john vause live if lviv, ukraine. latest developments in russia war on ukraine. the capitol kyiv appears to come under renewed assault this morning. a number of loud explosions heard on the out skirts. emergency crews are there now on the scene. unclear if there are any casualties. more on that as soon as we get it. meantime ukrainian police say the remains of 900 civilians have been recovered near kyiv since the russian troops pulled out. russia is facing accusations of atrocities. the top prosecutor visited the area this week. two ukrainian missiles sank the pride of the black sea fleet. russia say it suffered an accidental explosion. this update halting mariupol bus evacuations. civilians fleeing that besieged city are told to make their own way. ukraine deputy prime minister says buses are not able to travel through a washed out section of the road. the weather is turning nasty. the new batch of u.s. weapons to ukraine will start arriving in the coming hours. moscow has threatened what it calls consequences if u.s. weapon shipments continue. if you look at wh

house julia has condemned to russia over its operation in ukraine. but at the same time, it's government has failed to meet a compensation deadline for alleged war crimes by its military personnel in afghanistan, potentially leaving the issue to be sorted out after the current federal election. and he's killed, map and comments. the deadline for australia to announce compensation for the victims of its war crimes in afghanistan has passed. the report that called for compensation for the victims took 4 years to compile, where there is credible information that an identified or identifiable afghan national has been unlawfully killed. the inquiry has recommended that australia should now compensate the family of that person without a waiting for establishment of criminal liability. this will be an important step in rehabilitation of trellis international reputation, and it's simply the right thing to do. the war crimes are very real. 39 afghans had their lives cut short in violation of international law. 25 australians were implicated in the atrocities.

ukraine _ disaster. and what will it change for ukraine? ukraine has - disaster. and what will it change | for ukraine? ukraine has received more assistance from western allies, £100 million from the uk worth of equipment recently. how will that change the dynamics in this war? well, i think what it'll do, for the uk, the us and germany to keep giving more and more — i mean, we've got the air defence systems that came in from slovakia this week, they'll be very, very, very effective. in fact, they were the russians�*s most effective anti—aircraft missiles, the s 300. thank you very much forjoining us with analysis. thank you very much for “oining us with “with thank you very much for “oining us with anatysitfi thank you very much for “oining us with analysis. thank you very much for havint with analysis. thank you very much for having me- _ the grandmother of a british man who has been captured in ukraine says she's horrified by images of him being shown on russian tv, and has called for him to be treated humanely. aiden aslin was fighting with ukr

between ukraine and russia. in february 2015 and by the rose, the party signed the minster to agreement in san to re establish ukraine's control over its border with russia. but only after elections had been held in the disputed territories. it also required a change to the ukrainian constitution that would grant special status to occupy don boss. the agreement didn't name rush as a pot. sponsorship president, along in his memoirs, french president, francois alone described how potent raised his voice in the negotiations and threatened the ukrainian president order saying he would destroy the ukrainian forces classes. oscar. and that's the best evidence that russia was very active there. and these protocols, as they also called, were assigned literally under the gunshot, because a russians are ill. they, verbally threatened, ah, military operation and divide civil are which they actually then executed in public, but have that put it in retrospect, politically speaking, things should have looked a lot different w

and the west continue to send weapons into ukraine loads of weapons. in fact, western leaders continued to say that this war can only be decided on the battlefield. so all these things considered, it really looks like a classical case of the west's words contradicting its actions. don't. thanks very much ridiculous throughout our t stone courts. her well, let's get the latest now in the situation on the ground, rushes to armed forces have destroyed for military targets in ukraine overnight, including 2 munition devils. according to the russian defense ministry are launched . missiles also had 2 targets in the heart, cough region. ukrainian, drones and missiles were reportedly destroyed. while in mario, no one has used the humanitarian corridors from the ass off steel plants so far. according to done yet, people's republic officials authorities have stressed that if some civilians are still left at the factory, they may be being used as human shields. earlier, moscow blame care for disrupting the evacuation corridor from this site. further evidence has

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but to say it publicly, and also that language, too, in effect, ukraine, an independent sovereign ukraine will outlive, outlast putin goes right to the core of this. you and i have talked so often about how this is personal for putin. putin has a view of the world, of his own place in history, of uniting mother russia, pushing back as what he sees as the u.s. undermining him, seeking regime change in russia. it's very personal for putin. so, by stating out loud the u.s. plans to weaken his ability to carry something like this in the future, it's important he hears and the biden administration is comfortable with him hearing this. >> seems like very specific chosen language. and it comes after we hear from ned price at the state department saying ukraine is winning this war. is that really the feeling or is this trying to paint a rosy picture? >> reporter: i speak to u.s. military officials all the time about where their assessment is of ukraine's fighting ability and the battle on the ground. for some time at least the u.s. military view has been that ukraine is not just holding its own b

