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Of the russian military advance. vladimir putin's plan is not going according to plan and it is certainly well behind timescale. i think viewers are looking at the map. i think at the outset what he intended to do was a major thrust down from belarus towards kyiv. a thrust along the southern coast and a thrust west from the donbas area. well, all that has been achieved so far is minimal penetration down from the north. i will come back to that in a moment. in the south, that is where they have made more progress, and you can see mariupol is absolutely critical to preventing the linkup between ...

Sees and to probably try to push this case along in that regard. but it will be a legal matter, and it does have to -- you know, it will be a fact if any prosecutor can proof chain of command and direct orders and all the rest that goes into proving these very tough cases. clearly, there's a huge amount of evidence building up on the ground. >> these russian claims that, no, they are not targeting civilians area ring so hollow. you heard the mayor of kyiv b.s., and he didn't abbreviate. you look at what's happening at this theater in mariupol. what did you think as you were watching this happe...

To this propaganda machine by putin for years, for 20 years of his rule. now they are unable -- they're physically, psychologically, unable to trust their own relatives. just half an hour before this, i was speaking to a friend and she told me a story of her friend, she has an uncle in russia. she is living here in ukraine, and she is living in the donbas area, and she's been hiding in the bunker for the last week because russians are shelling where she is. she was talking to her uncle living in russia, and he didn't -- he simply did not believe her about the level of attack by russians, he ac...

Here's what it looks like now. this was a neighborhood, a roundabout surrounded by homes and buildings. now the area is totally destroyed, leveled with scorched rubble everywhere. a senior adviser to president zelenskyy says forces are beginning to counterstrike against the russians. this new video shows blown-up russian military vehicles at the kherson airport. and this is mariupol. ukrainian forces taking out a russian tank in a military strike. zelenskyy taking his worldwide plea for help in germany invoking the hole cost and calling on the german chancellor to destroy a wall separating eur...

Least afford it. up to 13 million could go hungry because of the war. >> now we are looking at a price hike to cost us per month anywhere from 60 to $75 million more per month. and that means less people, which means more people are going to go to bed hungry. >> the hardest hit, armenia, kazakhstan, mongolia, but they have to compete on price with china, turkey, egypt and iran, wealthier countries. one solution, and this is already in effect in europe, farmers there are going to be able to plant in areas that have been set aside for wildlife. u.s. farmers want the same permission from the usda...