now, for mr. zalinski part, he presented a metal of valor to the u. s. president. that originally belonged to a captain on the front lines and the love fest was quite short. the pair went off for a private meeting. they reemerged hours later in a more formal press conference where they took questions from the press. let's have a listen to president zalinski addressing a question about the patriot missile system ratios. the, what's going to happen when the patriot missile systems are installed. we'll give a signal to president biden that we would like to get more of them. oh, we're, we're done. is a lot alive when we are in war. i'm sorry. i'm really sorry. and the crowd started laughing. now, i understand mister zalinski was a former comedian, president biden laughed. the whole crowd laughed that this is not a laughing matter. the patriot system is america's most sophisticated defense system. joe biden chimed in to say on that. this was what he called, not an escalation of the conflict because this is a defense system. but that will be difficult for him to reconcil

mr. zalinski is flying to washington to meet with his us counterpart, joe biden. and to make an address to congress line you, there's been no official word yet from key for washington in any visit will be fraught with security concerns. but their letter sent by us how speak and nancy pelosi on tuesday, members of congress, were urged to be present in person for wednesday night session, for a very special focus on democracy. the trip, if it does happen, will come just a day after the cranium. presidents, unannounced visit to the front line to me, troops in the city of back moves there. he handed out towards the soldiers and was gifted the ukrainian flag, lulu burrell. usually the enemy is increasing his army, and our people are braver and need more powerful weapons. we will pass it on from the boys to the congress, to the president of the united states. you are grateful for their support, but it is not enough like united to with them. but washington is one of ukraine's biggest supporters. and what happens here now could be crucial with us politicians preparing to v

s. proxy war will a newly unknowns to aid package seemed to have not been enough for mr. zalinski while addressing my u. s. congress. he called for even more american military supplies for ukraine's war effort. we have artillery. yes. thank you. we have it. is it enough? honestly, i'm not really. ah, now there were some dissenting voices among western media outlets criticizing zalinski, approaching congress fox news anchor tucker, carlson said ukraine has no right to demand that the u. s. prop off the eastern european country with billions of dollars of additional financing to we, the historic debt to ukraine, through the historic animosity with a non soviet russia. no, no. how do we win here? what's in it for us? isn't this our country? and what are you good off talking to us like that we hate ourselves so much. do we have so little respect for united states of america that would put up with that that will applaud it. thank you sir. may i have another? what's wrong with us? what's wrong with our leaders? well, we spoke to labor rights lawyer on north 3rd done koval at coo safe peace ap

s. proxy war manila channel. despite a newly annoyance package of aid, mr. zalinski is looking for more neighbor while addressing the u. s. congress. he called for additional american military supplies to keep hillman we have artillery. yes. thank you. we have it easy enough. honestly, not really. the i want to show you this as well. mux blumenthal, editor of the grease on the news analysis side routes on twitter that he caught up with a ukrainian delegation on the way to the capital building. he posted this video. do you, do you support the, i don't know what to tell you. there's no more value we're, we're trained and recruited back into a form of professional army over the last year. so the neo nazis were brought into the army. no, there are no neo nazi. so no answer about it's in crane is a democracy. why did zelinski ban 13 opposition party law? we've got the national marshall law sounds on democratic. why did he ban the russian wing of the orthodox church and church serving as a treason this organization and was, was, was found with materials that were legal and financing the, the

russian and military is and they are targeting civilian infrastructure, electricity infrastructure, mr. zalinski and today said that 12000000 ukrainians are not connected to the power grid right now. so there is a lot of urgency to provide very fast hub support for these people that are struggling. you know, that they don't have light, they don't have heating in ukraine. and that's exactly what international donors a want to help with. and there's also one other thing at the international community has put in place what they call a platform, a coordination platform, to better coordinate what q crane needs and what the different countries have already provided. so that it really fits to that, the ukranian purpose, what the international community is providing for the country. and with allegations are also meeting business leaders. what's being discussed there exactly their meeting here. they can amik ministry. a right now, $700.00 companies have come together. french companies that are either already active in ukraine or want to, to work in the country. what this is about, it's not just about rec

