as a statement on the war they were wearing uniforms in the yellow and blue colors of the ukrainian flack. and next step we'll see straight. so use commander all leg. does it a top stories this our conflicts on is up next to him for me on the team here in berlin. take care and safe to talk the next. oh, i think everything jenny, there some are big a muslim. so much different culture between here and there. so challenging for everything. ah, and to some of this i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. shove my got my license to work as a swimming instructor here on dish. and now i teach children monday don't to swim desktop just what's your story? take part. share it on info, migrants dot net. ah ah, welcome to world stories. this week we take another look at the war and ukraine. how volunteers around the world are preparing to defend the country and help others are helping ukrainian refugees. we begin in the usa. there, people are responding to ukrainian president zaleski is appeal to help his country against russian troops with or without weapons. andrew bennett is 45 lives in

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this is a flack jacket. >> these flack jackets are the work of this grandmother and former seamstressnvasion of ukraine pulled 68-year-old irena out of retirement to work as a volunteer sewing flak jackets for ukrainian soldiers. she says she sews these flak jackets with love and it's with that love that she hopes it'll help protect defenders. help save their lives. in the kitchen, irena's son, a lawyer, crafts the blue and yellow arm bands that security forces wear on their arms to identify themselves. how many do you make in one day? >> 200. >> 200? >> yes. >> reporter: this family workshop, part of a larger improvised production chain that sprouted up in the central ukrainian city. it's the brainchild of vitali. he takes orders from soldiers and members of the territorial defense requesting armor before they head to the front lines. before the war, vitali was a lawyer and an amateur reenactor of scenes from the first world war when ukrainian nationalists fought against russians. several days into this modern war, vitali says he asked his mother-in-law to help sew armor when his son

but under the same flack, you know, i can't do a story about parachuting and not jump out of a plane as we climb up the teams mentally prepare for their job. i try to do the same then minutes later, once the earth is just a blur below, it's time to free fall. ah, russia is accused of trying to split to ukraine in to off the failing to take control of the entire country. while and more promising signs for diplomacy, ukraine and russia ought to meet for more talks in turkey. ah, milan has him seeker, this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up u. s. secretary state antony, blinking me.

but conquered little the city of mariupol bombed a lot has resisted he wears an american flag on his flack-jacket he says it represents freedom. his gun was donated by ukrainian americans. >> we're hearing a lot of fire right now. sounds very intense. what's been happening here we've repelled every russian assault, he says now they're just bombing us from afar in the center of kharkiv, family wait out what may be a long war of attrition in the subway stations, but a welcome surprise a troop of children's entertainers is making the rounds at the stations helping the kids burn off energy, laugh, and dance the kids loved it. and like a birthday party at the end everyone lined up for a treat except here nobody went home after they'll be spending another night on the floor, hiding from russian bombs. >> our thanks to richard engel for that report. >>> president biden is standing defiant amid uproar over his comments of vladimir putin this weekend. at the end of an impassioned speech calling for unity around ukraine the president went off script saying this man cannot remain in power. nbc's brie jackso

photo which is recruiting and other world leaders and zone the he some he's going to take a bit of flack of him for the way the hide in this thing. they been bounced into it really by the i see the international committee announcing a few hours earlier that they were going to band will actually rushing from competing competition. so fetus positions been really caused by the i see, but i think there was also going international pressure on, on, speaker to acts. and of course the, the teams that were possibly going to be facing russia in the work of play off nice . the fall in sweden and the republic they refused, they said that they refused to play russia in the work qualify player next month. so that's forced the issue with the for, but it's been quite a turn around because they were with the slowest the good sports organization to, to take the stand against the russian base. and if you cry, you can find much more about ukraine on our website. the address for that is al jazeera dot com. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories. russia's drive towards the cranes capital is now en

