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Thing to do. technically, the russians can try and escape from the international criminal court because the methods of referral are complex. russia is not a signatory to the rome statute which underpins it. and secondly, because they've got veto power in the security council, it's difficult to have the case referred. therefore, if you stand outside of that and looked at new mechanisms like they did and had to innovate in 1945, then there is a way in which these folks can be brought to justice. if you let this just pass through, as if it's just one of those things that happened, then we as an i...

Pyongyang, tehran, damascus in syria. the list is starting to look a bit thin. but beyond that i cannot see how the international community will regard this man and the government he's led as in any way a normal state. and therefore, you cannot simply accept his presence in the international community, international conferences, as being normal. this is 2022. what we're looking at here is 1945. therefore, i think we've crossed a threshold. but the challenge for all of us is not to forget, to allow this to slide. they're banking on europe and the west being strategically soft and allowing it to...

You wrote a fascinating piece today about how this is president biden's instinct. he makes big things personal. so let's listen. wendy sherman there saying we're not about regime change. but she also knows that pokes putin. the president of the united states in recent days poking putin. >> very public standing together against a murderous dictator. a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of ukraine. >> are you ready to call him a war criminal? >> he is a war criminal. >> pros and cons? >> the pro here is the president saying what seems evident to us watching the video that ...

The air defense intercepted two. four, though, did get through. until today, the city in the western half of the country had been relatively untouched by bombs. now, no longer. in kyiv, the capital, at least one person is dead, four more hurt after a downed russian rocket tumbled into a five-story building. in kharkiv, a russian rocket set the city's market ablaze. smoke black out the sun. in mariupol, a city besieged by the worst horrors of this war, faces of hope. 130 survivors have emerged alive from a destroyed theater where hundreds of families had taken shelter. today a fuller picture of...

We have people who wounded. >> what is the weapon that is hurting your men? >> the most dangerous is artillery. >> does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now we destroyed almost 200 russians. and captured alive close to six or eight soldiers. >> now, john, this officer is a veteran of the 2014 war in southeastern ukraine against russian-backed separatists. he said the big difference between them and now is the sheer size and scale of the russian invasion force. and also the air power, the helicopters and aircraft that he says he is not accustomed to