voice, maria theresa, as always, and we wanted to talk about also it's not just rt in espanol and there's another with venuzul that has been spreading this information, among other places supporting the cube anregime and nicaraguan regime. >> and we're seeing that in miami, seeing them pop up in miami, basically a spanish equivalent oan equivalent has popped up on radio so we need to pay attention to that. so thank you, jose. >> thank you. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm joseph diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of are your time. craig melvin picks up with more news right now. and a good tuesday morning to you. craig melvin other following new developments with the war in ukraine. roughly 15 minutes from now ukraine's president zelenskyy will be addressing canada's

parliament. that address coming a day before he addresses our own congress virtually. earlier president zelenskyy addressed northern european leaders virtually appeal for more weapons, and in a new video message president selectioning thanked russians trying to fight disinformation from the kremlin and he also warned russia that they risk becoming as closed off as north korea. meanwhile in the capital of kyiv where he's been leading his people, russian forces hitting the commercial and residential center of the city at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, just a few hours from now, a new 35-hour curfew set to be imposed in the capital and the mayor telling people there to prepare to remain at home or in a bomb shelter for the next two days. and the deep soviet-era subways once constructed out of fear, the united states might use nukes during the cold war are now in use again, but this time it's russia acting as the

aggressor and driving people underground. >> translator: before we used to think how god it was to sleep in our bed, she says, but now we just thank god to wake up. >> right now ukraine hopes to evacuate civilians from besieged cities through nine humanitarian corridors across the country. the humanitarian crisis spilling out of ukraine and into neighboring countries, and that crisis is getting worse this morning. the united nations says this morning almost 3 million ukranians have fled this war so far. >> when war started, i said that i don't want to go from ukraine, from kyiv because i hope that it will be for week just, but now i understand that it's for long. >> but right now mortars are

just lines on a map for people around the world who are trying to help. the man that you see there on your screen, his name is fara, he's a train driver from the beach down of brighton in southern england. he's using his vacation days to hand out chicken soup to refugees in poland. he told nbc news hot food is important and, quote, i needed to be here. we're going to start on the ground with our reporters. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel once again in ukraine's capital of kyiv, white house chief correspondent kristen welker at her post there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue and ken delainian is here with more reporting on the ukranian military capabilities. richard, we'll start with you there, that 34-hour curfew, all residents will be banned from moving through city streets unless they are traveling to a shelter or carrying a special pass. what are you seeing on the ground, sir?

>> reporter: so, people are preparing already for this curfew. it's the second time that kyiv has had a total lockdown imposed by the mayor and now people are taking this opportunity to stock up, to visit relatives, to get medicines because when they have implemented curfews in the past, they mean it. there are checkpoints on the street here and if you go out. you'll quickly run into a checkpoint. they are not hostile. they are friendly but they will tell you to go back inside. the reason they are imposing this curfew again is because of the intensified attacks on kyiv and also the -- the seemingly random nature of the attacks. russia is not closing in on the city in any imminent way. the russian forces are not making rapid advances, but what they are doing they are using their artillery and missiles and cruise missiles, and they are just firing them at the center of the city and several strikes like that took place overnight

hitting an apartment building, hitting a major subway station. luckily most people were down below deep underground at that subway station so no one was killed in that attack, but when you have russia turning your cities into open fire zones and kyiv is a city of 3.5 million people and it's very spread out, so if you fire cruise missiles and artillery here you are bound to hit something so the mayor decided to -- to take basically people off the streets more 35 hours to see -- to see it what comes next even though that is difficult because not everyone does have someplace of food and supplies of water so there is a cost to the population, but the city planners made the calculation that it was better to be inside than to be outside and to have one of these russian bombs fall on you. >> kristen, moments ago, new reporting coming from the white house unit there. apparently we've just learned

