but so many analysts is saying that the us now should be forcing zelinski to be more realistic because of the situation on the ground air. i think can the general mass it is, is that biden leads to put pressure on zalinski without being seen as conceding to watch the u. s. nato and ukraine continued to describe as being russian aggression . and of course, pardon me, charles, for the past few weeks, you've been monitoring the security situation in that contested area. i mean, what is security like at the moment to in your part of ukraine? very mind that the front line or the contact zone, as it's known, is more than 400 kilometers long. and there are daily c spy violations by both sides. and i think it's a, it's being reported as well that we have seen an escalation in the last few weeks, according to the oh, i see that's the one i think the security and cooperation in europe, the monitors these violations just gave you an example on december the 7th, the o s. c, saying that there were around 200 cease violations along the contact zone and around 60 explosions. i mean, that shows you ju

your sense of the validity as to whether there is any chance of a coup against zelinski?l: possibly, and of course, the russian secret services are very active in ukraine, but it is very difficult to say for sure what the truth of this is because it is so much to zelinski's advantage to portray internal opposition within the ukraine as russian inspired and as aiming at his undemocratic overthrow. zelinski is extremely unpopular now for failure to improve the economic situation, worsened by covid, of course, and contue to very high levels of corruption. so this could be just a very traditional gambit to try to deflect this unpopularity by blaming russia for the internal opposition. amy: final assessment of the u.s. and the role that it is playing? so many have criticized biden for revving up cold war or hot war with china. you see a parallel with russia, with china taking a very different approach to the world? for example, we just reported headlines talking about one billion vaccines to places like africa. anatol: well, the problem is, i think, that america has got stuck

cuz claps with zelinski now being summoned to the top court. what does this say about par shane coast, position and strength domestically? this has been more so they should have and so when we go to crash, the pollution energy system is so important . so we can, but i do, even though we go away the fortune saying this is not because we have that from rash or what's your forces all the border actually we've never shown you pre position in the store. we say by that. so this should be, should have no difference. so that was for my horses and women. and that's why i was in 2000 elections and one last slide. so we decided he said, when he was now, why don't we say this will be in a position, but i will be why the last forces needed to be actually one of the patterns you are from june 2016 when i read it. so just read it, but why need to national change again to use these were actually what thank you very much profession. we do have to move on, lexi harass, professor of comparative politics. thanks right here. down for us on this news, our still ahea

secretary blinken spoke with president zelinski yesterday. they have come forward with constructive ideas for how to move the diplomacy forward. those are steps they're taking and asking the united states to support them in trying to get towards a cease fire and ultimately get down the track of diplomatic resolution. we believe that that is good and positive and i believe that president biden and president zelinski will discuss that pathway -- >> can i ask you about nord stream 2? you said putin should not risk the pipeline. have you made clear to allies that you will in fact sanction the remaining entities in that project if there's an invasion and have you received any assurances from germany whenprime minister merkel was here, there was discussion what to do if russia weaponized the gas supplies, that nothing came of that even though there was some pretty big saber rattling but the russians in recent months. have you now received assurances from germany that they won't proceed with that? >> in response to an earlier question, i said i wasn

. >>> today president biden spoke with ukrainian president zelinsky for more than an hour and talked about the threat of russia invading ukraine. russia has deployed close to 100,000 troops along the ukrainian border. he made it clear the united states and its allies would respond with strong economic and other measures if russia did invade ukraine. the white house lass denied reports that the president was urging president zelinsky to make concessions with russia. >>> remembering bob dole who's lying in state in the capitol rotunda. attendants included the president and first lady and vice president. president biden praised dole for his services as a soldier and statesman. >> bob and i, like many today disagreed on a number of things, but not on fundamental things. we still found a way to work together. we genuinely, we genuinely respected one another as colleagues. as fellow americans. it was real, it wasn't fake. >> dole's funeral will be held friday at the washington national cathedral. >>> up next, making it in the bay remains difficult, as housing prices continue to soar, but h

