it raises impulsive questions about palestinian identity, while the buffalo rages on the front line, the diplomatic pursuit for peace is in crisis. however, critical moments ahead, in fact, the ukraine war on the world order much on alex's era, the, [000:00:00;00] the hello, i'm sort of a, it's great to have you with us. this is the news our lives from coming up in the program today. russia's president vladimir putin tells ukrainian soldiers fighting and the coast region to surrender, and their lives will be spared. another day of processing, new york city calling for the release of

a palestinian student activists was facing deportation after being detained. struggling to survive the high cost of getting basic necessities for people in gaza, as it is really blockade, on a continuance of the man who ran to central banks is sworn in as canada. as you find minister emitted trade, the russian president vladimir putin says he will spare the lives of ukrainian soldiers fighting and across the region. if keith tells them to surrender, russia has been pushing back ukrainian troops launched an incursion into the western russian region in august. the kremlin sang 29 settlements and no back under its control. while keith is denying that, as military has been surrounded and coursed us president donald trump, has urged russia not to attack the ukrainian soldiers saying it would end in

a horrible massacre. trump is also raised hope of an and to the war. a special invoice. steve would cost, press the food into agree to a 30 day ceasefire. proposal put in has given conditional approval that says the root causes of the conflict need to be addressed. first, you're creating a new president, followed him. here's the lensky says, put in is planning to reject that deal. what will speak to petty go hand in washington in just a moment 1st. so let's go to moscow and dorothy jabari, so door. so you, you heard there, donald trump, as you know, is asking the russians to spare the lives of ukrainian soldiers that he says are surrounded in curious, what's the response in moscow as well. the russian president, during his weekly meeting with the permanent members of his security council, responded to the request by the us president, let him or put in said that this has to come from ukrainian authorities to the

ukrainian military. the order has to be given to the ukrainian soldiers to lay down their weapons and their lives will be spared, and that they will be treated fairly. the russian presidents said that he had heard the plea by us president donald trump, regarding the cleaning and soldiers in the curse region. and that's the russian soldiers and the russian military is willing to basically spare their lives if they laid down their arms. and that is a decision that has to come from kids. now, the russian president also said that the trump administration and the u. s. president is doing everything it can to restore relationships with the russian officials and that they are on the right path. and that he says that we will see how things go. so the russians are cautiously optimistic. we heard from the criminal spokesperson earlier on friday. who said that the discussions with see what cost a while he was the most go on thursday,

is grounds for cautious optimism not only about the settlement in ukraine, but also about us russian relations, which prior to donald trump taking office on january 20th, were at an all time low, so things are quickly turning around for vladimir, put in, but it's still too early to say that things have completely gone his way. the russian president is adamant that the us proposal for a temporary cease fire is something he could agree to. if the nuances are worked out, meaning russia has its own conditions that need to be met before they agree to a temporary cease fire in the war with ukraine. but of course, one of the sticking points has been the cursed region. when since the by noon forces launch, the surprise incursion in august and russia has managed in the past 7 months to retake nearly 90 percent of the roughly 1300 square kilometers of territory that ukraine occupied. and now the russian defense ministry is claiming that they have

surrounded their remaining ukrainian forces in that region. and that is why we're hearing this back and forth between us president donald trump, about the soldiers and their faith, as well as the russian presidents response. and of course, after highlight, this is something the crating and officials are adamantly deny saying that their forces are not surrounded in cursed region and that they are continuing the fight in that area. yes, absolutely. and they've said that this is playing into rushes hands dosage of. all right, thank you very much reporting there from moscow. so let's spring and patty patty, go hand in washington dc. things are moving really fast and this us, russian conversation patty, some of it behind closed doors as you'd expect, but a lot of it in full view of the public. so exactly, and this is a president who likes to take things from his daily breeds, his classified intelligence brief and make it public. is that the case here? we don't know because it wasn't specific. and obviously the big question is, are ukranian soldiers surrounded?

