with pilot pilots and why, dear erdogan, are you keep doing. it's the foreign minister right now. lavrov before the negotiations was not as optimistic as erdogan, the head of the honey said that there are chances for an agreement between moscow and kiev, but the ball on the side of ukraine is an acceptable result for russia, according to lavrov , the termination. fire cessation of the killing of civilians , recognition of the crimea and donbass and. of course, complete demilitarization. denocification is obligatory everything by all means, but carefully, a day before the negotiations, zelensky, through the mouth of kuleb, stated that ukraine will not give up not on the crimea, not on the donbass and if russia starts to put forward its ultimatums and i quote now in bread, in particular the ultimatum on denocification, then the ukrainian delegation will get up and leave. at the table and fly back home also kuleba advised the ukrainian delegation. do not eat or drink. do not touch any surfaces after the dubious story of poisoning, allegedly billionaire abramovich, who, by the way, is

by the way, that 's why erdogan. delegations, got ready and flew away. where in uzbekistan this is very symbolic, because turkey is doing everything to conquer the so-called chur world, but also to form it. actually under the system international relations, it is extremely important for her that the negotiations are taking place. uh, exactly in istanbul exactly in turkey here uh. i think that it is necessary to encourage the turkish position that it does not completely side with, er, the anglo-saxon world as long as turkey is holding on to the issue. how long can she hold on. this is a rather serious question, and the trends are obvious in terms of the s -400, the last statement that was made with raises some questions. on the one hand, she does not intend to abandon the s400, but on the other hand waiting for an offer from the united states, this was also voiced from the turkish side, and therefore there is no need to upset anyone, it is necessary to conduct negotiations and it is very important that the negotiation

adviser to erdogan, whom you have now seen on the screen next to erdogan. e, their personal impressions after talking with them, in particular erdogan's adviser, that they were optimistic ahead of time. that is, i got the impression that turkey was counting on some progress in these negotiations, and these proposals that are being voiced now were already known to the turkish leadership, ahead of time, and here. i agree with vladislav, who said that turkey needed some statements that could be interpreted, at least, as the success of the turkish diplomacy success of the turkish mediation. i'll say more. their mood was such that this was, apparently, one of the conditions for the continuation of this mediation. that is, it was necessary to say something, to do something, to say something, so that it was perceived as a movement forward. and here are some things that already existed on earth. prior to that, in the region of kiev and chernigov, they were presented with absolutely some success. although in reality little has changed and this is actually profession

erdogan in a mask, as soon as he enters the hall, gives her assistant no handshakes. president of turkey welcomes everyone, putting his hand to the heart of erdogan, who supplies attack drones to ukraine. he says that no one wants a war. we have made sincere efforts at all levels and have tried to follow the principles of friendship, good neighborhood and laws welcomed with applause. about an hour after the start of the negotiations are interrupted, the ukrainian side does not explain the reasons for abruptly leaving the palace to journalists, while it is forbidden to film even the departure of the delegation. medinsky at this time is talking about what they have already agreed on, the ukrainian delegation promised to take tough measures against the criminals who tortured russian soldiers, we protested against. uh, appeared footage with bullying of captured russian servicemen, this protest was accepted by the ukrainian side. they promised to take the most severe measures. well, if the first to catch them are those who allowed these war crimes. in total, the negotiatio

erdogan is seen as someone who understands the kremlin.hether it will help means to be seen, but the german and turkish leaders agree they want a cease-fire as soon as possible. >> each day with each bomb, russia is distancing itself more and more from the global community we formed together. therefore, our joint appeal to the russian president, pause to reflect. there can only be a diplomatic solution to this conflict. reporter: an appeal that seems unlikely to impress the russian leader. there will probably be many more meetings like this before there is an end to the violence in ukraine. brent: our correspondent was at that press conference in the turkish capital today, good evening to you. what stood out to you in what these two leaders had to say? we have the leader of germany and leader of turkey, both nato members -- are they on the same page? reporter: whastood out me were the words by olaf scholz, how he emphasized that the turkish president and he agree on a need for iediate cease-fire in ukraine, and on behalf of bo of them, add

uh, it would be good for erdogan to arrange terrorist attacks in the same turkey. show yes against russian women uh mutilate russian prisoners of war and so on. all this is e was a series of statements and, accordingly, those people who fulfill these calls. they do follow those orders, after all, when well the terror defense terrorist cuts, there's uh man in the stairwell. yes, he directly fulfills zelensky’s decree, zelensky’s decree giving the right without trial or investigation, means dealing with those whom you consider to be russian saboteurs, that is, blood is directly on zelensky’s hands and this company, which, uh, has gathered and is also directly listed for a long time in recently, many avaks have called me to kill russians. there is no direct culprit yet zelensky who signed a decree giving such powers.

