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i'm s stephanie sy. we continue to follow >> s from ukraine. russia is poised to carry out a full-scale i vacation and the president of ukraine said late tonight any spark could trigger a blaze. he made what appears be an 11th hour appeal directly to president putin requesting a call. he said the kremlin did not respond. zelensky said if his country comes into attack, it will defend itself. when you attack us, you will see our faces not our backs in russian he said the u.n. security counsel has called a second emergency meeting this week. and president biden announced new sanctions against the russian company behind the no nordstream 2 pipeline in an effort to stop an invasion. nick shiffrin has more. >> in kiev today all rise for

vlodomyr zelensky. >> the state of emergency will be introduced across the entire territory of the country, except the doensky and the luhan re region. they will allow the government to seize property and ban demonstrations and strikes. we have said many teams times that the main task of russia is to achieve its goal of internal destablization. >> the decision taken by zelensky up until now he's downplayed the threat. but last night he called up some reservists and today along polish and lithuanian counterparts he says they're prepared. >> i know h our army will act. and believe me, we are ready for everything.

the u.s. fears he needs to be ready forminent invasion. a senior defense official says 80% of the more than 150,000 russian troops are now in forward positions, some within two miles of the board and uncoiled. the ukrainian official, intelligence briefed kiev yesterday. russia is targeting ukraine online. this is kiev's newest cyber security facility. it's job investigate and respond. >> these are the very people that deal with cyber attacks. >> it'sed by victor shora. he gave a tour to the pbs newshour and show add chart of a recent spike in attacks >> you can see the significant growth of critical cyber incident that's a reference to denial of service attacks that crippled the largest banks and the foreign and defense ministry today several government websites went dark again.

we spoke to him before today's attacks. >> we are -- we are facing a hybrid aggression. and cyber aggression is a part of it. that means that in case of a military invasion, it can be supported with the cyber attacks. >> attacks wh which ukraine is far too familiar in 2017, russian intelligence disabled much of the banking system before spreading around the world in 2015 and 2016, russia targeted the electricities. the west has spent millions to make power companies more resilient. >> off energy companies now, much higher than five years ago. i don't believe in full lookout on a country scale. of course, we have plan b. and we have business continued plans. we will allow our team and our cyber security to continue doing

their work, which is so important in this challenging times. >> the man creating the challenge today commemorated soldiers killed in world war ii, this is defender of the fatherland day. russian president vladimir tuesday putin vowed to continue the tradition. >> our country is ready to search for diplomatic solutions to the most complicated issues. but i want to repeat that russia's interest and the security of our people are an indisputable priority. >> but it's not russia's priority to remain honest this week, they claimed the military entente russia kiev called the claim fake. and russia media highlights supposed car bottoms and attacks inside self-declared separatists that injure civilians. they accuse them of staging videos. >> joining me to discuss the

latest, is nina jenkowiitz. welcome back to "the newshour." this evening, we heard" from the heads of the sf-declared republics for russian military help "against ukrainian aggression" is that an obvious pretext for a russian invasion? >> in short, it is. we have already seen more vailed attacks to create this pretext from the shelling of a kindergarten and ukrainian held territory to allegations of improvised explosive devices in cars containing cadavers and along with the recognition of the borders of ukrainian-held territory right now, the letters from the leaders of these so-called republics formerly want to beat back the ukrainian aggression.

they have been holding their fire despite these provocations. we have no idea of ukrainian aggression or as putin talked about in his speech the other day. there's just no evidence that any of this exists. and it strains cdulity the ukrainian army would claim this moment with 120,000 troops topic up a new aggressive offensive. >> and those russian troops on the borders, you and your team are also tracking the movement along the borders. what's the latest that you're seeing? >> yeah, with the centers of resilience, we've been map out open source evident of these movements from citizens in belarus, in russia, crimea, along the border with ukraine. and we've been seeing them move closer and closer to the road. moving off of railroads. getting paint. and moving closer to border.

