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It's about 3:40 in the morning here. there's not a lot of movement at this hour, but we have heard from soldiers, hungarian soldiers, that the lineup on the other side, the ukrainian side of the border here, is upwards of ten hours long. 10 to 12 hours long. there are many ukrainian women, children, and the elderly waiting to get into hungary. it is 27, 26 degrees right now. it is winter. i want to tell you about a post that we saw on social media. one post writes, good morning, we're alive. that phrase becomes a daily tradition that i wish we never had. today is a week since we started living...

Doing right now and what he is doing? >> we keep exchanging messages because, like i mentioned in some of my posts, i have not seen him a whole lot since thursday, last thursday i have seen him four times. he has been stationed at the territorial defense, like the name says, they are assigned to specific territories. for example, in different districts in kyiv, they have their own territorial defense groups. so that is where they have the ships, and they are responsible for guarding the intersection -- the major intersections, major pathways, major strategic objects. while the usual army, the ...

Conflict erupted in the north of the country. the prime minister asking ooet y o them to join him at the war front. >> everyone should join the fight. >> he called his decision to go to the battle front as the final fight to save ethiopia from internal and external enemies. he has asked citizens to take up arms and used inflammatory language when rallying supporters to fight. this 55-year-old patrols and is among thousands who have joined defense groups to protect the capital from the tplf. a construction worker by day and a vigilante by night. >> i am now safeguarding my city with a stick, bu...

>> reporter: certainly there are multiple motives going on with these attacks. many attacks like this on civilians happen without breaking through into the international news. but the tragedy is more than 1 million people in burkina faso alone in the last two years have had to flee their homes. that area, that border region, is largely ungovernable. and an attack of this scale does sometimes indicate that this is a group of militants that are doing a reprisal attack. many of these villages have gotten together vigilante groups, anti-islamic defense or anti-jihadi, i should say, defense groups....

Groups, strong defense groups, all of which have an aggressive stance toward the settlers. that is not all of israeli public opinion, it is certainly not international opinion. it is a very tricky, difficult kind of situation. donald trump has clearly signaled he's going to stay with the netanyahu government, full steam ahead with the settlements, u.n. be damned, peace process be damned. if that's what john kerry believes, i think we can hear him sort of denounce that in advance today. >> you covered john kerry extensively. you traveled with him, profiled him. what do you think in this late mo...