one of the things i think is raising some eyebrows around here is the fact that the post and social media talking about russia having the upper hand and when it needing to spare the lives of ukrainians. it really seems to put the advantage going into any negotiations. and that's been a concern, a pretty much a bi partisan concerned in congress where russia is still treated as an enemy. but the between republicans and democrats alike. questioning the exactly what the tactics here. we heard from the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the president. they said that taking things just off the table before they even set down at the negotiating table. things like ukraine will never join nato and ukraine's going to have to give up territory. now, painting ukraine's military is being on the back foot. so obviously there are concerns about exactly how the president wants to carry out these to go stations, whether they're going to be even handed. but we have heard from his press secretary today carol, i love it. speaking to reporters outside the white house,

she explained his post on social media saying he wants to put pressure on the bottom or put in to do the right thing. and then saying that they are very close that they've never been this close to piece. so very high expectations the present donald trump has made it clear he wants this done soon. he's talked about it and days, possibly weeks. so this is very much, as you mentioned, a break from the past administration. exactly how it's going to play out. it's still very much in a, up in the air i, but i think the big question people are going to be asking the president is, where are these troops surrounded? because that seems to be a big point of contention right now. absolutely. it's still early days in this conversation, many steps left and many phases left. what we're looking at right now is this 30 day ceasefire. ukraine sports. vladimir putin has some questions about the petty go ahead and reporting from washington dc. thank you very much. and charles stratford is in the so we region of ukraine, where the russian military is advancing and ukrainian authorities are urging the

evacuation of several villages. what you can see here is protective, connecting the ukrainian willow tree have put up as a means of trying to protect the vehicles as they travel through this village from russian drone attacks that have been a lot in recent days. some of these houses have been hit, it is being reported that that was actually a russian glad to attack. the majority of the population of this village have actually left. there is great concern the russian policies that it'd be pushing the ukrainians back out of the town of seizure across the border could well involves further into ukrainian territory. certainly, according to the ukrainian ministry, they say that there is evidence of russian reconnaissance units crossing the border as a means of compromising ukrainian positions before

a larger advance test, drive it out to 0 in the somebody region, your crime, it's a talk about all of this i want to bring in survey mark off the director of the institute of political studies in moscow. he's also a former public spokesman for president putin and from washington dc. we have melinda herring, a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council. thank you very much to both of you for joining us in the house. is there a news hour? so we're going to start with you. you're in moscow does. in your view, does vladimir put in? he says he supports the ceasefire. do you think he's sincere about that or because he has the upper hand militarily and that's quite clear. would he rather keep fighting a or uh, what do you have? what enough to do to sit as your so this stands as far as the seas of what you've written and what is bandages. because you may know from our point of view, um, so you're going to use the spot, those that are some people than if something like kind of between the options and

your previous library grades. i believe just and that you can just browse redesigns quarters. uh, but also seems a little more and is huge images and uh, what is uh, kind of doing an online auction, the economy and the national society is also when people send me deals and all ukrainian soldiers. they also are awesome. so we're access to energy and why you wouldn't want to sell it today as soon as possible. sometime later, which i'm not, i'm because the commission ends you told what would be kind of g, is that, is that future or is this is fine. i didn't have any beat. the 2nd call was a previous this expire meaning means guam. i am is to rename it. so when i used to spot, it has been used on the a, by you, in the same with and by western in congress for that. and competing call was that you're going to, you're not ma'am,

i'm wasting your brand new model. more forgiving about what we've related to what you're going to not as old houses. i put it out to put a band this cool if future cost for these, i just don't this far. okay. i would, i would point out just as a point of information in context, part of yours, by the way that you create is a southern country under international law. nope, melinda, put in his critics point to exactly what, sorry, i just mentioned min squan and mintz to which were previous these fires 10 years ago, which did not hold and pollutants. critics say he violated those cease fires and that's why you're hearing that ukrainian president say he doesn't trust hooton's quote unquote support for the ceasefire plan. your thoughts a 0. thank you for pointing out that ukraine is a sovereign independent country. i think we have to start with that as a basis. ukrainians are not the same people as russians which they have made it abundantly clear over the last 3 years,

