♪ amna: good evening. and welcome. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the newshour tonight, with renewed resolve, ukraine marks one year of defending its territory from russia's brutal invasion. president zelenskyy: i am grateful to everyone who endured last february, this past year, and who gives ukraine invincibility. amna: rebuilding after the devastating earthquake that struck turkey and syria is hampered by aftershocks, a lack of resources and the sheer scale of destruction. geoff: and a new lawsuit from malcolm x's family could provide answers about who was responsible for his assassination nearly six decades ago. ♪

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in 80 years, marked by calamitous destruction and death, but also by bravery and the resilient will by ukrainians. amna: the somber day was observed around the world. at the united nations, across europe and most profoundly, in ukraine. in kyiv, president volodymyr zelenskyy spoke at length to the world media today, at times welling up with tears for his family, and his country. with the support of the pulitzer center, nick schifrin reports again tonight from ukraine. nick: in the ancient heart of the city that has endured one year of war, they sang the national anthem. it is titled "ukraine has not yet perished." the dark but determined call to stay resilient on a solemn anniversary. president volodymyr zelenskyy, is leadership forged in the fire of war, nored the men and women who have saved the country. >> i am grateful to everyone who

endured last february, this past year, and who gives ukraine invincibility. nick: there was a moment of silence for lives lost. the honored grieving widows, he awarded ukrainian servicemen with the highest of awards, hero of ukraine. and from a key basement, summons he gave a two and a half hour press conference and recalled for him what was the war's worst moment, the day he visited the sites of some of the war's's worst atrocities. president zelenskyy: i think booch i, the moment we de-occupied booch i was horrible. we have seen the devil is not somewhere below us, he is among us. nick: two days after china visited the kremlin, beijing released a peace plan that called for territorial integrity, b did not detail what that meant. zelenskyy said he would oppose the plan if it did not call for a russian withdrawal.

president zelenskyy: as far as i know, china is historically respected territorial integrity, and so it should do everything so the russian federation leads our territory, as it is in this that the gravity of sovereignty and territorial integrity lies. >> no one wants peace more than the ukrainian people. nick: at the un security council, antony blinken advocated for what the u.s. and ukraine call a just and durable peace. >> for peace to be durable, it must ensure russia cannot simply rest, rearm, and relaunch the war in a few months or years. nick: the u.s. and other leaders of the seven largest industrial nctions -- announced sanctions the u.s. unveiled an additional $2 billion worth of military aid, including more ammunition for long-range rockets. on this anniversary, much of the western world showed solidarity from amsterdam, to sydney, and even in moscow, memorials on

monuments devoted to ukrainian writers. even those flower bearers were quickly detained. it is still illegal in russia to call the war a war. a year is a long time to be at war, even for hardened warriors. president zelenskyy: my children are the most important people for me. i do not see them often. my parents, i do not see them at all. i am very proud of my wife. nick: that was zelenskyy at his most vulnerable. but he was also today at his most he -- his most determined. he ruled out any idea of negotiating with vladimir putin and said the only vision at the end of the war would be russia's total withdrawal. amna: nick schifrin with another tremendous piece of reporting. we heard a little bit of what president zelenskyy had to say today. that was a two hour press conference, you were there.

what else stood up to you from his remarks? nick: the lenski spokesman called on more than 40 reporters across five continents. there was clearly a desire from his team to get into the markets across from latin america, all the way to east asia. on the u.s., he was asked about americans who are saying to pollsters that they believe the administration is spending too much money to support ukraine. and he warned if the u.s. did not support ukraine enough to win over russia, that russia would eventually launch a war against nato and american soldiers would have to go and fight and die, like ukrainian soldiers would fight and die. on china, beyond the peace plan, he said that beijing must not send weapons to russia. he said that was his "number one priority, and doing everything i can to ensure that does not happen." that is something that the u.s. is also warning beijing is considering. geoff: you have been in ukraine for the past two weeks.

this is your fourth reporting trip to that country since russia launched its full-scale invasion last year. you have interviewed ukrainian troops, you have spoken to everyday ukrainians. is there a message that the people you have spoken with want to convey to americans? nick: the messages to words, weapons and resilience. ukraine needs more weapons to logic counteroffensive in the coming weeks and months. that is not only the armored vehicles the u.s. is sending to launch that counteroffensive. it is also basic ammunition. i visited multiple units on the front but have said they are short on ammunition. also resilience. you hear that from zelenskyy, to the soldier on the front, to the man who has just lost his home in eastern ukraine to a russian rocket. they are resilient in spite of, but because of, all of the horrors, all of the crimes, what the u.s. calls crimes against humanity that i have been reorting on, committed by russian forces who are waging total war.

