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file shelters and heavy machinery to enter the strip to clear the rubble all day. since the stock of the egypt is round for regret, uganda and troops enter the east and come to the city of dounia to support the army against fights is gaining ground and peace of statements with your thoughts on the eve of the icpc champions, trophies talk, histones plans of preparing for the 1st major cricket tournament on a home soil. in nearly 50 years, the to senior russian and us diplomats have concluded the 4 and a half hour meeting and saudi arabia on the crate of boy. it was the 1st official face to face meeting between russian foreign minister said a lot of girlfriends. the new us extra estate mall, caribbean kremlin aids, described it as

a serious and positive conversation. the meeting is spot consigned among europe and leaders and ukraine in president, florida. minutes of lensky as well, and the key will not recognize any deal made without its involvement or child strife in his dining by 1st in cave. kimberly how could his in washington dc? but 1st, let's go to moscow. unit shepherd front of a is standing by for us, the and so you and what have you been hearing about the tools? a well 1st coleman's appearing of from the talks, as he mentioned, they last of 4 and the 5 and, and, and a half hours. and now it's evidence that's the missing between religion and patient . and donald trump is unlikely to take place next week. and the dates currently remains unknown. according to the russian sides, the delegations talks about restoring the mutual relations. they discussed the beginning of possible negotiations in ukraine and the prospects of contacts at the

highest level. so the head of the russian direct investment fund career to me trip has estimated the choices very positive. and that he said that the progress and negotiations between russia and the united states was possible in the next 2 or 3 months. meanwhile, presidential aid, you rate will show cold statements on the russian american tools in riyadh have been quite reserved. he said that the talks between russia and the united states went well as the countries agreed to take each other's interest into account the both sides discussed how to begin guessing closer to each other and regarding the the ukrainians settlement. it's been decided that separate teens of russian and us and he goes sites his own ukraine, a will bit established and they will begin to contact at shortly. but it's not yet know who will be among the teams because it's up to the precedents to the side and

also not the, not the line that we're guessing is that a holding elections in ukraine is one of the key conditions for a successful sacrament approach says that's according to sources. right now we're waiting for for administer survey levels, press press conference, counties, mazing members of the saudi royal family, the chrome prints, in particular, i can't do anything. so that's a huge of a lot of, uh, we all weights and the full that prescott since we will close to that just as soon as it begins. in the meantime, let's go to ukraine's capital of cape charles prep for this dining by for says so charles of co c crane not involved in these conversations in re ads. what's being the general reaction that you're getting that the official reaction from the current in president brought him? is it in sky on the back of those talks yet? from re, uh but it was only last night get

a game where he doubled down saying that so you probably will not recognize any deals made without it being present unless you say. so let's keep was not at that amazing interesting. we used to tell you in savvy than that, because uh you were assigned to your state has been speaking and we're just going to invite you to what do you have to say from our end to help negotiate and walk work through the end of the conflict in ukraine, in a way that's enduring and acceptable to all the parties engaged. the 3rd point is to begin to work at a high level as well. to begin to discuss and think about an exam and both the geo political and economic cooperation that could result from an end to the conflict in ukraine. obviously we have to see that conflict come to a successful and enduring and in order for that to be possible. and the last thing we, we, we agreed to is that while our teams are going to be working on all of this, to the 4 of us who were here today. the 5th for the 5 of us that were here today, or are going to remain engaged in this process to make sure that it's moving along

in a productive way as well. there are some the, some underlying principles. this needs to be a permanent, into the war and not a temporary and as we've seen in the past, we know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory. and there's going to be a discussion of security guarantees. those are just yet fundamental basics uh that will, that will undergird and underlie any type of discussion. but i think the, the most important part is the president has stated his desire, his determination to end this war to end of the killing. that is going on. the death and destruction that is happening as this war. uh, you know, goes on and on. uh,

month after month after month in the killing fields of eastern and southern ukraine is unacceptable. it is not in the interest of either country is not in the interest of the world and certainly not in the interest of the united states in europe. so all of those things will drive the negotiations going forward. and as you can see, the president uh president trump is determined to move very quickly. uh, we just had uh, a head of state phone call. the 1st in years. uh, and here we are less than a week later at the highest level of the us and russian government. and we expect to continue to drive that pace to, to not only in the war, but then to unlock what could be a very productive and stabilizing relationships going forward as well. i think those are things that are those, those are to be discussed. and those are the things that will start and do the