that president biden is considering attending a nato leader in brussels next week. what more can you tell us about that? >> absolutely right, coming from carol lee, josh letterman and mike memily who posted this a moment ago. i'll read it from the note to make sure i'm acura. the top line is that the president is considering attending a meeting of nato leaders in brussels, possibly march 24th or 25th. this is according to two sources who are familiar with the negotiations about this. his attendance at the in-person summit though is still under discussion. now, a top line that we just got from the nato secretary-general stoltenberg, he just confirmed on camera that nato will convene a leaders' meeting on what he called short notice, but he didn't provide any additional details so that is significant because it is would stand to reason that that would be a venue for a potential presidential trip and, of

course, the same reporters who i just mentioned were first to report yesterday that the president was considering a trip to europe. it would come on the heels of a trip by the vice president which we, of course, report on during which she met with leaders in the region as well as met with refugees. now, this comes as the top officials here are pressuring chinese first, including the national security adviser jake sullivan, essentially saying do not provide military aid or any other aid to russia in its offensive against ukraine or else there will be significant consequences. craig? >> ken, as this war intensifies you have reporting on one critical tool in ukraine's arsenal, drones. one expert tells you it's not supersonic, not stealth, not mined, but a clay palijon but nonetheless these drones are

making a difference, how so? >> this appears to be another example of how experts overestimated the competence of the russian military, craig. u.s. officials tell us ukraine has used its fleet of small turkish mate drones to do serious damage to russian forces. by one count these tv2 drones have destroyed more than 30 russian vehicles including mobile missile launchers, and what's so surprise begun these these drones, as you said, fly very slowly and it should be easy in theory for the russians to shoot them down or at least electronically jam them. before the invasion, military experts said the russians would have no problems dealing with these weapon, but the russians have failed to establish air superiority and a u.s. official says the ukranians have been flying these drones low to radar and can hover against targets and rain down devastatingly accurate missile fire. a number of video showing a number of these drones striking russian positions. u.s. officials are trying to figure out how to replay

ukraine's supply of these drones and the missiles they shoot. they are owned by the is only of the turkish president. the ukranian defense minister said ukraine had received at least one new shipment of the drops. craig, it's worth noting that these are not the only armed drones that could help the ukranians in this situation. there's another type of weapon called a kamikaze drone which is basically a flying smart bomb that can be launched miles away from the target and can strike with deadly accuracy. the u.s. has a version called the switchblade, but the israelis sell kamikaze-type drones. whether these weapons can be provided to ukranian forces in time to make a difference is an open question, craig. >> all right. ken delainian with that new reporting, kristen welker with the new reporting as well here. a big thanks to both of you and, of course, our chief foreign correspondent richard engel on the ground in ukraine once again. any moment we expect to see

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. any minute now we expect ukraine's president zelenskyy to address the canadian parliament. we are going to take you there live just as soon as he starts that address. we expect that to start any moment now. meanwhile this moment a woman who staged a stunning anti-war protest on russia's main news broadcast is reportedly now on trial.

that's according to a russian independent news organization. we should note nbc news has not independently verified that report, but this is the moment that has since gone viral. you see a woman there with a sign suddenly appearing behind the news anchor. the sign reads no war in english, and it tells viewers in russian not to believe the station's propaganda. it happened on russia's state-owned network channel one. i want to bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and also an msnbc political analyst and especially for the purposes of this conversation he's former moscow bureau chief for "the washington post." mr. baker, always good you have to, sir. your pain now, your current paper, the "new york times" reporting, that she is an employee or was an employee at that station starting a russian human right group saying she was also detained after the protest. again, reports are that she is on trial right now.

