as always, ellen fisher for us at the white house. the with the police chief in serious main pulled says he has told hell, just bear with the thousands of people have been killed in a series of attacks, of solving sizes. loyal to allison, to president bashar assad. sorry, and on forces with the poor to la taca and one of the largest security challenges the new government has faced the place chief told l just here a remnants of the former regime have since been removed from the city. we've also been hearing from serious defense ministry spokesman telling al jazeera, the 5 is still loyal to ally of president special assad. turned out front of the hold on to him as was in some groups of the former regimes. remnants have a tech locations of the general security forces in several places, and that's a key and tattoos where a number of security forces would monitor the heroes. officers and soldiers of the ministry of defense have examined the situation and called and reinforcements and surrounded these criminal heartbeats and dealt with them

reaction from the ukranian capital in just a couple of minutes, but 1st we're going to speak to ellen fisher, who's standing by for us at the white house. ellen, can you just run a through exactly what trump said about these sanctions? potential sanctions against russia that he's been riding on his social media platform a go as i get some more information in the next few minutes. he's due to make the marks, we think mainly about the job as program, but we and the job is fingers released earlier today. but we all know donald trump, he'll take questions on, on other topics and mrs. burden to come out. he wrote on social media just over an hour ago that he was considering severe sanctions on russia, including banking restrictions and also possibly tied of because of his what was the problem doing ukraine at the moment and he wants to get them right into negotiate thing. table those in keys and you create and also here in washington, i'll say that one of the reasons that the russians are pounding ukraine is the of course, the united states, a suspended intelligence cooperation with ukraine. and

finding it more difficult and dealing with you crying, even though that they don't have any cods. ellen fisher has been standing by at the white house listening to donald trump speaking there, who ellen crystal, can you just give us an up some of what we heard was a really anything new from donald trump that as well. i think the thing that we can send most people in can send the international community is what he said about iran saying that we have in the final days of the interesting things are going to happen . we would like a peace deal, but that may not happen that will sadly. yeah. some level of concern, particularly as the reports circulating in the us media today, saying that donald trump has written the letter to run supreme leader asking if that can be some level of negotiation. but that letter has not yet been said. what he means by we, i'm the final days of dealing with around isn't entirely clear. but of course, people will say that me suggest that there's some level of military action which would be surprising given the donald trump campaign very strongly on making sure that the u

okay, thanks so much for all of that. ellen, ellen fisher, for us at the white house, a russian miss. holland john strikes has had 2 kinds energy infrastructure and several regions. acid bag is lot for us now. in cave, as a principal can use to cut through exactly what was being headed into full out from these latest attacks of does it show you just help vulnerable ukraine's energy sick to really is right now. it does so have hon. ukraine's energy sector is what i can tell you is that the authorities have said to run 261 decides. and drones are going last night to many and that's ukraine's energy infrastructure. 154 of those except to, to shut down by the ukrainians. now we understand from the ukraine's energy minister that the interest of to across the country was talking to you to understand the facilities operated by the state. run master, desperate and damaged and just in the last hour or so we're hearing that because of the semester strike the thousands of people with that guess. and the authorities have warned that there will be guest outages taking place across the country to t

social media and threatening to kill palestinians in gaza if they continue to hold captives, or ellen fisher has more details from the white house. if there's an indication that the company is going to approach things differently and rip up the playbook that has been used in the past, it is based. this is hugely significant from us was a group that was designated by the united states as a terrorist organization. back in 1997 and the us has a long standing. busy that it does not negotiate or meet with terrorist organizations. now we find that item bowler, who is the president invoice for hostage affairs, as health discussions with senior home us biggers in do ha, over the last few weeks now were told that the israelis have been informed of those discussions, but not told about all the details they've been talking about the release of 59 captive still in guys a. it's believe $22.00 of them may still be alive, but it's also so the talks are broken into a wider peace deal. we know that steve, what cost is the mind that donald trump costs with the idea of extending the c spot and guys, and also s