please welcome ambassador linda thomas-greenfield. ♪ ♪ >> ambassador thomas-greenfield: i match yourf ukraine. you were on the security council in the security council meeting with the invasion actually happened. looking back, over the last year, are you surprised where we are or where things are in ukraine given how perilous the situation looked in those first weeks? >> ambassador thomas-greenfield: well, i have to tell you that day was surreal. we called an emergency meeting of the council so that we could warn the world that russia was planning to invade ukraine, and they did it while we were sitting in the council and so i think even the russians, they were president of the council so there ambassador was sitting in the chair. as we all looked at our phones and heard that this was happening. at the time, russia said this is just going to be a two-week operation. we'll finish it off, and here we are one year later. and they worse so, they were so misguided. they were so mistaken because one year later, ukraine still stands and president biden... was there at the one-year mark. con

nick: ambassador linda thomas-greenfield, thank you very much. amb. ank you. ♪ [no audio] -- pope francis has urged an end to the armed conflict in the democratic republic of congo at one of his largest masses ever. the pope is in the central african nation's capital, kinshasa for a three-day visit to promote peace, as he seeks to reshape the catholic church's global image. special correspondent chris ocamringa has our report. [cheers and applause] reporter: more than a million congolese welcomed pope francis to the ndolo airport in kinshasa to celebrate mass. [shouting] >> my joy is too huge, that i think i am going to cry. it is so marvelous that the pope has come to visit and it will mean reconciliation for our countr reporter: the democratic republic of congo has the largest catholic community in africa. half of its population of more than 100 million people are catholics. in this country that has known so much war and suffering, the pope's message of peace and reconciliation met open ears, and hearts. >> we are very happy with the message the pope

linda thomas-greenfield asked for in an unannounced trip to somalia this past weekend. a: the united states is asking other donors and the world to go bigger and be bolder. nick: and ambassador linda thomas-greenfield is back in washington, and joins me now. ambassador, thanks very much. welcome back to the “newshour.” what will the impact be if somalia does not get the additional funding it needs ahead of what's expected to be another failed rainy season in the coming months? linda: we want to do everything we can to avert this next round of failed rainfalls, which should happen sometime around the march/april time frame. and what we need to do is get more donors to support the people of somalia. i announced $40 million when i was there. and that's in addition to the $1.3 billion that we provided already. but more is needed to be done by more people. we have to be much more ambitious. we have to be more aggressive. we have to save lives. nick: those numbers that you just cited, more than $1.3 billion of assistance from the u.s. since last october, makes the u.s. by far

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to the humanitarian situation in ukraine, as stated by the us representative to the un , linda thomas greenfield, humanitarian horrors were not provoked by russia's war against ukraine continue to cause enormous human suffering both in ukraine and around the world , more than 17 million ukrainians need humanitarian aid, she emphasized , let's talk more about the main points of the meeting with iryna solomko, who joins the broadcast from the un headquarters in new york, iryna vitayu from the meeting of the council of security today focused purely on the humanitarian situation in ukraine , un deputy secretary-general martin griffitz, who reported at a briefing in ukraine in december and saw the situation with his own eyes, as he described her griffiths and what conclusions he shared in the report. congratulations to yulia, and they spoke to the submissive . usually these are the deputy secretaries of the un, they are quite dry and official, but this time martin griffith was very emotional and obviously this emotionality of his is precisely this influenced his visit to ukraine, because he was not o

ambassador to the united nations linda thomas greenfield. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. delighted to be here. >> secretary blinken met with china's foreign minister as you know at the munich security conference in the first face to face meeting between the two countries since the spy balloon incursion. blinken said china did not apologize for violating u.s. airspace. was that a disappointment? >> look, i can't characterize what the chinese said or how they said it, but i know what secretary blinken said to the chinese, and it was very clear that what the chinese did with these balloons was totally unacceptable. it was an extraordinary effort against our sovereignty and the president made that clear and that's why we took that balloon down when we did, and it -- china can't continue to do that. he made that clear. china has these balloons in -- on five continents across about 40 countries and we made clear both to china, but also exposed to the world what china is doing. >> do you think it will change anything? it should. it

