[000:00:00;00] the, the eastern ukrainian city of buck mode is in ruins and in russian hands, the 1st major battlefield victory for prudence forces since last summer, somewhat symbolic, definitely not strategic. the front lines, they are being drawn elsewhere. in the past week, we learned that western europe plans to send f 16 fighter jets to ukraine. the u. s . has agreed to train ukranian pilots of our key, the strategic stars in this war. they are aligning weapons shipments. have been secured. babble tanks are on the ground and fighter jets soon to be in the sky. i, bird golf and berlin. this is the day

the today and the next truck is going to begin training. training pilots, 4th generation fighter aircraft including f. 16. i have a flat assurance from the firm zalinski that they will not. they will not use it to go on and move in to russian geographic territory. but wherever russian troops are within ukraine and harriet, there would be able to monitors also coming out yesterday, he was behind bars and imprisoned journalist in bella, russo who dared to defend tonight. he's a free man. thanks to a presidential. pardon. how did that help? i really want to think of the people who believed and made and believed in my

sincerity and belief that people can improve and make that mistake. so let's switch to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome, we begin the day with fighter jets for you, craig, and fighting words from the kremlin. today, rush a warrant against the delivery of f. 16 fighter jets to ukraine, saying the move increases the risk that nato will be pulled into this conflict. now that is one possible consequence, but apparently the possible advantages outweigh any negative. last week, several western european countries signal that they are ready to send ukraine f. 16 fighter jets. and over the weekend, you as president buys and said yes to us forces training ukrainian pilots to fly. those plans for months, ukraine's president zaleski has lobbied leaders and courted capitals for more weapons. especially those fighter jets will. finally,

it's beginning to pay off without any of the landscape during what turns out to be a highly successful visit to japan. since a star for us has invasion, ukrainian president has had one consistent message for his western allies. more weapons for ukraine. at the g 7 summit in hiroshima, a long held ambition came through overcoming us resistance to supplying ukraine with f. 16 fighter jets with thousands of essex themes in service. and dozens of countries the best outside to is seen by keith as the best craft to challenge rushing as a perry. alrighty. you as president joe biden had long released the key of the month 1st day of the conflict spreading the on 2 cranes bowed as us off the allies such as the u. k. and the netherlands. first for sending, do you estimate yet to crane fight until to lensky?

he had finally dropped his objections. i told the united states, together with our allies and partners, going to begin training. ukrainian pilots, in 4th generation fighter aircraft including f. 16 to strengthen ukraine's air force as part of a long term commitment to ukraine's ability to defend itself. we provided to last year, all that they needed to deal with what they were dealing with at the moment. and that's for the now we're moving in the direction of putting them in a position to be able to be defend themselves in ways beyond what they've had to deal with so far. the one with the u. s. veto gone. ukraine's allies are free, designate the 16 to keep them all, but it's a modern look some yeah, we're working on it to enough. i'm sure, because we already know which countries we will work with. that obviously what's on that, even before we and lots of training program for the sixteens, we will get the planes for now i can't say how many one of is not the secrets anymore. i didn't know myself. it's in the secret,

it'd be so. so in this not rush asked estimates the impact of 5 the jets would have on the battlefield could suggest that the use would raise the spectre of nato involvement in the conflict. but in the past, most cost threats have failed to prevent the ukraine from upgrading. it's awesome though to discuss the 16 factor in this war, i'm joined by a man who speaks with the voice of experience from inside the cockpit. john tyson is a retired brigadier general and command pilot the us air force. he also served as assisted deputy under secretary of the air force in charge of international affairs and he joins me to night from washington. d. c. general tired. it's good to have you on the program. i want to discuss pilot training with you just a moment a bit. but 1st, you heard of the news for president biden, that the us plans to train ukrainian pilots to fly these f. 16 fighter jets. um, what's your take on this decision spread?

thanks for having me. and my take is that it is about time. these are extremely capable systems. they are western a capable aircraft with western weapons in western supply lines. and i think that these capabilities can ultimately help tip the tide and turn the tide, their new crane, and i think even more importantly, they provide a long term commitment of the west end of america to sustain and support ukraine. not just for the immediate fight, but for decades to come. you know, we've heard that perhaps norway, denmark, the netherlands, belgium, poland, that maybe they will send their f sixteens to you create. i think i've seen numbers maybe 30 and total. how significant is this number, visa v, the russian air force? brent, i think whether they get 2430 or 36 aircraft. i think it's significant because i

think these capabilities are important to provide this thing called air superiority . and to enable long range precision precision stripe and the capability support groups on the ground. and again, these are more capable than the aircraft and anything ukraine already has. and i think it's going to be significant to the wherever for them the president biden. he has been clear that these by the jets are not there to strike targets inside russian. take a listen to what he said. i have a flat assurance from the, from zalinski that they will not. they will not use it to go on and move into russian geographic territory. but wherever russian troops are within ukraine in the area, and they wouldn't be able to do that, are all right, so we're going to have to take the, the ukrainians, president zalinski there on his word, but over ukrainian territory itself. can western just can they give you crane

dominance of their own air space? brent, 1st of all, we've got to realize that the systems and these capabilities aren't going to arrive overnight. and i think it best case, they could be there in october long after this counter offensive that we're waiting on is done. but i do think over the course of time by providing ukraine, the freedom to attack as they desire from the air and freedom from attack, from rushing and capabilities through the air. and then that long range precision strike capability and the close air support the troops on the ground. i think that this could turn the tide for the ukrainians over the long term in this war. and it just talking about the capabilities of the 16 mean. we know that, for example, in keep the capital city, they have an air defense system that's been repelling airstrikes from russia. the f sixteens would also be able to intercept missiles, correct?