in the front row, erdogan is being listened to by minister cavusoglu, who spoke with zelensky the day, the press secretary of the turkish president, in an interview with sen, said that the disagreements between the russian and ukrainian sides are still a lot in coffee, the biggest difficulty. now it's a matter of territorial integrity ukraine ukrainian side. he says that he cannot compromise, as for the donbass and crimea, we did not recognize the annexation of crimea, like the rest of the world, evil, damn it, i'm sorry, but even china did not recognize crimea. that's why i say that the russian request is absolutely maximalist and unrealistic to them really, something else should be invented; the common position is that we do not trade more than one inch of ukrainian territory. we don't want to sign an agreement. russian conditions they want us to start doing this, so that all their provisions were included, but we will not sign any agreements on their terms. we will sign documents only on ukrainian terms, we survive and we will defeat the minister of foreign affairs of a powerful ro

and president erdogan has been working the phones, kim. he's made multiple calls to both presidents putin and zelenskyy in recent weeks. the latest call was on thursday, and this is where they say president putin laid out, again, his demands for negotiations to end this war. and there's nothing new there. we've heard these demands before from russia. and, you know, the list includes the, you know, disarming ukraine, a neutral ukraine, when it comes to no nato membership. that so-called de-nazification. these are issues they say can be resolved in the ongoing negotiations between both sides, all these talks that have been taking place at a lower level. but the main issues at the heart of the conflict that they see very difficult to resolve for both sides, very content hushus president putin telling president erdogan that he wants the recognition of these territories. we know for the ukrainians that that is a red line when it comes to territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukrainian territory, that is not negotiable. and we also know this

er, of course, erdogan provided a really luxurious palace. this is not geneva, not switzerland.ed to negotiations, so to speak, we are used to france in life, but france and switzerland have made their unequivocal choice in this big game, turkey is trying to sit on several chairs, which is traditional for her. and, of course, e, the host of the negotiations, said that his situation in ukraine is very upsetting, there is no need to upset erdogan. well, and besides, uh, of course , there is no need to upset our minister of defense and minister of foreign affairs, and in this regard. and you need to understand that the man who was appointed president regarding ukraine is being implemented and will be implemented, this is both denocification and demilitarization and the status of crimea and the status of donbass and despite the fact that erdogan's press secretary kolin, uh, before the event said that not quite realistic, as he said, the maximalists look like russia's demands. they are quite justified. and just like with gas. eh, and in the same way with this everyone will have to ad

uh, somewhere erdogan 100.000 acted in front of them.l be no fairness in the world, the losers must stop this. everyone is interested in establishing a ceasefire as soon as possible, we believe that we have entered a period when concrete results should be obtained from the negotiations, the world is waiting for good news from you. we are ready for any contribution that will make your work easier. but, but one addition before they actually listened to the side , after they listened to erdogan in a separate room, the heads of the delegation left. uh, medyn hierarchies. ah, what were they doing there in a private room? what they talked about, perhaps they called up with someone, no one knows. and now the negotiations have continued in general formulations. uh, delegations are sitting around the table, but it's all happening behind closed doors. here we have a huge number of journalists next to the local negotiations who are watching what is happening, uh, enhanced security measures. as you can see, a lot of the military unhooked this place

president erdogan says that they are ready to be the venue to hold talks between the two idents.drom john simpson's report that the turkish underlined that this cannot be left up to negotiators or foreign ministers. it has to be the presidents. both have said that they are ready to meet, but that has to be prepared. important details from what the turks say they are managing to achieve with the other mediation efforts. ros: if that is one ement of the diplomacy, if you could help me with the military equation. we have talked abouthe amount military aid of the west is ying to supply to ukraine. of course there is a difference between promising aid and actually getting those weapons into the theater of war. to what degree do we think this assistance i genuinely impacting the litary equation on the main battle areas? >> i think it's having a huge impact. whenever we hear about the ukrainian resistance, you hear about the javelins, antitank missiles, when you hear about them using surface-to-air missiles, stingers, also provided by nato armies. you hear about the equipment being used

president erdogan does have a good working relationship with president putin.o far turkey feels it has been able to achieve who others haven't, and that is bringing together the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia for talks here earlier this month. but there is also this realization, hala, that what they're pushing toward is a permanent cease-fire and a resolution for the situation in ending the war. and to do that, as we've heard from turkish officials, they obviously need to bring together the two countries on a leadership level. because the decision to end this conflict is the decision of one man and one man only and that is vladimir putin. so we know that president erdogan has been -- he had several phone calls with both leaders throughout this crisis. the latest, according to turkish officials, was last thursday. and turkish officials are saying that president putin repeating really what we already know, hala, what his position is, what his terms are to end this war, whether the neutral -- a neutral ukraine, disarming the country, the so-called de-nazi