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joining us now is united states ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield. joining us again. first, to president zelenskyy's european tour -- it's quite striking that he didn't just do a one hop out of ukraine for a day to go to london and get back. but he is comfortable enough, secure enough in the situation in ukraine to actually be touring these european cities. >> i think that shows the extent of his confidence and his militaries efforts to defend ukraine. i think it sends a very strong message. >> what is your day today involvement in helping to hold the coalition together in the united nations? >> you know, whenever we have a vote in the united nations we have to have a strong statement. and so we worked every day, every single day, to ensure that countries are aware of what is taking place in ukraine. we provide them briefings, we talk to them about what our plans are so that when we need them to vote, they know what they're voting for and they know they are voting for ukraine's sovereignty. >> vladimir putin was confident that unity could not hold am

linda thomas-greenfield and andrea is with us now.ening at the united nations right now. where did the ambassador tell you they think the war is going and what more can be done? >> well, you know, what she told me is that it's entirely up to vladimir putin at this point, that right thousand china is strongly considering intervening in the conflict, which is very troubling to the u.s., by sending weapons to russia. so our u.n. ambassador told me that that would change the u.s. relationship with china and the state of play on the battlefield . >> this is such a big day, it's been one year, the war is still continuing, expanding, escalating. what are your thoughts? >> you know, it's one year since the war started and it's exactly two years since i started -- i got sworn into this job. so it's a big day for me for a number of reasons. >> you're a war-time ambassador. >> i'm a war-time ambassador here at the united nations. it's also a big day because we have successfully over the past year kept russia on their heels. we have isolated them

ambassador to the u.n., linda thomas-greenfield, speaking to nbc's andrea mitchell with a warning ifna were to give weapons to russia >> it would be a game changer, and it would be something we would have serious concerns about. >> reporter: one year on, ukrainians are fighting for their homes. it apeeve -- appears putin failed to appreciate tha there's no more powerful motivation than that. >> just incredible images after this unforgettable year, and, richard, how is ukraine responding to that peace proposal coming from china? >> reporter: president zelenskyy said that he will meet with chinese president xi to discuss china's new peace plan zelenskyy said that there are some positive elements to it, so he's certainly leaving his options open to see if china can or will convince putin to stop his invasion lester >> all right, richard engel, thank you tonight you can see much more of richard's powerful reporting from ukraine. watch "on assignment" at 10:00 eastern on msnbc and streaming on peacock. >>> in a speech in texas today, former vice president mike pence pushed for unwavering

, the confidence that russia will lose , the special representative of the united states, linda thomas greenfieldinds the russian of a dream and how he lied to him a year ago. i remember that day clearly, i am convinced as well. like all of you, that evening i came to the un security council for an urgent meeting that we called because we believed that the invasion of russia was inevitable. sounded the alarm for weeks, a few days before the russian invasion, the deputy minister told us to stop the hysteria on the eve of the invasion, the russian representative said, i quote, occupation is not part of their plans, everything they did russia denied denied denied the same thing that the russian representative is doing today but russia chose a complete collapse of relations with the west, the russian ambassador benzi in the walls of the un calls him none other than the western curators of the kyiv regime together with the junior partner of belarus , they work with the countries of the so-called global south africa asia south america where there are tangible anti-colonial or anti-western sentiments, t

the us ambassador to the united nations, ambassador linda thomas—greenfield, also spoke after the votend reiterated the call forjust and lasting peace. 141 1m companies recommitted to the environment, food, and security, nuclear security that russia's war has unleashed upon the world. and as stated in ukraine's resolution, these 1m countries reiterated a clear demand to russia. withdraw. i want to show you now how asian countries voted on the ukraine letter solution few stop we mark to those who invaded and favour in green, those who abstained in yellow and red are votes against. as you can see on your screens india and china were among 32 members who abstain while north korea was one of seven who voted against. ahead of the vote, ahead of the vote, china's deputy permanent representative to the un called on russia and ukraine to resume direct dialogue to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict. bringing their legitimate concerns into the negotiation and setting out feasible options, putting it early on to the crisis and giving peace a chance. ~ oui’ our north america correspondent