so to some extent, yeah, certainly aircraft in some missiles, but you don't just rely on one system to provide yourself air defense. you do something that's called layer defense. and so you do have those patriots systems and some other air defense systems that are ground based. but you could absolutely supplement those systems by having f sixteens as airborne capability to defeat russian aircraft and russian us missiles, especially cruise missiles through the air. okay, in general, your man will experience, talk to me about how you learned to fly and have succeeded. mean, how long did it take you in an ideal situation, obviously when you're not in the middle of a war, but how long did it take you to earn your we the bread. that's a great question. normally you take these newly commissioned officers and it takes them about 13 months to become basic pilots. and then they go on to whatever their aircraft is going to be, and it takes them another 6 months to get basic qualified. and then it takes

another 3 months or so to get combat qualified. so all said and done, that's about 2 years. but we're not just starting with ukrainian pilots that have never flown before. these are experienced highly combat experienced pilots from ukraine. and even in just the trial that we ran in the united states and an f. 16 simulator over the last few months, these experiential premium pilots were able to become combat capable in an f 16 in less than 4 months. wow. so well, it may be the case that it takes longer than that for a green pilot. these are extremely experience pilots, and i believe they'll learn much faster than that. well, okay, yeah. well, that could be like, maybe by the end of the summer, then we could have them slide. i want to talk about the reaction from russia. russia is accusing the west of escalating this conflict, rushes ambassador to the us, and i totally and turned off, posted this on telegram today. when i read this for our viewers,

it says there is no infrastructure for the operation of the f. 16 in ukraine and the need a number of pilots and maintenance person now is not there either. what will happen if the american fighters take off from nato airfields controlled by 4 in volunteers? so so brent. yeah, and yeah, i think the basis for that question is that the russians are trying to deter us from providing these capabilities to the ukrainians. but just like any of these other systems we've provided to them, the abrams tanks are the leper tanks or the patriot air. defense systems, it isn't just the system in the operator that's important, but it's just the sustainability of those capabilities. the maintainers that allow those capabilities to work day in and day out. and we will help them create that type of a system for the f sixteens. and they have amazed us with their ability to sustain capabilities. i do think that launching out of nato airfields is brought with risk

because it could be seen absolutely as an attack by nato and russia, russian forces. but i don't think the ukrainians are going to need to use that. they're going to learn how to sustain and maintain these capabilities within ukraine very easily. because they've demonstrated that in the past. let me just ask you to before we run out of time, but you to see we've got the battle change on the ground that are coming from western europe in the u. s. and now we're talking about f. 16 fighter jets. is this going to be a tipping point that's, that's going to allow ukraine to when to end this war sooner rather than later. i the bread. we would all hope that that would be the case to stop this russian war of aggression. but we know that it's going to take maybe until the end of the summer into the fall before they get some of these capabilities and are able to use them. but i think it's significant in 2 different ways. number one is significant because it is demonstrating this long term commitment of the west to support

ukraine beyond the counter offensive. and i think it ties them into the western way of war for 2 to 3 decades in a way that no other system would do. and i think that is significant in our long term commitment to them to integrate in or operate with them. and then i think from an operational standpoint, providing that air superiority and providing some additional long range. precision strike capability could be significant, are some, and are some of those hinge elements that ukraine needs in order to win this war against russia. ok, we're general. we appreciate your analysis tonight is actually it's a newly retired brigadier general john tyson. tonight you look very young, it's a bit of a long time. retired generals. good. haven't you on the show tonight. thank you. thank you, brad. appreciate it. i of the bell roofs now where an opposition active this has received a presidential pardon, just weeks after he was sentenced to 8 years in

a penal colony. romano. parts of it was convicted for allegedly organizing unrest and plotting to seize power of the charges related to his telegram channel, which was used to mobilize protests against president alexander the shanker, back in 2020. but as a bitch was arrested a year later in spectacular fashion triggering a massive international incident. now, he was flying with his girlfriend from grief still at the way the wind bill of reaching authorities ordered his flight to land in minutes. the official reason given was a bomb threat, but no explosions were ever found. western countries condemned the flight diversion, which was made under fighter jet score. they called they said it was panama mountain to hijacking, and they slapped sanctions on. beller root says a reaction where after his arrest photos of it, she made several appearances on state television apologizing and professing his

guilt. critics claimed that the statements were made under duress, other opposition activists say that he betrayed the cause. here's what he said earlier today, speaking after his very unexpected presidential part. first of all, i want to personally think president lucas shank because this is his decision. so of course, i want to thank the country as a whole year, and i really want to think of the people who believed in me believed in my sincerity and believes that people can improve and make that mistake. so let's switch as well for more context on this story. now i want to bring in and give a cobra. she's a bell of lucy and journalist and it's good to see you again. a presidential pardon a former active. this is obviously thankful and apologetic of what, how do you explain this?