so far support for ukraine has been distributed unevenly. that's according to new data from the keel institute for the world economy. it shows that the united states provided 7600000000 years worth of military and humanitarian help. this is for data going through the end of march to compare all you countries combined have contributed 6300000000 euros. that includes. euro's is about 1400000000 years from you institutions and 2000000000 euros from the european investment bank. other big donors include ukraine's neighbor, poland with 1000000000 euros. estonia has given about $200000000.00 to very generous amount as that represents 0 point, one percent of the countries gross domestic product far more than any other country . now, maria de merits. this is the deputy director at the google thing tank. she joins me now where you thank you so much for being here. so we just saw a chart showing will look like the u. s. far up, pacing the in terms of military and humanitarian aid for ukraine. what do you make of that is the you doing enough? not doing

that ukraine is now expecting an u offensive. we're in order of russia to there will be trying, as they say, to take full control of their, the netscape low hands region and to we are hearing from some local officials in law hands for instance, that there are urging residents to get out. as soon as they can and the hostilities right now still to focus on other dannetta korean with the city of mar, you pull that, i mention that the, the russian forces are trying to cease and full dw correspondent, alexander phenomena reporting from the ukrainian capital. many thanks, alexandra foreign ministers from nato countries are meeting in brussels to discuss further support for ukraine. nato is warning russia is set to intensify attacks in eastern and southern ukraine. here some of what secretary general gen, stroke berg had to say earlier about the need to put more pressure on moscow. we have seen no indication that the person put in house, so changed his ambition to control the whole of ukraine on also to rewrite her the natural order. so

ambassador to ukraine. it analysis of one former british ambassador to ukraine. it remains difficult to see _ ambassador to ukraine. it remains difficult to see how _ ambassador to ukraine. it remains difficult to see how putin - ambassador to ukraine. it remains difficult to see how putin can - ambassador to ukraine. it remains| difficult to see how putin can agree to any outcome of this war which doesn't end up with russia with more thanit doesn't end up with russia with more than it had. it's difficult to see how ukraine can accept the aggressor getting more land asa as a result. let's bring in the bbc's as a result. let's bring in the 3505 ben — as a result. let's bring in the bbc's ben brown. _ they are angry and president zelensky is angry that antonio guterres has gone to moscow first before coming here to kyiv. they say he should have come to ukraine first, and they're also worried that the un secretary—general is being played by president putin and by the russians and sergei live her off in oth

you said boreal says the money given in military aid to ukraine. since the start of the russian invasion has been dwarfed by what it's paid moscow for energy supplies, we have given ukraine 1000000000 euros, which might seem like a lot, but a 1000000000 euros is what we are paying putin every day for the energy he provides us since the beginning of the war, we have given him 35000000000 euros. compare that to the 1000000000 we have given to ukraine in arms and weapons. this gigantic difference has to highlight the importance and need of implementing what the counselor's asked us to do. we have to reduce energy dependence. ahead of nato is warning the war in ukraine could last months or even years. yen stultz bergs as the delivery of more weapons ukraine will be discussed. as nato foreign ministers meet in brussels. we have seen no indication that the president putin has so changed his ambition to control or the whole of ukraine. ah, and also to rewrite 3rd in national order. so we need to be prepared for a long or hole. we need to support ukraine,

the battle for ukraine's besieged porter motto, paul reaches a decisive stage, ukraine's president ward. russia could use chemical weapons against a city already devastated by heavy bombardment and thousands of civilian deaths despite significant loss.

objectives in ukraine? joe bite of the strong approval of most americans has been careful all along to rule out any direct military engagement by the u.s. in the conflict between russia and ukraine. now, while his administration is backing president zelenskyy of your crate as he fights to save his country, its careful limits of what it will do. no u.s. forces of course. no, tonight no fly zone to recheck your grades under siege. note to any military support for ukraine other than those weapons that are deemed clearly defensive. even if he articulates is carefully limited support for the country, the president blurts out wildly bellicose statements most notoriously of course his passionate plea last weekend that seem to indicate he wants to oust vladimir putin. >> will have a different future, a brighter future written democracy encrypt principal. hope, light, recency, dignity, possibilities. for god sake this man cannot remain in power. >> is now the white house quickly walks back that statement as it conti