the person who pushed the button that launched the missile, that struck 13 marat street, kramatorsk, almost certaly did not know of the apartments that once stood here. the people and families who once lived here. and the lives that were stolen here. but 60-year-old valentina knows. she might have lived on the 4th floor, but all that she owns fell here in the lobby. she salvages what she can, from the russian strike on february 1st that ukraine and the us called indiscriminate. she walked up to her apartment, despite the frequent air raid siren. she has lived here longer than ukraine has been independent. she was in her apartment when the missile struck. she is lucky to be alive. today, she uses it for storage. this is what remains of her possessions. the wall that used to have a

window into the bathroom is now a window onto the ground below. that's her bathtub, and the aqua tiles installed by her and her son. >> i was asleep. and i was lucky that i was on the other side of the apartment. had i been sleeping on the side, you see for yourself. nick: she shows me videos of her son. in 2014, he went to fight following russia's initial invasion. he never came back. >> on march 23, he would have been 44. my life has been lived. for 60 years, i was saving, creating this home, and now it's all gone. there was a ocery store here. they got me some groceries. just strangers, total strangers. this was the first year they've opened the store. they called me and asked, do you need anything? i said i've never asked anyone for anything my whole life.

i'm vy ashamed. but i don't have anything. and they got me groceries. they said this is for you, from our family. that's it. everybody left. i'm here all alone. nick: artem shalata is a donetsk region war crimes prosecutor who is investigating the strike he calls a violation of the rules of war. >> during this attack, a married couple died. a 61-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter died. and 17 people were wounded. nick: he and his fellow prosecutors visit the aftermath of many strikes, and try to find the russian missile that can be sometimes be linked with specific units. and they document graves of the ukrainians whom russians have killed with overwhelming regularity. what is the scale of russian crimes in donetsk? >> we are overseeing investigations of more than 20,000 criminal cases, in connection with violations of the rules of war.

nick: one of the most notorious occurred here, the kramatorsk train station, where the horror of what happened hangs heavy for even soldiers. and the memorial marks the most innocent victims. last april 8, hundreds of ukrainians from the east arrived on the platform and inside the station to try and flee the war. suddenly, they flinched. human rights watch investigated the attack, and created this animation. at that moment, a mile and a half above the station, a tochka-u cluster bomb 20 feet long, with 50 bomblets inside exploded and released its deadly submunitions, each with explosions and metal rings. when they land, they burst into thousands of fragments. and create terror. at least 58 people died. more than 100 injured. one of the war's deadliest moments. left behind, the suitcases that would never be used ain. the prized possession that would

never be held again. apparently the russians consider the attack tit for tat, the missile that landed here was spray-painted "payback for our children." >> absolutely horrific what they did. this was a kno evacuation we point. counted over 500 people at this train station at the moment of the attack. nick: ida sawyer directs the crisis and conflict division at human rights watch. >> this attack at the train station, clearly a violation of the laws of war and an apparent war crime. these are people desperately fleeing war. we've seen extensive war crimes, crimes against humanity being committed over the past year. and it is just one thing after another. nick: in so many ways, russia has taken a page from its own playbook and targeted ukrainea™s -- ukraine's most vulnerable. this used be a psychiatric institution, hit by four russian rockets, one of at least eight hospitals in this city alone, struck by russia. part of what independent researchers call a nationwide

campaign against ukrainian medical facilities. physicians for human rights mapped every attack on a medical facility between february 24 and december 31. they counted 707. if you think this is new, you haven't been paying attention. russia has used the same tactics in syria for eight years. but now russia is now committing a new crime. these children might ok happy for russian propaganda cameras. but each is ukrainian, stolen from their homeland, and forcibly made russian. this is e reality. russians besieged mariupol, and forced its children into russia, including those of yevhen mezhevyi. >> i put the children on the bus, hugged and kissed them. >> one man said he woulde returned in seven years. people said five or seven years. >> they asked me again, do you want to join a foster family or an orphanage?