um, normally deal with, well mr. zalinski have given many into the earth, but in one of them i'll, he always says we shouldn't let russia when, and everyone applause him once in a mess notarized way. gregory some, but in one interview he said, it felt we allowed russia to win, and it's something that he and felton broke repeated boy, shoot. if we're lead rashandra wins and other good big countries with bush things that it's possible to tag smaller countries and, and with landscape 3rd, 3rd or many be countries on many continents count. we'll reshape the wild be countries will the g will divide there while them on them and destroy the small one voice. i'm back to the landscape that i stand for a different scenario when every one of the planet knows that regardless of fall, whereas one leave one has the same rights and at one is equally predicted as any other citizens in the world. and of quote by lady madeleine scant good of you. none of the interviewers rules use of lulu never asked. so you can save harrison's if he had probably forgotten what him's recommended to those who feel they

it's a bit disconcerting that both mr. zalinski and mr. biden, and the whole press pool would laugh about such an idea of having more patriot systems given to ukraine. this highlights, for me at least the dysfunction here in washington being completely disconnected from the average american who is more worried about the cost of living and feeding their families, heating their homes this winter than continuing to fund what we know is a proxy war. we heard from you and roys lawyer done. coverlet who says, piece of paper is unlikely. it wasn't a good deal to provide so much heavy weaponry to cave. that makes me very skeptical about how serious, either biting or is the lens yard. this point about truly negotiate. i don't think generally speaking, weapons contribute to piece. i do think this is an escalation. although at the same time, i think it's also a matter of putting money in the coffers of the defense industry. you know, i think that the u. s. is happy to give that money, whether the patriot missiles are used or not. as you noted, it would take a lot of training that there's a us crimin

while details of mr. zalinski strip have not been recalled or made public, at least not all are welcoming him, including a u. s. congress. woman. of course, the shadow president has to come to congress and explain why he needs billions of america stuck spare dollars for the 51st state ukraine. this is absurd. put america 1st. but we heard from former united nations weapons inspector, scott ritter, who believes biden wants zalinski to help pressure congress into providing even more military support. some members of congress indicated they might be opposing this. you're talking about accountability and things of that nature. how do we know this is going where it needs to go, etc? by having zelinski on hand? joe biden will be playing some political cards, putting pressure on congress to pass this legislation without further questions, without asking the inconvenient question, such as what happens to american weapons once they make it to your brain? what happens to american money once it goes into a crane? how do we know us taxpayer money is being used to you know, to, to, to good results. be

mr. so boy, was it right for a lot of miss zalinski to go to the u. s. a. not somewhere in europe on his 1st foreign trip since the war began. well, this was a mighty patient. she is only a grain, but for being tired. when we asked you repeat that, don't going in now and even our simple as what has come out of that is the us will seen the one patriot missile defense system. but so lensky said he wants more should germany, st. patriots to now and germany so far decided to systems to problems, but indeed is new announcement. the president biden, to a fence system directly to the ukraine should be taken for reconsideration. jones, i se, sending systems from germany directly for that . thank you for the support of the united states. more is needed to achieve victory and 5 and responded to the year announcement that russia in germany, we have discussions over months now. russian may not. we. ukraine may not lose or better. we should go beyond this and say, russia has to be defeated. ukraine has 2 members for i think this is very to you now. we have to be on this