turkish officials, president erdogan has been working the phones. he has been talking to both president zelenskyy and putin trying to bring them together and they have continued to push for this. turkey is saying, look, we're not hosts of these talks. we want to be facilitators. we are mediators. they are trying to utilize that strong relationship, isa, that they have with both ukraine and russia. turkey a key nato country but it still maintains strong ties with russia, economic ties, defense ties. and presidents putin and erdogan do have a good working relationship. they are trying to use that position to try and bring both sides together. we heard from the turkish foreign minister saying yesterday in president erdogan's calls with putin, the last call was last weekend, at least that's what they announced publicly. in that phone call president putin told erdogan he is not opposed to talks with president zelenskyy in principle. so turkey is trying to push it. they believe the meeting held here between the two foreign ministers, that could possibly p

turkey's president erdogan says the meeting must yield results.ranslation: it will be i to the benefit of everybody to achieve a ceasefire and establish peace as soon as possible. here in the uk, police are expected to issue the first fines for government parties held in breach of the coronavirus restrictions. a thanksgiving service to honour prince philip's life will take place later today. buckingham palace says a last—minute decision will be made on whether the queen will attend. unacceptable and inexcusable — hollywood star will smith says sorry to comedian chris rock for slapping him at the oscars. hello and welcome if you're watching on pbs, in the uk or around the world. peace talks between delegations from ukraine and russia are under way in turkey, with the ukrainian side pushing for a ceasefire. it's the first meeting between the two sides in two weeks, but hopes of a breakthrough at the negotiations in istanbul remain low. meanwhile, the uk foreign office says it's very concerned by the claim that the russian billionaire, roman abramovi

and also president erdogan does have a really good working relationship with president putin. so what they've been trying to do is to bring both sides together also utilizing the really good relationship president erdogan has with president zelenskyy and with ukraine. and we have seen some success, hala, basically when the turkish foreign minister managed to host a trilateral meeting here in turkey just last week between the ukrainian and russian foreign ministers. but what turkey has really been working toward is to try and bring both president zelenskyy and putin together. president erdogan has offered to hold a summit here in turkey, inviting them to istanbul or to ankara. but here's what turkish officials are telling us, that in these ongoing phone calls between president putin and president erdogan, the latest we know of, at least publicly, was on thursday according to a chief adviser to president erdogan saying that he doesn't think that they're going to be able to hold these talks soon because president putin has these demands. none of this is new, really, hala. we know

the foreign minister and the turkish president erdogan have been working the phones. they have tried to bring president putin and zelenskyy together for a summit. right now they have managed to get these two top diplomats to sit together in a trilateral meeting hosted by the turkish foreign minister. as you mentioned, that happened an hour ago. we understand from a single senior official, this is happening in the next 30 minutes or so. perhaps an indication but no one is expecting this to go on for hours. no one is expecting a major breakthrough to come from this meeting. things are quite fluid and that could change. we have seen preparations underway for two separate press conferences taking place after the talks conclude. one here where foreign minister sergei lavrov is expected to address the press and then a separate room where foreign minister kalava was speaking. turkey was hoping, isa, that this is going to be, you know, as we heard from president erdogan, opening the door towards a permanent cease-fire, but i think realistically no one is expecting any sort of

of the western press this thursday in brussels was riveted not even not to biden, and kejep taip erdogano the president of turkey former head of intelligence of the turkish general staff , nato general ismail khaki beijing explains, what's the matter, firstly, turkey purchased the s-400 from russia, and secondly, if these air defense systems are transferred to ukraine relations between turkey and russia will come to an end. for us, this is a critical moment. we want to maintain relations with both russia and ukraine for the past 2 weeks, the us authorities have been convincing turkey to transfer russian s -400 anti-aircraft missile systems to ukraine in exchange for the return ankara to the american program for the production of the fifth generation f-35 fighter. this issue was to be decided at the nato summit in brussels but apparently western leaders failed to break erdogan russia's trust in turkey we will find ourselves in an even more precarious position. we are not only buying s-400s from you. we are cooperating on many fronts to build a nuclear power plant. and, of course, we buy g

to turkish officials, the last phone call we're aware of took place on thursday between president erdogan and president putin and president putin laying out his conditions for these negotiations, for a cease-fire and to end the war. and we know the russian position, we've heard it all before. but what turkish officials are saying is that their feeling is that some of these issues, like when it comes to the so-called denazification, the disarmament of ukraine, these are issues where progress may be made between the two sides in their ongoing talks. but the key issues for president putin and also for the ukrainians, it's the issue of territory when it comes to the annexation of crimea and it comes to the so-called donbas republics. president putin wants these recognized and we know for ukraine this is a red line when it comes to its territorial sovereignty. and to president putin telling president erdogan according to turkish officials that they does not believe that the positions of these two leaders, the two countries, are close for them to be able to hold these one-on-one talks just yet.

