withhold as well as with the u. k. and many of our other partners, as we've noted, we have provided extraordinary support to ukraine into those defending it from the russian regression support that has been used extremely effectively by ukranian defenders support that will continue in the days, weeks and months ahead of just yesterday with the supplemental legislation being put forward, we have an additional $6500000000.00 and security systems is now on tap just from the united states for ukraine. and that will, of course, include the very kinds of things that they need to effectively defend ukraine against russian aggression thing. and just to clarify, basically what you're saying is there is creative way to get them the fight or dep possibly. but you haven't figured out the pathway forward on that. and then my 2nd question for both of you is with ukrainian death mounting right now. what more can

the u. s. and the u. k. do, would either country be open to considering the possibility of a limited no fly zone over humanitarian or doors to be set up in the country. thank say, 1st of all and also to your question, the united kingdom has been festival supplying defensive weapon to weaponry into ukraine. and in fact, we have been working with other allies across the world to help get defensive weapon we into ukraine. so been supplying tank weapons today, all defense secretary announced that we will now be supplying defense systems to address a specific issue. the ukranian face, which is a defense say we believe that the best way of tackling this threat is to help

the ukrainians with the star streak defense systems that we will be supplying only issue of a no fly zone. of course, it's important and i completely support what tiny is said about protecting humanitarian corridor walls and cooling on russia to respect those genuine monetary corridors. ones that don't lead into russia or bella reese, but the reality is that setting up a no fly zone would lead to a direct confrontation between nato russia. and that is not what we are looking at . what we are looking at is making sure that the craniums are able to defend their country with the best possible selection of anti tank weapons and anti defense systems. and i agree with everything that foreign secretary said anything we need. so we need to move on. but we have sarah smith that a, b, b, c, please. thank you very much. after the direct strike on

a children's hospital in marion poll, president selling sky is asking you both and nato to stop the killings close the skies. he says, and that if you don't, you are an accomplice to terror, how do you explain to him that there is no possibility of a no fly zone in these circumstances? well, as i've said, sarah, the best way to help protect disguise is true anthea weaponry which the u. k. is now going to be supplying to ukraine. that's what the defense secretary announced earlier today. and of course, the attack on the hospital is absolutely aboard and reckless and pulling, and the u. k is at the forefront of supplying humanitarian aid into ukraine. we've already pledged 220000000. if humanitarian aid are all dec appeal has now reached a $130000000.00, which is the largest amount it's ever achieved since $24.00. so the british people

are full square behind the people of ukraine. we're doing all we can to support and i was just, as you said, 1st, we both governments, both are people both have tremendous admiration for presidents lensky, for his entire team, for the training people that they represent. but the courage, they've shown the strengths, the determination, the dignity faced with this russian onslaught is extraordinary. and it's powerfully moving, i think, to people around the world. if i were in presence once he's position, i'm sure i would be asking for everything possible in his mind to help the ukrainian people and as the foreign secretary and i have laid out both of our countries and so many others have done extraordinary things to make sure that the ukrainians have in their hands the means to effectively defend themselves against

this or choice from russia. as well as to do everything we can with tracy to get resources to care for ukrainian people the best of our ability inside ukraine. those who have been forced to flee outside of the brain to meet their mandatory needs. and the goal is the same, is to endless aggression, to save lives, and to prevent more c splits senseless bloodshed. as part of that, we also have to see to it that this war does not expand. our goal is to end the war, not to expand it, including potentially expanded to, to native territory. we want to make sure that it's not prolonged to the best of our ability. otherwise it's going to turn, even deadlier, involve more people. and i think potentially even make things harder to resolve in ukraine itself. so as the foreign secretary said, we have exactly the same perspective on that introducing in our case american

service members in ukraine on ukrainian territory or soil or american into ukrainian airspace. whether on a full or on a limited basis, would almost certainly lead to direct conflict between the united states, between nato and russia. and that would expand the conflicts, it would prolong it, it would make it much more deadlier than it already is. and that would be neither in the interest of our countries, nor in the interest of ukraine. i can't speak for nato obviously, but we've heard the same message from the secretary general installment nick wadhams from bloomberg. thanks very much mr. secretary 1st for you on venezuela, can you just tell us whether the u. s. is considering using sanctions on venezuela to get its oil absent of any progress on the negotiations with the opposition. and then 2nd for both of you on the sanctions and the game. you mentioned foreign

secretary that must fail. so is it your strategy now to essentially exert so much pressure on the russian people? oligarchs around vladimir putin so that russia will essentially as undersecretary new and sad yesterday might rise up. and i don't know what potentially overthrow him do. you believe now that it's simply impossible for the united states to have a productive or stable relationship with russia. if latimer potent remains in power either during or once this conflict is over. thank you. i'm happy to start nick with regard to to venezuela. we have a set of interest with venezuela. they include of course, supporting the democrats for asians aspirations of the men as well people. they include securing the release for americans who are unjustly detained there. and