a little bit as at zelinski is in brussels. the use eastern partnership summit, russia has about a 100000 troops on its border with ukraine stoking fears of a possible invasion. germany is expelled to russian diplomats over the murder of a chechen man in berlin. after court found the crime was ordered by the kremlin, a russian citizen has been sentenced to life in prison for carrying out the murder skies above. hebron continues now a a with a with a phone call with a question a a a oh . evie b o y a with . c oh yeah, and again, i'm still doing this issues right now with fever and as was lakisha mom. mm hm. the j u a mm hm. b a b could please give me a i'm a lot so just look up. yeah. well yeah, i had been out of, i say, what i meant about maybe a little bit of thought about it a lot with a lot a lot if you had to leave, i don't, we are with in those love a hard core of the we only put up all, but i'm not a good . and she had to see somebody with a jealous. it's a bit wonder what to do with me, but i'm just not sure what the hel

security assistance, which congress just increased to $300 million this year biden told zelinsky that his message to mr. putin was, one nation can't force another nation to change its border. today the state department denied the u.s. pressured ukraine to give up russian-held territory. >> absolutely not. there have been absolutely no deals cut. there have been no concessions made no such elements even discussed. >> while frommr. biden has ruleu unilateral force, he spoke to the arc of european countries closest to russia where the white house has pledged to bolster defenses mr. biden described the buildup as worrying but also bigger than ukraine with the region's entire stability hanging in the balance. what does that mean for the possibility of ukraine's joining nato, as it's been asking for at least several months tonight a senior administration official would only say that mr. biden expressed the view that when ukraine is on the agenda, ukraine is at the table. >>> the invasion could start with russian airstrikes and supply lines destroyed soldiers on the front lines left to fight

as through one week point or another day after ukrainian president vladimir zelinski announced the threat of a crew. an anti government protest has been staged in key if thousands marched to independent square and surrounding streets shouting slogans, calling zelinski a traitor and waving flags and banners, demanding to be investigated for treason the claim. he violators the constitution by centralizing power on the president's office. since he took over in 2019 last fridays, lensky said a plot had been uncovered to topple his government and that it was orchestrated by russian individuals. ukraine has also got russia in its sights over concerns beyond its borders. as nato summit convened in latvia, kiev called for backup with military cooperation and sanctions against moscow in order to protect the country from purported russian aggression and flying the flag for britain. foreign secretary list truce was riding high aboard a military tank and nearby estonia, just miles from the russian border in something of a declaration that britain is leading the way against what she called russia mali

i mean, is zelinsky in a position to defend ukraine? far better position to defend itself now that it has been than any other point in recent history. over the past 7 1/2 -- actually closer to eight years, they've made significant improvements. but all that has done is closed the gap somewhat between how far ahead the russians were and started on the margins at least to affect the calculus of what kind of damage the ukrainians could do as the russians launched their offensive. this is not going to look anything like what we saw in 2014. this is going to be a combination of syria, ukraine, and things we haven't witnessed in decades. this will be a massive aerial bombardment, cruise missile strikes and targeting what i think are morale targets, crushing the will of the ukrainian population to resist russian aggression. so this is going to be a massive, massive -- this is shaping up right now to be a massive military offensive that is going to draw on european powers, the lithuanians and estonians have already destroyed to arm the ukrainia

president biden will speak to the ukrainian president zelinski.his week he talked with americans about the growing presence of russian troops of ukrainian border, with economic sanctions of russia invades. as far as the southern border, guatemalan's president in interview as john roberts says he's had the communication with the white house was vice president kamala harris, the borders are focusing to focus on the root causes, it is in 6 months since he last spoke with her on her guatemala trip this summer, the white house just reinstituted the trump era remain in mexico program which will require migrants to stay in mexico until their us immigration court date the border patrol has brought two people back across the border under that policy just yesterday. back to you. jillian: thank you so much. afghan still living on military bases across the nation over three months after president biden's withdrawal from afghanistan was corey mills, florida congressional candidate joins us live and you conducted the first overland rescue of americans out of af

