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Ukrainians while they tried to move around and redeploy elsewhere. just not sure. >> no question, i havent seen images like the ones you showed us, ievan, what more have we learned about the buses going to and from mariupol. >> reporter: well the big question is how to evacuate the estimated more than 100,000 civilians believed to have still been trapped in the russian siege lines under the bombardment of mariupol. this morning, the ukrainian government announced that they had gotten a message f...

Been bombarding the city for weeks and weeks. maxine, thank you for being with us. have people been able to get out of the city on these buses? >> hello. it is still catastrophic. they say they give the green corridor but there is no green corridor. they use their own cars to get out of the city or into the site of ergansk. it is about 80 kilometers from mariupol.

War. they didnt want ukraine to join nato. we were concerned about ukraines overtures. how then does ukraine, the u.s. and it allies thread the needle here? >> that is exactly what they are trying to figure out. this might be a concession they are willing to give for the russians in exchange for ending the war, peace. at the same time, if they are going to do that, they need security guarantees in some form. they want article 5 type commitment. it is future defense. if we get attacked, everyone ...

But i, i dont want to put too much stock in that at this time because we dont have that much hard evidence. >> joined now by william, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, ambassador taylor, as we mentioned, president biden says putin seems to be isolating himself and punishing, maybe, some of his advisers. to that point, do you agree with u.s. intelligence assessments that putin is being misled by his military? >> john, i think he probably is. the intelligence service is no better than i, but i, i...

Actions in ukraine. in fact, almost just the opposite. after day one of that meeting, we heard this from chinas ministry of foreign affairs. a spokesperson said, as follows, quote, there is no ceiling for china/russia cooperation. no ceiling for us to strive for peace, no ceiling for us to safeguard security and no kreelging for us to oppose hegemony. if china declaring their relationship as having no ceiling, this comes just months after, of course, that summit between vladimir putin, xi jinpin...

Economic shock. with us now from stanford university is katherine stoner, she is director of the center of democracy development and the rule of law. and, katherine, welcome back. its good to see you. we heard from vladimir putin on thursday speaking about why he believes russia has been targeted with international sanctions. listen to this. >> translator: these are sanctions to punish us for our right to be free, independent. for our right to be russia. for not wanting to dance to their tune an...

Have a negative effect on the talks. the defense ministry are saying they are noticing russians repositioning their missile deployments to the southeast of belarus, maybe to concentrate that area of donbas that they are presumably refocusing on. well see. john. >> christiane, thank you so much for that report. to see that much russian military hardware, i hope everybody understands how to see that much equipment burned out and destroyed on the side of the road. i guarantee you vladimir putin nev...

Skyrocketing on global markets so on thursday, u.s. president joe biden announced a record release from the strategic oil reserve, up to 180 million barrels over six months. a move he hopes will help lower record-high gasoline prices across the u.s. kaitlan collins has more now from the white house. >> reporter: well, as russias war in ukraine is continuing, president biden is taking drastic steps to try to reduce gas prices here at home where they have been skyrocketing, of course, ever since t...

Around us, they gave us bread and canned food. we wouldnt have managed, otherwise. no one here knows when this war will end, or whether russia still has designs on kyiv. the frontline is about a mile away. for now, an uneasy calm prevails ever since the ukrainian defenders stopped the russian advance here. it was february 28th, they say, day four of the war. they want to show us how they did it, but first we have to clamber over the bridge they downed to see the armored column they managed to ta...

Humanitarian situation in mariupol a catastrophe and reiterating his request for a no-fly zone over ukraine. >> translator: why are we waiting to set up a no-fly zone? we have the impression that the europeans do not have enough courage to put in place while the ukraine has already given thousands of lives to defend the security of europe. the defenders of mariupol and other cities of ukraine are fighting for the safety of all cities in europe. >> from japan to the u.s., and from israel to austr...