how big of a deal is all of this? >> well, it's clearly embarrassing to president putin's regime to have this happen on the big channel that most people watch, one of the most popular newscasts in moscow. right now independent television has been taken off the air. the independent radio moscow, famed from the old cold war days off the air, and so you have this kind of an event in order to try to get out a message because there's no other way to get out a message to a broad swath of the russian population right now. this would have been shocking i think to a russian audience. certainly shocking inside the kremlin which doesn't want this kind of thing to happen. passing laws also, squelching dissent and making it a crime and punishable up to 15 organizations if a media organization uses the word war to describe the war. that's how tight vladimir putin is trying to control his society. the resistance within russia, i think, you know, is not going away. there's a lot of discontent about the war and it will find a

lot of ways to show itself. >> i want to read some of "the times'" reporting about the broadcast she interrupted, the news show among the kremlin's flagship propaganda outlets watched by millions of russians every evening. the off-script intervention underscored how dissent is seeping into public consciousness in russia, even after president putin has stifled opposition to the war and has enacted a law to punish anyone spreading whatever the government dream fake news about its ukraine invasion with up to 15 years in prison. having covered russia for so long, peter, what does this signal about the current mood inside russia, what you saw there, that interruption, was that a sign of perhaps more of what's to come? >> yeahishing think it is. i think you're seeing a great deal of courage on at least the part of some russians to get their voice out there. they know they will be paying a

price to do that. the woman arrested shoe she would be arrest and put in prison and thought it was important enough to do it anyway. you see reports of people walking warned signs, empty signs, that say nothing on them and being arrested. that itself is an act of protest in russia. a blank sign is perceived to be unacceptable by the kremlin but it's not going to go away because there are body bags coming home now. russian sons and daughters who, are you know, being buried because of this war and you can only control the media so much. that's a reality in these towns that everyday people are seeing, and there's a lot of discontent. why are they at war with ukraine? they don't know. russia propaganda television them is saying that ukraine is a threat you a a lot of russians don't believe that. a lot of russians look at ukraine as a brotherly nation as they put it and why they killing people that they consider to be their slavic, you know, family members and that protest spirit that you saw on that television broadcast is not going to be

completely squelched. >> how concerned should we be for her safety? >> well, very, you know. this is a regime that doesn't take dissent lightly. it doesn't take it softly. we have seen time and time again people who have stood up to the kremlin over the last 20 years poisoned, imprisoned, killed. it is a very serious thing to stand up and embarrass this regime, and they may -- they want to make an example of people like that in order to try to stop it, but there's only so much that you can do in a country of 147 million people where there's a lot of people are not going to go along with this. >> peter, again, we're waiting for president zelenskyy to address the canadian parliament. he's going to be addressing congress virtually tomorrow. this is a live picture, by the way, of the canadian parliament. they appear to be getting ready to hear from president zelenskyy. there, of course, is prime minister justin trudeau. we're not going to listen in

just yet, but we'll go back when president zelenskyy starts. when he addresses congress tomorrow, peter baker, what do we expect to hear interest president zelenskyy? >> well, i think you're going to hear him first of all, of course, thank the west for what he's done. >> peter, hate to interrupt you. i think we just saw him pop up, president zelenskyy. peter, if you can, stick around. let's -- let's listen in for just a mom and we'll talk about it on the other side. >> ukranian immigrants came to canada, many of them settled in the canadian prairies. they worked the land. they built churches distinguished by their beautiful spires, and they helped shape canada in significant ways. [ speaking french ]

[ speaking french ] in the years i've known you, i've always thought of you as a champion for democracy, and now democracies around the world are lucky to have you as our champion. [ applause ]

[ applause ] >> your courage and the courage of your people inspires us all. you're defending the right of ukranians to choose their own future, and in doing so you're defending the values that form the pillars of all free democratic countries. freedom, human rights, justice,

truth, international order. these are the values you're risking your life for as you fight for ukraine and ukranians. behind that you're inspiring democracies and democratic leaders around the world to be more courageous, more united and to fight harder for what we believe in. you remind us that friends are always stronger together. with allies and partners we're imposing kruppling sanctions to make sure that putin and his enablers in russia and belarus are held accountable. today in line with our european union partners i can announce we've imposed severe sanctions on 15 new russian officials including government and military elites who are complicit in this ildeal war. [ speaking french ]

in canada we like to root for the underdog. we believe when a cause is just and right it will always prevail no matter the size of the opponent. this doesn't mean it will be easy. ukranians are already paying incalculable human costs, this illegal and unnecessary somewhere a grave mistake and putin must stop it now. [ speaking french ]

>> ukranians are standing up to authoritarianism, and as parliamentarians unied in this house today and all canadians we stand with you. as friends you can count on our unwavering and steadfast support and now it is my great privilege to introduce to you all the president of ukraine, our friend, volodymyr zelenskyy.