happily, last night, as you heard to americans who stutter car danced, and jorge fernandez were released. they've been wrongfully detained or now reunited with their families. and it's also true that we have an interest globally in maintaining a steady, steady supply of energy, including through our diplomatic effort. so all of these things come to bear when it comes to, to venezuela, as well as to other countries around the world where we have a multiplicity of interest and use diplomacy to try to, to advance them. again, i have to say, i'm very pleased that diplomacy brought to unjustly detained americans home just last night. we will never let up anywhere at any time in the efforts to bring americans with just the chain back home. we are very clear that our objective is a peach into fail in ukraine based on warranted act of aggression must

not succeed. and it would be terrible consequences if it did succeed for european and global security. and the purpose of the sanctions is to debilitate the russian economy, to stop peach in being able to fund his war machine from money gained from the oil and gas industry. and from the technology that he's been able to make available. so one of the things we've done as well as putting huge sanctions on banks and on the swift system is putting export control say that the technology that was being used to develop the military industrial complex is simply not going to russia. it's also was saying that we've seen huge action from the private sector, whether it's mcdonalds or other companies. and one of the issues in russia is of course, the lack of free media. the fact that the russian people are being told the truth, but they will be seeing now by the fact that shops the closing, they're not able to get the good that they were able to get exactly the

implications. the peach in aggression is in ukraine, is having for russia university . when people are out of order, we must lose a couple of things. this 1st, i think it's important to remember that throughout this crisis created by, by putting and russia we've sought to provide possible offer amps to present. he's the only one who can decide whether or not to take so far every time there's been an opportunity to do just that. he's pressed the seller and continue down this

horrific road that he's been pursuing. he has a clear plan right now to brutalize ukraine. but to what end? because when it comes to an end game, the big question, the 1st instance is, what is his game? we saw the failures of the initial military plan to quickly subjugate the country that's failed. so he's now turning to a strategy of laying voice to, to the population centers to the country. if his goal is to impose some kind of puppet regime by displacing the existing government and putting in place one to his liking. i think it's pretty evident by the response of the training people that they will never accept that. and if he tries to enforce such a puppet regime by keeping russian forces in ukraine, it will be a long, bloody,

drawn out mess through which russia will continue to suffer grievously. so our response continues to be to do everything we possibly can to make sure that the ukrainians have the means to defend themselves. to make sure we do everything we possibly can to exert pressure on russia and not putting to change course to do everything we possibly can. of course, to support those who are suffering as a result of rushes, actions. ultimately, i'm absolutely convinced that will fail. and russia will suffer a strategic defeat, no matter what. short short term tactical gains it may make a new brain. as we've said before, you can win a battle, but that doesn't mean you in the war. on the contrary, you can take a city, but you can't take the hearts and minds of this people and ukrainians are demonstrating that every single day. so i am convinced that we will see

a strategic defeat of president putting the propositions his put forward will accomplish this by backing ukrainians in their fight by remaining united holding russia accountable through the devastating sanctions the diplomatic isolation and other measures. and we've already seen that russia failed and its chief objectives . it's not been able to hold ukraine. it's not going to be able to hold ukraine in the long term. again, no matter what the tactical victories it made, she art lives was just saying. ekan nomic lee, the measures that we've taken have a race 30 years of progress integrating russia into the world. this dramatic exodus . virtually every international company from russia continues as we speak. and that is having a profound impact not just today, but over the long term. so i think what we're looking at is whether or not

president will decide to try to finally cut the losses that he's inflicted on himself and inflicted on the russian people. we can decide that for him. all that we can do is to continue this extraordinary effort to increase the pressure on him, increase our support for ukraine, and achieve what, what we all want, which is the independence of ukraine and a defeat for president. because these methods are a fundamental challenge, not only to ukraine, but to the very principles of international peace and security that our countries have fought and worked to establish over many decades. that's what it's at risk here. we are committed to defending them. we're committed to standing for them until we succeed in making it clear that they will hold and putting efforts to

undermine them will fail. finally, can we have david char through the times, please? thank you very much, dave's 1st question to the secretary lincoln. so actually it's been reported to the wall street journal today, the saudi arabia and the you a, have those rebuffed attempts to set up conversations with president biden in recent days. what does this not tell us about relations with these 2 important gulf states and what is, what's your message trying to encourage them to produce more oil during this crisis to the foreign secretary, please? you said a few days ago that you would absolutely support individual britons going to ukraine to take part in the fighting that we have reports now about 4, which is serving soldiers in the crane, possibly on their way. what information can you give us about that? please, and how's your message changed as far as that concerned?