>>> tonight, the uncertain journey out of ukraine. as russia's assault continues. >> yeah, we're safe, thank god we're safe are but what about everybody else? >> we're on the ground as the refugee crisis explodes and millions of lives are upended by war. their desperate struggle to survive and start over receiving help from an unlikely source. >> all the kids here, say hi! >> reporter: their fellow refugees. >> you guys are picking up the pieces of your own life. why help others right now? >> it was needed for us too. >>> plus singer z, a trans woman, rose to fame performing on tv, competing on ukraine's version of "the voice." ♪ mamma mia does it show again ♪ still facing danger in her own country. >> i saw two military men with guns. they said, z! are you ready to die tonight? and i ran for my life. >> inside her harrowing escape and why she says her fight isn't over. this special edition of "nightline," "starting over: escape from ukraine," will be right back. xfinity mobile runs on america's most reliable 5g network, but for 3

do ukraine. how concerned do you think they are about where these weapons may end up and should they be consent a tool about this? well, actually, i mean, it wouldn't be invest and all that money in weapons in the amount of weapons that they provide for them. and then not have a way to guarantee that they're going to get to them as well as the they're not gonna be subject to the black box. so i'm confident that they that they will handle it in a way that makes it say, to get the weapons as well as comprehensive enough that they will happen to be able to defend himself in the continent. well right now, of ukrainian forces, they sure will be glad to use every bit of for, and help. and every 4 in supply the weapon do will do to help them fight the russian, the russian forces. but do you see these weapons after the conflict ending up in the wrong hands and well eventually basically well, posing a threat to western nations? well, i mean nothing desiccation in every conflict once is all with and and th

or the uk or ukraine. it's the world order that's at stake and that's why this is such a fundamental discussion and that was clear in an interview my colleague jim sciutto just wrapped up with the chairman of the joint staffs, general mark milley and what we heard from austin. >> at the end of the day, what we want to see, what i think the policy of all of the governments together is a free and independent ukraine with their territory intact and their government standing and the russian aggression has been halted and stopped. and at the end of the day, i think that's going to involve a weakened russia, a strengthened nato. >> russia's invasion is indefensible. and so are russian atrocities. ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. we want to see russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. >> you hear there the stronger rhetoric and stronger beliefs that ukraine can win this, contingent upon the u.s. and others continui

a support for ukraine? that's right, said dimitra kula and antony lincoln hadn't had a meeting just before the secretary of state came out and spoke. and you know, before their meeting, they said we get along well and clever said that he appreciates the u. s. support, but that the timeline is the issue now. and despite numerous questions to secretary blanket, including one from me myself, we could not get him to commit to how quickly the u. s. could send more weapons and more heavy weapons. and i think that's really the question and, and the answer that the ukrainians, the ukrainians, want to hear from the u. s. and other allies. how fast can you get these weapons? they say that without a very rapid delivery of heavy weaponry, more boots as are just waiting to happen. ok, let's listen to your exchange with the u. s. secretary of state to antony of lincoln. and you yourself called what happened in boucher outrageous. everyone knows the secretary general says that we are preparing for more such atrocities and

that training will occur outside of ukraine. it will be more of a train the trainer's kind of environment, so it'll be a small number of ukrainians that will be trained on the howitzers. and then they, we reintroduce back into their country to train their colleagues. these words about not wanting ukraine to become the new syria are quite hypocritical, and absurd on the part of us leaders. as it was the united states that exacerbated and prolonged they conflict in syria, which created all kinds of refugees and all kinds of suffering. and it's also important to know that in syria, the united states promised there would be no boots on the ground to the by the time obama had left office, he hadn't broken that promise. i. and there are u. s. troops in syria even up to today. so these words from a member of the u. s. congress, i just kind of fall flat for anyone familiar with the situation has been a storm of criticism at the u. k. newly announced planned to deport masses of migrants to the east african nation of rwanda. the proposal

how to end russia's work in ukraine. i have ambassador jon, former ambassador to ukraine and director of the center here, general, a good friend of ours and former supreme allied commander in europe, defense and security reporter the kyiv independent, a fabulous newspaper and if you're not reading it, google it now and finally, a nonresident fellow at the center for european policy analysis and doing great journalism, follow her on twitter. we are going to do this are normal way and have a discussion about 40 minutes and we invite questions on twitter in the zoom check. send those in as people are making comments, send those my way. general, the russians said stage i is over and they are going to concentrate on don boss now, what you make of that claim? >> i think like so many other things we seen russians say what we need to do is pay attention to what they actually do. there are indications they are moving some forces that doesn't appear any of them are returning home or reaching combat but what is also clear is they a

there is a with ukraine. ukraine will win in his territory and the entire world will win despite the threats that the criminal and elias rose in the face just in school to counsel chemba. finally, he, there is anything that we have to thank the russian rep sensitive for it is he's acknowledgment and the yesterday's press conference. that's russia is waging war against the queen war you said several times, not the special operation. and i consider these confession shall impact the you and assessment of what is going on in the center of europe. perhaps it was the unique moment when we should believe what fully accredited, representative says in the united nations. hence once again, a reminder to put in diplomats ruben strobe denied. any knowledge of concentration camps. racial external contamination policies, yet was found guilty at new medical crime. trial and he will know what happened to him on the 16th of october. 1946. i thank you. i thank the representative of ukraine for his statement. i now give the floor to his excellency mister all skirt the head of delegation of the european

