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they shot at everyone. you can see the trees yeah, in the trees, it s everywhere. on april, two, i came here as well, already in bucha self. and the first place, i was here on this square. and here i can show you photos, i have photos of my library. you was one car with a killed man inside. that was a man who worked in bucha for, like, park maintenance, and humor was trying to take wounded people to the hospital. and he transported several, then he again came back. he was killed right here by russians. there was a car with his buddy inside. and here was another car which he just smashed with a person inside. oh my gosh, there was a person inside? yeah, yeah, powerful. if you are pointing out the bullet tore holes in the trees, it looks normal. it looks normal, right. it looks like a suburban community. people going about their business. it s early morning now. you can see traffic is happening. explain that to me because when you are in kyiv it looks norm ....
Now. it s quintessential towers and bells have been the backdrop and soundtrack of much of my colleagues and own reporting during the course of this war. in a, way st. michaels monastery and the recharge of this country itself, joseph stalin s past view of the monastery could stand as a precedent, validating putin s war in ukraine. the monastery was built in the 11th century, and was named after st. michael. whom they consider to be the protector of kyiv. while the characteristic golden dome and the bell tower, they were added in the 1700s. later, the soviet union, under joseph stalin dean this ukrainian culture with no historic value, and ordered its closure during the 1930s. a couple years later, he ordered its entire destruction. blowing it up. after ukraine gained independence in 1930, one following the fall of the soviet union, a movement began to reconstruct the monastery. no nuggets importance in part ....
Mar mario bergolio, he graduated with a masters in chemistry but in 1988 decided to become a jesuit priest. so many he s known as father jorge as archbishop he rode the bus, the subway and he lives in a simple apartment where he cooked his own meals. succeeding benedict xvi in 2013 francis is the first latin american and first jesuit pope and also the first pope to take the name francis, after st. francis of assisi, a patron saint of the poor. he immediately set himself apart from his predecessors passing of the grand papal apartment for a simple two-bedroom residence. francis was dubbed the people s pope by time magazine for his defense of the poor. so from divorced catholics and abortion to climate change to ....
Working assumption here is that the two men find themselves together in a neutral space, both leaders quickly accepted the invitation and although the vatican won t officially confirm, it looks as though this will happen in early june. the hope is that they will also have perhaps some conversations about restarting the peace process that broke down a month ago. look, i think it was the inevitable that the first pope in history named francis, after st. francis, the legendary peacemaker of the middle ages, was going to want to try to bring peace, and there s no more intractable conflict on the global stage than the israeli/palestinian conflict. francis had beth abbas and peres in meetings at the vatican individually and established what he regards as good rapport with both of them. so he s hoping that he can get something done here. it s interesting because the pope did lament the fact that the u.s.-mediated peace talks ....
Coming quickly to geneva in order to have this important conversation that we will engage in. over one year ago, president obama and president putin directed high-level experts in our governments, both of our governments, to work together to prepare contingencies involving syria s chemical weapons. prime minister lavrov and i have been in regular contact about this issue since my visit to moscow earlier this year. and as foreign minister lavrov said to me it a phone conversation, after st. petersburg and meeting there s, president putin and president obama thought it would be worthwhile for us to work together to determine if there is life in this concept. this challenge obviously took on grave urgency on august 21st when the syrian regime used ....