tough work ahead. but the important thing is that we started that process. and what of the president did not find acceptable wise unless war uh, in europe. and that was literally turning into has turned into a meat grinder of people on the, on both sides. so that if you just think about, just in a few months, president trump has shifted the entire global conversation from not if the war is going to end. but just how it's going to end, and only president trump can do that. and in the oval office, less than a week ago, both president put in and present zelinski bowed said to him, only you president trump, to drive this war 2 and a conclusion against we're not going to pre negotiated or of an end to this conflict. these are the kinds of things that have to happen to hard difficult diplomacy and closed rooms over a period of time. what's important,

understand is 2 things. the 1st is the only leader in the world who can make this happen. who can even bring people together to begin to talk about it in a serious way as president trump is the only one in the world. i can do that right now. the 2nd thing i would say is that in order for a conflict and everyone involved in that conflict has to be okay with has to be, it has to be acceptable to them. but we have to understand that it's been 3 and a half years since there's been any sort of regularized contact between the united states and russia. and in some cases between any of the participants in con conflict and russia. so the goal of today's meeting was to follow up on the phone call the president had a week ago and begin to establish those lines of communication. the work remains today is the 1st step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one. and president trump is committed to bringing an end of this conflict. and as he said, when he campaign for president, and he wants it to be end of the way, that's fair. he wants it to end in a way that's sustainable and enduring. not that leads to another conflict in 2 to 3 years. that's not gonna be easy to achieve,

but he's the only one in the world that can begin that process. donald trump is the only leader in the world that could initiate that process. and today was the 1st step and in that process, scratches or functions are all the result of this conflict. there are things that were imposed as a result of this conflict. and so i would say to you that in order to bring it into any conflict, there has to be concessions made by all sides. we're not going to predetermine what those are, what are given accidentally, not going to negotiate this today or in the press conference for that matter. but um and there are other parties that i've sanctions, your opinion is going to have to be at the table at some point because they have sanctions as well that have been imposed. so, um, but i guess the point here is the goal is and we agreed on what the goal is. the goal is to bring an end of this conflict in a way that's fair and during sustainable and acceptable to all parties involved.

what that looks like. well, that's what this, what the ongoing engagement is going to be all about. see the well, the common i would have on that is that for 3 and a half years, while this conflict has raged for 3 years, while its rage, no one else has been able to bring something together like what we saw today. because donald trump is the only way around the world to can. so no one is being sidelined here. but president trump is in a position that he campaigned on to initiate a process that could bring about an end of this conflict. and from that could emerge some very positive things for the united states, for europe, for ukraine, for the world, but for us to begin to by the end of this conflict. and so the only thing present trump trying to do is bring about peace. 40 campaigned on it's something the world should be thinking, president trump for doing, he was able, he's been able to achieve what for 32 and a half, 3 years, no one else has been able to achieve which, which is to bring to begin this process a serious process. obviously

a lot of work remains before we have a result of present trumps. the only one that can do it. i look it's, it's common sense. if you're going to bring both sides together, you have to talk to both sides. and we'll continue to remind everyone, literally within minutes of president trump hanging up with president putin, he called and spoke with president zalinski. so. ready shuttle diplomacy has happened throughout history. it's happened all over the world. we are absolutely talking to both sides of secretary state, just met with present zalinski days ago, along with the vice president, 7 cabinet members in europe at the same time, really showing the importance of, of engaging or allies present. trump spoke with president my crone adjuster yesterday, prime minister, storm, or is coming to washington next week. so i cool, the facts will continue to push back on this notion that our allies haven't been

consulted. they're being and they, they are being consulted literally almost on a daily basis and will continue to do so. we did not, we did not set that date, but the 2 presidents talked about meeting and expect to meet how would you characterize this positive be constructive. everybody, they are the to get to the right outcome solution based we, we discussed it afterwards. we couldn't have imagined a better result after this after the session. it was very, very solid. i'm not sure but, but it will make that determination in the next couple of weeks.