and zelinski has been talking to talking bag. and he would like to know that a for that shooting or stocks in ukraine, if the russian started shooting war. if, of course, we'll need to come in and support your grade. and of course, the answer is no native has no intention of getting along and shooting more. russia started to do things. so lensky, i'm sorry to jump in martin. but 2 things. lensky has come away from this meeting in brussels. perhaps a bit disappointed. he bought it nato troops and more weapons. but sultan burg basically has given him no promises. no the, when you make a perfect clear nature will not get involved in any type of military confrontation with russia and ukraine. germany vetoed the sending of offensive weapons to ukraine. nature can only provide defensive weapons to rain. so therefore, nato is very careful not to go beyond a certain line show as provoke russia. and therefore, from nature's point of view, they would like to create a problem to go away because they want to concern themselves with other pro

i think that what he needs to be done and bite needs to do this is, is to push on is zelinski, the president of ukraine, to gree 2 o. 2 follow the mense agreement, which they all it in principle had agreed to at one time and in an effort to try and lessen those tensions and create these buffer zones that with that i spoke about earlier. i and i think that can have with the effective lesson intentions, michael all was a pleasure to have you on the program. thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and expertise with us for pentagon security analyst, michael maloof, thinking in moving the program all now the u. k has reported that record cobit search with 88000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. testing being ramped up amid fears over the new army kron strain its so far being registered in 77 countries. but despite the rapid spread, early studies from south africa, hong kong suggest micron is less likely to cause severe. in this down, the delta vary and very few debts of also been linked to the new strength. nevertheless, countries worldwide are ramping up. their faxing campaigns are corres

there's a kind of a nerd, a hinge to zelinski and cab. you know, we've got your back, but as we just heard from paul, if there is a military conflict, there'll be sanctions, which of course is not a military response. it's very difficult to read this. go ahead, alexandra. yeah, absolutely. well, i would say as well, we have to look at the big picture here and actually take ourselves back to 19 ninety's. surprisingly, to actually perhaps understand this conflict a bit better because a russia for a long time has been adamant that it is against any nato expansion, e sorts. and that's really here is the, the key of the problem here, right? let me put in has been very clear that he's against ukraine being part of nato, his against ukraine ah, being actively and militarily involved with nato. but on a native side, we obviously see, as you mentioned, ah more aid go, more military going to to ukraine. was c military. the size is taking place between ukraine and the united states and nato members. last ones were in september, though quite, quite b

end of year news conference, who went on to choose ukraine's leader, president vote valez, amir zelinski, of being under the influence of what he called radical forces. it comes at a time of raising tension between moscow and nato and its allies over ukraine. paul brandon has more from london. very often in the west. we have been bothered with the media from our own region. and we don't always get to hear the perspective from the other side and over we have heard from president putin in snippets and didn't use conferences, not on the level that we've had in this news conference today. way for as he has much more time to expand on on what his sentiment is and of all the issues that he spoke about, the ukraine and the possible expansion of nato. those are the 2 issues which really made him bristle. if i can describe it in those terms, you know, he talk about history, he said, look, you know, we were promised by nato back in the 1990, that they would be not inch further. they would go, they're all going to be talks between us and russian. diplomats in a week time after christmas about the s

goal of this conversation for president biden is to potentially get some minor concession out of zelinski, at least to start initiating some sort of real progress on on piece dialogue. also, at the same time, not looking as if they are too many concessions being given to the russians because of course, the russians are described by both native 40 and the ukrainians as the aggressors in this crisis. and ukraine has said that it is an invasion from the 10s of thousands of russian troops that have gathered near the bordeaux. what do we know about true movements in the region will, according to the a, see the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the monitors cease fire violations. i mean, they saying that there are violations committee by both sides every day to give you an example, a situation report, they put out december the 7th couple of days ago. they said they were $200.00 cease fire violations just in that day, including 60 explosions. now we have been moving up and down the contact line, which is around about 400 or just over 400 kilometers long. i'm certainly we haven

