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With lester holt. good evening, everyone ukraine and russia are entering a fourth week of war tonight, still unanswered is why. what is clear is this is not the fight the russians expected. their casualties are high, their objectives according to experts are mostly unrealized, and their apparent systemic assault on civilians knows no end. in the latest, even signage, apparently visible from the air, warning that children were among those sheltered in a theater basement in mariupol failed to prevent its bombing. thankfully, the shelter held a top u.n. official tonight says 726 civilian deaths...

>> deputy white house pressñilp secretary, thanks for coming on the show, appreciate it. >> i want to show you president trump's motorcade. he is making his way to the united natio.'y building to deliver a speech to world leaders. you can see them starting their rainy day in new york.xd traffic is alreadyfá bad. the president is expected to talk about a number of hot policy topics including iran and north korea. he is running behind schedule. we have seen the speechxd to op u.n. general assemblyxd speeche. looks like that's the police escort on the motorcycles there. to continue the conversa...

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>> ambassador feltman said there is a real sense of urgency to get things resolved diplomatically, because if they don't resolve it diplomatically, you know what that means. >> exactly. that's again, why it's encouraging and we don't know exactly what was discussed. we can't read too much into it and encouraging that he had this meeting and a diplomatic path forward is being pursued even by the administration. >> would he be considered as a diplomatic back channel even though he's a top u.n. diplomat, a diplomat being back chan total north koreans? >> i don't know. he works for the u.n. and no...

Border. that's important. what is the overall condition of isis? certainly the group has been broken down throughout the region, but how and where is isis still viable? >> well, they no longer control significant territory. it is nothing compared to what we saw back in 2014 where they were controlling so many of iraq's major cities, the same thing in syria. so you're looking at some pockets in desert areas along the iraqi/syrian border when it comes to the syrian side of the battle. i think this was really well summed up by the top u.n. official to iraq, the united nations secretary-general's ...