maria: what struck officials is that erdogan -- turkey was seen as being the right mediator. if the meeting between russia and ukraine happens in turkey, erdogan said we have done a lot of talks but now we get -- we need to get something within two days whether that means a cease-fire remains to be seen but erdogan is saying we need to get serious. this is my political capital so we need to get something done today from this meeting. jonathan: thank you as always and a great interview with the german finance minister yesterday. i hate to do this but when you start to look at the headlines that these talks look better, russia and these talks is hardly being the reliable partner. tom: you are absolutely dead on. we don't have a schedule of announcements. we will get them when we get them. i would suggest the brave war reporting of many different organizations which show that you train is on the up and up except the further horrific bombing of russia. you've got to ask if there is hope. jonathan: there's been a lot of hope over the last month but it's often been misplaced. lisa:

erdogan, turkey is a member to the north atlantic alliance.e has never tried to hide his sympathy for ukraine, and i don't think he can regard it as an honest broker. there might be other people. but not too many of them. mediation will not be easy. mohammed: from your vantage point, who can be the most effective mediators going forward? zachary: i don't think there is an obvious answer. there are a number of theoretical individuals were countries out there that for one reason or another, particularly because they have good relations with russia and ukraine, could serve that role. the question is do they have the political will and capacity to do so? we talked about china having good relations with both. we talked about turkey being a member of nato but also pragmatic relations with russia, carving out regional contacts in places like syria -- compacts in places like syria. people have talked about israel. each of them has narrow interests of their own as well which makes it difficult to break out of the current geopolitical stalemate. china i

in a phone call between president putin and turkey's president erdogan, the russian leader set out hisemands. our world afairs editorjohn simpson, who's in istanbul, has the details of that call. president putin's asking for six key things, four of them are relatively easy... that ukraine should announce its neutrality — that's to say it won'tjoin nato. well, it said it won't do that anyway. that it should disarm, relatively speaking — that it shouldn't have certain weapons to attack russia with if it actually ever did want to. that it should protect the russian language, something very important to mr putin. he claims that russians have been targeted because of their language in ukraine. and fourthly, something they call denazification. i thought that sounded really fierce, but, infact, the turkish official said no, he thinks it's quite easy. it's an undertaking to crack down on neo—nazis. that's the easy bit. two difficult bits which will probably require face—to—face talks between mr putin and president zelensky here, and those two are the territories in donbas, which russia would l

reporter: i suspect the behavior of russian forces would be part of the discussion with president erdogan. in terms of the war crimes scriptio description, i think we've seen consistently with the distinction of what journalists and ordinary people on the ground can make a common sense judgment and call a war crime with the commands of having to prove that, should it come to that at the hague at some point. evidentiary requirements and determinations of intent, what was an accident, what was on purpose. we can pretty much see what's going on and make our own judgments about what the russians are doing, but they're trying to draw that distinction and in terms of the rest of the phone call with president erdogan, he's in a unique position. he's a nato member, has not subjected russia to sanctions, turkey has not individually, and president erdogan has something of a potential inner locketer. he's a potential mediator and got these potential signals of a glimmer of daylight for negotiations, as you indicated, it hasn't been realized at all in the talks between ukraine and russia, but there h

in a phone call between president putin and turkey's president erdogan, the russian leader set out hisands. the bbc�*s world affairs editor, john simpson, who's in istanbul, has been given details of that call. half—an—hour after coming off the telephone call between president putin and president erdogan, ibrahim kalin started to tell me what had been happening. president putin is proposing six things. one is that ukraine should be neutral and shouldn't join nato. well, it has already accepted that it shouldn't. there should be disarmament which simply means that ukraine wouldn't have the kind of heavy weapons to attack russia if it wanted to. thirdly, that it should protect the russian language inside ukraine. and fourthly, the question of denazification. this is kind of a strange thing. to my mind, i still haven't really figured out what that means because ukraine... it is a bit insulting to ukraine, isn't it? yes, of course, and they completely reject that, of course. i mean, there has never been that kind of nazification on ukraine, ukrainian lands. but the russian side has brought

