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Firefighters today knocked down a stubborn rubbish and pallet fire burning under an off-ramp to the Santa Monica (10) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, which triggered a temporary closure of the freeway in both directions due to a ``zero-visibilty'' environment.

It all ends, it will end in more blood shed, more russian lives. because when i left ukraine, one thing that was clear to me and particularly talking to some elected officials there, that we will fight to the last building. if that means that we will throw rocks, empty clips after we fire every bullet, it will end in more blood shed, it will he said in russia being more isolated than ever. and it will end in a way that where we dont know the outcome in particular because every ukrainian i spoke ...

>> well, i think hes trying to salvage something he can portray as a success to justify this tremendous loss of life, loss of military equipment, loss of military personnel, crushing actions on the russian economy. he needs something to show it was worth it. what hes trying to do is carve off this piece of eastern ukraine through mariupol, create this land to crimea and possibly all the way across to moldova but that will be much, much harder. >> if hes able to do that and claim some sort of vic...

Vindicated. i have heard that a olo: vindicated. i have heard that apology from _ vindicated. i have heard that apology from the _ vindicated. i have heard that apology from the prime - vindicated. i have heard that - apology from the prime minister but what he is doing is taking a lead in ukraine and what he needs to do if i may suggest is keep giving ukraine defensive weapons so that we can eventually carry president putin and the rest of the russian federation to a peace agreement and gain re...

Day, so i am a little in the dark of what is going to change. >> it is a good point. i talked to dr. sanjay gupta about that and he cautioned and reminded me that we were blindside when the delta hit last summer, and the country was starting the off ramp if you will, and do you think that dropping the maxes is giving the people the false sense of the security against the next variant? >> we are always going to have threats of the next variant, but it is not going to erase all of the protection t...

East of ukraine, that something that ukrainian president zelenskyy said over the weekend that ukraine simply would not agree to. so, do you see any room for negotiation? there is there any possible off-ramp, if zelenskyy is saying, no, were not gonna do that? >> i want to be very clear, i take president zelenskyy at his word. and thats one of the reasons i think why the fighting that the ukrainian forces are about to see in the donbas region will be unlike anything they face during the entire ti...

To find a series of tactics and a strategy to really move these russians out. and thats going to be a really tall order. i think the way the off-ramp looks, a status quo ante, everything stays the same. that means these areas may stay russian. at the very least, this one will stay russian. that of course is -- you know, its not a defeat. basically you go back to where you were before and its a stalemate. thats what were looking at here. i think we will see a stalemate if the ukrainians continue ...

Up at the hague, and hes been accused of committing, genocide. >> i think theres a little bit at play here. the state department is the one that can determine whether genocide happens. and i think that the concern would be that, once youve gone down the road, what is the off ramp for putin? but the other side to it, to, is it doesnt mean for the u. s. administration? if we declare that there has been genocide, and it continues to be committed in ukraine, we have limited support, that is what is ...

That theres no exit route for him to walk down from. is nothing to lose, so to speak, if you know that you will end up at the hague, and hes been accused of committing, genocide. >> i think theres a little bit at play here. the state department is the one that can determine whether genocide happens. and i think that the concern would be that, once youve gone down the road, what is the off ramp for putin? but the other side to it, to, is it doesnt mean for the u.s. administration? if we declare t...

>> and president zelenskyy told our cnns jake tapper they will not make any land concessions in the east but some people suggested thats the only off-ramp, so with that off the table, how do you see this playing out? >> well, i have to say, i heard concern from various european diplomats. theyre worried that the biden administration would try to force zelenskyy into accepting some sort of compromise from russia and giving up territory in the east. what were hearing from president zelenskyy is wh...