and i might just add in your opening comments, you did talk about asking nato allies to invest more. does that mean we can expect that you will push more defense spending in the u. k. thank you. thank you very much with regard to the gulf countries. first, we share very important interest with them, from deterring wanting aggression. and iranian able to tax whether it's against saudi arabia, against the emeralds. we share a strong interest in supporting the un backed efforts to and to warn human we share an interest in ensuring the stability of global energy supplies. and we've had very constructive engagements with, with those interest in mind. just yesterday, i spent several time on the phone with my radi counterpart talking regularly.

i've regularly met with my saudi counterpart, including immunity. just just a few weeks ago. the president president biden spoke with kingston on saudi arabia last month. in a discussion that set out a very expensive agenda and we're now pursuing that agenda with our senior saudi counterparts. they set out a work plan for for us. we're, we're moving forward on it and i might add, we can do all of this while doing what we said we would do from the outset, which was centering, human rights in, in our foreign policy. these priorities are not mutually exclusive. in fact, for us, they're very much complimentary. we're not going to separate our values or interests . we've made that clear and everything we've done, but we're working productively constructively with those countries. i think that was just an aspirin a short while ago as i'm not sure if it's been made publicly yet about m roddy to support for increased production when it comes to delta plus,

which i think is an important thing to stabilize global energy markets to make sure that there remains an abundance supply of energy around the world. i have been very clear that the travel advice from the united kingdom is not to go to ukraine invites, i repeated the message of the foreign affairs committee. earlier this week, rebecca ways of helping the efforts in ukraine, namely donating to the deck appeal. what i said the other week was expressing support for the ukrainian cause. they are fighting a just more, and we are doing all we can to support them on the subject to defense spending. the reality is across the west. we haven't spent enough on defense for a number of years. and we have seen a build up of military capability from russia in terms of based technology numbers. and i welcome the fact the germans and now increasing that defense

spending. we're seeing other countries fully say i'm not going to preempt any future discussions between the chancellor and the defense secretary. but as well as conventional defense, we also need to step up our efforts in areas like information. one of the things that the united states not to kingdom have been doing is using information exposing intelligence, we have to call our patients playbook. and i think that's been very important. but the fact is that the united kingdom abandoned its information unit at the end of the cold war. and the russians didn't abandon that information unit say we need to make, making sure for every possible from whether it's conventional defense, whether its technology or whether indeed it's information we are able to out compete our adverse rates. thank you very much. i do thank you very much. you want to go to 0. we've been bringing you press conference,

being held by the us secretary of state anthony, blinking alongside the you case, foreign minister liz trust. they started the, the press conference by talking about the unity of response on unity between the 2 countries with regard to ukraine and also the humanitarian efforts that both countries have been carrying out onto the blinked and talked about efforts that were being made by individual. but he's people to help you crane foreign secretary lead trust said we have surprised cruising with our unity. however, she also said that since the cold war we took our eye off the bold i want to bring in. kimberly hall could, who's a white house correspondent in washington, d. c. kimberly, what would the takeaways for you? there are really 3 different baskets, if you will, that i can kind of categorize all of these various talking points into energy this with system and then nato, in terms of unity. so let,

let's start with the last one. first, you brought those talking points about unity, and that was something that was stressed repeatedly there. and this is something that both of those leaders wanted to talk about. but yet it comes on the heels of a bit of a crack in nato unity that's been exposed over that proposal put in place by poland that you heard. 2 the secretary said anthony blake and talking about with the proposal to put in place those mig aircraft to make that available to potentially fly over ukraine, potentially putting is a conflict nato and russian aircraft. something that the secretary of state said it was a rationale that they really couldn't understand. there were logistical challenges and also complexities. and so that is certainly the fact that poland came up with

this proposal without consulting the united states or allies in advance shows that the unity that both the foreign secretary and the secretary of state we're talking about certainly is not quite what they have been leading the world to believe so that is something that has to be worked on. now in addition, you heard there the foreign secretary elizabeth truss, talking about the fact that she believes that the response of this point has been the right one. but that it needs to go further. she said that there is this need when it comes to the swift system that this is something that has worked well and has limited the ability of russia to finance is or machine as she called it. but it needs to go further. in other words, there's only been a limited number of russian banks that have been affected. she wants to see all russian banks affected. and so that is something that she is pushing for with respect to energy. you heard there the discussion about the

alternative energy sources that are being explored because of course, right now the united states has put in place a band or russian oil imports into the united states. you heard there before the secretary of the united kingdom, pushing to see similar action from g 7 nations. but of course, this is going to present some challenges given the fact that europe does rely heavily on russian energy. but the secretary of state antony blink, and they're saying that yes, the united states is exploring move options with ben as well as something that is controversial given there are sanctions in place against that country. and as well, the fact that there has been some pushback by the united arab emirates as well as saudi arabia to some of those suggestions you've heard that one of the report is questions. something that seems to be brushed off by the secretary of state very quickly. one final point,

