and then we also heard from francis president emmanuel cron saying, and i'm quoting, today's events are a turning point in the history of europe and of our country. we are now on stand by for a natal virtual summit that will happen tomorrow, and we're waiting to receive the outcome of the summit that, as i mentioned, is underway right now. yes, certainly people are in ukraine across europe and continents waking up to a very different time this morning and of course president lin skills is speaking to us. president joe biden, following recent events. caleb, your in new york, president barton a believe is you to speak in the coming hours on ukraine. what's been the response from the u. s. so far in terms of sanctions and other actions? sure. what we expect to hear from joe biden, in just a few minutes, he is scheduled to speak on this issue of ukraine and russia, etc. the monitor of the biden administration that has been repeated on social media is laying the shoulders of this conflict squarely on russia shoulders, saying that russia is the only country that bears any responsibility for t

it kicked off earlier today with french president emmanuel macro visiting russian president vladimir putin. during the meeting that cron said that he hopes the talks in moscow will start to build more trust between the european union in russia and avoid war. which in praise macros efforts to resolve this crisis. the world is watching this meeting and other diplomatic efforts, while more than a 100000 russian troops remained position near the russian ukrainian, border artless ganette, our chief international editor, richard walker for some context to what we're seeing here. we've got a lot of high level diplomacy going on right now. richard, on all fronts. where does the french president, where does he fit into all of this? yeah, it's really interesting to watch, isn't it? brand are also in the context of what we've just been talking about there, about all of shawls in washington. now you have the french president, a manual in my court in moscow, and this is being interpreted, i think, is him claiming something of a leadership role within europe. now in dealing with this crisis. and that has a couple of reasons behind i