. >>> and the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, said last week that ukraine and russia appear to be making progress in some areas, including ukraine backing off of nato membership, which we heard from arwa there. selective security, and the use of russian language in ukraine. the chief adviser to president erdogan is involved in the talks and spoke with becky anderson about the sticking points. >> sometimes positions seem to be converging on some kind of an understanding. sometimes they seem to be diverging a little bit. so there are still important differences over these four issues, but in our assessment, the most difficult one, of course, is territorial integrity of ukraine, which must be protected of course. the ukrainian side cannot compromise on that, and that concerns donbas and crimea. crimea was annexed back in 2014. the situation hasn't rised, but no one has recognized the annexation of crimea since then. now the russian side wants the international community to recognize it. i don't think that's going to fly. that's a very maximalist demand from the russian side. it

uh, turkish president recep tayyip erdogan also attended the talks.ere you see him, he is also present there now, in general, we follow the information, i met with a few minutes ago. and as soon as the news comes, we will be sure to tell you all this on our air. so he comes and even took off his mask, which is not quite typical for turkey at the moment, but nevertheless, let's return to those matters that are worrying for each of our viewers, let's return to the topic of donbass , there is a real humanitarian disaster related to water, given the fact that the apu and the nationalists are retreating and are carrying out terrorist activities, undermining the entire infrastructure. the water supply system was broken there and from today water is supplied to the city for 2 hours within two days. let's see a little plot about this problem. donetsk is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe . continues to get worse. interruptions began after the pumping station of the city’s only source of water supply was de-energized with targeted strikes, and water su

erdogan will hold today until the start of negotiations. and this can become another additional communication channel. so far, the parties have not been able to find a compromise. the only public result of the first three rounds that took place in belarus was the organization of humanitarian corridors on key issues, everything is much more difficult if moscow’s position is from protecting the inhabitants of donbass and restoring the republics within the administrative borders. and before the recognition of crimea as russian and demilitarization with denocification , president putin outlined it on february 24, then the head of ukraine with his own priorities. it seems that he has not decided on the fight against nazism in ukraine promised quote not to sit down at the negotiating table at all, acknowledged that the issue of donbass and crimea should be discussed, but immediately declared that all these are parts of an indivisible ukraine which position the mission from kiev brought here is not yet clear in any case, the moscow delegation spok

no, there is a statement from erdogan that he will not join them and there is a statement there leadershipdi arabia and the united arab emirates who behave very decently. uh, which also emphasizes that they will cooperate with russia and they will not be able to replace russia in the energy market, and so on. this is the reason for this phenomenon, after all, the islamic world, it is really ambiguous, because it treated russia unambiguously. but he was definitely ambivalent. yes, but with regard to the middle east, you need to understand that it has suffered a lot from american policy in general and today day for the middle east is given an exclusive opportunity to get out of this very tutelage. that is why everyone somewhere is talking with chinese delivery comrades, and oil is in dollars, but in yuan. that is why. uh, as you said, vyacheslav alekseevich, in the arab countries, in particular in the united arab emirates, in saudi arabia, they say that they cannot replace, but russia on international markets, and this is impossible. they are quite realistic about the processes. and they und

the president of turkey welcomes everyone with his hand on his heart erdogan, who supplies attack dronesraine. he says that no one wants a war. from the very beginning of the crisis. we have made sincere efforts at all levels and have tried to follow the principles of friendship, good neighborliness and laws welcomed with applause. about an hour after the start of negotiations, the ukrainian side abruptly leaves the palace without explaining the reasons , and it is forbidden to film even the departure of the delegation. medinsky at this time talks about what they have already agreed on, the ukrainian delegation promised to take tough measures against criminals who tortured russian soldiers, we protested against the appearance of a video with bullying of captured russian soldiers, this protest was accepted by the ukrainian side. they promised to take the most severe measures. well, if the first to catch them are those who allowed these war crimes. in total , the negotiations lasted a little more than 3 hours. russia received written proposals from ukraine regarding the non-bloc status of

this followed a bbc news report that russian president putin had called turkish president erdogan on thursday and told him what, quote, russia's precise demands were for a peace deal with ukraine. speculation has been growing about an emerging peace deal since the "financial times" reported that ukrainian and russian negotiators discussed a 15-point draft on monday. but ukrainian president zelenskyy has been sending mixed signals about what terms he'd be willing to agree today. today's "washington post" front story says ukraine's statements suggest that zelenskyy and his top aides haven't come to a firm conclusion on what the ukrainian people are willing to concede in exchange for a cease-fire and withdrawal of russian troops which brings us to the putin/erdogan call. turkey has positioned itself as a go-between between russia and ukraine. and the bbc on the call, ibrahim kaolin, kaolin says the demands include the following, acceptance by ukraine that should be neutral. and should not imply nato. and ukraine undergoing a disarmament process. to make sure it's not a threat to russia.