well, i think that's something that we'll continue to discuss. we have certainly, again, as a 1st principle, i have a european lead security guarantee. we have the president, many of us as members of private members of congress, ourselves have called for the europeans to continue to contribute to our common defense, to continue to share the burden of nato defense. we'll continue to point out that while things have improved starting with president trump's 1st term, the fact that a 3rd of our nato allies still do not contribute the minimum of 2 percent of their ttp defense a decade after that, we all collectively made that agreement isn't acceptable, we have the nato summit coming up this june, and we would expect with the type of, of conflict, the type of warfare and destruction we've seen in europe. sadly,

the last several years that we have a 100 percent, at the minimum and in fact are exceeding that so, you know, look, this is a, this is a common effort. this isn't just about what the united states is going to continue to contribute in what we are going to continue to ask of the american taxpayer. we all have to make those tough decisions. we all have to contribute to our common defense, and we expect that, that to this, to be a 2 way street for european allies and the fact that both the united kingdom, france and others, are talking about contributing more forceful way to ukraine's security. we think is a good thing. i mean, i don't view diplomacy that way. i think diplomacy ultimately is based on the actions based on commitments that are kept. so i think they came away today convinced that

they are willing to begin to engage in a serious process to determine how and how quickly and to what mechanism can have and be brought to this war. whether we can ultimately reach that outcome. well, obviously depend on every site in his conflicts, willingness to, to agree to certain things. so i think it's important to have this meeting because we haven't really had much engagement with the russians for almost 3 years. and it's, that's the table for future conversations. how that turns out will be up to the parties and their willingness not just to make commitments but to live by them. that will be tested in the weeks to come. but i can tell you again, as i reiterate, president trump has made it and who made it very clear during the campaign, he thought this cost was needed and he's the only leader in the world that could have started a process that we saw here today. and this process is going to continue. and um, when you talk about in, during and sustainable end of the conflict, that means ones that's acceptable to everyone involved in. and that obviously includes ukraine, but also our partners in europe. and of course,

the russian side as well. so i didn't mean to, to, to jump in there, but i just wanted to also take a moment, i think, on behalf of all of us and the president, to think our partners in saudi arabia to think our host for bringing this together . and particularly the crown prince mohammed been solomon and his team. we are moving quickly, which means they moved very quickly to, to be such grace gracious hosts and, and we certainly are all appreciative actually as well. that's a decision for the king them to make. but i can tell you that the teen them saudi arabia is playing an indispensable role and making today possible, not just hosting us, but bringing the parties together to have these conversations. i think it's something we're very grateful for something we're very grateful for the partnership that we have with them on a host of issues. and this being one of them were we, we thank them for doing it and um, and we hope that they will, i think they've offered. and i believe that they will continue to be helpful in any

way they can of the next the next model i track the 1st, the 1st the next step is working through our respective teams at the diplomatic side, just to ensure that our diplomatic missions can function there has been a series of reciprocal actions taken over the last 10 years that have really diminished our ability to operate in moscow as an example. and they would argue their ability to operate in washington. we're going to need to have vibrant diplomatic missions that are able to function normally in order to be able to continue these conduits. the 2nd is a high level team, including those we're experts on these topics. so technical side to begin to engage with their side on parameters of what an end of this conflict would look like. and on that front, obviously there is going to be engagement and consultation with ukraine with our

partners in europe and others. but ultimately they're, the russian side will be and dispensable to this effort, and okay, so that process will begin. and then the 3rd is together with those other 2 is beginning to engage in identifying the extraordinary opportunities that exist. should this conflict come to a acceptable and the credible opportunities that exist to partner with the russians, geo, politically on issues of common interest. and frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and will also improve our relations in the long term between these 2 important countries. so all 3 of those efforts will be happening in conjunction with one another. obviously the diplomatic one is when we think we hope to move pretty quickly on because this involves the treatment of our respective missions. the 2nd one will be difficult, which is the question of ukraine and then does that conflict. but i think that's essential in order for the 3rd piece to even be possible, which is our ability to work together on other geo political matters of common interest. and of course,

