tonight, the president of ukraine tells "60 minutes" about his desperate fight with russia, preventing world war three, and why his people who have lost so much will never deal with putin. >> translator: it's a difficult job.

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tonight, scott pelley reports from ukraine where he sat down with president volodymyr zelenskyy in the capital kyiv. we met president zelenskyy as he prepared to depart kyiv for the united states. this week, he will speak at the u.n. and meet president biden. it is a critical time.

u.s. officials tell us that over nearly 600 days, almost half a million troops have been killed or wounded, both sides, all together, part of the cost, so far, of vladimir putin's unprovoked invasion. we spoke to zelenskyy on thursday. he told us that his people are dying every day to prevent world war three. >> translator: we're defending the values of the whole world, zelenskyy said. and these are ukrainian people who are paying the highest price. we are truly fighting for our freedom. we are dying. we're not fiction, we're not a book, we're fighting for real with a nuclear state that threatens to destroy the world. >> the united states has

contributed about $70 billion to your war effort. and i wonder if you expect that level of support to continue. >> translator: the united states of america is supporting ukraine financially, and i'm grateful for this. i just think they're not supporting only ukraine alone. if ukraine falls, putin will surely go further. what will the united states of america do when putin reaches the baltic states, when he reaches the polish border? he will. this is a lot of money. we have a lot of gratitude. what else must ukraine do for everyone to measure our huge gratitude? we are dying in this war. look, if ukraine falls, what will happen in ten years? just think about it. if the russians reach poland, what's next? a third world war?

>> what will it take, another 70 billion? >> translator: i don't have an answer. the whole world has to decide whether we want to stop putin or whether we want to start the beginning of a world war. we can't change putin. russian society has lost the respect of the world. they elected him and re-elected him and raised a second hitler. they did this. we cannot go back in time, but we can stop it here. >> ukraine stopped the russian advance, but at a terrible cost. ruined cities, millions of refugees, untold thousands of dead. all for vladimir putin's nation-building vanity. today, the war is fought on a 700-mile front. the red area is the 20% of ukraine still occupied by russia.

this is where western-donated tanks were supposed to punch through, cutting the russian force in half. but trenches, mine fields, and artillery stopped the armored advance. now, it's an artillery duel with each side firing about 40,000 shells a day. ukrainian infantry is advancing, bloody yards at a time. it's world war i with drones. >> how would you describe the fighting at the front? >> translator: it's a difficult question. i'll be completely honest with you. we have the initiative. this is a plus. we stopped the russian offensive and we moved into a counteroffensive. but, despite that, it's not very fast. it is important that we are moving forward every day and

liberating territory. >> you have about six weeks of good weather left, and i wonder after that point will the front be frozen in place? >> translator: we need to liberate our territory as much as possible and move forward, even if it's less than half a mile or a hundred yards, we must do it. we can't lose time. forget about the weather and the like. in places that we can't get through in an armored vehicle, let's fly. if we can't fly, let's send drones. we mustn't give putin a break. >> if the front is stationary, ukrainian drones have vaulted into russia itself, hitting the kremlin, war planes, and moscow high-rises. officially, ukraine does not acknowledge these attacks. >> the drone strikes in russia are being done on your orders.

>> translator: no, no on your orders. well, you know we don't shoot at the territory of the russian federation. we've decided to try the question another way. >> what message is being sent with these drone strikes in russia? >> translator: you do know that we use our partners' weapons on the territory of ukraine only. and this is true. but these are not punitive operations such as they carry out, killing civilians. but russia needs to know that wherever it is, whichever place they use for launching missiles to strike ukraine, ukraine has every moral right to send a response to those places. we are responding to them, saying, your sky is not as well protected as you think. >> last winter, it was ukrainian

skies that were filled with missiles in a russian bombardment to destroy power plants. with winter approaching again, zelenskyy had this warning. they must know if you cut off our power, deprive us of electricity, deprive us of water, deprive us of gasoline, you need to know we have the right to do it to you. >> russia takes zelenskyy seriously now because putin's mass invasion was a fiasco. the red marks where ukraine stopped russia's advance last year. it also marks the stain of rssia's war crimes. >> mr. president, in traveling around ukraine for the last year and a half, we spoke to people in bombed-out schools in chernihiv. we've seen destroyed apartment