and so that signal from erdogan, i think, is a signal that putin want to pick up on.ing as well. that's what we were talking about on the break. putin's forces in ukraine are not doing well. they have bogged down after three weeks. they are low on supplies. they are having a hard time with logistics. they're getting attacks. they've lost a lot of personnel, a lot of equipment. they've resorted to attacks on civilians and bombing cities, as i said. so for putin to now be setting out terms for talking, whether or not those terms are reasonable, the fact that he's doing it is interesting. he's recognizing things are not going well what he actually said, of course, is unacceptable, but this is an opening. liz: except that he is a trapped rat right now, and we know that he will not accept defeat in his mind. and if what then will be wrought upon ukraine? it makes us bonder -- wonder, because just yesterday we had a doctor who ran, before he defected to the united states sa biological weapons program where they developed anthrax weapons, they were working on i ebola weapons

he wants erdogan on board and we will see what comes from this call. >> it is hard to see erdogan wantingse president xi jinping, maybe, that's the outside voice that maybe able to. thank you so much for your reporting and insight this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with all of us on this thursday morning. "morning joe" starts right now >>> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, march 10 it. we are following several fast-moving developments out of ukraine this morning. a horrific scene after russia attacked a maternity hospital in the city of mariupol. images of pregnant women being carried out on stretchers, flying debris and a crater some 30-feet deep. the bombing sparking international condemnation that russia is still targeting civilians after meeting with ukraine's foreign minister in turkey this morning, russia's sergey lavrov falsely claimed there were no patients inside the hospital when it was attacked. the ukrainian diplomat said his request for a 24-hour cease-fire was denied and russia conveyed that attacks will continue until

i was surprised that i was decorating this hall for the meeting of the erdogan delegation.h a bayraktar there. for a long time already you know it was sold so it was sold, and by about, and about the negotiations. i have absolutely no illusions at all that today politics cannot be stopped through diplomacy through negotiations, in general, it is impossible to stop the war. it can be prevented, but stopped already. it seems to me that this is no longer possible. and this applies not only to the russian but also to the ukrainian side. at least those people who are sitting there in the fields, but it has already gone so far that even the red lines somehow do not turn their tongues. e talk now e about the proposals that put forward by ukraine, you know, in relation to the non-bloc neutral status, one could speak. eh, here. uh, there two or three years ago. yes, but when all this is included in the constitution, that is, it is written in the constitution, and the person who, in fact, did this, requires zelensky to explain himself today. why did he agree to a neutral non-aligned,

exactly the ukrainians took off from kiev lvov or , for example, warsaw, it is not clear that recep erdogansonally greet the participants in the negotiations, it became clear as soon as the colorful turkish special forces appeared next to the creator, the distinctive feature of which erdogan’s mustache not only turned to the negotiators, but the forces of the minister of foreign affairs of turkey to remain in the palace in order to provide any assistance, if possible, if it is needed during communication. we believe that in a just world not will, the losing parties must stop this tragedy, everyone is interested in a ceasefire being established as soon as possible, we believe that we have entered a period when concrete results should be obtained from the negotiations, the world is waiting for good news from you. we are ready for any contribution that will simplify your work, fulfilling the instructions of our president in every possible way to help the delegations of the minister of foreign affairs in turkey, they could immediately demonstrate knowledge of the russian language very well. new

exactly ukrainians took off from kiev, lviv, for example, warsaw, it is not clear that recep taip erdoganeet the negotiators, it became clear as soon as colorful turkish special forces appeared near the palace, the distinctive feature of which erdogan's mustache not only appealed to the participants of the perego. well, he asked the minister of foreign affairs of turkey to stay in the palace in order to provide any assistance, if possible, if it was needed during communication. we believe that in a just world there will be no losers, the parties must stop this tragedy, everyone is interested in a ceasefire being established as soon as possible, we believe that we have entered a period when concrete results should be obtained from negotiations, the world expects from you good news. we are ready for any contribution that will simplify your work, fulfilling the instructions of our president to help the delegations in every possible way, the turkish foreign minister could step. immediately demonstrated knowledge of the russian language very well. i will try, as he does, i also need to learn r

turkey's president erdogan says the meeting must yield results.ranslation: it will be i to the benefit of everybody to achieve a ceasefire and establish peace as soon as possible. a thanksgiving service to honour prince philip's life will take place later this morning — buckingham palace says the queen is currently intending to go. unacceptable and inexcusable — hollywood star will smith says sorry to comedian chris rock for slapping him at the oscars. the metropolitan police is recommending that 20 initial fixed penalty notices are issued for breaches of covid—19 regulations in the wake of downing street parties. it's the first confirmation from the force that rules were broken. the force says it won't be naming the individuals or confirming which events the fines relate to. the met has examined a dozen events which took place during the pandemic — including some attended by the prime minister. in the last hour, the metropolitian police has issued a statment saying: "the investigation into allegations of breaches of covid—19 regulations in whiteh