they want to speak ukrainian language and they want to live peacefully. but on the, on the potential negotiations, i don't think this was going anywhere. this is the 26. these fire i'm putting is broken his word $25.00 previous times. so i am very low expectations. i also think that putting is playing for time. we see him pretending to agree with the deal that the united states and kia made, but basically wanting to tear it up and rewrite it. that's not agreeing with the ceasefire. so again, we have an idea of what, who wants to at least wanted not that long ago to end the war because those conditions were spelled out in a document almost 3 years ago known. and you'll both notice as the as symbol protocol that april 2022. and that required a we can ukraine with a small military that would remain neutral. that means not belonging to youth. it's a nato know western military aid. is that still? broadly,

what put and wants to end this war when you want to and this war and to okay. uh, security is a good idea to you. uh for uh, an option. uh, what means means if you did you guys do browser feeds uh to create keys uh normal times various and so i know a place for that aside, your roster and that ukraine is it not? not on site i the law i'm sorta is are you written, don't know how to log on to only say that your you want to is this a normal go to the entire door enjoy leading to such your whole got it. and of course, you're getting the brunt of johnson if you get into the heart, the normal right when you're under attack for you're a much larger neighbor, but prior to the attack, ukraine was a normal country. oh no, you create. it was from 2014, not normal guns. it's exhibit. i think the 2014 russian invaded from end to part of

your crime. i'm not in the last on sentence tools, so you've agreed to see people as you create an impressive illegally resume. project may be a severe that is all it all off, 2014. and so you're going to do for you. great. and it's coming back uh before 2014, you know, this sort of see yeah. with the 19912004, did you get it kind of upset that you know and your rooms are oh, why is it okay? why not to come back to get it? all right, let's bring melinda back into this conversation. thank you for your patience. go ahead and as no problem i is 0. i think it's important to just say the, i don't recognize the country, but certainly my colleague is describing, i just returned from 10 days and ukraine. i was in cuba, leave the pro and hard to you. it's

a magnificent country. it is full of vibrancy in life. it is a democratic country with a large and loud free press. so i would encourage survey to actually like, go visit ukraine before he derives. it, but when it comes to what put and once he's made it clear, nato will never never be a part of the praise future. he wants a neutral country in ukraine. he's going back to the spears of, he's saying you print as part of his spears of influence, which is a non starter for ukraine. he also wants the 20 percent of the territory that ukraine illegally annex back in 22. he wants to claim those 4 different provinces in crimea as russian territory also a non starter. and he wants to push out. he was a guarantee that no more and military troops will be in the ground in ukraine. and there's not going to be any peace if there is no for an military troops of a child on the ground. so this frankly is a non starter and not a serious uh, negotiating tactics like i said before,

putting this trader button down to the law. but melinda, what leverage does the crating and present and the mirror zelinski have? i mean, donald trump told him in the office in the oval office a little under 2 weeks ago. he said, look, you don't have the cards. and the reality is ukraine. without western military aid, it will lose this war. so to some extent, it is true that they don't have the cards. how can zelinski actually set red lines in this conversation, or is he going to have to just accept pretty much what the us and rush i agree on. absolutely not. ukraine is a sovereign, an independent country and has been a sovereign independent country since 1991. ukraine has agencies and it is not going to stop fighting, even if the united states turns off intelligence sharing. again, even if the united states, it turns on all military support. as you saw in the last 2 weeks, europe has woken up and you're on the debate in particular, the germans are now going to send it towards weapons. something we thought would

never happen. we see a huge amounts of money being pledged as well, but it's also important to say that the ukrainians themselves are getting better and better developing weapons of their own country. i've been all over the country . i've been there 7 times since the big war started. and i have some question all the time. what happens if the u. s. is not there and not a reliable ally? and the answer that i get anywhere i go and ukraine is, we will continue to find this is x a central. we don't have it any, all other alternative. no one wants peace more than us, but we don't have any alternative. if we stop fighting, the russians will wipe us out. and what about our children? surrogate isn't donald trump in many ways, the historical opportunity for vladimir put in that that person should not missed just from his own self interest in his own point of view. and donald trump is if you go down the list, he's not enamored with nato. he is the rare and only us president in the last quarter century since booting has been in power,