[ applause ] >> prime minister, dear justin, members of the government and members of the parliament, all distinguished guests, friends, before i begin i would like you to understand my feelings and feelings of all ukranians as far as it is possible. our feelings over the last 20 days to end today's full-scale aggression of the russian federation after eight years of

fighting in the donbas region. can you only imagine, imagine that on 4:00 a.m. each of you start hearing bomb explosions, severe explosion, justin? can you imagine hearing you or your children hear all these severe explosions, bombing of airport, bombing of other airport? tens of other cities of your wonderful country, can you imagine that? cruise missiles are being falling down on your terrain and your children are asking you what happened and you're seeing the first news which infrastructure, objects have been bombed and destroyed by russian federation, and you know how many people already died. can you only imagine what words, how can you explain to your

children that you just full-scale aggression just happened in your country? you know that this is a war to alienate your state, your country. you know this is the war to subjugate people and on the second day you receive notifications that fuel calls that military equipment are entering into your country, crossing the border, entering in small cities. they are giving siege, encircling cities, and they start to shell civil neighborhoods and they bomb school buildings. they destroyed kindergarten facilities like in our city, city of sumy and like the city of oterka.

imagine that someone is laying siege to vancouver, can you just imagine it for a second and all these people who are left in such city, and this exactly the situation that our city of mariupol is suffering right now, and they are left without heat or hydro or without means of communicating, almost without food, without water, seeking shelter in bomb shelters. dear justin, can you imagine that every day you receive memorandums about the number of casualties, including women and children? you've heard about the bombings. currently we have 97 children that died during this war. can you imagine famous cn tower in toronto if it was hit by russian bombs?

of course i don't wish this on anyone, but this is our reality in which we live. we have to contemplate and we have to see where the next bombing takes place. we have a freedom square nor -- in our city, a place in the city where the holocaust were buried and that has been bombed by the russians. imagine that canadian facilities have been bombed similarly as our buildings and memorial places are being bombed. a number of families have died. every night is a horrible night. russians are shelling from all

kinds of places. from tanks, they are hitting civilian infrastructure. they are hitting big buildings. can you imagine that there is fire starting at a nuclear power plant and that's exact what i happened in our country. each city that they are marching through, they are taking down the ukranian flags. can you imagine someone taking down your canadian flags in montreal and other canadian cities? i know that you all support ukraine. we've been friends with you, justin, but also i would like you to urns and i would like you to feel this. what we feel every day. we want to live, and we want to be victorious. we want to prevail for the sake of life. can you imagine when you -- when

you call your friends, your friendly nation and you ask, please, close the sky, close the airspace. please, stop the bombing. how much more cruise missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen, and then they discuss their deep concerns about the situation. when we talk to our partners and they said please, hold on a little longer, some -- some people i'm talking about are trying to avoid the escalation and at the same time in response to our aspiration to become members of nato, we also do not hear a clear answer.