some pretty unique potential. we've historic economic partnerships as well. the key that unlocks the door for those opportunities, however, is the end to this concept. in terms of like when, when does a high level team? is there wasn't any date. there's not a separate. yeah, it's a week. uh, president trump is as you've seen over the last 4 weeks, not a patient in terms of getting action. he drives to drive. hardy wants to get things done. he's been wanting to do this and he's moving very quickly to fulfill the promises he made to the american people and they elected him as our present. and then in terms of number one restoration of missions, you'll remember that 1st the tit for tat was after the st. paul points us. and the us under one of your predecessors, chosen, expelled a lot of russian diplomats to which they responded to the end of the possible st. petersburg. close to close down by the russians. you guys close down the consulate

in seattle? several others are those gonna reopen? are the products that we're going to be talking about and that ultimately, you know, again, i'm not going to negotiate or just work on that and public that that's what these channels will be about. but ultimately what the goal we need to have is we have to have some normalcy in our emissions in our, in their ability to function. and then at the end, the main numbers easy. and then the main estimate, i'm because regardless of the consulate, i mean of our, if the, if our diplomatic channels are broken, it's going to be very difficult to consistently engage on a host of topics, including some unrelated irritants that could the rail, the broader talks on ukraine, so there has to be some improvement in the way our missions are able to work in, in the environment and space that they're given to operate. and so that's something we want to move on quickly and it's important to set the table for the other 2 things that we want to do. but i think the key really, and all of this is ultimately going to be whether an agreement can be reached with

all parties involved on or acceptable resolution to the conflict in ukraine. because of that happens, not only will the world be a better place, but i think though it's free, some pretty unique opportunities to, to work with them on areas of the bilateral geopolitical interest and some very unique economic opportunities for we have to get the ukraine situation resolved 1st in a way that's acceptable to everyone as well. so does that mean? if you get the staff back to original, normal operational level staff, the embassies that you consider this people case, the crimea annexation to be be closed. they're no longer issues because i think, you know, you mentioned that she was farmers going to be in washington next week. i can imagine that the it will be particularly yeah, i'm not, i'm not, yeah, i'm not gonna negotiate. or to talk through every element of the disruptions that exist or have existed in our diplomatic relations and the mechanics of it. suffice

it to say that president trump has pledged and attempts to keep his promise to do everything he can to bring it into this conflict. we cannot do that unless we have at least some normalcy in the way. our diplomatic missions operate in moscow and in washington dc. and so we need to work to improve that. and we're going to work with them to see what's possible within that context of living. removing the level from pages where we're sending sanctions that are inputs have been opposed to, we're just not at that level of conversation yet, but sorry, that's they'll be a number of topics that will have to be discussed along the way they haven't. we have that. we haven't even begun that process today was just an agreement to begin a process to talk about those things. you know, meeting between trump and preteen, yet the 1st step of a long and difficult road. that's a message from us sector site mach ruby, or the national security adviser might wilts and the special invoice to them, at least the costs. speaking in re,

i'd offer for an off meeting with the russian counts of parts will unravel the cone of what they said in the coming hours present and had a week ago and begin to establish the meanwhile, let's bring you some. a break in utah mass has just announced that it will be returning the bodies of full captives held in garza on thursday and allow hire a message chief in gaza. also announced that 6 living captives will be released on site today as part of the 1st phase of the seas. 5 deal of the salute is in jordan's capital of amman, and she said because he's rarely governments and the palestinian authority have found out 0 for reporting inside his relative clause the occupied westbank is that we have development summed up what more you are hearing. so hey, there are some pretty big developments in the negotiations for face to come. us officials say that they are doing this because they want phase to,

to happen as part of this deal. so these really is had been asking for this for about a week now. they said they wanted the bodies of is really captives to be released sooner than the end of phase one, which was on march 1st. so how much has now stated they will release the bodies before deceased is really captives on thursday, including the bus family. this is something him us had said back in november of 2023, that the family was killed in an air strike. you'll recall the husband and father, your identity bus was released just a couple of weeks ago as part of phase one. these really military had said that they had great concern over the face of the mother and her 2 children, but did not confirm if they were dead or alive. how may i ask, who's saying now that they will be releasing their bodies on thursday? that's on thursday on saturday, a couple of days later, 6, the living is really captives will be released. these are the remaining captives are alive, are going to be released as part of phase one instead of releasing 3 on february 22nd and 3 on march. first,