we would agree with secretary of dedefense austin's statement that the russian army is ready to strike and that's corroborated also by cyber attacks by smc and other evident that we've seen circulating on social media over the past couple of hours. it's going to be a grim night for ukraine, i think. >> there's a lot of fear in ukraine that it is going to be a grim night. today, we heard from dee lens i can, ukrainian officials, a state of emergency that's not the message that the ukrainian officials have been giving over the last few days and weeks. how significant is it to see that state of emerge going effect tonight? >> well, i think it's a market change in thinking from the ukrainian administration which has sought to main tan -- maintain calm. sort of a grin and barrett that ukrainians have had.

but with putin's extremely aggressive speech along with new intelligence as well as this open source evidence that things are moving closer and closer and closing in on ukraine. i think the leaders had no choice but to make that announcement, to prepare civilians and hope for the best at this point, which is again, as somebody who has lived and worked in ukraine for a country that has never done anything to provoke russia. it's a very sad evening. >> and we've seen disinformation from russia for years and certainly in the last few weeks and months during this crisis, but it shifted just the last few days. how has the russian disinformati effort shifted right here what seems be right at the end? >> well, at the earlier part of the crisis, we saw a lot more about nato aggression, about nato's broken promises to russia and categorizing this entire thing something that nato could end if it cowed to to rush --

russia's demand. and we discussed the stage videos, etcetera, we've seen from putin and from state sponsored media this idea of ukrainian aggression again bubbling up. and as i've already laid out, there's just nothing to those claims. we have so much documentation of the russian forces moving in of that aggression, preparing to occur and very, very little on the ukrainian side. believe me, people there have cell phones and are documents things too. there isn't evidence for any of these claims. and that's how the narrative has changed over the past couple of weeks to responsibilities on ukraine and pin a pretext for war. >> thank you very much. judy: and now, we'll take a look at how other leaders are reacting by this escalation. i'm joined by lisa desjardins.

hello, lisa, let's tart with the democrats, what are they saying about the president's actions? lisa: it's important to talk about the other leaders. we saw members of both parties actually agreeing on one thing that the president new sanctions on the nordstream 2 pipeline getting rid of the waiver. that's a good thing that's where everyone greece. but talking about democrats, they really are in two camps. first the one that you hear about publically, leaders like nancy pelosi supporting president biden as mainly getting through the world and getting the world through a very tricky, 1/2 gates of these issues. hearsay what she said today talking about president biden as someone who has unified allyings even as some of the angsts he's imposing could harm some of or european allies >> for steps that the president are taking -- is taking are appropriate.

the europeans feel the pain more than we do of sanctions. it is not without any collateral impact in their countries. now, there's no democrat who is publically criticizing president biden. but speaking to dem create members of congress, i can tell you this, there are many democrat who is believe president biden should be doing even more and that she should do it now. one of those -- one democrat is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. he said yesterday for example that he thinks this should not be the end to angsts. >> i spoke to adam schiff. he supports what president biden has done so far. but he says nothing else needs to happen that russians are occupy ukrainian territory. >> one other group of democrats to watch, judy, progressives. look at this statement from

representative barbara lee of california even as she is supporting president biden in general. she wrote this. it's important to stress nay new military perm performance must be done with congress's constitutional war powers. what she's saying there is we don't want another war. judy: so meanwhile lisa, republicans are being publically more critical of the president. but we know they too are divided. tell us what you're seeing and hearing from them? >> we seen all of this, the complicated nature of this situation. and there is a different kind of divide among republicans. those who would say president biden has not done enough that waited too long. i want to play sound from senator lindsey graham speak ok this them yesterday. president biden, you said a couple of years ago that putin does not want you to win because

you're the only manner could go toe-to-toe with him. well, right now, mr. president you're plague footsie and you're lose. >> it is note that some republicans have criticize president biden more than they've criticized president putin in terms of what's been happening. however, again today, president biden's decision to fully deploy those sanctions against that russian pipelines, that's something that his allies are praise. they said that is something the direction they want things to go in. what is the divide the republican party? sit with others like former president trump who are saying things that steam be more positive, leer some wordsn from presint trump. he's speak on a shower talk show and he says putin says i'm going to declaire a big part of ukraine independence. in pre president's words, you ae

pretty savvy. >> perhaps he isn't so bad. but talking to a wide spectrum of republican lawmakers today, they see that as an outliar position. what are they getting phone calls about today, judy? >> they insist that they should not send their troops in ukraine. they're concerned about domestic policies. >> dunce democrats. and we should be watching the next week or the to see if in fact, we do get a new aid bill. maybe hundreds of millions of dollars. congress is waiting for president biden to say exactly what he thinks is needed. judy: interesting. we'll see how that work. >> talking to both members of the p.e. thank you, lisa. lisa: thank you.