he wears an american flag on his flack jacket he said it represents freedom. his gun was donated by ukrainian americans. we're hearing a lot of fire right now. it sounds very intense. what's been happening here "we have repelled every russian assault," he said, "now they are bombing us from afar." in the center of kharkiv, families wait out what could be a long war of attrition in the subway stations today came a welcomed surprise ♪ a troupe of children's entertainers is making the rounds of the stations helping the kids burn off energy laugh and dance. ♪ the kids loved it. and like a birthday party, at the end everyone lined up for a treat, except here, nobody went home after. they'll be spending another night on the floor hiding from russian bombs. >> richard, the two sides are heading for another round of peace talks. is everything on the table here >> reporter: it doesn't seem so. and for the first time we're seeing ukraine come into the talks with quite a bit of confidence i think that's because of what we are seeing on the battlefield the foreign ministe

mr. flack, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us to night on this claim that the city of harrison is under russian control. what do you say to that? well i, i it's, it's wrong but no, no disrespect to the news agencies, but the ukranian slag is still flying in front of the the white house, the cares on regional headquarters. office building is 3 old tank sitting there where there was no surrender. my understanding, i've been in contact with the mayor's office and he's been negotiating with the russian commander for a un sanctioned green card or out of scarce on to mania and hungry via railroad or water. logistically doable. we need about 2 weeks, 2 months to do it. the only limitation is fuel here. so the i was eager kravitz, coincidentally, 2 days before the invasion and he is fully supplied and ready. the only thing you need was medical bags for hovering feel industries. so we're waiting for this green card or right to get the mother's babies and grandmothers out, and then we're going to fight. but not before this me ask you, if you say the mayor of their song is negoti

the stadium was lit up in the blue and yellow of the ukrainian flack and minutes applause was also held before the game kicked off. images of the premier league football stands together, campaign have been going out on its world feed. in response, china, which is a close ally of russia stop showing matches from england's tough link. here is a reminder now of our top headline. ukraine has started evacuating civilians via humanitarian corps doors. coordinated with brush up video appears to show buses leaving the northeastern city assuming but keith is accusing russian forces or breaking a cease fire agreement to let people out of money. you both coming up next on dw news asia. look at how the war in ukraine is resonating in south korea's presidential election race. and it's perhaps the most unlikely issue in south korea's election campaign. whether to decriminalize tattoo artists, most of channels, those stories and more coming up next on d, w. 's, asia for all of a cerebral and thank you for watching. ah, [000:00:00;00] with ah ah, with who i saw are driven by merciless greed. others are

my advice dissolves horace to you because the god leave while they show and flack of everything. there was nothing. no gas, if there's no lights, you know water, but she had no food because all the shops have been ruined already. it's impossible to live there. the levine, central train station is the last major hub for refugees from the war escaping to europe. ah air raid sirens here, pale in comparison, perhaps, to the violets they've left behind. ah, victor and rosa from a village near car keith, under russian occupation. after hiding in their basement for 2 weeks up, they found someone to smuggle them out just before the russians closed, the check they say it was like living in a cage like you live with me and i'm not quite sure if we won the world to hear us does a free country. no one was heard here before. for me personally, i lived with a man. he is a kristin and i'm in the slim. and we live happily. ever thing was great and in one moment it ended. please stop the war with far from the fighting, but not far enough. yet. as the war begins to move west, more people are leavi

opportunities recruiting and other world leaders and zone the he some he's going to take a bit of flack of thing for the way the hide in this thing they've been bounced into really by the i see the international committee announcing a few hours earlier that they were going to pan will actually rushing from competing competition. so safest edition has been really caused by the i see. but i think there was also going international pressure on, on, speaker to acts. and of course, the, the teams that were possibly going to be facing russia in the work of play off nicely fall in sweden republic. they refused. they said that they've refused to play russia in the work of qualifying player next month. so that's forced the issue with the for, but it's been quite a turnaround because they were with the slowest of the sports organization to, to take the stand against the russians embrace of ukraine. ah, type of krycek of the headlines here on al jazeera, russia drive towards ukraine's capital is now entering a 6 day. we have a boat that dozens of people have been killed and injured. and the countr