blocks in borodyanka. a bombed hospital in izium. civilians in a mass grave in bucha. these are not military targets. what is vladimir putin trying to do? >> translator: to break us. and by choosing civilian targets, putin wanted to achieve exactly this. to break us. this person who has made his way with such bloody actions, with everything he has said, cannot be trusted. there is no trust in such a person, because he has not been a human being for a long time. >> the russians have suffered grievous losses without resorting to nuclear weapons. and i wonder if you believe that the threat of nuclear war is now behind us.

>> translator: i think he's going to continue threatening. he's waiting for the united states to become less stable. he thinks that's going to happen during the u.s. election. he'll be looking for instability in europe and the united states of america. he will use the risk of using nuclear weapons to fuel that instability. he will keep on threatening. >> that u.s. election he mentioned worries him. his negotiations with president biden have been contentious at times, but zelenskyy tends to get what he asks for even if in zelenskyy's opinion it's generally six months too late. this week zelenskyy will press mr. biden for missiles with longer range. congress is debating another $24 billion package. >> translator: and if ukraine

had enough of these modern systems, we would have already restored the territorial integrity of ukraine. we would have already done that. these systems exist. >> are you safe here? we first met zelenskyy not long after the invasion, when his office was a blacked out bunker. now, a year and a half later, we noticed a difference. as we were setting up the interview, the former actor used his talent to mask the strain. he smiled at a compliment to his wife. and then instantly he seemed pulled beneath a depth no one can know. we don't know what he was thinking. it looked like empathy for the lost and for those who might be saved. our time with zelenskyy began in

silence, a remembrance of the fallen during a ceremony to award medals of valor. ukrainian officials tell us ukraine and russia have lost their professional armies. now the forces are made up of volunteers, draftees, and in russia's case, prison inmates. zelenskyy counts his dead in casualty reports each morning. >> you are the president, but it must be humbling to meet those men. i wonder what they mean to you. >> translator: first of all, it's a great honor for me. i look into their eyes and it makes me proud that we have such strong people. because this is a big risk, a big risk. you can definitely lose your life for the sake of saving other lives. and when i say other lives, i don't speak in general. i mean my own life. the lives of my children.

and i understand completely what risks are involved. that empathy for life has volodymyr zelenskyy reaching out again to the united nations and the united states, hoping to convince the allies that the world can be safe only when ukraine is whole. >> can you give up any part of ukraine for peace? >> translator: no. this is our territory. >> you must have it all, including crimea. >> translator: today, you and i, you said it to me, you saw me awarding people medals. well, today is a day like that. a week ago, i gave awards to parents of soldiers who have been killed. there were 24 families of the dead. there was a woman, she was with

three children. there were parents very old, they could barely walk, and they had had only one son. one of the women was pregnant. she arrived holding a baby in her arms, and she was pregnant. and that baby will never see -- what should i tell them? that all of them died so that we could say it's okay, russia, you can take it all? it's a difficult job. you understand me, right? giving awards to people whose faces show their whole world has collapsed. and all i can give them, all i can give them is victory. hear more from scott pelley's newsmaking conversation with president volodymyr zelenskyy at 60minutesovertime.com. (woman) what if my type 2 diabetes takes over?

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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is heading to the united states with plans to meet president biden at the u.n. general assembly this week, as his country faces perhaps its worst domestic crisis ever. and it's not about the palestinian conflict: it's about israelis fighting israelis. massive numbers have poured into the streets to protest the netanyahu coalition, israel's most far-right government ever, and its move to weaken the court system. the judicial overhaul is seen as

so radical, president biden has urged netanyahu to walk away from this, telling him on the phone to uphold our, quote, "shared democratic values." ♪ this is what up to 200,000 israelis across the country have done every saturday night for over eight months. this packed protest is in tel aviv. some nights have turned violent with police clashes, counter protests, and cars ramming into the crowds. it can feel like the country is unraveling. the protests were triggered by the government's judicial initiative to sap the supreme court of much of its power. a wide majority of the country sees weakening the court as a power grab, since it is the only check in israel on the