nick: they told their story in a vanity fair documentary for the reckoning project. natalia humanyuk is the group's founding member. >> from some of the testimonies and also analytical reports and what we hear from from the people, there is an attempt to indoctrinate those kids. with the different policies, with the different ideas, and actually, you know, creating kind of a hatred and denial of the ukrainian state. nick: mezhevyi managed to travel to moscow, and escape to latvia. the u.s. says moscow's actions are taken at all levels of the russian government. including the top. lasteek russian president vladimir putin met the presidential commissioner for children's rights in russia, who said she "adopted her n ukrainian child." >> i think russia, in particularly, in previous wars in syria, in chechnya, they were acting with such an impunity,

thinking that nobody would care. in ukraine, they made a mistake. we do care. we record. we document. there is the will of the people of the country to do something. and that gives a hope that that the justice can be sir -- can prevail. nick: ukraine wants to create an independent tribal to pursue russia's leadership. but the u.s. has so far refused to support that, and instead, prioritizes the international criminal court. accountability there will take years. while the russian missiles keep falling. the strike blew open a dozen homes and rained debris on the playground. the same playground where 61-year-old sergey seydaliev's children used to play. he stares at his now destroyed home, where he lived with his parents, and his family, for the last 42 years. there is so much torment here. but it's mixed with a tenacious will. >> we lost all of our savings.

this is my whole life. and now everything is gone. everything is gone. i'm an older man. but we will make it through. life does not stop here. we will win for sure. i have no doubt whatsoever. nick: after all the russian crimes, most ukrainians say the only justice would be victory. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin in kramatorsk, ukraine. ♪ geoff: in the day's other headlines, parts of california were under blizzard and flood warnings today as a vicious storm intensified across the western u.s. forecasters warned up to five feet of snow could fall on the mountains near los angeles.

the weather caused dangerous whiteout conditions for drivers. in portland, oregon, people were trapped on icy roads for hours. >> 12, 13, 14 hours, the road opened up and i got up to here, then a big truck here couldn't get up the hill. so i parked it here and i gotta wait for a tow truck. that's the safest thing. i've been up all night long. geoff: farther east, about 650,000 people are still without power in michigan, after one of the worst ice storms there in decades. the heavy snow and freezing rain are expected to linger from coast to coast into the weekend. in brazil, the death toll from heavy rain that has devastated coastal areas has risen to 54 people. clean-up efforts are underway after massive downpours caused landslides and flooding in the southeastern state of sao paulo last weekend. residents are reeling from the loss.

>> all my houses were brought down. the broken tiles and shingles fell on us, leaving us injured. i called out to my mother, hoping she would answer, but all i heard were three cries from her and nothing else. at that moment, i knew she was taken away from us forever. geoff: rescuers are searching for dozens of people who are still ssing before more rain moves in this weekend. back in this country, the federal reserve's preferred measure of inflation rose more than expected last month. triggering a wall street sell-off as investors weighed the prospect of interest rates staying higher for lonr. the dow jones industrial average lost 337 points to close at 32,817. the nasdaq fell 195 points. and the s&p 500 shed 42. first lady jill biden is giving the strongest signal yet that president joe biden will run for reelection. the president has long said it's his intention to run again, but has not yet made it official. during an interview with the associated press during a trip to kenya, the first lady said

the president is gearing up for a race. >> he's he says he's not done. he's not finished what he started. and that's what's important. and i think look at all that joe has done. >> so is all that's left at this point is just to figure out a time and place for the announcement. >> prettmuch. geoff: meantime, vice president kamala harris met today with reproductive rights advocates and defended access to abortion pills. she spoke out as a texas lawsuit seeks to ban sales of the fda approved abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, over concerns its safety review was flawed. the vice president said it's the latest effort to limit women's rights since roe v. wade was overturned last year. >> we will continue to fight for the rights of american people to make decisions about their own bodies, free from government

interference and free from partisan political obstructionist attacks. this is not just an attack on women's fundamental freedoms, it is an attack on the very foundations of our public health system. geoff: the meeting happened as 12 democrat-led states sued the federal government today to expand access to mifepristone challenging restrictions on its distribution. still to come on the newshour, why house speaker mccarthy is drawing criticism for giving fox exclusive footage of the january 6th attack. david brooks and jonathan capehart weighn on the week's political headlines. and the ukrainian llet uses dance to help their country's fight against russia. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: in the nearly three weeks

since deadly quakes hit southern turkey and northern syria, the focus has shifted from rescue to rehabilitation. the task ahead is not only to reconstruct homes, but also to rebuild lives, especially for the youngest victims. special correspondent jane ferguson reports. jane: in the tent city of gaziantep, life after the earthquakes is all but an endless struggle. hatice demir is battling cancer, and now homelessness. learning to live with the bare minimum. >> i used to wake up in a warm room, but now i'm chasing gas stations, running around looking for a sink to wash up. our opportunities are gone, our self-confidence is gone. jane: like her, a million turks are now without a home. hundreds here stood in line in the cold for a shower. the public swimming pool has been turned into a sanitation center. efforts to find the living under the rubble have ended. now a focus on the next stage, rebuilding.