♪ stephanie: in warnings surfaced about potential cause and effect of climate change. they predict intense wildfires could increase. and the international energy sector emissions of methane are 70% higher than governments claim. we'll examine both reports after the news summary. a new tropical cyclone. it blasted the southern coast of the island nation and the indian notion the early morning hours with winds gunsing at 120 miles per hour. initial reports indicated extensive damage. they are recovering from the three powerfulle storm that kill almost 200 people. >> they will see u.s. and

european approval for a new covid vaccine. they've say two doses proves 75% effective at preventing moderate to severe sickness. meanwhile justin trudeau revoked the emergency police powers today now that trick protest eses have ended. a jury in -- the only criminal case stemming for her shooting. frank fired 10 shots but none hit a lot instead, he's accused of endangering neighbors. today it offered different takes on hand conson's action -- hankinson action r. you will hear that the department, the front door. and he claimed that he saw a shooter in there with an ar-rifle. you will learn the there was no

a.r. rifle in apartment four. there was one mistall, a glock 43x, 9-- # millimeter. in that doorway. brett hankson was justified in what he did. and everything he did on that scene out there before, during and after the shooting occurred. was logical, reasonable. justified and made total sense. >> police burst into his apartment in march of 2020. her boyfriend opened fire. and two officers shot back killing taylor. the city paid $12 million in a civil settlement. >> deaths rose during the pandemic's first year. the decades long trend might have worsened as women delay to

health choir gauze dew to birth control. >> and this year it was almost tripled. >> a pair of prosecutors investigating former president trump resigned today in new york the manhattan district attorney's office confirmed it. the new york times said questioning pursue ago case against mr. trump the prosecutors have group brought tax fraud changes charges against trump organization. the u.s. justice department has discontinued the china initiative that effort to fight cyber crime will no longer be ground under that name. opponents claim the trump era initiative unfairly target chinese academics and fostered antiasian bias. >> fears that a russian attack is eminent. >> the dow jones industrial average lost 464 to close at 3,

3131. the s and m slip 79. still to come. why millions of americans are waking up. and how p 3-d printing and why the arthur held social prejudice in the yeast. plus, much more. >> "this is "the pbs newshour" from the walter cronkite school university at arizona state university. >> as we mentioned earlier in the program, there have been several alarming new reports that the climate crisis is getting worse and coming on faster. from intensifying wildfires to methane leaks to rising sea levels. the news is grim.

hello william. let me start with this report from the u.n. about wildfires. it says that we are going to see catastrophic wildfires. fill out more of the picture for us. >> that's right. this is the first time the u.n. has looked at wildfires. and as you say they argue that they will be happening lobely and they'll be ramping up. it's not paces that can become -- it's place they're not -- and that climate change is the main driver here. this report said the heating of the planet is turning landscapes into tinderboxes. there's this mega drought. that is the worst mega drought we've had since the medieval times. but there's another issue that's

driving this and that's the way we use land. agriculture practices so that when a fire does start, it's worst. s are this is as we know a huge health issue. ask anyone that has lived anywhere near a wildfire in the last few years, the sky turns orange. you can't go outside. you can . breathe. we know that smoke is dangerous. and that spoke travels hundreds of thousands of miles. so it is a growing, growing issue. judy: i understand that william does addresses to -- to -- deal with this growing threat. >> as you might imagine occur tailing it is the single biggest thing question do. but as i mentioned with the land use issues there are better ways you can manage the landscape. not everybody move -- smarting

in a comfy way. juicing prescribed burns. so there are things that request can be done. but we've got to start acting. >> and the second report, william out today from the energy agency, the a-e i and his mess sang that had been expected. why -- why does this matter? are >> it matters because it's one of the most potent greenhouse gases are out there. muffs much more more than. but it went into there. sit much better at trapping heat. and the iea reported out that the countries that have been trying to track their methaneer submission been underestimate these emissions by about 70%.