last minute corrects his speech and consults with the assistants of the us representative linda thomas greenfieldu can see why the representatives of the countries use smartphones during the meeting, because someone like this woman writes an urgent message in a short conveys to his government the main points of the ukrainian speech, informs, asks to decide on a position. well, at the same time, someone is just flipping through the feed of social networks , probably thinking that this war is something so far from the interests of his state, and the general assembly is an opportunity to try to simultaneously reach out to all of them and allies from skeptics and those with whom russian diplomats have already conducted educational work , asking them not to vote for or at least refrain from these persuasions and backroom diplomacy was enough, but it was also enough the most clear position voiced by the europeans without hiding behind vague wordings. the only country that consciously chose war is russia, we all know that , but please don't forget that there is an aggressor and there is a victim of aggr

on basset to the un linda thomas greenfield blames syrian president bashar assad and his government. the problems of getting monitoring a to the disaster cern's of the earthquakes and devastated the country last. the u . s. made it very clear on day one that we would provide assistance directly to the syrian people through any means possible. where the blame lies is with the syrian government. i spoke to the white helmets, i spoke to several international and jose and they were working around the clock to get support directly into syria. but it was heart. the syrian people are not going to forget what assad did. he killed his own people. he used chemical weapons against his own people. that said, we're going to do everything we can to support all syrian people who've been affected by this horrific earthquake to ensure that they get the assistance that they need a sod can't clean up his act with a natural disaster. while most of the international help was sent to turkey, where the f a center of the earthquakes occurred, causing tens of thousands of toppling thousands of buildings. in

ah, the us ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield blames syrian president bush la side and his government for the problems of getting humanitarian aid to the disasters owns off the earthquakes hit the north of the country last week. the us made it very clear on day one that we would provide assistance directly to the syrian people through any means possible where the blame lies is with the syrian government. i spoke to the white helmets. i spoke to several international and jose and they were working around the clock to get support directly into syria, but it was heart assad can't clean up his act with a natural disaster. while most of the international help was center, where the epicenter of the earthquakes occurred course in tens of thousands of deaths and toppling thousands of buildings. in contrast, syria faced a lack of rescue equipment and delays receiving needed medicine supplies despite over 3 and a half 1000 victims. local authorities say, american economic sanctions complicated getting assistance to all the rescue workers there. now russia was one of the 1st countries

peony linda thomas greenfield urged the security council to vote on a resolution to open two additionalnts for the delivery of cross-border aid. now only works one checkpoint through which humanitarian aid is delivered to syria from turkey, while its throughput is reduced due to road damage after the earthquake complicates delivery and sanctions. unlike the countries of the collective west , which can only apply sanctions against others, belarus is always ready to lend a helping hand and not stand aside to be where help is needed - this is about the belarusians, the consequences of the flood forest fires. and now the earthquake in turkey and a series of our rescuers are not the first to work abroad the support of our country was appreciated by the turkish political scientist and historian. mehmet feather. we were grateful to the russian people and the state and the president of belarus, well, it must be emphasized here. uh, our destiny is the same, uh, in our region and before the challenges and nature or before the challenges to the atlantic plans , turkey and belarus have a common des

ambassador currently linda thomas-greenfield talked about. now you have ramifications. we realize for classified reasons we can't get so much specificity. how about a little bit? will it hurt the enemy? >> a clear warning a lot of people are calling for. >> harris: thank you. test after test now. for how president biden will handle world leaders. some say biden just is not passing the test. >> china chomping at the bit to take advantage of the american weakness when their foreign minister met with blinken he mocked america. did nothing to discourage rumors that the chinese will not only be meeting with russia this spring but maybe planning to provide lethal military weapons to vladimir putin. weakness at home leads to weakness abroad. right now the biden story is just weak and weaker. >> harris: joey jones fox news contributor, retired marine bomb technician. great to see you in "focus", joey. first of all, you hear the talk about weakness. what does strength look like in this instance? you have two super powers now that are eating all the food off our plate. >> i live