yasir behrakci is picking up the pieces of hilife. >> we cannot bring back the dead. but because we survived, we are trying to get out whatever is left. we have to live, we have no other choice. >> luckily, that mind shift and work is getting started. we were in adyaman which as you know, is 60% to 70% destroyed. they are already clearing large plots of land to put containers on. jane: tom smith is an american air force veteran, volunteering in turkey with washington dc based charity project hope. >> the challenge is there, when you talk about rebuilding, it is not just hey, here is the house we are going to build. it is going to be what is that intermediary step, which is basic housing units. jane: smith and his team have been assessing the needs of those displaced by the earthquake. >> the need for sanitation. everyone loves that hot shower, e ability to wash their hands, go to a safe latrine and safe drinking water.

it is still cold here, 20 degrees at night, 40 degrees during the day. people are living in tents. jane: and yet, attempts to move on have been disrupted again, by the heaving earth. on monday, another large quake in antakya terrified already traumatized, displaced families. >> this is what we call complex trauma, because ok, the incident happened the first time, but now it is reoccurring. we are continuously and recurrently experiencing aftershocks, and the people are continuously going through the trauma again and again. jane: rawan hamadeh is also with project hope and provides psychological support to earthquake victims and rescue staff. she says the last few weeks have been especially tough on the youngest here. >> we hear stories about children going mute after the earthquake and not being able to talk or express themselves in any way. we are seeing bed-wetting issues

and of course, disturbances in sleep and eating patterns. we are seeing children who are extrely attached to their mother. they wouldn't leave their side. or extreme isolation from others. jane: volunteers are trying to bring joy back to their lives. an effort to let children, be children. infants across the border in northwest syria are also in desperate need. this clinic in the quake-hit jenderes is overrun with patients. but running out of medicines. a u.n. delegation finally arrived here, over two weeks since the earthquakes. >> i'm shocked by the scale of the disaster. never seen anything like it. people need food, they need water, medicines, sanitation. the needs are huge. jane: a day after the firstave of quakes, this family survived against all odds. mostafa el sayed, his wife and three children were some of the few to make it out alive

. -- make it out alive from harem city where 800 people died. at the that time, this moment of his little dollar -- daughter's rescue was a rare glimmer of hope in a battered syria. the newshour caught up with them two weeks later. >> i'm five right now, right? five levels fell on top of us. we were calling out, civil defense, please help us. we are going to die. there was a man who heard us. they said they are going to rescue us in the morning. i was like woah! i was sleeping, sleeping, sleeping and then i knew they were coming to take us out. we were sleeping and there was a small earthquake and then there was another one and the rocks fell on top of us. there was dirt in my ear. and then the civilefense came and they rescued us and they took us to the hospital and then they took us to grandpa's house.

jane: elaf and thousands of syrian and turkish kids like her have escaped with their lives. the quality of those lives now depend on the -- on an unprecedented massive operation to repair and rebuild. for the pbs newshour, i am jane ferguson. ♪ geoff: this week marked the anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. since that day 58 years ago, there have been many difficult and painful questions about who may have been involved in his murder and what led to it. th week, malcolm x' s family took new action, announcing their intent to sue several federal and local government agencies, including the cia, fbi -- government agencies for allegedly concealing evidence about what happened. >> we want justice served for our father. >> still searching for answers

decades after his assassination. at a press conference this week, surrounded by family and civil-rights attorney brian crum, announced plans to file a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the nypd, the cia, fbi, and other government agencies. >> for years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light, concerning his murder. and we would like our father to receive the justice that he deserves. geoff: they allege a conspiracy in connection with malcolm 's murder and a subsequent cover-up of evidence. >> the truth about the circumstances leading to the death of our father is important, not only to his family, but too many followers, many admirers, many who look to him for guidan, for love. geoff: on february 21, 1965, malcolm x was killed in a hail of bullets, just as he was about