host: how many people do we know are in ukraine, fighting in ukraine? guest: it is somewhere between 30 million and 40 million people. ukraine is about the size of france. it is a big country. 40 million, 45 million people, and a huge global diaspora. he would take a long time to get from one end of ukraine to the other. it is big. there is a lot of fertile land there. it was fantastic natural resources. -- there is fantastic national -- natural resources. keep in mind the size of the population, even with all of this displacement, the level of education and the level of organization of people there, and the determination, and that this is multigenerational. this has been going on, and the kinds of -- my facebook feed, my instagram feet, twitter feed of my friends, family, colleagues has really been changing as people have been realizing, i am a citizen of ukraine. you think up every morning and think, i'm a citizen of the united states. sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. what happened in ukraine over the last 10 years is people making the conscious

so, the speed with which -- it is important that ukraine is winning, that ukraine is holding on, and it is really just -- there is no other choice. everyone is doing something to protect their existence, both as an individual and a community. host: anita is calling from arkansas. good morning to you. question or comment here for our guests? caller: good morning. greta, i think you do a wonderful job. and my question for your guest is, ukraine has been independent from russia for 30 years. why hasn't crane -- why hasn't ukraine built up its own military, and why are they having to beg other countries for help? guest: anita, that is an excellent question. ukraine has been independent for over 30 years. during that time -- it is important to go into history and the whole soviet system was very centralized, were all the power and funding was in moscow, and resources -- whether it is military or schools or health care -- was sort of not very funded outside of the center. when you clean -- when ukraine declared independence it had a lot of building up to do. and started to do that effectiv

the war in ukraine is our war. it is every one's war because ukraine's victory is a strategic imperative for all of us. so we're at war. all of us are at war. and it's not, it's something she said, the quiet part out loud. rush is at war with nato rushes at war with the u. k. out right on the we have a british official saying the british weapons used by ukrainians to kill russians in russia is okay. i wonder if rushes get to reciprocate. john? well, that's what everyone. i suppose is afraid of, but the fact that this is a war not between russia and ukraine, but between russia and nato. we've known this since the beginning of the conflict. ukraine is just the theatre of this conflict. there belligerence are nato and russia. how we known this well, because presidents lensky told us, he told us, i think, 3 days into the war, 27th of february or something like that. he said he'd run up all the nato member states and ask them, could ukraine join the alliance? and they all said no, but publicly the doors will remain open

in april 2021, ukraine's president followed him. u zalinski looked to the west for support. germany and france sought to mediate eastern european countries, were alarmed. the e u was divided. some favored diplomacy, others argued, russian president vladimir putin had little interest in talking with escape of that royal peace at the european or e level. there's still really no well thought out strategy on how to deal with russia, human myth, osland own gate. you and the gun union, some feared that puddings go on ukraine, was to reassert russian power by undermining western unity. mooney, go vladimir, christine, or vladimir putin. it's all geopolitics and geo economics. is you, he has no respect for anyone to his people, bison, ukraine, once part of the soviet union was vulnerable to proteins, re venture st ambitions. he missed them at question. as president put, we must assume that president hutton won't keep his word and me won't play by the rules. and will be elaine, it's actually military force give i dances. it's not a boom genie

is it too early to talk about rebuilding in ukraine? ah, before the war, everybody gave us 2 days that we will class of 2 days. now we've fighting for $8448.00 days against the biggest guy and we will win. so now is most, it is not only to start to think about recovery. we need to think about recovery right now to be prepared. what has to be done to my country? all right, to meet your loss is chairman of the board of the cranium, business and trade association. we thank you very much for joining us here in studio. think it's nice to really well the world bank is also protecting major knock on effects for economies beyond russia and ukraine, it slashed its growth forecast for central europe this year, from over 6 percent to 3 and a half and ukraine's western neighbor, poland. it's lack of manpower that sitting parts the economy truckers were already hard to find. now some of those from ukraine are heading back to their homeland to fight poland. transport sector is one of the largest in europe. polish companies deploy some 300000 drivers

of using ukraine to harm russia to. we do new school. we either resign ourselves to having a single country and it's satellites control all of humanity which, or humanity lives together on the basis of the united nations. nobody wants to win, heaven forbid will brazil pushy. but there is one thing that is true and obvious and that no arguments can change. we have not ukrainian troops in the 30, tory of the russian federation, but we have russian troops in the territory of ukrainian federation. later, good cherish held long awaited talks with president putin referring specifically to the kremlin invasion of ukraine. as a war terminology that's banned in russia and russia's middle, she says it's made significant territorial gains in easton and southern ukraine, claiming to have captured the entire s on region. ukraine denies this, insisting that moscow has not yet broken through its defenses. the fighting is continuing to displace thousands of ukrainians every day. this is keyvi reed, the hometown of ukrainian president blotter is a lensky