government. >> red alert on our democracy! >> people who had never demonstrated in their lives have poured into the streets. >> demokratia! demokratia! like eyal naveh. he leads a group of tens of thousands of military reservists who are at the forefront of this democracy movement. they call themselves "brothers and sisters in arms," as it says on their t-shirts. they're pilots, fighters, intelligence officers, some are war heroes, many still go on dangerous missions. >> and now, the danger is from inside. >> more than the enemies from without. >> now, yes, much more. this is an existential threat to israel. >> we spoke to three of them, shira eting. >> i was a combat helicopter pilot. >> ron scherf. >> commander in the special forces. >> and omri ronen.

>> i'm a former officer in an elite commando unit. >> when a regime, a government wants to gain unlimited power, people are afraid. and the people in the streets today are afraid that the government is going to gain unlimited power without judicial review. >> they all served under netanyahu's past governments without hesitation but fear this one: a coalition of settler extremists and the ultra-orthodox. the head of national security has had multiple convictions, including supporting terrorism against arabs. the finance minister is a self-described fascist homophobe. as for netanyahu, he's in the midst of three separate trials on charges of corruption. the protesters say that laws his government has introduced -- over 200 of them -- would not only weaken the courts but control the press and diminish

individual rights, and that this is how democracies like hungary became autocratic. >> what happened in hungary and poland will not happen here. >> there is a trend and it's going against you around the world. >> yeah. >> we'll be the first to stop it. >> you're all determined. >> we are not joking. we are really -- >> serious. >> -- trying to stop it. and we will succeed. >> one of their big worries is that without a strong supreme court, the ultra-orthodox bloc in the government could turn israel into a theocracy, where biblical laws prevail. >> our supreme court is our last line of defense. and this is our last safeguard. we need them empowered. we need them independent. that's what we fight for. >> what is at stake for women, shira? >> that we'll all be sitting in the back of the bus. >> literally? >> literally. >> are you married? >> i'm married to a woman -- a doctor. we have a daughter, she's one

year and eight months. >> her fear of an assault of women's and gay rights is well-founded: a government member said the gay community is "more dangerous than isis and hezbollah." another major complaint is that the ultra-orthodox hardly pay any taxes and don't have to serve in the military, which is compulsory for all other jewish israelis. the supreme court ruled that that is not fair. but defying the court, the orthodox plan to pass a law in the knesset, israel's parliament, that would turn their unofficial military exemption into an ironclad law. >> they want a law that they will not go to the army. my 15-year-old, in three years, he will go to the army. i'm going to not sleep, like, three years. and the other father, the ultra-orthodox father, will sleep all the time.

>> eyal naveh, father of six, is so passionate about this, he's working at brothers and sisters in arms around the clock. he and ron served together in israel's most famous commando unit, like the green berets, called sayeret matkal. they're using their military skills to lead a campaign of civil disobedience and harassment, including at the homes of knesset members to pressure them to vote down the judicial overhaul. >> you want to make those elected officials understand that what they're doing is wrong. you want to wake up and shake up people. and you don't do that by being nice. >> that means forming human chains in front of the defense ministry, they block major traffic arteries. their barricade of the knesset brought out police water cannons.

members, including ron, have been arrested and interrogated. here they're surrounding the car of justice minister and vice prime minister yariv levin, the architect of the controversial judicial overhaul. they wreak havoc outside his home by burning tires and disturbing his neighbors. he says he respects their right to protest but to remember his government won the election. >> no democracy can accept a situation that the government, the elected government that has a majority in the parliament, won't be able to pass any bill and to do anything because there are protests, because there are some people that are against it. >> you say that the people who fear that there won't be equal rights for everybody are completely mistaken and their charges are baseless.