to give a speech in the audubon ballroom in harlem, as his pregnant wife and children docked for safety. he was 39 years old. three men were arrested and convicted of the crime. in november 2021, after decades of doubt surrounding the cas and following the release of the netflix documentary, who killed malcolm x, the manhattan district attorney reopened the case. 29 who were convicted of murdering malcolm x in 1966 were exonerated after serving decades in prison. the district attorney admitted the fbi and and my pdf the time withheld evidence. >> new york police department, the fbi, the district attorney of new york, had factual evidence and scope a tory evidence that they fraudulently concealed from the men who were

wrongfully convicted for the assassination of malcolm x, and they also fraudulently concealed that information, most importantly from the family of malcolm x. geoff: the fbi, cia, and nypd did not respond to the newshour's requests for comments. the lawsuit could help put to rest decades of controversy and conspiracy theories that have swirled in the more than 50 years since his assassination. we -- leading malcolm x historian sees the suit as the culmination of years of work investigating the assassination. >> i'm extremely gratified, and really have no way of knowing going into this that it would culminate in such a spectacular victory. i think it is unprecedented in u.s. history that that has ever happened.

and i'm extremely grateful and gratified to have lived long enough to see this day. geoff: as for malcolm x's family, they say they want their father to receive the justice he deserves. ♪ geoff: some republicans are once again relitigating what happened at the u.s. capitol on january 6. with house speaker kevin mccarthy sharing key video footage of the capital attack with a star fox personality. lisa desjardins brings us up to speed about how it happened and what echo carlsen hopes to find in the footage. >> and why are they still hiding thousandof hours of surveillance footage from within the capitol? lisa: for months, he asked for access. >> you can't know whether the capitol surveillance videos pan, tilt or zoom. lisa: and now tucker carlson has it. this week republican speaker

kevin mccarthy granted the fox news host access to 44-thousand -- 44,000 hours of security footage from capitol grounds on january 6. carlson controls a primetime hour on the most watched cable network. >> on the basis of a wholly created myth about what happened that day. lisa: and has been a megaphone for baseless conspiracy theories that deflect blame from former presidt trump, including the idea that rioters on january 6th were actually victims of a government false flag plot. he sees surveillance ftage as possible evidence. >> our producers, some of our smartest producers, have been there looking at this stuff and trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story we've been told for more than two years. we think already in some ways that it does contradict that story. lisa: carlsen's words over the last two years reveal the narrative he wants. >> how many law enforcement agents actively helped january 6 protesters enter the building that day? some of them definitely did. we know that for a fact. ray epps was standing in exactly the same place that a lot of people who went to jail were

standing, but he wasn't charged. his name was taken off the fbi's most wanted list. why is that? lisa: but evidence shows that ray epps, an arizona man who was at the capital bank -- capitol, was telling protesters to calm down. and carlsen's allegation that epps was working for the fbi has been debunked. overall, there is no evidence of undercover law enforcement instigating the rioters. >> i think the public should see what happened all day. lisa: in granting fox assets -- access, mccarthy keeps a promise to hardline members in his conference -- from negotiations boosted by carlsen himself. >> if kevin mccarthy wants to be the speaker hes going to have to do things he would never do otherwise. lisa: mccarthy told the new york times this week that the tapes belong to the blic and he wants sunshine on them. but carlson is not a neutral arbiter. he has condemned violence but also defded the motivations behind it. >> how, for example, did senile hermit joe biden get 15 million

more votes than his former boss, rockstar crowdsurfer barack obama? lisa: despite raising conspiracies, recent court filings show carlson and other top fox stars did not believe some of the pro-trump claims. in text messages, carlson wrote about a one-time trump advisor, sidney powell is lying, by the way. i caught her. it's insane. carlson's not the first to access these tapes. they've already been reviewed by the house select committee investigating january 6 last congress. republicans accuse the group of cherry-picking those clips - and fox did not air much of its hearings. >> they are lying and we are not going to help them do it. lisa: back at the capitol, senate majority leader chuck schumer issued a scathing statement accusing mccarthy of exposing the capitol complex to one of the worst security risks nce 9/11. mccarthy says he intends to grant others access to the video in the future. but until then, it remains an exclusive deal between the

leading republican in congress and the parties primetime star. amna: for insights into the larger implications of tucker carlson's access to the january sixth footage, and what the year of war in ukraine can tell us about the future direction of that conflict and the world, we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart. that's new york times columnist david brooks and jonathan capehart, associate editor for the washington post. good to see you both. let's pick up where lisa left off. this idea that speaker mccarthy has handed over these hours of security footage to tucker carlsen. there are those who argue, let everyone see everything and make up their own mind. is there validity? jonathan: sure, simply because the speaker has given all of this footage to code -- to tucker carlson. if you're going to give it to him, give it to everybody. so that they can look at it. but i don't need to see 44,000 hours worth of footage.