a torque in eastern ukraine. the nation, the station is used by civilians trying to evacuate to save her parts of the country. more than 30 people have been reported, killed in over a 100 wounded will bring you more on that to store story as details become available. well, in northern ukraine, authorities are bracing for more gruesome discoveries in the wake of the russian troop withdrawal. there, there is mounting evidence that civilians were killed, raped, and tortured authorities believe hundreds of died in one town alone. mass graves were recently uncovered in the town of boucher ra, but ukrainian president blossom usa lensky says a situation in borrowed a young co, 70 kilometers northwest of kia is much more horrific or corresponded. alexandra phenomena was just there and piled this report. they have began clearing the rabble, but any hope of finding survivors here is long gone. for a dan car lay on the main root of the russian offensive on key of the scale of the destruction is so massive that even the emer

and there will now no major european deliver to ukraine today. the very effective conference and often abbot and the important decisions to make. and i welcome this decision also and. and so explain to us why shipping heavy weapons directly to ukraine was bad last week, but it's ok now it was not bad last week. i think population is also supporting. that'd be cool. haven't and coming over well thought out solutions that are from statement book and not the lucian's coming and speed up and treat. so we thought about that who and i think that's delivering part of the system is a very good solution to protect ukrainian soda as well as proposed comes the also deliver grenade from fire from a tech helicopters, as well as weaponized, drones and rush. yeah. you say it wasn't regarded as, as a bad decision last week. and yet the chancellor was so clearly against it. i'm huge. see you to be sort of selling. this is not so much a change more to sort of the nesting of the policy. but you know, it changes the change i would say just the next logical step and

both in and outside ukraine. in our next report to d. w. correspondence mattie, as building a mates a farmer who explains the challenge as people like him face in the midst of a war. the war has left its traces on lake sans official, and the property on examiner is a farm. on the outskirts of cave, he owns a 1000 act as a farmland and agriculture machinery. it has been, this has been in room since the russian troops entered the village at the beginning of march. burnt out on the vehicle 6 where his harvest did you go to do what he did? they came to the gate and began rattling. you push only my workers were inside the found when they realized the troops barging through the gate. they ran over there across the fence, into the village. thank god, they're all alive for both. the russian forces in store themselves inside the facility and alexander fled to keep the russian troops had occupied this place for around 3 weeks. and when they left, they blew up this place. now, alexander is picking up, the pieces is not just his farm house that was

it's not nova ukraine. and the charity office supposedly says it is in ukraine. our offices are in palo alto. and what's really interesting is that it has a london postcode. i traced the london postcode to another charity, unicef uk. it is not accurate. the email itself is directly lifted, most of the content from it is directly lifted from an email which our supporters have received, with unicef replaced with the words "nova ukraine". this scam has made $540. and there are plenty of clues that it's fake — different email addresses in the "from" and "reply to" fields, a contact button with yet another fake email address, an ip address based in vietnam. what's your message for the people behind this scam? it would just be stop — you have to stop it. people really, really need funds right now to stay alive and to get to safety. i emailed all the scammers behind the emails i'd seen. not one of them got back to me. people are also using more subtle ways to make money from the war in ukraine on social media. we saw so many, you know, out of context videos - claimi

ukraine's needs arguments and evolving. we are here today as part of our continuing assessment of those needs, recognizing that the situation on the ground changes by the hour. we are honored to have his excellency, president vladimir zielinski, joining us--volodymyr zelenskyy, joining us live from ukraine. president zelenskyy has demonstrate a powerful leadership throughout the war. mr. president, you and your nation have shown strength, tenacity, and here was him in the face of progression. president zelenskyy, the floor is yours. pres. zelenskyy: thank you, mr. president, dear president david malpass, and dear managing director of imf kristalina georgieva. i would like to greet all those who are attending this historical meeting of the world bank. a few days ago i spoke with ms. kristalina georgieva and i heard a very important words from her about ukraine. we talked about life in our city kharkiv. it is the biggest city of eastern ukraine. the russian troops are bombarding and firing at it for some weeks, and those part

phil black, cnn, bucha, ukraine. >> with russia's war losses mounting, ukraine's president is warning that moscow might resort to tactical nuclear weapons against ukraine. he spoke with cnn's jake tapper. have a listen. >> not only me. i think all of the world all the countries have to be worried because, you know, it can be not real information, but it can be truth because when they begin to speak about one or another battles or involved enemies or nuclear weapons or some chemistry, you know, issues, chemistry weapons, they should do it, they could do it. i mean, they can. for them life on the people is nothing. that's why we truth think not be afraid. i mean, not be afraid. be ready, but that is not the question for -- to ukraine and not only for the ukraine, for all the world. i think so. >> president zelenskyy's warning follows a similar concern expressed by america's cia director that u.s. officials say they have seen no evidence so far that the kremlin is planning or preparing to use nuclear weapons. two sources within the biden administration told cnn protests by russia over mi

