and japan are in tokyo for the quad summit. the war in ukraine climate change, regional security and trade. just some of the issues being discussed. the informal alliance is aim that countering china s influence. you know, surely before rochelle launch this invasion, my administration published our into a pacific strategy to advance a free open, connected, secure, and resilient endo pacific brushes assault and ukraine only heightens the importance of those goals. the fundamental principles of international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty. international law, human rights must always be defended. murder ricardo s worth are violated in the world. rob mcbride revolts from toko china as it s china, suspects that so all of the adversaries meeting like this in a, in a gang and effectively ganging up on it is, is meant to constrain its development in what it regards as its own back yard, especially after biden s comments yesterday, monday when he said that the u. s. yes,
these fighters from the as of battalion, attempted to defend the steel planting variable and prevent russian soldiers from completely taking over the port city. but out numbered and overpowered. ukraine says its mission to defend. the plant is over, sir. stollen yacoma, the defenders of merrier pulfer filled all the towns that by their commanders. unfortunately, we do not have the opportunity to unblock as a star. by military means. the fight for the steel works and the plight of civilians and fighters trapped there, captured the world s attention. all women, children, and elderly have already been evacuated. president vladimir zalinski says the priority now is to move out the rest of the fighters still in the plant. so he deem great, he s called links to the actions of the ukrainian military, the international committee of the red cross. and the you in. we hope that we will be able to save the lives of our guys. there are severely wounded soldiers among them. they ve been gi