i watched our government being attacked by supporters othe former president, live, on television, in real time over several hours. i don't know what are -- what tucker carlson is going to do with the footage and how he is going to presented on his show, but whatever it is and however he doesn't and whenever he does it will be a disservice to his viewers, a disservice to this country. amna: we don't know what he is going to do with it. i am baffled by this idea that it seemed that republicans wanted to get as far away from january 6 as they could. this goes like they are resurrecting it. why talk about it? david: marjorie taylor greene was ecstatic over this. this is clearly what they wanted in exchange for voting for kevin mccarthy. i guess their argument is the people on the committee were not friends to donald trump. somebody who is more friendly to donald trump should have a whack at it. you want to pick the tucker

carlson, -- jonathan: i will laugh. david: in general, as long as they predict the procedures of this, the capitol security, as long as you don't release those, having any public official, giving everything to it one news organization? that is just bizarre and against the rules of what we do. if you give it to one news organization, it should be -- off the record, it is not done. you give it to the public. amna: are you worried about how they will use it? david: yeah, i worry everything talk -- everything about tucker touches. i think the conspiracy theories are out there. it is hard to imagine them building another mountain of nonsense on top of the existing mountain of nonsense that comes out. amna: we will be waiting and watching and talking about it more. that is one of the issues dividing americans. we asked in our latest pbs

newshour marist npr paul in number of other issues that americans havearying officials -- opinions on. we asked you, and you pointed to the same question, which is on the question of u.s. support for ukraine. when you take a look at those numbers, we asked people what theyhought about the level of support. 42% of people said we are providing the right amount of support. the third of people who said we are providing too much support, that did stick out to me. republicans feel there is too much support from the u.s. going to ukraine. why did that stand out to you? jonathan: because of what we have been hearing from the republican house majority. marjorie taylor greene and others and kevin mccarthy talking about maybe we are giving too much support. the fact that 47% of republicans say it is too much and 4% of

trump voters -- 54% of trump voters say it is too much, that says after the president releases his budget, or when the president goes to congress for more funding, that we will start to see this friction we have only been talking about in theory play out in public. from the administration's perspective, that daylight is not helpful. what the president has been banking on is a unified front, within the american government for ukraine, and among the alliance. if that phrase within the united states, the fear is that could impact the alliae. amna: what do those numbers say to you? david: it is fascinating, there was a poll that had similar numbers two hours. 40% of republicans said we are giving too much.

radically different policy agendas. ron desantis went on fox and friends, and he danced between the two, edging a little bit. what you are seeing is a party bitterly divided over something of real substance. the primaries will just reveal that over and over. amna: as we mark one year since the russian invasion of ukraine this week, a one we should remind people many thought would not last, but a matter of days. we saw what both of you had to say year ago. here is a snippet of what you were saying a year ago when it came to the war in ukraine. >> we were blessed to live for many years in this era of rules. we may be ending that era and

reentering an era of great power rivalries as we saw in the 17th century, 15th-century. >> we are seeing right there the battle between democracy and autocracy, and having democracy when is not assured, especially because democracy here in the united states is the weakest it has been in memory. amna: it is nice to have you both here in person rather than your home studios. do you still see it the same way? does democracy stand a better chance today? jonathan: yes. arguably yes. at that moment, we were not sure whether ukraine, president zelenskyy, no one had any kind of expectation of him or of the country. we were disabused of that within days. the fact that we are here entering year two is extraordinary. it says a lot about president zelenskyy. it says a lot about the ukrainian -- more about the ukrainian people.