should germany sell heavy weapons to ukraine or not? the federal government instead decided to pay over a 1000000000 euros to ukraine directly under the rather bureaucratic sounding heading of strengthening funds. does the door did you will cut this, let's you, crane shoes, which wetlands and materials are needed? well, we supply the means for them to purchase on the free market. it, should we not be able to deliver? yes, that's the appropriate step facility is that the defense committee, chair and the green parties, anton hopefully later made a surprise visit to ukraine. both are critical of chancellor all of shelters. course this is near for sure. it's the 1st step, but no 7 attended for the direct delivery of heavy arms is and it's no substitute for cutting up hooton's cash flow flows. we need an energy embargo, an oil embargo must stay on the agenda. the opposition christian democrats are also demanding the direct delivery of heavy arms, calling up the strengthening funds as window dressing ish needs to vic via it would be quickest

ah, freedom for ukraine. freedom for ukraine. last year with 8 to 10 purchase like this one abandoned russia in berlin. lead flood of can meet with people who share his views, but without fear of reprisals with white simply flags. the group wants to distance themselves from the russian government. well, they don't have it yet. that's why i have a new flag here. it's not a russia flag, it's a flag of all the russians who are against this war is a symbolic break with that home country. yet for the 1st time ever, i don't know what to do. i dedicated 5 years of my life to my city, helping modernize it all that has now been destroyed because it's impossible for a society to develop without democracy in brazil, the options for from the exile in germany, letting me putins russian opponents, a calling for an immediate withdrawal from ukraine, but some have given up any hope of rushing even towards democracy. any time soon, i hear some more stories making headlines around the world. francis presidential race is tightening just a day befor

defense against russian and talked about the military and humanitarian support for ukraine. this is just over 20 minutes. >> good afternoon everybody and welcome to today's press conference with the defense minister of of canada and i'm going to moderate and start off with opening comments and i will moderate the question and answer and we will do the best we can to get through. the goal and we will have to see how far we can go. and when you ask the questions, limit your follow-ups. secretary austin: let me thank the minister. the past few days have been pretty busy and glad you could join us today. we just saw each other in germany at the air base at this week's meeting of what is now the contact group on ukranian defense and canada stepped up with an important announcement on ownership capabilities for ukraine. madam minister, that is what we expect from canada and from your own leadership and sense of moral purpose. and we have had a highly productive meeting today and reminds how much close friends and valued allies matter and we can count on the enduring partnership be

. -- eastern ukraine. this the seventh of such drawdown of acquitted from dod inventories for ukraine and since august 2021, and you can see the capabilities on the screen so i will not follow -- bother reading them. some of them are reinforcing capability we have already been providing ukraine, and some of them are new capabilities we have not provided ukraine. all of them are designed to help , as we talked about, in the fight there in right now and the fight they will be in in coming days and weeks in the eastern part of the country. the united states has committed more than 3.2 billion dollars in security assistance to ukraine since the beginning of the biden administration, including approximately $2.6 billion since the beginning, just since the beginning of the unprovoked invasion february 24. the united states also continues to work with allies and partners to identify and providing ukraine with additional capabilities that are not in our stocks, that we are not as able to get to them directly. we w

for ukraine. it may come too late. but the ws political correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber told me the german chancellor is under increasing pressure, including from within his own government. as you can see, brand a, the frustration is drawing also within the government. it's not just the position, demanding clear action by the government criticizing a, the reluctance by olaf shoulds also to sent this heavy weapons that even he's a foreign minister and alina bab, oak pledged for earlier this week and ask other european countries to do that. and of course, the pressure is growing for them to take a clear stands. i mean, there has been this whole discussion also about the german president that has overshadowed the discussions on weapon near deliveries. but as we've just heard from the former ukranian at foreign minister, there is frustration not just on the government, but on the whole in german politicians to get out of this bubble and to see what can be done. now. now are these the ones that the ukrainians are aski

sure ukraine might say that. but history tells us situations like these and badly look at all the state of the art american weapons that the taliban got its hands on. when it came to power in afghanistan, libya, iraq, syria, all examples of how weapons plus chaos equals a lot of bad people getting their hands on guns so shore even though the west wouldn't send its own people to fight for its ukrainian ally, it can give itself a pat on the back for flooding the country with weapons, but it remains to be seen what criminal elements the west is once again, inadvertently creating and we'll have to fight further down the line. the wife of the arrested ukrainian opposition lead a victim of it shook has slammed the detention of her husband and criticized the ukrainian government. her words came during a press conference in moscow and you did is the village shuttle. they crossed the line. the situation got out of control. i want to emphasize once again that victor met, that jack is not just a citizen of ukraine. he is a

