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smith. >> john: im john roberts. the story with martha starts rights now. >> martha: good afternoon. im martha maccallum. right now breaking on "the story," israels prime minister saying the fight in gaza is the second war of end. he calls it an existential battle. any calls for a cease fire, he says, would be a surrender as idf expands their ground operation and rescues an israeli soldier who was kidnapped october 7th. a huge development this afternoon. they have vowed to carry out mo...

it comes after warehouses containing flour and other basic supplies were ransacked by thousands of people. the international red cross is warning that no adequate humanitarian response is now possible in gaza, which it describes as a "catastrophic failing". israel had said egypt and the us would be expanding humanitarian aid into gaza today. but egypt has blamed delays on israels inspection regime. it comes as the israel defense forces continue their ground offensive in gaza, entering ...

wife, amy, his daughter, meredith, his son, nick. may his memory be a blessing thanks to our panel for being here today. thanks to all of you for joining us. im kasie hunt. dont go anywhere. cnn news central start parts right now we are standing by for the announcement of a unprecedented security agreement with ukraine. >> it is supposed to last ten years, will last ten months if donald trump is elected for the first time since january 6, insurrection, and for the first time since he b...

Need. a long-range weapon, in order to take on russia, it has taken too long for those weapons to arrive in ukraine, too much fear of escalation rather than being clear that the war aim is for russia to be defeated. thats what we need to see from the biden administration, we need to see clarity so the american public are convinced this is important and doable. and i think it is doable and lots of people say this is an issue for europe and weve rapidly become an issue for the united states if vla...

About the world of democracies and the world of autocracies. is this what were up against, which is a sobering thought, because the three largest nuclear powers in the world, and you have to, russian china, allied and in a sense their missiles pointed at the united states? >> well, what i see as usaid administrator traveling to developing countries is china making, continuing to make a whole series of investments, often causing those countries to incur a awful lot of debt. but really, carrying a...

This gets to jakes point about the awkwardness of throwing its lot in with a naked aggressor committing war crimes as a matter of state policy, i mean, when you set out to deelectrify a country in the dead of winter, that is enshrining the intentional destruction of civilian infrastructure as a war aim. its very unusual and to do so publicly and flamboyantly, that creates great awkwardness for the peoples republic of china and with so much of the global self voting to condemn the world, seeing t...

Right now t appears the war aim remains capturing donbas. in terms of russian military potential it is rather constrained. just looking over the last couple weeks they are having a pretty hard time in this offensive. and have not made significant gains. i likely think it is going to go on through march. although it may increase in overall intensity. it is not clear the russian military has yet committed reserves to try to exploit any one direction they are attacking. >> on that point, ryan, over...

And so, for example, ukraine was notjust a successive state, but something carved out of the russian entity. of course, the irony here is that by his invasion of ukraine, putin has created exactly the kind of national consciousness through president zelensky, whos been able to express it that he insisted had not existed before. yes, and it makes it inconceivable that his original war aim of returning ukraine to a state of dependence on russia could never come out of this this war except by russi...

In a wider strategic sense, this is very much vladimir putins calling card, and we have to remember that the g7 was once the g8, and he is the eighth member and hes not there. so they wont have heard the shells landing in bavaria, but that is what the intention was. what prospect is there, what likelihood, that russian control of severodonetsk could mark a turning point in this war? well, this is, or should i say the russian take over of severodonetsk is the latest tactical advance by the russia...

War that continues to go, i think, catastrophically for russia. >> catastrophically. ed, youll remember the legendary european footballer, johan croy, whose famous saying was, if you cant win, for gods sake, dont lose. i think the question right now is, with quite many grievous consequences attached, is how does vladimir putin avoid losing, or at least looking like he is losing to his own people? >> well, this is really difficult because the ukrainians are now saying that their original war aim ...