the part of the senate to escort his excellency, blood, mar, zalinski, president of ukraine into the house chamber. the senator from new york, mr. schumer, the senator from illinois, mister durbin, the senator from washington, mrs. murray, the senator from michigan mas stabenow, the senator from minnesota. as clover char, the senator from new jersey. mister menendez, the senator from maryland. mister kardon, the senator from kentucky. mister mcconnell, the senator from south dakota. mister soon. the senator from iowa. miss ernst, the senator from missouri. mister blunt, the senator from mississippi. mister wicker, the senator from idaho. mister ish and senator from ohio. mister portman, the members of the escort committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors. and if you're just joining us right now, you're watching the w news. we're broadcasting live from washington where we're waiting for you. creating president vladimir the lens happening un hungry matic. on a surprise visit to the us where he met with president biden earlier today. and now we're seeing images from the us congress where nancy pelosi us house speaker,

mr hunter. just give me your, your overall view of this trip president zalinski is trip to, ah, washington dc. while they have to demonstrate to the people of ukraine and particular to mr. put the key factor in all of that. he and his page will continue to stand by ukraine, and after the meeting with mr. joe ask is having with a joint session of congress tonight to show that congress will stand behind it, even though the republicans in january will take over representatives and a lot of republicans are now little cautious about how much money is being spent. also, i think that president, pardon, will have a hard to hard talk with mr. landscaped about the need to move to negotiations. if indeed, pester, protein can be brought around to the side that russia will make no more advances. it economy will suffer and that it might as well declare victory, so to speak, and go to go changes. so this is a, an effort to demonstrate support to try to have an impact on mr. burton. so, so what you're saying is behind the scenes, then you think that the u. s. president will be trying to encourage the ukrainian

mr. with, [000:00:00;00] with lou knowledge is here with ever you. oh, news. ukrainian president, florida zalinski is reported to be planning a visit to the us on wednesday. it'll be his 1st trip abroad since russia's invasion. ah them nora, kyle, this is out is, are alive from doha. also coming up taliban government bands, university education for all female students across afghanistan.

and why doesn't mrs. maloney suggest the citizens of italy go to paris and meet the 1st lady of ukraine? missus zalinski, who spent 40000 euros in boutiques in paris in the same day. hundreds of workers i am pensioners gathered in rome on friday to protest against the maloney government draft budget for 2023. arguing that it doesn't do enough to have workers deal with the cost of living crisis, according to local media protests against the 2020, the budget proposal were held in 11 regions across any calls in transport disruption in major cities. malone is government also, it is resistance to continue support for kids with tens of thousands protesting against arms shipments to ukraine in recent months. meanwhile, despite public concerns over the continued flow of cash t grain, italy has renewed a decree the allows it keep to keep supplying arms to steve in 2023 without seeking formal approval from parliament for each new shipment. italian defense minister has admitted that the transfer of weapons, since he will only stop when peace talks begin. daria revolt, a former politician in the bernasconi governme

and institutions also an appeal by president mr. lensky during a toner conference in paris for re challenge has more from keith ukraine's 1st lady helena zalinski was on a mission to paris to shore up support. she and prime minister danish, me, how were keeps taught emissaries at this solidarity conference, 70 countries and institutions gathered in the french capital to ensure ukraine has what it needs to survive the winter dani media loses right now. the urgency is to secured. ukrainian people in your capacity to resist, to allow ukraine to go through this long winter. we wanted to organize together this conference called standing with ukraine in april. and we wanted the results to be very concrete us, what russia's missile and drone attacks on energy facilities have damaged every thermal power plant in ukraine. millions of people have just a handful of hours of electricity each day fixing this is a priority. that guy did, there is a vote with how supplies could cost around 800000000 years. it's a lot, but the price is significantly less than the cost of the blackout for us in ukraine . and there is in total, more than $1000000000.00 in aid wa

zalinski and then u. s. presidential by just like brilliant all my appreciation from my heart, the heart of ukrainians, fully grave from our nation. strong nation, all the appreciation to you. well, mr. president for your big support and leadership because you are many cockers helped us at all helping now because the worst door should be the button anyway, but that is your leadership. thank you. well, we're gonna continue to strengthen your credit ability defense, so particularly care defense. and that's why we're going to be providing you credit would pay to missile better and training are forced to be accurate. we use together our partners. we're also going to change pros cost on the kremlin and will support your credit for shoeing a just peace frames with great people in crane. we stand on the grid by with we have a famous thing with a man of the year times a year in states of america is washington bureau chief in his pole is with me and in the studio, our chief international editor, richard walker. in it, i want to go to you 1st. president zalinski is holding talked with joe biden in the oval office. we saw there. it tells more about what you've been saying and hearing well, and

