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Green energy and joe manchin says the u.s. could ramp up domestic production >> energy has been weaponized. we have the ability to counter that weapon. we do. >> this is war. >> the white house is focused on sanctions. the president announced dozens of billionaires have been added to the list and banning travel of 50 russian oligarchs and their families. one of those oligarchs has been sanctioned before and remains on the fbis most wanted list for interfering in the 2016 election. >> neil: jacqu...

Disagree. >> energy has been weaponized. we have the ability to basically counter that weapon. >> accelerate the transition we are already seeing. >> the white house is still focused on sanctions. >> we are adding dozens of names to the list, including one of russias wealthiest billionaires. and im banning travel to america by more than russian oligarchs. >> at least one of those oligarchs has been sanctioned before and remains on the fbis most wanted list for interference in the 2016 election. ...

>> president biden is expected to speak from the white house at about 12:25 p.m. eastern time as putins war in ukraine escalates. the president is walking a fine line with ukraine, making sure to avoid direct conflict with russian troops that could escalate global tensions. president zelenskyy says the west can and should be doing more. >> how many more people have to die? if you dont have the strength and courage to close this guy, then give me the planes. >> tough words. meanwhile i want to pl...

Morning with street battles between ukrainian and russian troops, terrifying the local population, population over a million people. many of them, russian speaking. and thats significant, because part of the pretext in the buildup of this war from russian president vladimir putin was this idea that somehow russian speakers here in ukraine were being unfairly targeted, unfairly discriminated against, unfairly persecuted. and now to see them being assaulted by russian forces. the irony of that is ...

The main stock index 4%. its down 27 this year. russian ruble heading for a record low. >> i sue the move on the ruble. be interesting to keep an eye on the russian markets to see whether its being felt. oil and gas, nord stream 2 being put on hold. when we were talking about crimea, europe thought gas was being weaponized. europe knew this. what was your assessment? >> europe was very concerned. germany was reluctant to take the measure. it was the biggest stick they could wield against russia ...

Intelligence assesses if the planes are moved from that u.s. airbase to ukraine, pruden could view it as an attack by nato drawing nato into a direct conflict with russia. u.s. officials say ukraine does not need these from a military perspective because they still have most of their air force intact and the antitank and antiaircraft shoulder fired weapons are having more impact. in terms of ukraines bile labs which have come under scrutiny tonight, those are soviet era by labs that the u.s. has...

To what bbc world service, voice of america, radio free europe, and others have been doing for a long time? is this different? youre asking the wrong person. the only reason i sound like an english person is because my parents, who were, sort of, exiled after being arrested by the kgb in the 70s — my dad got a job at the world service in the cold war. im a child of bush house, so im probably the wrong person to ask. i think we should be doing more, i think we should be funding it much more. i ...

Ukraine and what types of vile pathogens are we talking about here? well, according to the "the washington post," about u.s. funding, one lab to receive funding is the ii antiplague research and scientific institute in the black sea port city of odesa. the institute was part of a cold war network of antiplague stations that supplied highly lethal pathogens to soviet bioweapons factories. the plague. that is what the soviets were looking to unleash back in the day. at one lab in uzbekistan, the u...

Operation against zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. and how the russians military were trying to capture it. and the importance of this power plant is significant because it controls about one fifth of the electricity of ukraine. >> right. this would be caring about that power plant, one of the greatest ways in this it could be weaponized, by choking of power and energy to the rest of the country. nadia, we got a statement from the white house a short time ago, raising countries for doing what t...

Im a child of bush house, so im probably the wrong person to ask. i think we should be doing more, i think we should be funding it much more. i think were still far behind the russians and the chinese in really thinking about, what is democratic communications in the 215t century? i think we should be doing much, much more. and olga, as you watch western organisations making this move, do you think theres a risk the bbc and others could appear to have been weaponized, even, by the west in its ge...