sometimes we don't see obvious things. it's dire straits but it also allowed us to see who our real friends are over the last 20 days and as well as eight previous years. i'm sure that you've been able to see clearly what's going on, and i'm address all of you. canada has always been steadfast in their support. you've been a reliable partner to ukraine and ukranians, and i'm sure this will continue. you've offered your help, your assistance and our earliest request. you supply us with humanitarian assistance, you will bolster your angsted, so taemt we see,

unfortunately, that this did not bring an end to the war. our cities like kharkiv and mariupol and many other cities are not just protected like your cities are protected. add to that one viewer. you can see that kyiv is being bombed and shelled. it used have been very, very -- now they are being constantly bombarded. basically what i'm trying to to say is you all need to do to stop russia to protect ukraine and by doing that to protect europe from russian threat. they are destroying everything, memorial directiones, schools, hospitals, housing complex. they already killed 97 ukranian children. we're not asking for much. we're asking for justice, for

aerial support which will help us prevail to defend -- to save life, to save life all over the world. canada is leading in these efforts, and i'm hoping that other country will follow the same suit. really asking for more of your leadership and, please, take more, greater part in these efforts, justin, and all of our friends of ukraine. all friends of the truth, please understand how important it is for us to close our airspace from russian miles of and russian aircraft. i hope you can understand. i hope you can increase your efforts. you can increase sanctions so -- so they will not get a single dollar to fund their war effort. commercialal entities should not be working in russia.

probably, you know, you know better than, on this attack on ukraine it's not usual tore them -- this is the main objective. it's actually a war against the ukranian people and it's an attempt to destroy everything that we as ukranians do. it's tan attempt to destroy our future, to destroy our nation, our character. you, canadians, you know very well all this. that's why i'm asking you, please, do not stop in your efforts. please expand your efforts to bring back peace in our peaceful country. i believe and i know that you can do it. and we are building a part of the anti-war coalition and i would also like to ask our

ukranian diaspora in canada. this is a historical moment, and we need your support. your practical support, and we hope that with your practical steps that you will show. police, remember, recall this is a modern day history of ukraine. we want to have peace. i'm grateful for everyone in the parliament of canada who is present there to all the canadian citizens. i'm very grassiful to you, justin. i'm grateful to canadian people, and i'm confident that together we will overcome and we will be victorious. glory to ukraine. thank you to canada.

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>> sustained, standing, thunderous applause from members of canada's parliament for ukraine's president zelenskyy there after those comments. president zelenskyy saying at one point, quote, we want to live. we want to be victorious and wehe new his calls for a no-fly zone over his country. back with me peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and msnbc political analyst. has covered russia for years. at one point he was the bureau chief there. peter, we just heard him there speak through a translator but speak directly to canada's prime minister, justin true doe. called him by his first names a number of times, trying to make his old friend understand the sheer hell that ukranians are living through. president zelenskyy is going to be address our lawmakers tomorrow. what kind of response from the west will you be watching for after his remarks to members of

congress here, peter? >> yeah. this is a powerful moment and one of the reasons why it's powerful is because ukraine has a particularly resonant feeling towards -- sorry, canada has a particularly resonant feeling towards ukraine. more people of ukranian distraction live in canada than anywhere in the world outside of ukraine and russia, about 1.4 million people. the woman sitting two to the left of prime minister trudeau, as you saw her on the screen, that's crista free lapd, the finance minister in canada, former foreign minister, she's ukiah. i've been to her home and speaks ukranian with her children around the table. that's a big deal in canada and why you saw the passion an emotion in the response to what they heard there. what he's telling them, yeah, i appreciate what you've done, we're in this together, thank you very much, but you haven't done enough and that's the message that he'll deliver tomorrow to the u.s. congress.

what he's asking for is something very complicated. notion of a no-fly zone sounds simple enough but it's really not. democrats and republicans here in washington would tell you that that is basically tantamount to getting into this war and if you're going to a no-fly zone enforced by nato or the united states that means you're shooting down russian planes over ukranian airspace which is only a few steps away from a full-scale war and that's something that many members of congress and members of palmer wan to avoid. >> peter, can the ukranians win this war or keep russia from taking it over, not to oversimplify it, but can they do that without the existence of a no-fly zone? >> well, i mean, you know, a lot of people would tell you, military experts would tell you and i'm not a military expert is that the no-fly zone isn't necessarily the biggest thing that they need right now because a lot of damage that you're showing on the screen right now,