obviously he was, he didn't want to do anything to get himself thrown back in prison. i guess when he made that video today. uh yeah, i mean imagine your uh, being kept to the hostage of the plane was 1st down to arrest you. of course he feels threatened. he feel scared and he tries to save his life. so i think it's really wrong to josh him at this point. but that seems that his name is sending a message to 1st of all, he, there seems opponents. so those people who sort of against, of course. so the question kind of gets there seem to show that, well, if you admit mistakes, that's something that those sort of mindset that's i think is crucial. if you have to make mistakes, then you can be piped. and that's also signal to people who are inside the country, who are undecided, who are the know would support the democratic forces or their gene that's local. shameka has mercy,

that he's able to show mercy this also signal to people inside the system. because if from on what really spend this 8 years in prison, then of course nobody inside the system would be much of age. it's a to calibrate. so there's a many way. and i think that's also a signal to the international community that will increase capable of having dialogue, cops, you know, reason opponents to show mercy to the one for the savings than others. so you're saying then that possibly look at jenko is using robot. here as an example is making an example out of them a positive example of, of what can happen to mercy that can happen if you do as we say as well, that's only one example. i think carolina has a very unique case because here because, you know, the whole plane was, was 1st down in the original, especially example of amman authors,

right? nobody really had this session to reach a case. so of course, uh the machine cannot, most of any other people are showing a, you know, so much sort of the that they would calibrate that they're seeing that they would test the appeal soaring that they would have made mistakes and so on. so romano is being used by the machine just show to the world that uh well, the reason one person please the feel sorry for what the they did. yeah. it's a, it's a big point. you know, last week when i spoke, there were rumors about lucas shank has helped me. he had missed several key public events and you and i discussed that even on the opposition, political opposition was preparing for a possible change at the top. in some form. do you think that those questions that were said public last week about lucas? she goes authority about him being

a lap dog vladimir putin. do you think they had anything to do with this presidential part or yeah, i think it's so very much can access, you know, look, wishing has this been policy that he wants people to feel sorry that he wants people to come to him. and he's so on the knees, you know, to ask for a part, and he has always done this with him before his political appointments with political business before. and even though we have more than $1500.00 political prisoners in the country right on precision. but the same issue is just one of many of those who are in jail and this part of them is nothing really for, you know, for the scale state. they're in bold. so refreshing that exist in the woods. and yeah, i mean, this is kind of something that lucas shanker wants to show the case and controlled because there is much, much to show else, right? because he lost the sovereignty. many of the severe,

a 2nd ministries fewer use for the 1st informations here. and so on, in the economy, especially right. and he's struggling to moscow in just a few days. so i think this is again something that helps the bush and cut to feels in control. what has there been, i mean, do you, can you confirm? is there been any reaction from opposition? a circle? is it i'm thinking of course specifically of so atlanta t how know sky you for a 2 to a month, but the savings? sure. so i oh yes, i think there is a lot of um well 1st of all, mine was part of uh, he's a bluebird. she is a problem and journalist he was very well known. right. so of course everybody's talking about this. i think he has some information about political opponents, that he likes to, to the regime because he had to collaborate with them. of course, upset me. and there is some sort of negative reactions to be soon of course. so his

girlfriend is for my boss and he's in jail and i think many people asking what is happening with her. so i think this is very important. another issue said exactly today. there is a trial that that has been started against the not the political opponent at large . but baker, who is the son of very prominent political arrival, victor rebecca, who was one of the most prominent opponents of lucas sion convention 20 in exactly today. there was, he wanted to review information about the savings, so it's very much been cited and i think everybody put, attend of they did a lot of attention to that, to the screen, to them and that, so there she wanted to sort of hide the issue one political but he's not being on trial of plan for getting this information about month to month or the series. yeah . yeah. i'm using one man to smoke screen. i know that it's

a very astute observation. journalist hannah the book out. but we appreciate your reporting tonight and giving us excellent context here. thank you. thank you. a new study, warren's. if we failed to do more to mitigate climate change now, or whether the 5th, if you man at the, will live in regions with dangerously high temperatures by the year. 2100. the research coordinated by the university of extra during the u. k. highlights the risk of failing to tackle the climate emergency fluid and then to our family, our sheltering from extreme heat temperatures outside solar above 40 degree celsius . they've taken to setting still just to survive today. and then maybe that's why we got that. i went outside last week and when i came back i was sick. i'm still

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