which is huge. one of the main goals intacting carbon is to cut our emissions but if you don't know how much you're emitting you can't do a very good job with that. judy: from the oceanic administration out last week about sea level rise and saying this is happening much faster than expected. lay out some of that for us. >> this report has got to be setting off alarm bells in coastal communities all over the world. i mean, the -- the -- noah said that in the next 50 years, they expect with fairly good confidence that sea level will go up 12 to 15 inches. but just here in the u.s., there are major me troll trough poll tan energy. >> parts of california. that are living right at sea level rise. and so 10 inches to a foot of a

sea level rise can have impacts. streets will be flooded. not just on stormy days. infrom structure will take a big hit. there's also a concern that that sort alarming enough. but a worry that that might even be a low ball projection because of this ongoing question as to how much global warning is impacting the ice sheets in green land and in antarctica. there's a glacier that is showing signs of trouble. that is holding two to three feoffment we're talk about one researcher we spoke with saying,a a global rewriting of the coastline all over the world. >> it doesn't get any more sobering than all of this. let's hope people are not only paying attention. but thinking about how we do something about all this if we can. william bangham reporting on

these distress reports. thanks. >> thank you, judy. judy: we've been hearing for months about jobs going unfilled in the u.s. put stresses on employees and the overall economy. there are several reasons for this. and one of them is early requirement, >> paul solomon reports on the exodus of older workers. >> covid pointed out to me and to my wife that life was ten youuous. it was fragile. >> in order to preserve my sanity, i needed to leaf. >> my daughter asked me early last year if i would take care of her babies. he have said mom i'm going to need your help. >> it was like anybody your age is liable to die if you get us, and i just -- was afraid of it. i'm not going to stay. i can't.

>> you've heard plenty especially those who can't find workers about the great reresignation. >> the great retirement. since february 2022. some. >> the pandemic has interrupted what was a decades long trend toward later requirement in the united states. >> so if we look at the population ages 65 to 74, the share that our employed in the st three months of 2021 is seven% lower than in the last few months of 2019. so why? a few main reasons. one workers leaving in-person jobs to avoid catching covid-19. 65-year-old i wait it out. i thought, no, i'm not going to take the risk?

>> you would have stayed on if we didn't have the pandemic. >> it made me feel good going to work every day. >> john mannly. it was like having 1 -- and being cooped up in a large metal contain we are a whole bunch of ildren 40 or 50 of them is starting to look like not a wise thing to do. donna booth retired from her job mac ago home for the mentally disabled at age 74. >> i was fightsenned. and it was just affecting everything about my life. i don't want to die for this. reporter: yes, covid hastened her exist but not because of the danger. the job morphed into what she could bear. >> i had a lot of vulnerable

people ant and the paperwork increased. >> the demans increased. until it became a very, very difficult job. >> le 69 grandmother veronica primis spent 45 years going to school. i could have worked longer. i feel like i'm healthy, i'm vibrant. but it was -- it was just tearing me down. i couldn't handling it >> primus. >> i would go visit, you know, the zoom classes and see children jumping up and down the bed while you're trying to teach a lesson. teachers can want say anything other than please be quiet. for some, care giving needs drove drove them to retire. help herring daughter drew norma jasso from her 17-year job at san diego gas and electric. >> i was thinking, i lived 2/3 of my life

i have 1/3 to go. what do i really want to do with that time? helping my daughter is critical if my daughter would not have called me. i wouldn't have known how lovely it was. are >> we heard this that covid raraised the bigs. what is the meaning of life. >> i really pointed out to us that if the world would have ended today under these conditions, would we be happy that our last days potentially were spent in this manner. work. traveling everywhere. and what our ambition and goals for ourselves were. >> so fisher retired and is writing a book about his grandfather. >> it's a very rewarding time,

you know, it's been an incredibly satisfying endeavor. >> fisher sells parts for restoring old cards to su supplement his savings. despite the stock market's recent tumble, a long run of historic asset games helped. norm a ran the numbers. >> it turns out the market was doing great. even though i didn't have a financial planner. things word out for me. and here i am taking care of little rafael. >> donna booth and her husband took advantage of the booming housing market. >> because of covid, the housing prices jumped up. we had to put our house in the market. and one day 10 people came and asking for cash. >> they happily down sized in an

