as rulers swirled about his impending spring counter offensive arts, he's a senior jealous more ivan garcia who has been tracking the russian forces. advancements sent us this report from thomas, the city of back mortar, or what's left of it. the battle rages, unabated. ukrainian forces have been pushed to the western suburbs as key of throws more and more troops into the ground to delay defeat here, it would be a tremendous psychological blow to its war effort. and backers, you claimed that ukraine trips would been crimea by spring. the, well, we still have plenty of time. no rush, everything is going to plan. it is no secret that ukraine has amassed a large strike force. footage of mass troop formations and hordes of armored vehicles have appeared more and more often, but the long awaited ukrainian counter offensive is going to have to wait rain and mud in easton, ukraine. mean, any offensive will quickly become bog down with russia, in turn, is preparing air strikes with glass bombs have risen sharply in recent weeks. you quain has nothing to fight them with. concurrently. massive defens

widened a crackdown on opposition, voices a court in moscow as rejected an appeal by us journalist ivan garcia of it against his pre trial detention. the wall street journal reporter has been charged with spying. following his arrest late last month, gross commits, and his employer denied any wrong doing in washington as calling for his immediate release. the 1st time a u. s. journalist has been detained on espionage charges by russia since the end of the cold war of a u. s. ambassador to russia, lin, tracy attended gorski, which is appeal hearing and spoke to the media outside. afterwards, we will continue to provide all appropriate support to evan in his family. and we expect russian authorities to provide continued consular access to evan. the charges against evan or baseless and we call on the russian federation to immediately release and t w's. former moscow bureau chief, uri ra shadow, knows evan gross cabbage, and has been following the story for us. i asked him what we can expect now that his appeal has been denied. yes, the court rejected the appeal against the arrest of gas cabbage o

i wrote on the phone to demand the immediate release of an american journalist, ivan garcia, that she is a correspondent with the wall street journal. he was detained by russian security agents on wednesday on espionage allegations. the 1st time us reporter has been detained since the cold war. the us state department has requested access to him. now to phelan, the prime minister, santa marian is conceded defeat after an extremely tight 3 way race in the parliamentary election. the almost all votes counted the right way. national coalition policy is in 1st place with 20.7 percent of the vote. it's lead up a terry or po says he will now work to form a coalition. a war followed closely by right wing populace party. the fins with 20 point one percent, while martin's governing social democrats came in 3rd place with 19.9 percent of the vote. where we challenged has this report now. oh, smiling and seemingly at ease the se, but santa marines. political star has school been ins. prime minister gathered with supporters at her election headquarters, hispanic results came in and showed her soc

according for the release of the wall street journal reporter, arrested in russia last week, ivan garcia, that she has pleaded not guilty to charges of espionage a crowd and accuses him of spying for the us. government's will street journal says the accusations against go civic is simply untrue. our lawyers were able to meet with him during this past week and they report that he is in good spirits and good health. we certainly hope that's true. your state department continues to say it's been denied counselor access to evan, which is certainly worried into us evans, a journalist. and we've been trying to say this is loudly and forcefully as we can . he was out there reporting. that's what he does. he was very passionate about the russia story, thought it was very important for the outside world to be able to hear the voices of russian people and to know and understand what's going on in russia at this moment. and, you know, you'll have seen probably the white house press secretary last night tweeted evan, girl of which is not a spine. he has never been a spy. yes, never worked for the u.

determined that the wall street journal reporter arrested in russia has been wrongfully detained ivan garcia, which was arrested last week on espionage charges. cronin is accused him of spying for america. he has pleaded not guilty or ukraine and russia made another prisoner exchange. this is the 2nd to take place in the past month. moscow fried a 100 ukrainian troops, almost half of them are said to be seriously injured or ill. keyboard is 206 russian soldiers, ukraine's defense ministry says its men were in danger of dying and have been taken to moscow for medical treatment sled for you on this news hour from london. thousands of farms and businesses devastated across nigeria as a tomato bug. rex havoc there and india's powerful untapped workforce why the number of women employed has been steadily declining and bad tempered timber wolves. as things get heated and the envy ah the who's now a lot of the lovely spring warm from spring feedings being rather swept away from western europe. this is big frontal. some expands, it's bringing with it wind, lower temperatures, cloud a certain amount