our ambassador in ukraine has never left ukraine, actually. he was among the last ones to leave kyiv but he worked then where you are for some time. i know he's back in kyiv. i think it's important, first, for practical reasons to be directly in touch with the ukrainian authorities, but also to show our solidarity and our active collaboration. >> i wonder, and by the way, france is not alone. there have been a number of european countries including nato allies doing the same as well as european countries, nato allies that have sent their leaders here. what is your message to countries, including the u.s., of course, the leader, the leader of nato that has not returned diplomats or sent a high level of visitor here. do you think that's a mistake? >> i would say that it's for each country to decide. we, of course, have, each of us, our own regulations to ensure the security of our own staff which is, frankly, legitimate also. each country has its own rules. we could get the solution to have our people always in ukraine. i'm sure that the u.s. ha

. >>> day 43 of russia's war on ukraine. hello, i'm john vause live in lviv, ukraine. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. and on this day, cities and towns in the donbas region and across eastern ukraine are bracing for what they expect will be a renewed russian onslaught. putin's goal now appears to be taking hold a large part of ukraine mostly controlled by russian backed separatists. a local official in donetsk claims a humanitarian aid distribution center came under attack by russian firepower, killing two people and wounding five others. busloads of civilians making their heart-wrenching decision to evacuate from around kharkiv, where russian forces have attacked a fuel depot as well as a railway station which they claim was supplying ukraine's military with weapons. a ukrainian official says russian forces are deliberately aiming at civilian targets. a counteroffensive by ukrainian fighters have pushed russian troops from areas in the north. >> translator: it seems the russian leadership really got scared of the world's rath, that w

in ukraine says it desperately needs today. banassi another $800000000.00 to further augment ukraine's ability to fight in the east the don boss region. this package includes heavy artillery weapons, dozens of hower teachers, and $144000.00 rounds of ammunition to go with those howitzers. it also includes more tactical drones, another very large shipment of arms to ukraine from the u. s. i asked our washington, correspondence to me soon was gonna how much help this will be for keith? that's right, brent. it is a lot of money and we heard there in that clip from president biden. what that package of support will include? so the how it serves the 10s of thousands of rounds of ammunition. he also pointed out that the u. s. has already supply plenty of anti armor systems. he said, these are particularly effective against russian tanks that they actually out number russian tanks by 10 to one. so he's very keen to point out how much military support the u. s. has already provided and is providing again with this package. he also said that u. s. intelligence continued to share their informati

what is happening in ukraine. the justice department sees what is happening in ukraine. the white house is warning nations like india and china, against aligning with russia to ease the impact of sanctions. but china accuses the us of exacerbating the conflict they were would. if the u. s. is serious about easing the situation in ukraine. it should stop adding fuel to the fire, stop imposing sanctions. you don't stop course of words and deeds and truly commit to promote peace talks syndrome them. the white house says that sanctions already in place are having an impact. the russian economy is set to contract in 2022 by as much as 15 percent and inflation in russia is up by as much as 200 percent. kimberly hell can al jazeera washington. yes, extra state entity lincoln has met nato chief. yes. stilton bag in brussels, he says allies will focus on further measures to help you crane. we set out to do 3 things. if russia decided to pursue this horrific aggression against ukraine. ah, one was to support or ukrainian partners were doing that to was to put extraordinary pressur

they c ukraine as the top priority. but the people on the street are concerned with, you know, feeding their children and keeping a roof over there. it s u. s. military spending. so where's the country secretary of state anthony blinking says it will support tie one's efforts to boost its military strength to repel, while they label chinese aggression. the biden administration is determined to make sure that taiwan has all necessary means to defend it, including unilateral action by china to disrupt the status quo. that's been in place now for many decades. but in response, the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said the country rejects blink and quote, deplorable statements. he also emphasized the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the taiwan strait. chinese financial analyst frances lun blazed washington's plans for taiwan or simply about the turing beijing us. we couldn't kill you to fly to taiwan, to try to china in, based on taking over my lawn. that is, that your policy, you know, can be applied t

we begin this hour with an attack on people trying to flee eastern ukraine. ukraine says russian rocket strikes had a crowded train station in crime, a tourist square. thousands of people had gathered to bore trains and leave the area. dozens of people are reported dead dozens more injured, and ukraine is calling it another russian war, crime. scenes of tawny and destruction in eastern ukraine. streets littered with smouldering debris and the bodies of dozens killed. the governor often asked said, at least 5 children are among the dead. after several rockets hit crime, a tossed station on friday. already speaking to the finish parliament, president vladimir lensky, condemned russia for striking, clear civilian targets. they hit yeah, but little foolish. i will start with what happens this morning when you write russian forces hit the train station in our city and cremmit ask an ordinary train station with ordinary people. cannibalization, though, no military personnel. and though people who are waiting for a train to get to a safe territory, when russian forces hit them with military mi

