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In russia? >> well, now it's a blackout, essentially, of media. it's a total media blackout. it's the stone age that has extend on russia altogether. to some degree, i think it is possible. in the beginning, in fact, there was much more opposition, because there's independent tv station. there was tiktok, there were all this other social media that in the last two weeks, closed almost as if the iron curtain of the media just fell down on russia tremendously and in fact, the one i mentioned, the iconic radio station since 1990 that was closed today announced that its air waves were taken by the...

Now china a near peer there. how does that change how the u.s. needs to think about this? >> we should separate it. both countries have been investing heavily in more nuclear technology in their arsenal. remember both invested and tested hypersonic weapons. we have seen vladimir putin boasting about this the last few years, as has china. and mark milley called it a near sputnik moment. that having been said, given the instability of the region, some of the posturing we have heard out of vladimir putin putting his nuclear forces on high alert last week, i think all of this is causing more conce...

Going to cut it to ban eu and to ban rt and sputnik, and that's how they decided to go through the economic economic sanctions route. but rt is actually challenging that in front of eu courts. so we will see whether that is legally solid or not. and does it mean, is that is the onus now on the tech companies to block rt voluntarily? i mean, they were in the scope of the sanctions. so the online online channels, telegram channels, youtube channels, facebook. all of that was in the scope, so they have removed them. it was legally binding for them to do so. but what we're seeing is what we call m...

Yes, it is never easy with the oligarchs. l yes, it is never easy with the oligarchs. i suspect that there is a lawyer listening to this conversation as well. catherine belton is a great example of how hard it has been for her. i'm just going to change direction now because i want to pick up on something we talked about a few weeks ago which is the crackdown on russian media channels. laura is a tech correspondent at politico based in paris. it turns out blocking russian backed channels is not as simple as the eu hoped for. why not? it was not very easy legally, because it was a political deci...

Russia's space agency has released a video showing the two cosmonauts leaving their american counterpart and detaching the russian segment of the station. >> emily: after which elon musk's ads is own video of him flying up and saving him. what breaks my heart is that we've spoken with former astronauts who spoke in on the international space station with the russians and say that the best part is the international relationship. the best part is a human to human relationship developed when you work in space because the reality is we are all humans on this planet and we are not under that one fl...