however, you are part of the most right-wing government that israel has ever had. >> i'm proud to be part of that government, and i think that's what israelis wanted to see. >> but you have people in your cabinet who have made openly racist and homophobic statements, and they're ministers. >> i can assure you that the vast majority of the members of parliament that support this government stand firmly behind democratic and liberal principles. >> but under your rules, if they all pass, the government could overrule the court. am i wrong? >> this is not my -- what i'm offering. the situation in israel is that the supreme court is above the government, is above the parliament, is even above the will of the people. what i want to do is to balance it. >> he says the court is an elite bastion that too often overrules

lawmakers chosen by the people. the fight over the court has brought the country to a cold civil war. in july, the first step of levin's judicial overhaul passed, severely limiting the court's power to strike down government decisions. some 10,000 military reservists were so upset, they pledged to stop showing up for duty. some of netanyahu's allies suggested they should be tried, even executed. >> if you want pilots to be able to fly and shoot bombs and missiles into houses knowing they might be killing children, they must have the strongest confidence in the people making those decisions. >> in the moral values of them. >> exactly. >> when they made their decision, many brothers and sisters in arms came to tears.

>> it was the hardest things to do. when you are in your dna a soldier, this is what i do, 25 years, it's in my blood. it's like to cut a hand. >> do you know what they say about you, your group, that you're unpatriotic and that you're traitors. >> they can say whatever they want. i am a patriot. every year i go to reserve and serve. i leave the house, i leave my children, i leave my wife, i leave everyone to serve. my friends died for this country. >> the military has warned that losing so many pilots, and high-ranking reservists could jeopardize readiness and hurt national security. but several former heads of the military and mossad support the protest and blame the government for allowing the situation to come to this. >> if you did find out that

israel was at risk because of so many reservists leaving, would you step back and withdraw your proposals? >> what's the price of democracy? what are you suggesting me to do? we'll tell the israeli citizens, "okay, don't go to vote. there's no need to hold elections." we'll come to those ex-militarists and will ask them what we are allowed to do or not. >> one issue rarely mentioned by the brothers and sisters in arms is the israeli occupation of the west bank. >> if you don't include palestinian rights as part of what you're fighting for, then how can you say you're fighting for democracy? >> many israelis have different opinions on the palestinian conflict. and it's a very dividing issue. >> so, your coalition would splinter? the protest coalition --

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conventionally, "60 minutes" doesn't profile the same subject twice in two seasons. but convention doesn't intersect with pro football hall of famer deion sanders. last fall, we met sanders in mississippi, where he was coaching jackson state to prominence in a conference of historically black colleges and universities. then the man who calls himself coach prime high-stepped it to boulder, to the university of colorado, taking his blazingly singular style with him. there, he hasn't just awoken a dormant program: but has

transformed it into the talk of college football, if not american sports, sanders is revered. he is reviled. but his sudden impact is indisputable. for the second time, in two radically different environments, unapologetic as ever, he's shaken the sport like a snowglobe. >> are you the change agent? are you the ultimate change agent -- >> i -- i make a difference. i truly make a difference. i make folks nervous, man. i get folks moving in their seat. i get folks twiddlin their thumbs. i get them thinking and second-guessing theirself. you know -- have you ever been so clean that you walked in, and somebody looked down at you, then they looked at themselves? they had to check themselves because you were so clean? i have that effect. >> that's the vibe you're getting -- >> no, i have that effect. [ laughter ] that was some good game right there, boy. god, that was good. >> we ain't got next, we got now. we ain't coming no mo. we here, we here, we here, we

here, we here. >> this was the scene in the locker room two weekends ago. >> give me my theme music. ♪ >> before the colorado buffaloes and their new coach, deion sanders, opened the season a 21-point underdog, at tcu. >> everybody, do your job. >> colorado was fresh off a 1-11 season. tcu was fresh from playing in lalast season'n's nationalal chamampionship g game. with s skill and w will, the buffffaloes won n 45-42, behehi their r star quartrterback, shs sanders.s. but the e real focusus, as evers on shehedeur's 56-6-year-old f . it was h his first w win as coaf a popower five s school, thehe t level of college football. >> do you feel like you were underestimated? you come here, and it's, i don't know if coach prime can win. you must've heard what some of these other coaches were saying, both secretly and out loud. >> that's fear. >> fear. >> yeah, that's fear.