their willingness to fight for their country. men and women, anyone. remember in those early pictures, people learning how to shoot guns because they were going to defend themselves against the russians. that fight between democracy and autocracy is still there. we could be facing a situation where that battle will become more fraught as russia gets more desperate. amna: what about you, are we deeper into this new era? david: we are. it is hard to overestimate how big of a deal this war has been. when you think about the events of the last year, it has been earthshaking. first, the humanitarian crisis has just been overwhelming. second, the western alliance has been reformed. american influence in the wod has expanded. military strategies have been changed by the war. there has been a global decoupling of our economies. russia and china have come together. these are all big events that have been set off by this war.

and i think basically, the contradictions have become focused. we in the west, including japan and other countries, the democracy loving countries, have been strengthened and hardened by the people of ukraine. but even this week the russians and chinese are getting closer together. it looks like a global power struggle between people who want to respect human dignity, and people who, not so much. amna: china's entry into this war, that change the direction of the war? david: for sure. one thinks of the korean war. that was a war started by a russian dictator. they had some success but they thought the u.s. would never get involved. it turned out not to be. the u.s. got involved, pushed them back, got the chinese involved, the chinese altered the course of the war for a little while, then we pushed them back. it was a deadlock. we signed an armistice that people thought was temporary,

turned out to do not temporary. as people look to the future of ukraine and the possibility of negotiated settlement, i think a lot will determine what happens the spring. then we can start to think about how can we get through? negotiated peace we are not there. i'm sure putin is hoping china will alter the war. amna: americans have felt the effect of the war to some degree. certainly reshaping of the global energy market, but knock on effects of all of that. and bearing witness through the reporting, like nick schifrin has been doing. but it is not necessarily the same for ukrainians or even europeans who are feeling it more immediately. you think the longer this goes on we see a decline in support, and what does that mean for the future? jonathan: unfortunately, because of our oceans and most of the american people have no real skin in the game, it is easy for us to go from the euphoria of cheering on an underdog, too, this has been going on a while, i'm going to think about other things.

but we in this business, we cannot be a part of that process. we have to keep telling the stories, we have to keep doing the reporting, we have to keep explaining why this is important. this just isn't because russia invaded ukraine. there are bigger issues here that david pointed out. if china does provide lethal aid to russia, how does the biden administration hold back on those f-'s that president zelenskyy has been asking for? if this truly is a battle between democracy and autocracy, at some point, democracy will have to rear up on its hind legs and smacked down autocracy, and we could see that after we see what happens with the spring offensive. amna: you see this stretching another year? david: for sure. but ics holding still -- but i see the west holding still. i was in dublin and i'm waiting to get my passport checked

there is a loud irish lady running the line, and she says, clear way, clear way, and she has this ukrainian family. she said, these people are going first, these are the most important people in the world right now, and we all bow and shake hands. that irish lady, on her own, will help the western alliance stay. amna: i think we can all buy into that idea. thank yoso much. ♪ geoff: during the past 12 months of war, ukrainians have demonstrated their courage and resilience in countless ways. one group of artists is responding the best way they know how, through dance, bringing their work and their stories to world stages. jeffrey brown profiles "the united ukrainian ballet" for our arts and culture series, canvas.

jeffrey: "gisell" one of the most beloved ballets in the classical repertoire. gorgeous music and movement. a story of romance and loss. but this production, performed recently at washington d.c.'s kennedy center for the performing arts, had its own, added story, one dancers like oleksii kniazkov, brought to the stage. >> all dancers have, or maybe all of ukrainians, have these floating on the waves all the time with the emotions, with everything. we don't know how it will end. we don't know will we have our homes when we will come back. jeffrey: before the russian invasion of ukraine, kniazkov, 30, was a principal dancer with the kharkiv national opera and ballet in ukraine's second largest city. the war put a stop to his career as to so much else. more important, it has threatened his homeland and the lives of his loved ones, most of whom remain in donetsk, where he grew up.

now, he is of more than 60 one professional dancers from theaters throughout ukraine living in exile in the hague in the netherlands, joined as the "united ukrainian ballet." >> my soul is broken. jeffrey: several of them danced amid the rubble at home to highlight the mission of the new group. >> the only thing that could save me, it's dancing. jeffrey: knizkov and the other male dancers were given special permission by the government to leave ukraine to take part in this project. an acknowledgement of their importance as cultural ambassadors. >> people see us, we have like, bones and blood. jeffrey: like real flesh and blood human beings. >> yes. not on screen, when they watch news on tv. but when you see these real people on the stage, you can maybe understand them, feel their emotions and in some way united with them, some way connect with them.