apartment. >> i was not a person who saved the club a whole bunch of money. because i had four to raise. >> and pry mass is also making it work. >> i do have a retirement thanks to the state of south carolina. and. and my daughter lives with me with her daughterrings and so we also work together. >> people learn to spend less. >> because they had toly a little bit differently during the commune kit, fewer meals out. people have had to figure out what kind of dispenses. and that might affect their planning going forward thinking about how much they really need to have the lifestyle they want. >> i can continue to live on this reduced budget. > >> but here's a problem. the great retirement is bad news for a labor crunched retirement.

>> we could have a bigger baseball horse. and greater wdp with that -- in more man times about a quarter of retirees ended up unretiring. the data is still coming in. but williams rodgers of the st. louis fed. >> there is more information that people are staying retired. people are doing what we teach in public school. it's cost, among the cost of work, the risk of getting sick. [enter] undesirable conditions. stress. >> i was pretty close before if you didn't have that great a job. and suddenly, the cost goes like that, and now you've just saying -- yes, people are changing their cal cueless about how they want to. the scales could go back.

>> eyeing. >> yes, if omicron fades away. thigh the don't have another significant winter. i want to jump back in. >> as for the folks we interviewed. are you thinking he went to work. >> i love working. i love being valuable. i don't want to play go >> but others do not plan to return. >> not the time. because the culture has changed. dramatically. p with. i don't know that i would go back to a pai position. >> dew point think i'll ever go back. a personal decision one that can result in fewer workerrers. for if previous newshour, paul

solmon. judy: it is often said that there's no place like home. but what if that home was built with a 3-d printer? only a small handful of people in the u.s. currently live in these types of houses. but some believe this will soon change because of 3-d printing technology's potential stephanie sigh reports. april springfield has been laser focused on her single goal for much of her adult life. >> used to work two and threes jobs because i was determined that i was going get our home. i need to call a senator. i kept my fingers cross. keep going what i'm doing. working hard. saving money r. the help of habitat for human tickets springfield, her 13 years old.

and moved a house in williamsburg, virginia two montanas ago. >> getting something i always wantedded and to see something -- to see your dream comes true. >> it's finley house. >> this is not just any ordinary home. >> it's a 3-d printed -- >> a 3-d printed home. >> in just over a day, layer by layer of concrete officially stressed data. preprogramed with a digital blueprint. >> i watched it. it was flood land. and building up. it was awesome. >> we're really committing to do these vanguard moves. jonathan reckford is jonathan for humanity the nonprofit which helps people in need build and upgreat homes has high hopes for -- at a time

when material cost are -- and affordable was more and inner this year. >> i though this is the begin of the curve. but with lied to earnings that could main stream way that is could speed up the cost of construction or lower the cost of construction for us. >> the more than 1 46 renters currently pay more than half their incoming in. >> and jason ball lord is c.e.o. icon, one that built the u.s.'s first permitted 3 -- >> the more affordable. that's what gives you this initial jolt of -- of cost savings and improvements and speed of delivery. >> but experts say lit be a while until they live up to their promise and go mainstream. >> i would say between five and 10 years, we may see more of it

fit continues to move to be. >> construction delivery. >> mark's staff is a properly. arm ed the director. or the real estate program. he says while 3-d printing may reduce theost of a structure's frame, a frame doesn't make a complete house. >> you've got plumbing, electrical. so you're that all knees to be incorporate. you have finishes to walls. you have kneel. there are a whole bunch of other you have to train labor. >> critics also say the proprietary blends of materialses used to print building, burr y vary by are project and unlargely untested. city such as austin approved some 3-d print home.

an icon who worked with the housing situation saying that it's only 'em braid wildly. >> a complete solution to the global housing crisis. er. one day we'll ask how uneared that we wanted that. >> these materials very much early days. >> i think it's going to proceed all the revolutions. mike slowly at entires. >> busy make her house feel more like a home are there any other things about the concrete homes that different. >> it's really the outside of it. you know, how it was built. but inside it's just like a regular home the home with is great. >> her favorite part -- >> i love my kitchen. >> i wanted lemons. so i have -- sort of. there, here. there.