that's like, hey, man, shoot, we don't want to let that engine that could going because if that engine that could get going, he going to start saying i think i can, i think i can. and sooner or later, he going to start saying i know i can, i know i can. then sooner oror later, hehe go to startrt saying "i"i did that" >> his cololorado debubut drew natitional attenention and m mo tv ratings. interest compounded last weekend, when the buffaloes played before the biggest home crowd in 15 years and beat rival nebraska. >> this weekend? both fox and espn dispatched their pre-game shows, the rock included, to boulder, then the buffaloes rallied late to beat colorado state in a double overtime thriller. three games into the season, the foothills of the rockies mark the unlikely epicenter of an entire sport. >> what's this been like for you? >> it's, it's been a lot of fun. >> rick george, who hired coach prime, has been colorado's athletic director for a decade.

to bring this program back to e- relevancy. and we had failed in my previous nine years, ten years. >> fair to call this a bit of a hail mary? >> it wasn't a hail mary, but it was a moment in time for our -- university and our athletic department that we were either going to be relevant or we were going to be irrelevant. >> it's early to quantify the full prime effect, but merchandise sales? up 819% from last season. instagram followers? up more than tenfold. season tickets? sold out. sanders might be the ideal coach for these shifting times in college football, another son, deion jr., is part of the army of videographers filming the team nonstop for youtube. and an upcoming docuseries. >> this team won one game last season. >> uh-huh. >> is that in a way, a point of appeal? >> god wouldn't relocate me to something that was successful. that don't make sense, do it?

he had to find the most disappointing and the most difficult task. this is what it was, and this is what it is. i love that. >> this wasn't dissimilar to what he told us last year, that "god had called him collect" to come to jackson state university and elevate, yes, the football program bubut also allll hbcus. >> switch! >> h he stayed t three seasoson the sasame night l last decembm ththat jsu wonon the confeferen championshship, sanderers annou he was offff to colorarado to c another mountain. >> you left jackson state and you left quick. what did you tell those kids? >> i won't, i didn't leave quick. [ laughter ] i left when i was supposed to leave. we finished. most coaches get a new job and they leave expeditiously. i finished the task. >> you say finished the task. was there more work you could have done in jackson? >> i think we did a tremendous job in jackson. we laid down a tremendous

blueprint. >> we tried to press sanders on the circumstance bes surrounding his abandoning the mission at jackson state, he's hinted the school's lack of forward thinking may have factored in his decision. but on this topic, he was about as elusive as he was returning punts for touchdowns in the nfl. >> what did you tell those kids when you left? >> um, opportunity called. sooner or later in life, there will be opportunity that knocks at your door. and at this juncture in my life, i felt like the opportunity for not only me, but for my kids as well, was tremendous. not only did we take several kids from that team, three trainers, maybe 12 to 14 staffers. so we afforded to give people a tremendous opportunity here. >> the distance between and jackson and boulder is 1,000 miles and immeasurably further

culturally. sanders went from a city that is 83% black to one that is 1% black, from a place with a water crisis, to the kind of hipster college town where there's a shop devoted to kites. what are your first impressions? >> uh, beautiful, unbelievable. just the whole peace and serenity of it all. i had never fathom coming here. i ain't ever even vacation here. i ain't ever been skiing or, whatever you call, snowboarding, or, whatever, all the stuff. ain't never done any of that. >> you don't even fly fish. >> no, i don't. i fish, i'm fly while i fish, but i don't -- [ laughter ] fly fish. >> still, he wasted no time in ingratiating himself in the commmmunity, incncluding a v vi peggy cocoppom, a 9898-year-old buffaloes s superfan.. >> are y you prime?? >> t that's whatat they callll . >> he was less embracing of the incumbent colorado players. at the first team meeting in december, sanders encouraged

players to enter the transfer portal, an open market for athletes to find new schools. >> i promise you it is my job to get rid of you. >> and make room for superior talent he planned to bring in. more than 50 players eventually transferred out. >> you got here and you didn't pull punches. >> have i ever? you take a team that's won one game, and you fire the whole coaching staff. so, who did the coaching staff recruit? the kids. so, the kids are just as much to blame as the coaching staff. and i came to the conclusion that a multitude of them couldn't help us get to where we wanted to go. >> you told most of these guys, the more you jump in, the more room you're going to make. those of you we don't run off, we're going to try to make you quit. >> yeah. >> you made it very clear. >> yeah. now, if you went for that, if you was -- were able to let words run you off, you ain't for us because we're old school staff. we coach hard.

