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a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we're tracking developments there, but first, let's go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. >> yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message whe...

Largely by american airpower and then the territory will be cleared and held by iraqi and kurdish troops. they can't do it on their own. they're going to need the combat multipliers that american advisers bring. >> colonel, what do we bring to the fight? do we bring the fight to the fight? do they have the fight in them to take on isis? or do we have to bring that sense of fight to them? you say they need us, but do they need us for materiel. >> they need 9 additional oomph to squeeze isis out of the territory. with american advisers american airpower is infinitely more effective, but advisers...

I don't understand how this works with just 15,000. it seems to me that you inevitably escalate and you end up with a whole lot more than that. >> colonel nagl, your response? >> first they're not all at war with each other. second, 15,000 american advisers is plenty. we currently have no american advisers intended. i trained advisers during the earlier phases of this war, teams of a dozen or so american advisers inside a battalion of 500 or so troops will multiply the combat effectiveness of those forces. the iraqi and kurdish forces will be able to hold the territory once it's been cleared l...

To president roosevelt, theodore roosevelt, saying, you know, walk softly, carry a big stick. we've got, we've got to improve our military capabilities here. we've got to work directly against the iranians through our allies, with our troops on the ground there calling in air and other combat multipliers in the region. but i'd be very careful about unpacking this iranian nuclear agreement without knowing what the consequences would be. we've got to always look at, as bad as the threat is, what we learned going into iraq in 2003 was that you can make a bad situation worse if you don't handle it...