that flies over the polish border inadvertently but hits a...

Open communication is good, not progress but a good thing to keep it going. 75 minutes of talks between the german chancellor and putin and himself. both the french and german to say he was not open to a ceasefire under realistic conditions and the kremlin said he took the opportunity to complain about alleged violation against humanity of the ukrainian against russian soldiers and macron�*s office released pictures of him with his head in his hands so why does he do it. he is criticised by so...

Mr putin, and that he is now flying to berlin where he will speak to the german chancellor olaf scholz. the israelis say that the talks with the kremlin happened in coordination with key western partners, and they say that in their words, with "the blessing of the white house", so it gives you some indication as to the seriousness, how the israelis are taking this as they think they can position themselves as mediators, and just how extraordinary these talks are, given russias growing diplomatic...

Than 30 missiles striking at the heart of it. trying to get access. you can imagine, even the public roads all around this area are closed. families are shaken. they spent hours in bomb shelters last night, jessica and boris. >> only the ground with good context there. thanks so much. diplomatic efforts to end the russian onslaught in ukraine still ongoing. a phone call between president putin, the french and german presidents. there wasnt much progress made on these calls gauging from the rea...

Cleared off some of the debris and they have begun getting people, getting some of the civilians out of that bomb shelter. the amazing news is that so far we know of no casualties from that direct hit on the bomb shelter. >> we could use a bit thats good news. mike tobin back to you with the updates are at the next two hours. >> lets go back to the white house as we kick off the 9:00 a.m. hour on the east coast . >> sandra, we are learning at the white house just minutes ag that president biden ...

Right now? >> well, you may have seen earlier today the national security adviser had a discussion with the russian counterpart. the tenor of that conversation was really an opportunity for the national security adviser to underscore the profound concerns we have with the russian conduct and senseless war and our concerns that the russian federation may be preparing or planning to use chemical weapons or biological agents. so we do have lines of communication open. we have always said that we ar...