jeffrey: 20-year-old vladyslava ihnatenko grew up in kharkiv, where her family remains. she had just begun her dancing career in odesa when the war broke out. >> we really trying to help each other, and we understand each other more than everyone else at this time. so i think it's really powerful community for us to share our emotions and to help each other on the same project. jeffrey: sharing emotions. everybody has difficult, painful emotions now. >> yes, that's right. but also, it's really nice when people, after performance, think about how to help our country or maybe check on something what happened there much more, to donate, to help to ask ukrainian people how it is. it's really nice to communicate like this. >> when we had this idea, we never thought it would be this,

it wld never become this big. jeffrey: the united ukrainian ballet was begun last year by dutch ballerina igone de jongh, who serves as the company's artistic director. she helped find lodging and studio space in the hague, and gradually brought more dancers into the fold. this is unlike anything she or the dancers have ever done. for one thing, ballet requires enormous discipline and focus. but these dancers necessarily have their minds on their families and friends back home. >> i try to have conversations with them where i said to them, maybe just 10 minutes or just 15 minutes during class, just focus on you, focus on what you are doing with your body and give yourself a little break. it's of course a very difficult question to ask. but after a few months i could feel that they were getting a little bit more comfortable and a little bit more at ease with just dancing.

jeffrey: there is a psychology to this project that you probably have never experienced. >> no, no. and i don't think there's a rulebook for it. >> if you have any sense of fairness, of what's right or wrong, i think that's the only choice. ukraine is fighting for freedom and democracy. jeffrey: the biggest name involved with the united ukrainian ballet is alexei ratmansky, a one-time director of moscow's famed bolshoi ballet come out today one of the world's most renowned choreographers. the company is performing his version of giselle which restores some of the movement and other features of the original 19th century french ballet. and he brings his own unusually personal story to this project. his mother is russian, his father ukrainian. he was born in leningrad, now st. petersburg, russia, but raised in kiev. on the day russia attacked ukraine, he was actually in

moscow working with the bolshoi and his world changed too. >> when my wife called me from new york saying kyiv is bound, it was 5:00 a.m. i didn't have any choice. i just left right away. i grabbed my team and i felt that this door is shut for me because i can't split. i can't sit on two chairs. i have to make a decision. jeffrey and -- jeffrey: and the decision is ukrainian identity must be, and the country must be supported. >> right, right. jeffrey: that support is n evident in his work with the united ukrainian ballet. also, in his public criticism of prominent russian artists for not speaking out. he understands why some russians, fearing for their families, might stay silent. but he says -- >> you can't pretend that nothing is going on. you can't say, life continues, we are happy, we are dancing.

you know, there is something that just doesn't work that way. you are selling yourself to the wrong person, you are on the wrong side. jeffrey: for the ukrainian dancers, of course, there is also no question of the right and wrong side. and for them, being able to dance is part of their identity, stripped away by the war. >> in some way, when i came on stage in netherlands the first time, it was almost half year past after beginning of the war it was in august. i felt that life came back to me, that i begin to live again. jeffrey: are you worried that the rest of the world isn't paying as much attention anymore? >> sometimes it is doubts about it. but then you go into another country and you see people keep

being interested in news about ukraine. r mission to make it to have more people to keep it in mind. jeffrey: the group ends each performance by singing the ukrainian national anthem. for the pbs newshour, i am jeffrey brown at washington d.c. kennedy center for the performing arts. amna: you can watch more of our stories on the war in ukraine over the past year on our youtube page. remember, -- geoff: tune into washington week for more analysis of the war in ukraine and president biden's recent trip to kyiv. amna: and watch pbs news weekend to hear the story of ed dwight, the air force pilot who helped pave the way for nasa's black astronauts. that is the newshour. i'm none of. geoff: i'm geoff bennett. thank you for joining us and have a great weekend. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- ♪

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♪ hello, everyone, and welcome to "amanpour & company"rom the ukrainian capital kyiv. here's what's coming up. ukraine boosts its security and we get a look inside the battered town of vuhler on the front lines. plus, the dire situation facing victims of this war. denise brown, the u.n.'s humanitarian coordinator, joins me here in kyiv. and as nato yet again pledges support, i speak to the u.s. undersecretary of state victoria nuland. then -- >> translator: the hardest part is when you drop them off, he says, when there are relatives present to look them in the eye. >> bringing ukraine's fallen soldiers back to their families. and -- >> china has i think consistently been playing a really difficult strategic game here. >> so what