. >> dana: that is linda thomas-greenfield. but robert, the use of the word or phrase red line. that conjures up the obama administration and isis and you think back to what happened then. is this language necessary right now? is it the appropriate tone? >> we never use the word red line in the trump administration for that very reason. folks knew where we stood. if they violated our principles we would react and do so strongly. i'm not sure setting up a red line is useful. asme owe glad to see there is some backbone coming out of the administration on china now. we just had a chinese spy balloon cross the united states and linger over the nuclear sites and air bases and missile silos in montana. serious. what were the consequences for china? none. tony blinken met with their representative. that was the only consequence. tiktok is here, the chinese communist battery land is coming. land purchased. no consequences for the chinese. little wonder they think they can send lethal aid to russia without some sort of penalty. >> bill: it seems like the area where you don't want to go i

ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield.hat you told andrea mitchell about china and ukraine. >> it has certainly been made clear to the chinese, from president biden to he, to president secretary blinken, made that clear to wang yi in munich. this past week. that china should not get involved in this war, running lethal weapons to the russians. but it would be a game changer and is something we would have serious concerns about. they've not done that so far. and we hope that the messaging gets through. >> kevin, you are in munich and you heard the u.s. wardens firsthand. both from the vice president and the secretary of state. behind the scenes, where those concerns equally shared or even believe? >> i wrote that behind the scenes, there was a lot of snickering. a lot of. whispering a lot of exasperations. mainly because this generic promises all the leaders are making, which is great and fine, a credit for the war. and it wasn't, li nato is unified. the constant drumbeat. as long as it, takes as long as it takes. munich is

linda thomas-greenfield speaking to nbc's andrea mitchell, with a warning, that if china were to give weapons to russia -- >> it would be a game-changer. and it would be something we would have serious concerns about. >> president zelenskyy has been pressing the u.s. for f-16 fighter jets. and here is what president biden said tonight when he was asked about that. >> we are sending him what our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, he needs artillery, he needs air defense, including -- high mar -- there's things he needs now that we are putting him in position to be -- spring, summer, going into fall. >> you don't think he needs f-16s now? >> no, he doesn't need f-16s now. there is no basis upon which there is a rationale, according to our military, now, to provide f-16s. >> but you are not ruling it out? >> i am ruling it out for now. >> in many cities around the world today, there was clear support for ukraine. blue and yellow decorated buildings, while crowds took to the streets calling for russia to end its invasion. and in washington d. c. tonight, there was a ca

. >> linda thomas greenfield told me lethal aid from china would be a game changer. >> we've made clear that that is unacceptable. that they cannot engage in, with the aggressor in this war and russia is the aggressor and russia's efforts have been condemned by the world. >> and cia director said on face the nation that he was confident china was considering arming china. china denying the accusations. all this coming amid a new classified report from the energy department's national labs on covid suggesting that covid likely started with an unintended lab leak in wuhan. but the report comes with major caveats. the energy department is just one of 18 intelligence agency, several of which seiko individual started with national transmission and said the report was made with low confidence. key lawmakers of the house and senate intelligence committees have been briefed and the new republican-led house committee on china is holding its first hearing tomorrow in prime time. here with me to start the hour, carl lee and nbc news intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian. xi and putin are expect