something bright. >> a happy color for a pay 3: printed home. for for "the pbs newshour" i'm stephanie sy. judy: jury deliberation in the trial of three former police officers involved with the killing of george floyd. the verdict is being closely watched in the ongoing around police. chi lens. and the treatment of people of color. those larger questions have led black hearns to question whether or not navarro -- and how she gaped with that very question. it's part offory su reece, grace matters. >> black persons have considered

move eight broad. and some have done so suck fly saysfully. stephly drayton has had in his own ex-person. very and she joins me now. tiffany, welcome to the newshour. >> thanks for joining us. i want to get to all the details in your book and onstory. the use of the world refugee for a lot of americans conjure as very specific story. i'm curious why you chose that word. >> i it reand that's presightly what my life had come to at that "mlb tonight" when i decide that -- as a black woman who has foughter in way through doling with poverty, violence. beings in the neighborhood eighth or are constantly under limiting that you watch the people who look like you. >> you tart so feel and

recognize your life is not a threat. >> in you can still bender let. >> so's eat start at the beginning. you were very young. when you same back -- he was four in four years old. my -- brought you and your sib. s arele. tell me what you remember about that time? what was it like? >> the first memory that i have the of the united states is landing in j.f.k. airport and flying over -- seeing the new york city skyline, like the bright lights a and all of these, the statue of liberty. my brother was like -- look, they're lighting it up for us. he worse there was this personal i i have takes for the country, and that is really is a moment that asserted to me. and my first experience with america pretty much showed that.

i lived in this tiny bustling immigrant town. it was very safe environment. one of those go in and come back out for kids. it was so freak. i was enamored with the united states. >> >> why did you choose your tighting. >> my book compares the relationship that a victim has with an abuser to the relationship black people have with the united states of america. my thesis is that black people are enthralled in an abusive relationship. and love bombing where you've -- the abuser will sell you this narrative that everything is perfect. you're meant for me. i'm meant for you. and we are on our way to realizing the ideal dream. and that's precisely how many americans especially immigrants. kind of come to the kenotrony.

-- and amazing and how many opportunities. >> there's a pivotal moment in this story. that is the shooting of trevon martin. tell me about what income that would have and you. >> by the time he was a national discussion and there was this outcry over george zimmerman's verdict event i had already throne my own experiences and research and come to the conclusion that hey, i can not live here. i can't keith deal with this racism and it was something that i was trying to get myself and help other people understand. but in that era, people are not taupe the idea that racism was a problem, right? the trayvon martin verdict forced people to grapple with the reality that they were look agent a child. and his murder not facing any charges. >> it appeared what you health all day long.

>> >> you make the decision that you have to leave. but i'm curious, what would you worry what have happened if you stayed? >> at the timing i decided i could no los angeleser stay. my family financially we were just really struggling to get by. and my mother purchase add home which is the only home she could afford. and there were many times i walked down the trees. and they were -- to the men up and down the street. but they're on drugs. so quite frankly, literally, i was on frank seven. i couldn't afford a safe neighborhood any more and i recognized very quickly that could mean danger >> tiffany, where do you live now? where do you call home? what is life like for you now. >> i live in trinidad and toby bego. the pandemic has changed

everything in the world. and one thing they and have changed is sense of home. nobody's looking at you or your children because you're people of color saying you don't belong in this neighborhood. being able to go to the park and allow michonne. not it's just one of those really freeing affirming experiences for me as a black woman to be around other black people who themselves are comfortable and safe in creating that environment together. >> we should know this march 2 209. i'm curious what kind of response you got from that. >> did you hear from other person who were considering the me thing. or others who had done the same thing for you. >> there was an explosive response. people -- firstly affirming my decision because it was not only at that point not only black people were having that conversation but everybody was afraid of trump.