that is not enamored with nato. he does not make any demands of other countries on democracy, rule of law, human rights, things like that. and fundamentally, he appears to believe lake vladimir put in that states should operate based on, you know, their self interest and their strength rather than norms or the rule of law. so isn't that a historical opportunity the vladimir put in should not miss still so full size should uh, defense uh uh, doing this house because the install machine. yeah. if i would do you want to see it and see minutes, i'm going to just fine. don't light on the reservation executive for a document against the democracy or m as a renewal of the information advance. he criticized you for your time. not a democracy is specifically taking the case online here. it's our right just j songs that are asking for when you're not going to that comes into some beach

organized by the russian. you same place where you want to be in your yeah, yeah. i the, i, if i was talking to for a, for a democracy. and it's a really good chance for uh, outside your plan is you guys because i'm doing a job. one piece is up through the glass. yeah. well, you also want to be and it's a bit more it does at the end, we're really, i need to come from, i say about the condition. so this is also the duty on it to compare with the front lines you kind of wanted to go to say, i think we didn't believe this over yet. you're not being the, you and your people say that your great knowledge of my company is it shows us out why and can anybody was that it means that the outside the building today i'm going to provide it to the com,

but it does include the spot to oscar some items of box some days that when when he spotted off to grades i was to add or it's a bit more while i give you the city and it was really easy and the men here all of that, um are you good? i know got that as you is to follow up on that. i wish you started. it made you brand new classes, so yeah, i have to need another bit. yes, i have to run. i think very much. i appreciate you sir. again mark off and belinda herring for coming. and joining us on the alpha 0 news hour, we gave this as much time as we could, but i have a lot of news to get through. thank you so much to both of you for your time. thanks. the administrators are gathered outside columbia university in new york city to support detained student motor,

legal and protest against the arrest of activists columbia university, where felicia has been a student revoked degrees and either suspended or expelled the students who participated in demonstrations against israel's warren guns. that last year, it's the 2nd day of protests in the city. on thursday, jewish groups entered trump tower to protest against the detention in 98 people were arrested. kristen salumi is near the protest. what's the latest where you are, chris? while i'm just looking up the street to try to get a sense of about how many demonstrators are here, i would say maybe a 100 at most and they're, they're penned into a little area outside of campus. we can't set up near there because of the height and security around the campus, but they are, they're chanting for mock. moved to leo's the least. he's the columbia graduate student who remains behind bars fighting deportation efforts. he was

a student organizer here at columbia. and this action is happening as we are learning that another student has been or is going to be deported for over staying her visa. she is a palestinian woman who was taking part in the protest movement here on campus as well. and last evening. in fact, agents for the depart of homeland security, i went into campus housing and search 2 rooms here at columbia. all of this having a chilling effect on the campus based on the conversations that i've been having with the demonstrators here, with the professors here. uh, the effort is really to silence a movement and certainly for 4 and students, they're worried that they could be deported or expelled from the school because this university has in fact uh, taken stronger action against students for things that they did last semester. only

in recent days, as the trump administration is trying to uh, track down and what it says is the anti semitism on campus by taking funding away from the university. so a lot happening here. the demonstrators are trying to continue. a lot of them don't like to talk on camera now. they're covering their faces and not giving their names because they say there's a, even the american citizens are worried about attempts to discredit them or label them as terrorist sympathizers. but they're, they're coming out not in the last and, and gathering and calling on the administration to do more, to fight the administration and calling on the administration to let students do what they say is really just a political free speech that should be protected under the constitution yes, so kristin, one student holly is been detained as we know you told us another student is going to be deported. you also told us the agents of going into campus housing looking for people. i mean,

people take all of this in the aggregate. what effect is this having on campus? yeah, like i said that the students are, are nervous. i mean, you see all the security behind me, the campus is locked off. you can't get on without an id. this used to be an open section that's right. in the middle of new york city. people used to be come and goes freely. they can't any more. uh theres uh that was fear of. we are orders junior students have also reported feeling fearful and threatened by the demonstrators. we're getting increasingly angry and us doing more bold activities or smaller activities that we're seeing by demonstrators, but their bolder ones. and in some cases, being led by jewish students on campus. uh, in the face of the accusations of anti semitism, the feeling that they're in a better position than the foreign students to stand up for power assign. um,