and this comes as ukraine's president zelinski says he doesn't rule out a referendum on the dumbass region breaking away. meanwhile, the u. s. revealed on thursday that 30 javelin anti tech missile systems were delivered to ukraine in october, ortiz correspondent or guardian takes a wider look at the ukraine. tensions the situation on the ground in ukraine is perhaps, worst of all, because that is where people are dying. people are dying, people are suffering. people are going through through al and have been going through hell for many years that we have, we have seen the united states pacifically pumping weapons into ukraine for the ukrainian military. and these are weapons b, b, b, they a javelin miss are supplied by the united states or by dr. drones supplied by turkey. these are, these are weapons that are flowing into you credit and immediately going to the conflicts of where the civil war is being fought and the highest of you crave. there are more than 2000000 civilians are trapped in the conflict soon in east than ukraine. and they're just having to break it out, people going to s

some of it just today, between the secretary of state antony blinking and reload. amir zelinski, the ukrainian leader. but in that december 7th call, according to a white house read out, president biden said we would respond. the us would respond with strong economic measures with increased defense aid to ukraine and increased fortification of nato allies on the eastern flank. the president in that call urged de escalation, but potent has initiated this gall apparently because he's not getting what he wants. he's very concerned about what he says is a u. s. re arming of former soviet republics near russia. that's his main concern, we should know within the hour what happened in that call and what they stand to get out of it to each side from, from this particular conversation, roger wants some security guarantees. it wants a guarantee, a legally binding guarantee that the u. s. will never allow ukraine to become part of nato. it wants to make sure that certain offensive weapons are not deployed in ukraine and for the us, the u. s. is right now really focused on those troops on the bo

s. president will have with the president of ukraine. zelinski is only one of a number of conversations he's having over the issue of ukraine that is taking place on thursday. he is also going to be speaking with the leaders from countries known as the bucharest 9. that is the countries that make up the eastern flag of the nato alliance. and what the message is that is going to be delivered by joe biden, is that the united states is committed to transatlantic security. now, having said that, what the united states will also be conveying is that the united states is prepared to support militarily the efforts to defend itself with respect to ukraine and to that region. but what the u. s. president was also very clear about is that the united states has no intention or the words of the president is not at the table to send us military support in the form of soldiers. he said that that is not an option. the united states is considering. we also know that the national security advisor james sullivan, earlier in the week, really reiterated what the president is going to send in terms of a mes

the court forces the landscape to provide proof in 2019 zelinski school landslide victory and the countries presidential election against par shanker. he seems pledged to route out corruption and investigate the previous administration. alexi huron is a professor of comparative politics at the key of mer, healer academy, he says, president lensky would benefit more from promoting national unity against russian aggression limit this size he states, when he was right now, why don't you be in a position but nevertheless, i've been b, y for the last life forces needed to use the production the actually was the routers organized in the years of june 2015 when the key. so this time they read it. but why use the national sanctions? again, they used these were actually what christmas celebrations had begun in bethlehem. the biblical birthplace of jesus christ, the but the outbreak of the new coven, 19 very into omi crime has been. if you have been to see the time has been almost deserted as israel, which controls traveled the occupied west bank as effectively suspended phone tourism. because of the

he says as frustration that president zelinski hasn't done more to end the conflict. while the facts, all that 14000 people have been killed in the 7 half years of this conflict, the u. n says that it expects up to 3000000 people on both sides of the front line to need humanitarian assistance next year. and there is a just a growing sense amongst the people that you speak to who live in that contact zone or close to it of complete hopelessness and increasing anger. bear in mind that the ukrainian president ugly won his campaign. and one of the reasons why he won his presidential campaign in 2019, were promising that he was gonna end roches annexation of crimea and end the war in don vass while he's failed on both those accounts and arguably, seems more unable to do that. in a week, a position than he did at the start of his term. and the people that we've spoken to him, we spoke to somebody today who was, was angry, whose house had been described destroyed in the year in the fighting in 2015. and she didn't mean so words. she said that she wished, wished a similar fat