[applause] ambassador lute linda thomas-greenfield.am not seeing -- [applause] >> there you are. there you are. observing the principle of not going to the front seat waiting until you're called, right? [laughing] delighted to a former house majority leader steny hoyer and speaker of the house a to nancy pelosi. [applause] then the house leadership is here, delighted to have them join us today, house minority whip katherine clark, , house majority whip tom emmer, house minority leader hakeem jeffries, house majority leader representative steve scalise, and evidence that prayer works as well, the speaker of the house, representative kevin mccarthy. please stand and be recognized. [applause] and then finally we are so delighted to have vice president of the united states kamala harris. [applause] >> we are honored to be joined by our nation's president. mr. president, last year you spoke at this very same breakfast about finding purpose through the pain of losing a piece of your soul. as you and i both recognize, the birthdays of our lat

ambassador, linda thomas-greenfield, announced that russia had entered eastern ukraine. >> she has confirmeds that we did not know going into the. she says that they have information that russian troops have now entered the donbas. >> while the worlds diplomats were meeting at the u.n., president vladimir putin was delivering a speech to the russian people. a speech that would essentially trigger the start of the war. >> well, the latest report from moscow is that vladimir putin is speaking, or has just finished or is speaking at this moment, saying that he, telling the russian people, that he has authorized a special military operation, as you said, in eastern ukraine. that is apparently from vladimir putin's mouth. >> and minutes later, explosions in and around the capital city of kyiv. >> we have yet to hear any sirens go off, however, in the city. >> but that would soon change. >> it's the early hours of the morning here in kyiv, and people here in the capital city are waking up to the sound of booms. we've heard any number of what sounds like explosions in the distance, just moments ago

ambassador, linda thomas-greenfield, announced that russia had entered eastern ukraine. if confirmed, however, things that we did not know going into this, and she says that they have information the russian troops have now entered the donbas. or the worlds diplomats were meeting at the u. n., president lattimore putin was delivering a speech to the russian people, a people that would essentially trigger the start of the war. >> latest report from moscow is that vladimir putin is speaking, either has just finished or speaking at this moment, saying that, telling the russian people that he has authorized a special military operation, as you said, in eastern ukraine. that's apparently from vladimir putin's mouth. >> minutes later, explosions in and around the capital city of kyiv. >> we have yet to hear any sirens go off, however, in the city. >> but that would soon change. >> it's the early hours of the morning here in kyiv, and people here in the capital city are waking up to the sound of booms. we have heard any number of what thrones like explosions in the distance jus

ambassador linda thomas-greenfield. and the infrastructure there was nonexistent.s of people, literally starving at times, not getting as much aid as they need, despite the wonderful efforts of the u.n. and other groups and living in tents. >> well, yes, you're absolutely right. and, of course, dependent in the northwest of syria, 4 million of them, on the crossing point that the u.n. are allowed to use there are other commercial crossing points. but as a result of the russian veto at the u.n. two years ago, we're down from two humanitarian official u.n. crossing points to one. and for part of monday and tuesday, that u.n. crossing point, the u.n. is largest aid provider in the northwest of syria and help supports ngos like mine it was closed because of the earthquake. so, you can see that this is a very, very challenging situation where the politics is riddled through the natural disaster. >> i was at that crossing point, in fact, with the u.n. ambassador. what obstacles are you now facing? is the crossing point reopened and is aid getting in? >> yes, the crossing

western diplomats followed the us representative at united nations organization linda thomas greenfieldunited states secretary of the treasury , janet gelem, flew to south africa literally the day after sergey lavrov's departure. in addition , african visits by us president joe biden are already scheduled for this year. president kamala harris yes , and in his speeches, biden made it clear more than once that africa, just like during the cold war, should return to the sphere of american national interests. that's just in africa itself, western politicians a rather unpleasant surprise awaits them, one of the films of the fantastic marvel cinematic universe tells how, in the very heart of the african savannah , a small, but very developed and rich state of wakanda hides from the whole world, which has ultra-modern technologies that are not available to the rest of the world and the discovery of this very wakanda becomes a real shock for all mankind and , first of all, of course, for western civilization in life, unlike cinema. everything turned out to be much more prosaic than real, very

