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Individuals and entities aligned with an alignment with the european union. more than 300 members of the duma, oligarchs and russian defense companies that fuel the russian war machine. in addition to the 100,000 u.s. forces now stationed in europe to defend nato territory, nato established, as you already know, four new battle groups in romania, hungary, bulgaria and slovakia. to reinforce the eastern front. putin was banking on nato being split. my early conversations with him in december and early january was clear to me he didn't think we could sustain this cohesion. nato has never, never ...

The president? >> well, the president's announcements, wolf, were all very interesting. the increased security assistance, the potential for additional sanctions against the duma and the defense entities. i read that as being specific sectors of the russian industry that contribute to their defensive posture. a billion in humanitarian assistance. 100,000 refugees and family reunification issues. energy security for europe. the kinds of sanctions that, you know, as one reporter asked him, won't deter but it's increasingly significant that he is leveling these kinds of sanctions against the russ...

Parliament, the duma. i think they should potentially name military commanders who are raining this hell on the ukrainian citizens. i think they need to be held responsible. and president biden has got a big, big day tomorrow. he has to maintain the coalition of nato. maintain the g-7 which includes, you know, obviously major powers like japan outside of europe, and you've got the european union. so keeping some of those front line states, quite nervous altogether, ratcheting up in terms of calling out the war crime and making sure the flow of military materials, those s-300s that have longer ...

You know, the media rules were changed in a real hurry towards the end of last week, very quick legislation passing through the duma. the bbc rightly paused its operations in order to give us a chance to look at that legislation and ensure that our staff could operate freely and safely in the country. and we have resumed our broadcasting the early part of this week, in english only, from moscow in the light of the legal and operational advice that we've taken. but of course, the provision of free and independent information is not in any sense an attack on the russian state. it's simply part o...

Point and then they sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in jail which he's already served and now 9 more years. so he says that in fact it's not a threat but yet there's that. there's the duma, russian duma in the parliament that will extend the draconian laws they have to criticizing the army to criticizing any government functions. it all leads to what human rights watch the president said was seeming in determination by the kremlin to isolate russian society to cut russians off from uncomfortable facts. rosemary? >> jim bidderman joining us live from paris. many thanks. many ukrainians escaping ...