i mean, you have biden cooling zelinski. after after talking to vladimir putin, after talking as close as dallas, and he called ukraine. and he says that the united states is going to provide ukraine with the sort of weapons it needs to fight back. this is in their latest film called just just now release. just now, whatever weapons those will be is anyone's guess. the united states and various european nations have already provided ukraine with an arsenal from, from boats to vehicles, to artillery to night vision equipment, javelin, very advanced, very expensive anti vehicle missiles. they have provided a whole host of weapons. the united states, i believe, has just approved hundreds of millions of dollars more worth of military aid to ukraine until the end of 2020 was over december and in its new military budget. is there anything that could have on well to night with any kind of russian response of the ship had continued its charity and gone up to that important a borderline? i'm. is there anything that happened that woul

yesterday president biden also met with ukraine's president zelinski talking about the us's stance toport ukraine. biden also said the us would slap russia with strong economic sanctions if russia decides to invade. todd: have a good weekend. let's bring in andrew out far as, how much of an indictment of biden's policies is it so many latin american and central american nations weren't there? >> thanks for having me on. i would like to start with biden's opening statement, specifically in the face of sustained and alarming challenges to democracy, universal human rights all around the world democracy needs champions. some of these countries he excluded out of the invite list, cuba, venezuela, they absolutely need champions for democracy. the riots going on in cuba because of lack of democracy, these are people that now live in the united states for the most part. we have cubans in florida, all over the country, people in el salvador that have migrated to texas excluding those countries is excluding people that have come to the united states. carley: the biden administration would say

todd: 7 minutes after the hour, president biden talking to president zelinski on russia's going forces that ukraine's border. carley: griff jenkins live as their policy is put to the test. >> reporter: the world is watching, but of 100,000 troops along the ukrainian border with the reported goal of 175,000. president biden says putin understand there would be severe economic consequences but is ruling out putting boots on the ground to stop it. >> president biden: the united states will unilaterally use force to confront russia invading ukraine, is not in the cards right now. >> reporter: couldn't spoke out calling accusations of a planned invasion provocative claiming his massive troop deployment is out of concern ukraine would be allowed to join nato but publicans who see biomass foreign-policy as we can say putin is seeing how far he can push it. >> the reason these troops are on the border is they are testing biden. after afghanistan he put in play, put in motion bad guys trying to test him at every turn. >> reporter: china is watching closely to see how biden responds with that i

as tensions were over russia's military buildup on the ukrainian border, president vladimir zelinski with his troops on wednesday. kevin corke tracking the developments. >> u.s. officials believe russia is planning a multi-front military invasion of ukraine involving as many as 175,000 troops, perhaps as soon as early 2022. u.s. officials have reportedly been putting together a tough sanctions package ahead of that video call that you mentioned between mr. biden and vladimir putin which has you know is scheduled for tomorrow. >> what i am doing is putting together what i believe to be -- will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make a very, very difficult for mr. vladimir putin to go ahead and do it people are worried he may do. >> however, the white house's plans could well prove to be a bit more bluster than bite. critics point out that just last month, the biden administration quietly exempted from mandatory sanctions a russian backed vessel involved in the process to win regulatory approval of the nord stream 2 project, to -- head of a russian attack. a

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guarantee that ukraine wouldn't do so president biden will speak with ukrainian president vologda mere zelinski is a personal real reaction and role of president biden. and resolving this conflict. republicans view the president's foreign policies as the cause of the eastern european tension if we see tanks in the streets of kiev, it will be because joe biden surrendered to putin. while presidents biden and putin remain at odds on ukraine. we are told they had a good discussion on preventing iran from becoming a nuclear power in washington. lauren blanchard, fox news. and president. biden said he was hopeful that by friday the u. s would have a better idea of meetings are possible between major nato leaders and russia to address concerns. manslaughter trial of kim potter got underway today what the attorney for the former police officer who shot and killed 20 year old dante, right says would have prevented that tragedy plus what a new study reveals about the benefits of the bacteria in yogurt. and we've got some rain to talk about. we've been talking about it a lot. it is coming. it will be her

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