from south carolina voted at the committee level for sonia sotomayor and keegan, he caught a lot of flacku anticipating any committee republicans crossing over in voting in advance for the nomination on the floor. >> she could get to the floor without them. senator graham has been tough on her, he has been tough on other nominees then ended up voting for them, i would be surprised if she getting a republican vote from the committee. i would watch graham, he would be the one. as tough as senator graham has been on her this week, i won't be surprised he continues with in philosophy . >> we will put the politics aside. were there any line of inquire that's lawyer to lawyer. as a lawyer yourself, you thought, that is kind of what they meant. that is a good line of questioning. or did it appear to be maybe posturing for 2024? >> it is funny, before the hearing senator dec durbin. said, i know it will be tough. there are several people on this committee who have presidential aspirations, past, or future. but i do think it is fair to look into sentencing decisions by a judge, that can tell you a

citizens to comply is another .a town north of kyiv, administrators greeted russian tanks with ukrainian flacksoops used tear gas and gunfire to disperse the crowds. ukrainians launched counteroffensive's in the northeast of the country . ukrainians took that back and thatopens up important supply routes to them . >> is there any sense the ukrainianpeople think of that comment by joe biden cleaned up by the white housethat putin cannot remain in power ? >> you don't have a lot of reaction from that . the reaction you get from the ukrainian people is that want more supplies and the no-fly zone and if they don't getthe no-fly zone that want those air defenses like the f3 hundreds . >> i was reading h week from anthony blinken that said the us will provide $100 million in the billion security assistance including armored vehicles to the state border guard and national police so you have to wonder what this means for people in mariupol because when you thinkarmored vehicles , could they be used to get people out ?>> they certainly could be used but you got to get them all the way there .mariupol is

they were wearing flack jackets, but two of them took rounds.ck 30 miles outside kyiv. tiktok is the hottest thing around. what happened here? >> what you are seeing is a ticktocker showing the damage to her home. the commentary is fascinating. i never thought my hometown would look like world war ii. and it does. empathy has become a vehicle through which we are starting to experience this war. you have to be careful with empathy. it's a valuable guide but not always pointing you in the right direction. soldier missing on tiktok. he's fine, how do we know. >> this is reportedly a sole kerr who is a -- soldier who is a huge tiktok star. there are conflicting reports whether he was making videos for his daughter. here are some of the tiktok video he's been up loading so far. [♪♪♪] >> it's war stuff, but he's trying to tell his daughter he's okay. this is a fight among villians and professionals. the russians come in with their argument amount. there was a tractor that just pulled a tank out. a farm tractor, they take away a tank. we need to be ca

it said that -- it was one of those if you studied the art of flacking somewhere in between. that's not an isolated view. i don't think it's a surprise to anyone there has been a large amount of frustration inside the west wing over the last year at the coverage in particular of the vice-president and some of her missteps. there has been frustration in the other direction. biden stuck by her. no suggestion he will throw her under the bus. he gets very frustrated i am told when he sees stories about her that suggest leaks from inside his building. he read the riot act to folks he doesn't want to see this. they are in this position. this adds more color to the picture we already have of this. >> bret: hugh, as far as delivering a speech and a message she hasn't hit the mark yet. >> no. that story about her staff turnover a speech writer was part of the staff that turned over. the ice is forming over the vice-president's reputation as a being a light weight. the only way to break out from the ice is to do interviews with you or do the sunday shows. take hard questions and hit th

you know this perfect low limp biden knew this he was flacking for the company when is he got to the podium like the credit card companies in del dem many of the people are invest in the that industry. he never said a word about it. that is odd. >> jason witlook the host of fearless watchd and thought it was weird and happy we are have him on. what did you think? it was infuriating. i liked your monologue and the way you frame today. there were to addresses the first one was the state of the new world order. and he was talking about bring unity to all the people around the globe and the countries and nato and all that and when we can do. and then i thought after he got done addressing ukraine he said let me get to former president trump's talking points and adopt them as my own. nowments to bring manufacturing jobs badge make it in america. fund the police. secure the border. this the second part of that speech this all was a clever slight of hand. this guy is a globalist. worried about global issues that's why he left china out of this. if he realliments to talk about the biggest th