you see, georgia is small turkey is big, really, really, really, seriously, true well, today erdoganot see any conditions under which, uh, turkey will announce any sanctions against. e with russia because relations with russia are incredibly important for turkey. by the way, i recalled zelensky to send to turkey no. no. well, because, because he can, just understand, because he can only lie and do. this is in relation to nothing, meaningless positions. in this case, it means absolutely nothing and positions i could also find the same ones besides erdogan’s turkey, you understand, your country has swallowed the language e for a long time in this the united states of america refuses to fight for you, you understand, and you make claims to georgia. and i said one more thing about the population. you asked me, vasily, the population sympathizes with me yes there, but the majority there more than sixty-six percent, in my opinion, or somewhere close to that, on sociological issues american, by the way, oppose the imposition of sanctions, that is, the addition of sanctions against russia be

we heard from president erdogan addressing both delegations before the meeting before it starts saying that he believed that there was a pathway for peace moving forward and making one particularly interesting comment to both of them saying that he expected that these negotiations had reached a stage where concrete results should be achieved. now all of that being said, is there going to be some sort of m peace agreement that is going to be coming out of this? one would hope so. one would think that could be the case, but it is highly unlikely. but what we could potentially see, and this would be very significant for the population in ukraine, is some sort of a more solid negotiation when it comes to those humanitarian corridors. this is something we have been hearing from the ukrainian side, that they have been going into this saying they want to really assess whether or not russia is serious about these talks, whether they are just paying lip service in terms of playing this part of the game or whether russia is actually serious about opening up more humanitarian corridors and actual

that vladimir putin, after that phone call with president erdogan on sunday, was prepared to send theor those face to face talks. so turkey a really important country. as for president erdogan, well, i think it's, you know, it's been a diplomatic coup for him to be able to say to his own people that, you know, he is a peacemaker. and he was certainly greeted by applause from both of the delegations inside here when he stood up at the very beginning and said to them that both sides, both sides, had a historic responsibility to try to come to a truce. now, as you been hearing from jenny, nowhere near that kind of thing, expectations were always extremely low. but it has been interesting to see as the talks have broken up, at least for the time being, we don't know if they'll continue tonight, this slight change of tone as the ukrainian delegation came out, the very sort of notional framework, perhaps, of something that might potentially lead to an agreement in the future. we didn't have that kind of tone, that kind of messaging after the talks two and a half weeks ago between the countr

president erdogan is trying to bring both president zelenskyy and putin together. he discussed it in phone calls recently with both leaders. we have heard from the turkish side saying president putin is not against direct tals in principle. the ukrainians saying president zelenskyy is ready for talks. because i think, brianna, the realization is here that no matter how much negotiations and talk you have with the different delegations, if there is going to be any sort of agreement, cease-fire, it will be the decision of one man and one man only, and that is vladimir putin. that is what turkey and others are trying to push for to get both sides of the leadership level to sit and talk directly. this is all happening at the same time as we are seeing president zelenskyy pushing against the disinformation campaign by russia, these claims that ukraine is preparing the russian defense ministry claiming that ukraine is preparing for a chemical attack. he hit back at russia and also, you know, a lot of concern, brianna from u.s., ukrainian and other officials that this may

hopeful that this is going to be, in the words of the foreign minister, a turning point president erdogan hoping that this will crack open the door to a permanent cease-fire in his words. but i mean, realistically, michael, no one is really expecting any sort of a major breakthrough here, especially when it comes to the major issues at the heart of this conflict for both countries. you know, the russians are saying that this is an important continuation of the negotiations that have been already taking place. the ukrainian foreign minister as you mentioned saying that he doesn't have very high expectations but he is going to try and make the most out of it in his words to try and get the maximum out of it. he is coming to these talks with three main issues we understand from a statement he made yesterday, and that is a cease-fire, and then quote/unquote liberate our territories, and to try and resolve the catastrophic humanitarian issues on the ground. you know, while he's not really expecting any sort of a breakthrough, at the same time, he says he is coming to these talks from a positio

in turkey in the coming days, there is a feeling that zhenya has just started, the turkish country erdogan said that he would call putin in the evening, so we are waiting for news. it's been 60 minutes, right now to carry on. thank you for watching, bye, goodbye on the russia channel, the time of the main news of the day on the air is big news. unfriendly countries know what to do now they must open ruble accounts in russian banks. there will be no free gas for those who refuse. the current contracts will be stopped by europeans dependent on america, we sympathize and call for less. eat warmer clothes to save on heating the issue price for russia is a sanction for