there was the discussion about the no fly zone. something that has been repeatedly suggested by you praying leaders and others. this is something that has been ruled out by both the foreign secretary as well as antony blanket for obvious reasons. again, grave concern that this could lead to a direct confrontation between nato and russian air craft. something that this would be certainly not desirable and lead to a broader conflict, something they are hoping to avoid. so these are really the main takeaways of this press conference company. thank you very much. indeed. that's why those corresponding kimberly hall in washington dc. ukraine says russia has bomb to children's hospital in the ukrainian city of mario paul president. floating me, zelinski says children are under the rubble after an attack by russian forces. i could have been explosions around keith as

russian forces move closers buses and cars have been taking families out of the ukrainian capital. military analysts say more russian forces could attack the city within days. and ukrainian officials say the defunct channel, the nuclear plants be knocked off the power grid that's raised concerns about the facilities, long term ability to cool nuclear material. they're the nuclear watchdog says it's safe for now. when a tasha buffers in the western city live, she's joining us now. natasha. first of all, let's talk about that attack in multiple. do we know any more about what happened? a terrible attack on the children for the maternity ward. we understand the merrier pole. the city on the sea of as off in the south of ukraine. now, below them is and then sky, the ukrainian person saying that all children under the rubble, we know that emergency workers are they're trying to fit through the rubble at the

scene, trying to see if they can pull out any survivors. what we do knows is that least 17 people were wounded, that it's very early on the course after that attack, including women who were in labor. so, i mean, really the mind boggling stuff or so this isn't a city that has been well at the, on the siege now for several days for at least a week people in the city of had no water have had no food. they have been cut off nearly from the outside world by constant a russian shelling, bombardments. we've heard reports of people coming up in the day time off to some of the shelling. sometimes the break from shelling coming up and trying to go round the city bank into old shops and see if there's any food on the shelves because they also hungry bodies in the streets. i mean, really desperate desperate things. the may have a, has a been in communication with the outside world at least

a few days ago saying that it was a catastrophe apocalyptic scenes. but communications most communications have been cut for, we're hearing so little coming out of really a terrible time in mario poll. a city that as i said, has really come under intense rushing shelling since more than a week now. yeah, and as we mentioned before, concerns about the fact that this noble nuclear plant, the former nuclear plant, had been knocked off the power grid. this happened a couple of hours ago. we get any more information about what the condition of it is or what's happening around it. well, we know that the power has been cut to the clouds. we don't know how it was caught, but just recently the russian into fox news agency said that the russian ministry of defense was suggesting that, that power being caught by ukrainian troops. now, of course of no consummation or verification of that at this point. but what we do

know is what the power cut means, and it means 2 things really want is a cooling systems at the fall. what gets the function so easily? the moment they are running, they are still working, i should say, because of a diesel powered backup generator, but the foreign minister of ukraine. so there are only about 48 hours left of power in that generates and we don't know what would happen then afterwards. and then the other thing it means is that the systems that are in place at the cannibal flawed the monitor radiation levels, the monitor, the situation with the nuclear waste system. then for messages to the world, you won't stop the i. e a. but because communications amount down, because the power has been cut, those messages are not being able to be sent to the i, they call it monitor the situation on the ground. and of course, is a big worry because you're talking about a power plant that is control of russian troops. they have been in control of that

side to pretty much since the beginning of the invasion. that all we understand more than 200 ukrainian stuff on. so i to be working apparently under the around the clock and effectively a gun points. natasha. thank you. natasha buffer. in the now one day, 14 of russia's war and ukraine, both sides have again agreed on a sci fi to civilians court and fighting to evacuate. and last name reports as some ukrainians in sumi took a one way bus ride to safety in the dark like ice. others cried from beneath rubble as rescuers dug them out. by morning people woke up with mobile phones in hand to take video of smoldering apartment buildings outside their windows. the ukrainian deputy prime minister says the hope is that beginning at 9 am local time . on wednesday i cease fire in places such as the keys, car keys,

and sumi regions would hold for 12 hours, so people could escape the fighting along humanitarian corridors. both ukraine and russia have agreed to conceive on the walker. he knows approach. residents are asking me to make sure the russian federation fulfills its promises and people can leave the places they've been hiding from the fire in the shelling that is killing them. the spokeswoman of the russian ministry of foreign affairs accuse the ukrainian government of feeling to give citizens clear guidance on humanitarian corridors. she says 2000000 people have turned to russia for assistance and 140000 have already entered the country since the invasion began. she also says the ukrainian military is using phosphorus which is illegal if used against civilian because some pretty more em store the ukraine and military supported by extremists, nationalists and milton battalions. the russian side has noted the use of

phosphorus weapons and it's forbidden by the un new allegations of war crimes have emerged. amnesty international says, as people lined up to get bread in a public square insurance here last week, it was hit by multiple bombs. you repeat.