not the easiest trip to pack for, though: "honey, which shirt do you think goes best with my black flackwe have any travel-size molotov cocktails? they have to be less than three ounces." now, of course, because of the conflict, the leaders couldn't fly. instead, they set out for kyiv by train. wow, the trains are still running there?" european train service is so much better than ours. the only war zone you see on amtrak is the bathroom. ( laughter ) even members of the russian state media are beginning to side against the war. check out what happened yesterday on russian state tv news: >> stephen: that is incredibly brave and inspiring. ( cheers and applause ) good for her. that's not an easy choice. i haven't seen anyone stand up to a lying autocrat like that since tucker carlson was protested by the green m&m. ( laughter ) ( applause ) now, the woman-- stand strong. now, the woman was marina marina ovsyannikova, and her sign said, "no war," and then in russian: "don't believe the propaganda. they're lying to you here." that is a fantastic sign, and a brave statement. who does that? i

san jose city hall decked out in yellow and blue, colors reflecting the flack of the eastern europeanferently -- definitely helps ukraine be stronger. >> i think everybody was on board with the idea that this was an important enough moment in history to show that we stand with the people of ukraine. >> the lights, a show of solidarity to more than 4000 ukrainians who live right here in the capital of silicon valley. it is a significant showing on the world stage. >> companies like intel and indeed, they stop sending ships to russia. russia will be back to the stone age. >> councilwoman wants to take it a step further, pushing to and the sister city relationship with russia's fourth largest city. >> it is symbolic in nature. we have not had very active system city relationship with russia. >> she says ending san jose's formal diplomatic relationship with russian city's municipal government sends a clear message. san jose must stand up when another country is being violated and terrorized. >> we can hold this system city relationship because of these things and we must and it. >> san jo

caller: first off, i'm disappointed that you decided to have two flacks from the biden administration have done nothing but praise the biden administration and run cover for him. zelensky is basically soros' pu ppet. he got into office through corruption and he is enjoying his tiktok fame while people are dying and he is sitting in his bunker, making videos. he is doing everything he can to avoid making concessions. russia made some reasonable concessions in the war and he is convincing his citizens to keep fighting and dying at the expense of their lives while he is sitting in a bunker. biden can affect gas prices. one of your guests said a total lie when he said he cannot control them when he could have opened up the keystone xl pipeline, everything began to ramp up production. this is kind of a good thing because we want to get rid of fossil fuels anyway. calling the biden administration transparent is a joke. they have lied almost every step of the way. we found there are bio labs in ukraine which contained all kinds of deadly things. the russian federation came out, the you an --

jackets, these are flack jacket plates, body armor, they hope to make 600 in the next two weeks usingabsorbers, doing everything they can to help. and this video showing a mother and a son, marina and her son daniel, 13 years old, arrived in poland after making a few days' journey from mariupol, the besieged city of mariupol. arrived without telling their family. their relatives, mother, grandmother, father, grandfather, they didn't know they left the city. here is the 13-year-old boy. listen. >> scared for me, but i could not cry anymore says the boy, it's unbelievable boys having to act like men in this type of situation. right now we know just 10% of the city of mariupol, sandra, have evacuated and those two, the mother and the son, were the lucky few so far. >> sandra: bryan, thank you, john. >> john: a briefing now underway at the state department as the war in ukraine rages on. ned price praising the strength and courage of the ukrainian people and pledging continued support as they resist russian aggression. >> sandra: we are learning the u.s. and iran are moving closer to a ne

token but one more thing, the president you probably heard took a great deal of flack for using cue cards during a q and following remarks yesterday. while most presidents don't get caught using talking point visual aids, biden did, though he is not the first or the last to the use them. >> i use them to. but you try not to get caught. kevin, we're going to discuss some happy and good news and weird news to coming up if you'll come back and just a few minutes fred. >> you not going to believe thi weird news. i'm just going to say that and tease the folks at home. >> people of home probably will be too when they hit the spread kevin, thank you. ukrainians fierce resistance to the invasion has forced a recalculation by bruton althoug preliminary pre- stocks are still a long way from any concrete results, let's discuss the latest results with marine veteran with experience negotiating with russians and former security council state great to have both of you back with a spread. >> thank you for having a spirit . >> i want to play something by the general, our fox viewers know him while talkin