mr. president. in 20 and 2022, you presided over a bipartisan international coalition to support ukraine. how will you keep that coalition from fraying in 2023 and president zalinski. welcome to washington in this beautiful winter day. what did you message to the american people? last raise your question 1st though. i'm not all worried about whole in the alliance. oh no. so i'm so used to live with her, you know, you replace cook. so you inch in the korean, i assume as a simultaneous all right. ok. i've never seen nato or the you more united about anything at all. and i see no sign of there being any change. we all know what's the state care or your opinion partners all the more . so they fully understand that this is about we've never seen a major invasion of a european country since for war 2. and they see no signs put in is going to do anything to change that unless we resist and we help you create a resist. we all know where to stay. the very idea of sovereignty un charter food and thought he would weaken nato instead, his strength and native i once said to him that we talk about the he was one of the see the you know, europe end up being divided the and inste

zalinski was just visiting yesterday at the front line. so there will be, if i might say, so definitely going on a little show here because we have to keep in mind very mr. lensky has been a very, very, a successful a comedian before he became president of ukraine. and he showed over the cause of the last 10 months that he's really able to, to press the buttons are the, which he wants to present to kind of evoke feelings he needs for his cos. another is here in europe, a big challenge to europe, especially germany is energy, the energy crisis, which has been caused by a breaking relations with russia. of course, the north stream, a pipeline or not, delivering gas from russia, which account for a lot of the energy here in germany. so the ukranian war, even if you ignore the humanitarian crisis, there is present for a lot of germans. whereas in the us, it seems a lot more distant. i'm wondering if this is a reason for you, as well as his visit beyond the fact that he hopes to get much more aid or from the united states or diplomatically, but also making appeal to americans to, to pay attention to what's happening in ukraine because of course united states

mrs. fight and along the south long of the white house, they briefly posed for photos. and then they were quickly ushered inside. now, before long president biden and president zalinski held a sort of informal address to the press inside the oval office, where the 2 displayed what i would characterize as an overwhelming amount of affection and praise for one another. i would say it was laid on a little bit thick and it was here. the 1st time the president bided confirmed that he would be giving ukraine, at least one patriot missile defense system battery. there was a lot of speculation on whether or not the u. s. would even provide this system since operation requires months and months of specialized training, which ukrainian courses do not have. and certainly time is not on ukraine side. at this point, president biden also made it a point to say that vladimir putin was quote, using winter as a weapon. but by didn't did underscore the importance of what he said, quote, presenting a united defense. and by that only simply means throwing more money into the conflict. another $2000000000.00 promise, which brings the u. s. total support package to near a $70000000000.00.

mr. penalty will say morocco innocently. foreigners police arrested at least 40 people in paris when celebrations by football fans turned violent. france had increased security head of saturdays, won't. camp matches. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says russian forces have destroyed the eastern city of bock. mood fighting has reported the intensify around the city in the done yet screech, and as after ukrainian forces recaptured, hassle supporters of bangladesh. his main opposition party had been protesting in the capital data. tens of thousands turned out to voice their frustration about the rising cost of living, the calling for the prime minister to resign and peruse new president. deena blue, i'll tell you, has unveiled her cabinet as protests as gathering, supported her predecessor, i took her, steve was impeached and detained on wednesday. supporters on demanding his release . there's a headlines. the news continues. heron al jazeera, that's after inside story. ah, all russia and iran expanding military ties the us as the to a given each other unprecedented support in the ukraine and beyond. so what are the implications for regional, unbelievable security? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm laur