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Marked palm sunday. orthodox easter is next week. missile strikes and retaliation after ukranian missiles sunk the flag ship of russias fleet in the black sea. really humiliating for the russians, and now the russians are staging helicopters at the eastern border and sending new soldiers and artillery for a long campaign. the governor of the donetsk region says mariupol has been wiped off the face of the earth by russian forces. russia is warning of unpredictable consequences directly to the uni...

If he wanted to send one missile over the border, he might do something small thinking that nato would say this was something small, we dont have to invoke article 5 here, we can do something else. he might think he can get away with something small but very symbolic and also something that might frighten the european allies where they might say oh my god, this is getting out of hand, were seeing spillover into europe, we cant have this happen. he might hope, putin, might hope that this is what ...

Not yet but we would expect the kremlin to reject those allegations. it has repeatedly said it does not target civilians and continues to insist it has not committed war crimes saying that the ukrainians with their western allies had staged evidence of atrocities in bucha. standard kremlin response to deny everything and point the finger of blame back at the accuser. genocide is a word used a lot by the state media here because one of the baseless pretext that vladimir putin gives for his invasi...

Not meeting the moment with a sense of urgency with providing these weapons . >> i dont know what the problem is. i still think that, i still read op-eds in news papers that maybe we can negotiate with putin, well just stop the killing -- look youre dealing with somebody who is not a western politician. hes not interested in stopping the killing. hes causing the killing. he wants more of it and any negotiation you have with him will be depended on the outcome of the battles on the ground and unl...

Ukraine as a pretext for more interference in american politics. lets get a quick look now at the situation on the ground in ukraine. i had the chance earlier to speak with local journalist we oleksiy sorokin. political analyst of the key independent. thank you so much for being with us again, when we spoke with you three weeks ago, you described a frantic situation in kyiv, there was the. constant rocket attacks and shelling. residents watching from apartment buildings to bomb shelters. describ...

International humanitarian laws. as i mentioned, the standards apply to all parties. >> ambassador at large for global criminal justice, beth van-schaack, thank you so much for your time tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you for covering this issue. coming up, why is a democratic senator giving republicans a pass for their bad behavior towards judge ketanji brown jackson? but first, richard lui is here with the headlines. hello, richard. >> hello, mehdi. some of the stories were watching for ...

We all know what happened there. they brutally -- the russians brutally and indiscriminately bombed civilian neighborhoods and hospitals under his command. nearly 25,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed by russian air strikes in that conflict alone. now, the leadership change in ukraine could be putins acknowledgment that he actually needs better command and control on the ground. but heres the thing, u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan actually said today that nothing would ...

After his previous nominee withdrew in september. its not yet known who the president intends to nominate. the prime minister of pakistan, imran khan, was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote on sunday. his opposition cited a worsening inflation crisis and a disgruntled army as pretext for the vote. khans successor will be elected and sworn in by parliament on monday. and katherine hayes, an actress who starred in the cbs soap opera "as the world turns" has died. hayes played the rol...

To try and claim a false flag attack, blaming the us or ukraine for a chemical attack on russian personnel as a pretext for either working all peace negotiations or to relic domestic support. because right now essentially the public support for vladimir putin and the war in russia is predicated on it being considered to be at least somewhat successful, which continues to steadily decline into failing to achieve the kremlin public objectives and the killing may think it needs to further really su...

Meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in a decade, with two leaders meeting. Talking about Cyber Attacks, ukraine and americans being held inside russia. No concrete solutions announced, but the two sides agreed to begin talks on The Groundwork For Future Arms Control and Risk Reduction measures. Now after the summit concluded, putin held a News Conference in which he said the talks were very constructive. Translator i believe there has been no hostility. On the contrary, our meeting too...