we're disciplined. if you're allowing verbiage to run you off because you don't feel secure with your ability, you ain't for us. >> if some kid said, you know what, no, i'm staying, you're another going to run me off with your words. >> right, stay. >> so prove it. i'm sure that your straight talk was appreciated by some. but is this scorched-earth policy good for college football or for the kids? >> i think truth is good for kids. we're so busy lying, we don't even recognize the truth no more in society. we want everybody to feel good. that's not -- that's not the way life is. now, it is my job to make sure i have what we need to win. that makes a lot of people feel good. winning does -- >> i got to push back on this. you're father of college athletes. >> five, yes. >> if they called you and say, hey, we got a new coach and they're telling me to get in the transfer portal. >> i'd say, son, you must be -- you must be doing well. >> that's why you'd say -- >> you -- you must not be doing well because you should be an asset and not a liability. i'm honest with my kids. >> his kids include shedeur, the

star quarterback, and shilo, a starting safety. >> you guys have any idea that you were going to be this good and capture the country the way you have? >> yeah. >> we both didn't come here and have our dad coach just to lose. >> a year ago to the day, we saw shedeur fling touchdown passes at jackson state. but there were questions about whether he could do the same against stiffer competition. his first two games at colorado, he threw for nearly 1,000 yards without an interception. you were putting up big numbers at jackson state. you're doing it here against teams of the big 10, the big 12. >> these two games is the most yards pass i passed for my career. it's exciting it's translating on a bigger stage. i just feel better. >> he's translated his success into riches, thanks to nil,

name/image/likeness income. he drives a $190,000 mercedes maybach. and shedeur r might not t even the teteam's best t player. travis hununter also f followed cocoach prime e from jackskson coloradodo. his coach lets him play offense and defense virtually unheard of in the modern college game. you've got two really good heisman-quality players on this team. >> yes. >> your son and travis hunter. >> yes, sir. >> first half of the first game of the season, you're already publicly talking about travis hunter's heisman chances. who does that? >> a coach that loves his kids, a coach that understands that that's what those kids desire. i'm supposed to do that. that's what we told them when they were coming and choosing to play for us. my kids that play for me, they didn't choose a university. they chose me. that's the difference. >> coaches have chosen to join sanders as well. the staff he overhauled and

upgraded includes former head coaches and former coordinators from schools like alabama. now that you're a power five guy -- >> uh-huh. >> who's the best coach in college football today? >> let me see a mirror so i can look at it. [ laughter ] >> you feel that? >> you think i'm going to sit up here and tell you somebody else -- you think that's the way i operate that somebody else got that on me? but i tell you this. i love and i adore and i respect, and every time i do a commercial with coach saban, it's a gift. just sitting in his presence and hearing him and throwing something else out there so i can hear his viewpoint on it. because he's forgotten more things than i may have ever accomplished. so, i'm a student looking up to this wonderful teacher saying, just throw me a crumb of what

you know. >> for all the bling and bluster, there is some humility, and the current mania may die down a bit as colorado faces a welter of tougher opponents the rest of the season. but deion sanders has invigorated a campus, a program, an entirire sport. > game ballll peggy! >> and, damn, , if he hasnsn't it funun. >> give meme my theme e music! >> yeah! cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. i'm james brown with the scres from the nfl today. another bad step as the bengals get checked by baltimore. dak in dallas. the bills bounce back battering the raiders in a blowout bonanza. stroud makes strides, but the coach still ride. name a better duo than a charger that almost won.

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