a lot of devastation that the russians are causing is through artillery and land-based weaponry, missiles and things that a no-fly zone wouldn't do anything to stop, so as a military matter, ukraine needs a whole lot more than a no-fly zone but obviously that would be a big deal if it were to happen. you know, can ukraine win? again, i'm not a military expert but they have shown in the last coup of weeks that they are not going to go down softly, not going to go down easily and if russia want to overpower ukraine they have the firepower to do that presumably over the long term but what they are told it's not going to be easy and they will continue to fight each if they continue to lose their cities and military. >> one of the things that really does continue to amaze me, peter baker, you just saw it there at airport and likely we'll see the same tomorrow, the way president zelenskyy has been able to unite lawmakers from different parties, not just here and in canada but around the word.

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it's not normal. >> according to a ukrainian government estimate, 379 schools have been damaged during the invasion. and matt bradley visited where this high school was destroyed earlier this month. no children were inside. she's taught there for 27 years. >> were will you go now? >> she says i will stay. i will protect my children. a middle and high school and literature teacher is staying in the capitol. i cannot serve in the army, she says but i can teach students. and 5,000 miles away, dance teacher is doing her part too. nastia is in chicago but her students are in ukraine. >> if they can just forget about reality for 45 minutes, that's

what we're going to do. >> she was born in ukraine and moved to the u.s. when she was four. and she'll keep it going so long as kids keep showing up. >> if you wouldn't know ea situation they're in, you would neverb ever believe it. to be able to show up and participate and dance and smile. they bring us laughter all the time. >> now she says she meets with her students on telegram every night. she's not actually focusing on normal curriculum or a test or a program. she's starting to include media literacy to help them understand what's happening and how to understand all the information coming their way. i'll send it back to you. >> thank you so much for that. i want to bring in joe english. he's an emergency communication specialist. he's in western ukraine.

i understand you just arrived in lviv a short time ago. what stood out from what you've seen and heard on the ground? >> thanks so much for having me. i was in lviv yesterday and many families have been making the journey and decision about whether they can get across the border. as we saw in the report, resiliency of children is standing behind me, there are kids playing in a playground, that you would see in any city in the world. that's what they should be doing. that's the way to help them through the traumas. and the situation in much of the country is not as calm. so, one of the things unicef is doing, we're trying to set up safe places. we've been delivering toys and supplies into kharkiv. we're desperate to get supplies

to places like maur pope pole. we need an end to the fighting if we're going to access every single child in need of sour support and care. >> the -- and children doing what children do on a playground there, swinging without a care in the world. unicef's work here, trucks carrying at least seven tons of supplies have arrived to ukraine. supplies include personal protection equipment, medical, surgical. and delivering to 22 hospitals throughout ukraine. have you been able to deliver many of those supplies yet? >> we have and 22 is just the start. today it's 1.5 million children but there's more than 4.5,000

babies born since the conflict started. that's 250,000 more women who are pregnant and those expecting in the next few months. so, we need make sure they have the supplies that they need, oxygen. even basic supplies so that they can do their job and safely bring kids into the world. then it's up to all of us to make sure the guns were silent and the fighting ends so they're not growing up amid the back drop of war and conflict. >> the folks who are watching and listening on sirius xm radio, would encourage them to check out unicef's website.

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that's going to do it for me this hour. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. ♪ good day. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. long-range artillery attacks to makeup for their failure to take major cities. after a deadly wave of strikes, the mayor has ordered 35-hour blanket curfew starting in a few hours. >> in one sense this shows russia is expanding its attacks, hitting right into the center of kyiv. you can't get more downtown than this. it's also a sign of weakness because russia's frontlines have not been advancing. the troops and armored vehicles and the large convoy outside of kyiv are where they are and not been advancing for the last several days. instead, russia's relying on the