following in his hot footsteps, western diplomats, us representatives at the united nations, linda thomas greenfieldd literally the day after sergey lavrov's departure, he flew to south africa united states secretary of the treasury janet gelem, in addition, african visits by the president are already scheduled for this year usa joe biden. president kamala singer harris yes, and in his speeches, biden made it clear more than once that africa, just like during the cold war, should return to the sphere of american national interests. it’s just that western politicians in africa itself are in for a rather unpleasant surprise for them. one of the films of the fantastic marvel cinematic universe tells how, in the very heart of the african savannah , a small, but very developed and wealthy state of wakanda is hiding from the whole world, which has ultra-modern technologies that are not available to the rest of the world, and the discovery of this very vacanda becomes a real shock for all mankind and , first of all, of course, for western civilization in life, unlike cinema. everything turned out to be muc

ambassador, linda thomas greenfield, is engaged in looking at all the ways the chinese have penetrated the u.n. system and figuring out with our international organization bureau ways to challenge all of that. but i quite -- i quite agree with you. sen. menendez: we could take lessons from the chinese, they have systematically, methodically, implemented their people in a way that ultimately leads them to have influence in a wide variety of cross section in the u.n. that's not the only place, the world health organization and i could go on. what are we doing, chinese impoforts uranium -- of iranian oil have exceeded 1. million barrels a day. that relationship is mutually beneficial. tehran gets to exploit its sanctions and china gets a steep discount. what is the administration doing to increase the cost on china for helping iran evade u.s. sanctions? how does it plan to make a measurable dent in iran's oil exports to china and others such that iran is not reaping the benefits of steady oil prices? secretary sherman: excellent question, i don't have a full answer for you, i'll get back

ambassador, linda thomas-greenfield, is very engaged in looking at all of the ways that chinese have penetrated the u.n. system and figuring out with our international organization bureau, ways to challenge all of that. but i quite agree with you, we have a lot of work to do. >> but i don't want to come too many things for the chinese, but we could definitely take a lesson from their page book. they have systematically, methodically, implemented their people in a way that ultimately leads them to have influence on a wide variety cross section of the u.n.. that's not the only place, the world health organization, i could go on. finally, what is the administration doing? chinese imports of iranian oil have exceeded 1 million barrels per day over the past three months. that relationship is mutually beneficial to iran gets to import oil and beijing receives a steep discount. so, what is the administration doing to increase the costs on china for helping iran evade u.s. sanctions? how does it plan to make a measurable dent in iran's oil exports to china and others such that iran is not re

yes, nothing has begun yet, but the americans who will make it there, this statement by linda thomas greenfieldies, these are those who are behind these doors, that they are actually here, will be a speak out, but speak out with your position. and naturally. all these countries will also condemn russia there for its actions in ukraine. and how to work then with them that's not benzia. yes, here is our representative representative. here he is. let's listen. in the case of the undermining of the northern flow is not called opinion is not the motive of the crime and its perpetrator is not the way in which the crime was committed. this is even more than the smoking gun that all american detectives dream of finding in hollywood blockbusters. with such evidence, not a single lawyer would undertake to defend our american colleagues, or rather , there would be no jury doubts. what a pity, well, well, he said it right and well and excellent about the gun, but 65 countries are already ready to support the anti-russian resolution, maybe we need to say something differently. maybe to be, here is such a be

amanda, we just saw linda thomas - we just saw linda thomas greenfield, who is the us ambassador. you are seeing all the cabinet together, this is very important because in the next couple of days you will see a lot of the cabinet spread around the country, talking about exactly what he's going to say tonight. that is a really a difference in this administration. he has used his cabinet in ways that has been very intentional, putting people in different places, talking about what he's done. and i think it has been a lesson learned by democrats, just passing policy is not enough, you have to connect it. you do indeed. let's look at these scenes live now on capitol hill. kirsten sinema, also a colourful dresser, now an independent, another headache for president biden. and we want to welcome our viewers on pbs and the united states to our special bbc news coverage ofjoe biden's state of the union address. we are expecting their speech to begin in just a expecting their speech to begin injust a minute or two. we have with us now our panellists. we want to welcome our viewers on pbs i