took place at the initiative of the turkish side as a result of the conversation between president erdogan and putin. president erdogan proposed and we agreed with our turkish friends because we are in favor of any contact on the issues at the root of today's crisis in ukraine and the ways out of this crisis. one thing we said at the beginning was there should be a value added contacts and they should not be used by our ukrainian colleagues who do this quite regularly. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world, it is thursday, march 10th. i'm brianna keilar with alex marquardt live from ukraine. john berman is off today. we begin with vladimir putin sinking to a new low on ukraine. launching an airstrike on a maternity and children's hospital in mariupol. a place where lives are supposed to begin, not end. a massive crater left behind in the hont's courtyard. the facility in ruins, gutted from inside. pregnant women dazed and bloodied, helped through the rubble. some on stretchers. officials tell us 3 of the 17 people injured

putin told erdogan he was ready for a dialogue with ukraine.ne of the big discussions at the moment is whether or not poland can supply mig fighter jets to ukraine. they have some they're willing to give, they just want to backfill those from the u.s. before they go ahead and give them. jon: there's been a lot of speculation, benjamin, that tonight might be the night that air raids or air attacks really go after the people of kyiv where you are. have you heard that? and if so, what's the reasoning behind that anything? that thinking? >> we have heard reports about that. you crane january officials saying that they expect it tonight, jets, helicopters, cruise missiles. we've had a few sirens, a couple of bangs off in the distance but nothing significant yet. look, since this started 10, 11 days ago there has been that threat. we know that putin wants kyiv. it's the capital, the crown jewel, and if he has had this, he would be in a different position than the one he's in now. so the feeling here on the streets is not if, it's when. jon? jon: that

how many stock do you put in erdogan's assessment?but the most important issues of territory and the presence of russian forces on ukrainian territory hasn't been resolved. and that is what after all this war is about. second, the question of neutrality or not belonging to nato is easier to do on paper than to do in reality. what the ukrainians have said is they need a real security guarantee from the united states and other countries not just the kind of assurance that they got back in 1994 when they gave up their nuclear weapons as had been on their soil when the soviet union broke up. at that time russia and the united states and the united k kingdom provided assurances and they turned out not to be the paper they were written on. now ukrainians want security guarantees which is akin to being a member of nato. it is not clear the united states will want to provide it and it isn't clear that the russians will settle for something as significant as that. so, the details matter. i hope there is progress on this. we all want the war to

>> reporter: turkey is emerging far and away as the clearest mediator with president erdogan. he has a relationship with president putin. he's a nato member, so he's trusted by both sides. but he has also had strained relations with the united states which could help him with putin, sees clearly emerged as the interloquitor. so far putin does seem to make some kind of deal that would include denazification, something that says he rejects all sorts of extremism, that he agreed to neutrality, that president putin has agreed to, that he won't join nato, but it could include the south, including mariupol, and that so far seems tore the biggest sticking point. >> that might be a bridge too far for putin. richard engel, thank you. >>> clint joins me now. clint, do you discern a new military strategy here by the russians, increased use of missile strikes from farther away, and it appears to be at least a stalling of their ground invasion, if you will? >> that's right, chuck. this is clearly in phase 2, which is reorganize, consolidate, bring forces back together, take some of their a

pilot putin told erdogan he was ready for a dialogue but said any attempt to draw out negotiation would fail. putin held almost two hours of talks with friend. marrone. some debate about how planes could be backed by the u.s., but that's something ukraine desperate for. they want any and and all help they can get. eric: president zelenskyy has been begging nato and our allies to provide a no-fly zone. the west, of course, and nato says there are fears that that would cause a wider war. what is the sense there on that possibility and the fact that these polish gents, maybe mig 29s from armenia, may be able to join the fight, about 70 available for. >> reporter: every civilian doesn't understand why the u.s. isn't doing more, why there isn't a no-fly zone, why they aren't sending jets and more military support. the government understands the complications, they understand and have said they know why the u.s. doesn't want to do that, that u.s. troops facing up against russian troops or u.s. jets facing off against russian jets simply isn't feasible. merv theless, they are welcoming all the

present erdogan was the host and called on both sides to push for peace.ll be in everyone's interests to achieve a cease-fire and pales as soon as possible. as members of the delegation, you've taken on an historic responsibility. the whole world is waiting to hear good news from you. >> at these talks ukraine made talks to russia, it homes to stop the conflict. ukraine proposed becoming a neutral state. in return it's asked for legally binding security guarantees with other currans acting as gain tories. ukraine is ready to discuss the status of crimea, the pens la russia an exed and it's also insisting that russia shouldn't prevent ukraine from joining the european union. >> our approach hasn't yet been accepted by russia. we're saying this is our position. our official position. we'll wait for their answer. >> russia responded with what it presented as a significant concession. it said it would scale back its offensive near the ukrainian capital, kyiv. >>ussia has taken the decision to tractically reduce come bat in mariupol another area. >> if russia d