zelenskyy is wearing helmets and flack jackets and he is out in the field with his soldiers.in has put out some prerecorded videos. he's not out there talking to his population. >> i am told more and more he's just going into the military command center, which is essentially a bunker under the kremlin, and wants constant updates about what's going on. he's erratic. he's worried about what aides are still loyal, what aren't. that difference in rallying people and hunkering down is pretty stark. >> president zelenskyy, what do people think about him? >> i didn't support him when he was elected. i would support him because i know he's doing great things right now. >> in the midst of war, bitter political opponents united by a common enemy, fighting together on the frontline. >> you've been a political rival of president zelenskyy. the two of you are on the same team now? >> definitely. we are. this is not team of zelenskyy. this not a team of poroshenko. definitely not. this is the joint ukrainian team, team of ukrainian people, team of yukrainian armed people. >> ukrainian peop

they'll want goods and services i have to be exposed and i have to get exposure for that i get a lot of flack for it, i have to tell you it's hit me left and right. >> farmer jim said he wouldn't drive his tractor anywhere near you on this kind of trade. >> farmer jim -- i think farmer jim wants to be on my tractor today. >> listen, the judge gave me a lesson on how to be gracious i have to tip my hat to you, kevin. you were right and i was wrong i'm subbing for steve weiss and i have to channel him and if i haven't been vociferous and you actually owe me gratitude. >> we get it right sometimes and weiss is all over me like a dark stain. i love steve. >> very well done. very well done. >> jim has learned well. >> kevin, i appreciate you coming on. we reached out to you last minute and i'm glad you were able to make it and this was a great call and we'll see if it lasts. look, the jury's out we'll see. anyway, it's good to see you and your smiling face. that's kevin o'leary pete, you're seeing bullish activity in a number of these names. tell me. >> yeah. one of them is alibaba with the stock

i think given afghanistan, they've taken flack for putting afghans in that situation because of the wayry, having to put in place the massive airlift. i think a lot of people have been calling it for a long time, saying it is overdue to allow more afghanistan refugees, to allow that status to be here longer. i think given the crisis in europe, i think we will see it play out in that situation. >> those images heartbreaking. thank you for being here. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this thursday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> it is not enough to be the leader of the nation. it takes to be the leader of the world. being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. peace in your country doesn't depend any more only on you and your people. it depends on those next to you, on those who are strong.

the photo which we put in the other world leaders and zone the he some he's going to take a bit of flack of him for the way the hide in this thing that bounced into it really by the i see the international committee announcing a few hours earlier that they were going to lactic a ration from competing competitions. and so thesis position has been really caused by the i see. but i think there was also going international pressure on, on, speaker to act. and of course, the, the teams that were possibly going to be facing russia in the work of play off nice . the fall in sweden and the republic they refused. they said that they've refused to play russia in the work qualifying place next month. so that's forced the issue with the of but it's been quite a turnaround because they were with the slowest the sports organization to, to take the stand against the russian base. and if you correct all the news, of course, on our website, there it is. on your screen. the address al jazeera dot com ah, top of each other on the headlines here in al jazeera russia's pushed towards ukraine's capital as ent

see i can shamelessly flack for it. you know, you can be dignified, but i'm happy to it's really it's a very powerful read and one of the things in the book. and in your testimony is you bring this. i think i called it uncynical outreach. you know about what happened to american democracy and to our system of government, you know that this isn't how things are supposed to work. it's actually shocking you know that the president united states would smear and fire an ambassador who did nothing wrong, you know, do you are you still able to be uncynical? i mean, you know the american system on paper. does it still look as strong to you after all of this? well, as we know this was only the first impeachment or the classic original cookie. yeah, exactly. so not not to make light of a very serious issue and the president was not held accountable. and i think he was emboldened that he thought he could do whatever he wanted. and fast forward through 2020 and the election campaign and then the elections that he lost but that he r