that's this saturday and next saturday they are going to be releasing all 6 living captives this saturday. and the bodies of the 4 remaining captives were deceased. on the final day of phase one, which is march. first, i must be saying that they are wanting to move forward with space to a video that they are committed to it. and they are doing this, essentially wanting to give these really what they want in this aspect so that they can show their commitment to the deal. but they're saying israel is the one who's not committed to the deal. so how much as they're willing to do whatever it takes, essentially to get to the 2nd part and ultimately the 3rd part of the ceasefire. so this breaking news, just to recap for you, for bodies of is really captives to be released on thursday. and the remaining living captives who are to be released in phase one will be released a couple of days later on saturday and home there in tandem to this. of course, the seas for totes underway. and kyra, what's the latest the, as well,

we are hearing reports that there is some development, but remember, these are talks that were supposed to start many weeks ago in fact, almost 3 weeks ago. in early february, however, these really did not send a delegation. these really prime minister was not keen on sending this delegation last night in these really security cabinet. they decided ultimately that a negotiation to you would go, they would meet with mediators, but as to a mandate for those negotiations that hasn't been established. so we are hearing that there's some progress, but it's still a little bit unclear about what's next because there has been so many moving parts . here. you have the united states who says they want to take over gaza and idea that's been widely condemned, condemned by him, us, and every other country in this region. you have these really to support this plan saying, but it's the only one that will work. these really defense minister even trying to now open up a different section of the defense ministry, a committee for what he's calling the voluntary migration of palestinians for those

who want to leave gaza. but of course palestinians have said they will not. but then you also have family members of captives who say that they want this deal to continue because without it the captive, the remaining ones in gaza would not be released. however, the right wing government within israel says that they've gotten assurances from benjamin netanyahu. that the fighting would continue after phase one, but benjamin netanyahu has not achieved the goals of the war. not all the captives have been brought back. i must, has not been destroyed politically and militarily. and israel says the gaza is still posing a threat to israel. so none of those goals have been achieved. so nathan, yahoo says that. how must must be defeated, but it's unclear how that's going to happen because israel says they want to go back to war if need be. and they said the united states has said this, the american president said that israel can do whatever they want with regard to the ceasefire. so we are on incredibly shaky grounds here uncharted territory. but phase one of this deal is seeming wage going as planned. the her have been

amendments here and there, there have been accusations of violations throughout the weeks, but phase one is still on track to be completed, but this was a deal that was never guaranteed in the 1st place. this is something experts and mediator said was incredibly sensitive from the beginning because you had 2 parties who finally came to the table. and even though this deal was on the table many, many months ago, back in may of 2024. before there was finally an agreement that was signed, so it's unclear exactly where we're standing at this point with regards to the deal . but these negotiations are certainly ongoing. how that things are, that the template salutes on the news that have masters and not to be returning the bodies of full captives and goes around, says that and also that's a 6 living captives will be released on saturday o as time those been explaining as part of the 1st phase of the season, i do have the thank you as well. let's cross to target the zoom, who joins us now from reference, southern browser, and type that has been some respite for palestinians in jobs or from the endless

plumbing but shelters and heavy machinery. well, the desperately needed and nothing is coming through. yeah, that's right. only has been allowed to into the gaza strip. in fact, as you can see, if i keep around on only a very limited number of a humanitarian, a convoys that carry the basics, you have any heavy and needs for palestinians including foot boards and medical supplies. and some essential sanitation pro docs fund. so now the main to tell us to me, infections have been called in for to know instead because of strep so far. yeah. we are talking about to the machine to remove by themselves to lines up on the encryption side of the pool that we understand clearly that built those expect. a koreans have been highly requires intelligently needed to remove at least 40000000 tons of dippers from destroyed neighborhoods that had been widely flats and during the is really that it to a fractions and cause and.