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>> reporter: around 5:00 a.m. 70-year-old registered nurse sandra shells was at a bus stop downtown heading to work when a man struck her in the face without provocation, police say. shells fell backwards, fracturing her skull when she hit the concrete. the los angeles fire department responded, rushing shells to the los angeles county usc medical center which had been her original destination. this is where she worked in the emergency department for nearly 40 years. shells died of her injuries ...

>> reporter: tonight, independent sources inside russia providing unverified images of more heavy russian military equipment rolling west on rail cars. as we get a troubling new sign an invasion could be just weeks away, according to a u.s. official. in addition to the 100,000 russian troops massed on ukraines border, the biden administration today accusing russia of pre-positioning operatives in eastern ukraine who are trained in urban warfare and explosives to create a possible provocation tha...

As these scenarios develop. but these are two different things, the civilians and the army. and do people there think that the west and the united states are doing enough to stand up for ukraine to try to deter the russians? people feel that ukraine are a bit cornered by this very complex structure of the global security when ukraine is threatened because it is not in nato, but there is nothing... but anything the west can do could be considered as a provocation by russia, to even we heard this ...

Negative and this and that. >> it is such a time capsule. at the same time it is theme universal. everyone is interacting and it is funny. >> move back to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> it is creative, it is cultural and social and political and it has this edge to it. it has this provocation as part of its core. >> get his arms. >> it is enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, a young black man is murdered, do i retaliate or kickoff this riot and he wrestles with it for a spl...

Live up to our commitment to nato, should the nato response force be activated by nato. this -- putting our forces on a shorter string enables us to get there in a shorter period of time. and again, i think that provides reassurance to nato that were ready to live up to our commitments. in terms of what putin thinks and the way he feels about things, again, its hard to predict. we take those kind of things into consideration. but again, if you look at the forces that he has moved into the region...

The kremlin angrily dismissed the allegation as misinformation and a provocation, but theres no sign that some 100,000 russian forces are backing away from the ukrainian border in what the west fears is, in fact, a prelude to another invasion. joining me now is the director of the carnegie moscow center. and its good to see you again, dmitry. what do you make of the uks statement here? and even if it is true, what purpose does it serve, releasing this information so publicly in this way? >> well...

Obama administration would provide no lethal aid. trump started with small arms ammunition and anti-tank weapons. but there was no additional provocation from putin. now we have had provocation and i think we should have significantly increased it. we have done some of that, but we have not given them all that they need and some of it they desperately need. we are talking about an air campaign here that putin has in his kick bag and could be very significant, not just supporting ground forces, b...

Ground, a provocation on the ground that will necessitate or could lead to violence. and she pointed rather -- she pointed less to the diplomacy thats going on, and more to the actions of british military, she said, have been shipping in weapons over the past few days to ukraine. she described that as nato dragging ukraine into nato. these are words and language that will resonate at home. you see how the complexity, the muddied waters are now sort of in a way thwarting this very, very intense d...

Invade secretary antony blinken. joining us now of the best-selling book "isis: inside the terror," michael weiss. lets start with the basics. what is your assessment of the presidents comments about the russia/issue, and why is he guilty? >> theres not unanimity within nato about what to do if russia crosses the line, which is to say, sends any number of troops, regular or aregular into ukraine, mounts of provocation including teicher attacks and so on, however, given the scale of buildup, an...

Because of the significant build—up we have seen the russian forces near the ukrainian border. no provocation, no reason, except that we have a very significant force, we know that there are plans in place to increase that force even more on very short notice, and that gives president putin the capacity, also in very short notice, to take further aggressive action against ukraine, and that, of course, has got not only our attention, but it has got the attention of virtually all of our allies a...