disinformation about the existence of bio weapons in ukraine and they knew this because pentagon flackste hands them a quote fact sheet to told themselves they read the talking points dutifully as they always do.t in fact, we don't even mention bio weapons. we just quoted victoria nulandwe told the senate and asked what it meant. the whole thing was absurd, but the experience did get us thinking what is the truth here? why exactly are we paying for biolabs? denukee train of all places? how long has this been going on and what's the purpose? so we started poking around toun find out wed did we just spokeeo to someone who knows the answer to this question, someone with direct first knowledge of this topic. it turns out that our government has for some timee funded biolabs in ukraine that do, among otherso things, research on yes biologies, weapons. this is not a conspiracy theory. it'sir true . so why is the u.s. government doing this in ukraine? the answer u? because no one wants to do bio weapons research in this country. it's too dangerous and it's too unpopular. for decades the u.s. g

the military equipment and we met the military aid and gave it away to them and i managed to give my flack jacket away, and in the middle east i didn't feel i needed it as much as they did. and this is purely humanitarian thing thatdy. >> amazing. amazing work, and i'm so glad she is out and safe in romania. thanks for taking the time to share the story with us. appreciate it. thank you. >> can i just say one other thing that is obviously propaganda from russia, russia today, sent out a statement, yesterday, that the bear was being pretty much tortured in ukraine. and he was being rescued from the ukrainian people, i would say we rescued the bear to save it from the bombing, not from the ukrainian people. >> understood. absolutely. we completely get. that thanks very much indeed for joining us. thank you. >> thanks. just hearing from the international red cross as well. they say they have made detailed proposals on a safe passage and evacuation sore sfifl -- for civilian from mariupol but to no avail. they were attempting to reopen the corridors and more than 100,000 people still tracked i

you couldn't fire at the flack you had to just fly through it. level platform. don't avoid it vom your target, okay. and whether you lived or died lady fortune, that's all that he was skill. what about the people on the ground cowering in their bunkers with their children? old men babies women pregnant women men with cancer cetera mine look like a coal mine. bunkers under the german apartment houses wkaput the strn the street. we live another day. it's lady fortune. same sort of thing. you need a little empathy i think. in addition to strategy discussions of strategy when you go at the airport. now one of the things i'd like to discuss in the q&a is how so-called hollywood is going to treat this in a film that we're making called masters of the air base of my bookmasters here. i'll just say this. that hanks and spielberg are committed entirely to fidelity. i've never seen anything quite like it. tom came to east and one time to visit got off the plane. he had two suitcases. one was filled with his clothing. the other was much larger. it was filled with 34 books.

cars identified with the press emblem, journalists wearing press flack jackets targeted intentionally. so that does have great bearing where i go and how i work because even going to the bridge yesterday when i had to run across the street i was worried about sniper fire. we are targets as much as the civilians and has a bearing on how we cover the war. >> if people saw -- i think everyone has seen the image today. did you know what you had? did you know what you had captured? did you know they were altogether? you said you saw her in the pink puffy jacket and knew what was unfolding but is this happening sort of in numbers that we haven't grasped and that the ukrainians haven't been able to convey? what is your sense of what this photo represents? >> this photo represents to me a war crime. it represents sort of an intentional targeting of civilians and women and chirp in -- children in particular. i was in shock because i had gist had a mortar land about 30 feet from me so i knew what i had to do as a journalist, i had to take the photos as painful as they were. i tried to do it in

caller: first off, i'm disappointed that you decided to have two flacks from the biden administrationave done nothing but praise the biden administration and run cover for him. zelensky is basically soros' pu ppet. he got into office through corruption and he is enjoying his tiktok fame while people are dying and he is sitting in his bunker, making videos. he is doing everything he can to avoid making concessions. russia made some reasonable concessions in the war and he is convincing his citizens to keep fighting and dying at the expense of their lives while he is sitting in a bunker. biden can affect gas prices. one of your guests said a total lie when he said he cannot control them when he could have opened up the keystone xl pipeline, everything began to ramp up production. this is kind of a good thing because we want to get rid of fossil fuels anyway. calling the biden administration transparent is a joke. they have lied almost every step of the way. we found there are bio labs in ukraine which contained all kinds of deadly things. the russian federation came out, the you an -- u