many white people were like, i can live sneer am i safe here? what's going what this country. so it was a very affirming moment. again, where i was able to feel finally like the world under my position. and it was -- it continued to be smething that really haunts me because it's not something that you want to be right about. you don't want to be right that -- maybe is not safe for many people. you want to be proven wrong. i'm still open to being proven wrong. >> the very final line of that piece stuck with me. you wrote i admire the strength of young people and you continue to endure. i hope they too will find freedom. do you feel that that's possible? >> i've learned to believe in the impossible. because you see when you recognize that your an shysters came to a land or to a region of the world in the belly of a ship

and yet you still remain and yet, here i am educated publishing a book -- these are things that perhaps if i went 300 years ago and told my an shysters they would tell me impossible. and yet, here it is i, right? there's absolutely nothing that we cannot due do if we put our collective energy in that direction. >> the book is "black american refugee." the author is tiffany draytno. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you so much. it was a pleasure. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy at newshour west. er want to go back to our top stories. what u.s. officials warn is an eminent invasion of ukraine by russia. our nick shiffrin joins me now. i know the u.n. security counsel has been meeting in an emergency situation. what did we learn so far?

>> yeah, linda thomas greenfield the u.s. ambassador to the notion has just given an address in which she said -- and i'll read what she said that a full scale further invasion into ukraine by russia is eminent. we're seeing the russians close air space, move troops into the donbsak that putin that is declared. and move forces with into ready position. >> we're here for one reason only to ask russia to stop, return to your bored. you see and a peel to diplomacy. which is the 11 hour u.s. officials do believe do fear that rusan troops are moving as we speak and certainly ukrainian officials we speak to fear the same thing. >> what else are you hearing about what may be happening in ukraine? we have heard for example from senator marco rubio who is on

the intelligence committee, that he believes it has been underway. what else are you hearing on the ground? and i know that the point these are unconfirmed reports? >> they're unconfirmed reports and unconfirmed video. but we simply don't know. marco rubio who the senior republican on the intelligence committee nose a lot more than we do is what the u.s. fears and that's just a gigantic invasion of ukraine. may mean, the worst case scenario is what officials really do fear. that's coming in from about six or sevenlaces from crimea in the south, from russia into eastern ukraine and from belarus toward the capital of kiev. again, we do not know exactly what's happening on the ground, nor, do we know what russian president vladimir putin has

actually decided in the end. but the fears are that ukraine and eastern ukraine are in the crossharris and the threat as president biden has said it's really exist term r. president beau tin of russia is speaking right now. it is 5:53 a.m. in russia. and i am just hearing from our senior producer that president putin is saying at this point he has ordered a special military operation. i know that you have been in touch with military experts on russia and we have been saying for days that special forces would be involved in this. but what does that say to you? putin saying he has ordered a special military operation? >> unfort natsly, it is him being ambiguous again a special military operation could be with his special operations forces going into eastern ukraine or areas

controlled by russian-backed separatists orreas controlled by the ukrainian government or it could involve what unfortunately, we just said which was really the worst-case scenario that u.s. officials fear which is a piser movement -- pinser movement coming from in the north and southeast. i don't want to get too ahead. i'm describing what senator marco rubio is suggesting is about to happen. we just don't know and certainly for ukraine and ukrainians tonight, it's a very difficult night and there's lot of fear r. there's a lot of tension there. we have a live shot into kiev that we were watching earlier. things are still calm there. since we're referring to senator rubio who is on the intel committee tweeted at 7:17 eastern time what he said -- excuse me 7:17 pacific type. he said in the hours to come, and i'm quoting from rubio's

tweet, russia will conduct strikes on air defense systems move to cut off kiev from eastern ukraine. move to cut off ukraine's military forces on the line of contact in the east to prevent them from falling back to defend kiev. again, this is unconfirmed information. but it is coming from a u.s. senator who is saying they're seeing activity in mareopple. so there are sort of no reports of a full scale invasion at this point. but certainly the early signs and putin also said in his speech just moments ago. this is the red line that i have spoken of many times, they referring to the ukr ukrainiansd this goes back to what you were reporting. he was looking for a false pretext to invade. >> yeah, there's a lot of russian disinformation out there. and certainly a lot of attempts

by both pro-russian separatists and perhaps russian groups as well. to get soldiers to respond. that hasn't happened. it looks like this is going to happen in the next few hours. stephanie: you can follow all the news on our websi. that's the newshour for object to. i'm stephanie sy. ♪

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