but really it's just a lot going on. i was speaking to a professor and he said, you know, we're on the phone constantly with students and teachers just trying to figure out what's happening and what we can do to protect ourselves and to protect our students. first is salumi reporting from the campus of columbia university in new york. thank you very much, kristen. the how much says it has agreed to a proposal made by mediators to release and as really american soldier held captive in gaza. the group says it would also hand over the bodies of for dual national captives as part of the agreements in the statement. almost as it is ready to begin negotiations and reach a comprehensive agreement on the issues of the 2nd phase of the ceasefire. and the us envoy to them at least the woodcock says that on wednesday he presented what

equals a bridging proposal. it would extend the ceasefire as a mid april after ramadan and passover, which would cost as would allow time to negotiate a permanent truce. this is part of the statement from us would release living hostages and exchange for prisoners. in accordance with previous formulas, the phase one cease fire would be extended to enable the resumption of significant humanitarian assistance. unfortunately, homos has chosen to respond by publicly claiming flexibility, while privately making demands that are entirely impractical without a permanent ceasefire. a mazda is making a very bad batch. the time is on its side, it is not is really forces have been carrying out attacks across guys despite the ceasefire for palestinians have been killed in the air strikes and these a 2 neighborhood of gaza city. an earlier is really bombardment killed 2 children in gaza. city, civil defense teams recovered about 25 bodies at the l shift the hospital on

thursday. the facility was a temporary burial site for more than a $180.00 post engines killed and during and is really siege last year. israel says i'm us was using l shift a hospital as a command center, but provided no evidence for that claim. and since the is really army cut off, electricity is a gaza dissemination and sewage plants have stopped operating. that has increased fears of worsening health and sanitation conditions and i'm concerned about the spread of diseases. the conditions and the strength has got worse since israel blocks food fuel, medical supplies, all humanitarian aid, 13 days ago, elses 0 is honey mountain. buddhism goes to city where basic fluid supplies, the dwindling and palestinians are struggling to afford what is still available. walking down the road, it's hard to avoid seeing the sphere level of destruction costs through all means of life in this area of garza city. once that commercially thriving area, with lots of department stores, the shopping malls,

the bakery now turned into more of an area filled with rubble. and many of the street vendors here with depleted markets. we're not seeing many of the stuff that are needed for people on daily basis. we're talking about basic goods of the groceries and other basic necessities including food, water and none of the fuel is not available in the area to feed the needs of may of many of the people who return to this home across the, the, the, the city and other parts of district, one of the things that we keep hearing as we walk between people is the car rocketing and prices giving the middle available in the market. is this not just the prices are high, but also the availability of the amount here. for example, here, there's a street vendors with some of the vegetables here and just this is the amount that we are able to see here. just looking around the area we could not find any of the street vendors. he's selling. the best of it is the only one that's available here

where it is being high prices for that to me. it isn't the $11.00 to to come are at $7.00, a killer to tell us more about the price is the sky rocketed price is a difficult is to find basic goods in the market. i came here to work some shopping, but i get to buy from the price of the of everything. what are you, what are you buying today? well, the key, the busy, the basic things like bridget, the convers, the tomato to sort out the, to do a something, feet in the absence of a needs a chicken is so, so expensive. some of it is $710.00, then time instead of one, she can be off for me for 12 search. this is how palestinian live their daily life daily struggles to find basic necessities that are either available a very small amount, not enough to satisfy their

a greater demand or available at the very expensive of price. the majority of them are unable to afford honeymoon mode as your data from dollars or 50. how the site is really forces a storm. several areas across the occupied west bank including did you need refugee can be burned and demolished homes on the 53rd day of the tax and the camp is really 4th is also conducted. raids in hebron and nablus, or palestinian was reported shots in injured and there are reports of similar attacks. no duma, which is just southeast of novelist. still ahead on the 0. this is an embarrassment . rome is burning. you know, this country is burning down if we do not stop this immediately, the us veterans protest in washington, dc against it, something ministration, excusing it, of betraying them. and the former philippine presidents, 1st appearance of international criminal courts on charges of crimes against humanity.

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