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Winter olympics. >> the international uproar and outcry over the russian government's handling of those situations with regard to their own olympians makes it even worse that greiner was a former olivian asked for access to americans paul wheeland and trevor reed but it hasn't happened. they were arrested and convicted before the war for crimes they have denied. wolf. >> brian todd reporting. thank you very much. tonight, nato, nato is preparing to double the number of troops as the eastern alliance keeps a very watchful eye on russian invasion forces in ukraine. let's discuss with retired col...

To the united nations tells sky news, his country has the right to use nuclear weapons if provoked by -- . here, the chancellor says that the government will have families who struggle with the cost of living. but experts with ukraine said they're facing the biggest drop in standards on record. -- prince william explain says his profound sorrow for horrors of the slave trade. and russia puts forward a surprise last minute bid to host euro 2028, after it looked like the tournament was going to the uk. well leaders from nato member states will meet in brussels today firm urgency submit. the gath...

Vladimir putin? >> well, when he walks into that meeting he's going to face some intense pressure from some of the members. they have been talking about a no-fly zone, which he's vetoed, they have been talking about peacekeeping forces in ukraine, which he's also said united states cannot support. but there are a number of other things on the list that conceivably he can say yes so in order to keep the unity of nato and to also keep the pressure on the russians. forward nato basing. literally as he was in the air, the secretary general of nato said four battle groups would be dispatched from n...

And tell us why they're so key potentially to deterring further russian aggression. >> absolutely, wolf. where they'll be the here in slovakia, hungary, romania and bulgaria. these are the crowountries thate bordering or close to ukraine and moldova. the idea behind this is to show the russians that we are going to be protecting not only the eastern flank of nato, but the southeastern flank as well. so all of this area in the balkans and all this area that borders western and southern ukraine. that's going to be important part for these battle groups and hopefully send a message to the russian...

We have to distribute from the external border. everyone has to take in refugees. it's not about a few thousand it's about a few million. there will be more to come. we have to taking refugees from every country in europe in the hundreds of thousands and above all distribute them across the transatlantic. it will replace any existing eu battle groups as they're called. as i military forces at the eu has had since 2007. but they have never used it. the plans have been in the pipeline for a few years and brought