i am sure that there will be a lot of flack about people who do not want somebody from that point of be on, but there are plenty of professionals, not talking about politicians -- a politician would be the worst person, but you want a statistician. there are quite a few have been involved in the audit and they can speak from their professional experience and also from their degrees, statistically, and lay it out the way it should be. that way we can do what you just told the last caller that we'll say what we believe, listen to the guests, and then we will argue over it by calling in. so, i think that you should do that. host: ron in new york on the independent line. caller: yes, thank you. not sure what that guy was trying to make as a point, but anyway. uh, we really have to bulk up nato, planes and tanks. there's no alternative. my old coach used to say, should have, would have, could have -- we could look back at syria, chechnya, georgia, we had opportunities. we do not have it. right now, putin is in a corner. the only place he will be able to spend his billions is in syria, ira

eastern and southern regions they keep and declare neutrality you have biden who speaks and getting flackuld have made. just watching what is happening. >> it complicates matters. trying to get to a position. >> that's not what you want to say. >> reach agreement i can understand how joe biden would say that. >> understand like will smith. >> i understand. >> when president trump said things off the cuff and now president biden making things off the cuff and trying to make the position of pulling troops back from ukraine. >> i learned over the years. i worry about my wife first and then repercussions afterwards could be serious >> you are not president of the united states. >> i know. i'm not talking about that the other thing that will smith did. i might have -- torpedos be damned >> there are better ways the credit, by the way, belongs to chris rock. handled that about as brilliantly as anybody in that situation. >> what do you think will smith's wife thinks at this point? >> at one point they are not together now very much together >> you have the rest of the world and you have your wi

everybody had their leather jackets and all those things and after he got elected, we ended up with some flacks that the motorcycle riders gave to harold and myself. mine is still around. harold, he got elected, city council organized against them and there were 29 people on the other side and 21 of us. he called it the 29-21. and ultimately we ended up with 25-25 split. and so every item that came up that would be 25 votes for it and 25 votes against it. and then, of course, harold would have a chance to break the tie. but he had such a fairness of fairness, assuring every community that they would be treated the same as every other community, that they would get a part of the infrastructure, that their schools would be prepared, that their sidewalks would be repaired and fixed. so he became bigger than life. as a matter of fact, when harold died, people celebrated in the streets and spent days walking to pay refer rains and he helped people understand that government belonged to them and they did not necessarily belong to government. and so when people ask what was the transformation? the tra

he had to get help -- clearly, from his flack his pr representative to then following day, write an apologycome from his heart i suspect gets suspended from academy wouldn't take award away but zbent consequences for career a remove coming up called anticipation i don't care if next in that movie not getting nominated. >> i will spend my money on creation rock that was shameful full stay right there next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. . maria: good thursday morning thanks very much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo, it is thursday, march 3 1, top stories right now 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, today, march buying spree, today marks the end of the first quarter of big buying spree this month in march, markets are finishing this quarter well off the lows, and finishing off big for the month of march dow, s&p and nasdaq seeing best month since october, for the month of march with a buying spree, and now the end of the quarter, ends with a fractional decline for major averages after that volatile start to the year stocks on base for the first down quarter two years futures dow

he wears an american flag on his flack jacket. he says it represents freedom. his gun was donated by ukrainian americans. >> we are hearing a lot of fire right now. it sounds very kbens. what has been happening here? >> reporter: we've repelled every russian assault, he says. now they're just bombing us from afar. >> richard engel from kharkiv. meanwhile u.s. officials say ukrainian troops recaptured sumy near the border with russia. russia has launched more than 1,300 missiles in total since the invasion began last month. moving to the western part of ukraine, we find nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez in lviv. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. minutes before you came to us we heard the sound of air raid sirens here in lviv. it has become a common sound in this western city which, as you mentioned, has been a relative safe haven for refugees since the start of this war. we are still seeing thousands of them streaming through here each day. the governor of lviv this morning saying that air defense systems here in this region actually