i think a lot to put it on did not across eastern ukraine. people are fleeing ahead of an expected wide scale russian assault on the don best region. military analysts say the don bess with it's opened to rain and lack of natural barriers will be harder for defenders to hold on to as to the outcome. it's find the balance right now because if the russians learn the. busy lessons of the failure so far and could concentrate more force and could connect the raffles to the ground forces better and could so that it just sticks out. then they might start to overwhelm the ukrainian positions. eventually, thanks. i got you. russian president vladimir putin who has i, the don, best region for years said piece was off the table to so many go on. ok. ukrainian side moved away from its agreement in istanbul. now the requirement for security guarantees is one thing that buses and the questions regarding settlement of relations with respect to crimea serv asked to pull and don best or to be taken outside the framework of those agreements. so we're back agai

go to c-span.org/ukraine. >> now ukraine's investor to the u.s. talks about the way the country is preparing for the next russian offensive and was still needs from the u.s. and other allies to fight the russian invaders. this is 30 minutes. >> hello everybody and welcome to washington post live, my name is greg miller, i am an investigative reporter for the washington post and today we are joined by ambassador of -- oksana markarova she is here to talk to us about the increasing situation in ukraine, the rolled denies states in nato allies are playing or should be playing in this conflict and of course these -- the course of these terrible events going forward. thank you so much for going joint -- for joining us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> i want to remind everyone in the audience that we want to hear from you on these programs, and asked that you can send question to us by tweeting at us live. let's get started with the news of the day. it was the confirmation that ukrainian missiles had struck the russian warship moscow, the flagshi

oh, do you deal with ukraine? the settings largest military conflict in europe since the 2nd world war. russia's assault relentless from its fast incursion on february 20 flew in. thick. it's spring grateful for. so my 1st reaction was the problem. i've just lost my country with my, i mean our come back there. ah ukrainian fight is definetly resisting a much larger and more powerful military force. the cities bombed village is destroyed. strategic installations reduced to ashes ah, for weeks, any effort said a ceasefire. futile humanitarian corridors under fire. both sides flaming the other the lives of millions transformed forever. his tension. someone has lost their homes. millions flat from ukraine. hundreds of thousands, not fighting. and i can build the venue. wasn't touched by my diesel. ah, [000:00:00;00] i yeah. by february of 2022. a massive russian forces are gathered at the border with ukraine. yet the sold catch of money by surprise. i thought it's possible that within a few crane, but i didn't believe

eastern ukraine . and actually, as we speak, the battle for dawn was, is underway. it has not reached its maximum scale. but every day the heaviest fighting takes place in that part of you crate and more is to come. unfortunately, the battle for don bus will remind you, and i regret to say it, but this is true. the battle for don bus will remind you was 2nd world war west large operations, my new worse involvement of thousands of tanks armored wiggles, claims artillery. ah, this will not be a local oppression, based on what we see in russia's preparations to eat. russia has its plan. we have ours, and the battlefield will decide. the and the outcome of this battle will be decided on the battlefield. and this is why it is so urgent for allies not to ah, how to put it mildly, not to tell us that they're still thinking that they are, they have to do all the procedures that are, there are many ah, issues which have to be sorted out before they make decisions, either you help us now and i'm speaking about d

s. weapons are on their way to ukraine. washington wants to help you find off a renewed offensive by russian forces in east in ukraine. the announcement comes as investigators x u, dozens of bodies from a mass grave in the town of boucher and urgent leave from ukraine's president for allies to provide military hardware. but germany is facing criticism, not sending help fast enough and then says it will decide soon on applying for nato membership, public support for joining nato said. since russia invaded ukraine ah hello, i'm told me a lot of boy, it's good to have you with us. us president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 in additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery as give repairs to defend against the massive russian assault expected an eastern ukraine. and the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has said, ukraine is a crime scene. he made the comment while visiting the town of butcher, the key of where, where hundreds of civilians were found dead after russian f

he was one of the defenders of ukraine's freedom. and of course there's plenty of ukrainians. horrified by been there as monuments springing up all across the country. it's just hard to tell how many ukrainians and since any sacrilege of these nazi idols could cost people their lives. injured protesters and to police officers and cars set on fire. tensions are high and sweden as protesters continued to take it to the streets, to decry an anti islam group known for burning currants after it was given permission by the authorities to stage demonstrations. mm hm. 3 demonstrators were injured during the latest clashes with police. over the past several days. protests have taken place in a number of swedish cities, where the far right movement had planned its events. the group wants to ban islam with its leader recently and saying that it was quote, time to burn the kron despite the violence. swedish authorities have refused to withdraw the permission for the group to hold its demonstrations. let's now take a look at how the latest events