the pentagon also asked whether the ukrainians can at this time win back some temporary territory. the pentagon says that they do not see this very strongly, but they say that they weaken the russian army. the ukrainian military is just that . such a high-precision weapon, also with regard to the hammer installations themselves, there are also no additional ones in this, only both misses directly indicate that not only the united states provide such systems, but so do other countries, and the number that is available now is effective on the battlefield, but they are monitoring the development of events, and of course they will provide the assistance that will be needed. if we talk about the latest developments, we have recently seen a lot of explosions at military facilities in russia, in the occupied crimea, as the shaq administration mounts the legitimacy of such goals. the united states administration does not specifically comment on what exactly happened in crimea. something sabotage, as they say in russia, but regarding the legitimacy of the points in crimea. today, again, the

they will probably talk and write a lot about this today in the pentagon.so decided to say everything straight away. well, to dispel all possible speculations, let's listen to why we don't see more heimers and golubets m-77, unlike ammunition, by the way. you know, we have already sent 16 himars systems, this is actually quite a lot and these are not the systems that, according to our estimates, need hundreds to have an effect, these are high-precision systems for very specific purposes and the ukrainians have them in our opinion, the ukrainians are using what they have very well, and now the priority is to establish a constant flow of ammunition, this also applies to the m-77 howitzers. it is important for us to be sure that the ukrainians have enough ammunition to use them in battle. well, what do we have? we have a new one. package, we have a billion dollars, the specifics are exactly the support for ammunition. well, russia, and this is also the pentagon's forecast, is losing more and more missiles , their warehouses are empty, and kyiv colleagues. than

as the pentagon continues to, shall ukraine's military with money and weapons, the u. s. inspector general say that he's on high alert for any security issues within the thousands of contracts with keith. we have developed a universe of thousands of ukraine related contracts that come in under $2000000.00 each. that's more than $7800.00 contracts valued at a combined $2200000000.00. yet nato officials said that the tracking unsecure to system should be tested, concerns of grown over the ukranian arms accounting system on the fidelity of key as governments, after some weapons have reported, they found their way onto the dock web, where ukrainian trade is also not only small arms, but javelin anti tank systems on phoenix and ghost drones. previously, your report warned that some of these weapons might be smuggled into the u. regarding the war in ukraine. euro pole has warned that the proliferation of firearms explosives in ukraine could lead to an increase in weapons and munitions trafficked into you. this threat might even be higher once the conflict has ended. earlier

alexander views, which announced the movers talks to ease tensions on that to continue with the pentagon caves into criticism over its deadly drone strikes on civilians and pledges to simply reduce the number of deaths from its bombings of other countries . with moscow step stop is the military on human italian aids to the central african republic with the locals. now also gearing up to learn the russian language . i think it's very good to learn a 3rd language. it's an opportunity, seeing the joint efforts of russia without government, people from central africa, want russia to stay. as russia strengthens this position and especially in africa, change will come with a very welcome. this is nancy international with the latest world news update is good to have you with us. and we stopped at the latest on ukraine as rush as defense, ministry has condemned what it calls keeps on going nuclear terrorism. instead of the shelling of his approach, she a nuclear power plant in southern ukraine, which is controlled by russia and moscow stays the stations. territory has been bombarded by ukrainian

broadcast about the most important for several reasons, in particular i will tell you about how the pentagon evaluates the effectiveness of the armed forces of ukraine, but this issue i will start with operational information from the general staff, wait for the ukrainian defenders repelled three enemy assaults in the direction of bakhmut and two more in the direction of avdiyiv, the russians are advancing on the sands from the side battles continue there in donetsk and oleksandrol. fighting is also taking place in the direction of kramatorsk . the enemy is trying to go in the direction of the disputed ivano-darivka. the russian nazis advanced on zaporozhye and the settlement of novosilka, but they were beaten and left kharkiv again. this was reported by the mayor of the city, igor terekhov, the occupiers continue to deliberately damage the civil infrastructure of the city, the college building was destroyed, communications were damaged in some residential areas windows were blown out of houses, several trolleybuses were also blown out by shrapnel, fortunately this time there were no casualt

and according to declassified pentagon documents obtained by the new york times in 2021. a lot of that has to do with flawed intelligence and trigger happy drone operators. the truth of documents, the military's own confidential assessments of more than 1300 reports of civilian casualties, lays bare how the air war has been marked by deeply flawed intelligence rushed and often imprecise targeting on the deaths of thousands of civilians. many of them children, i shan't contrast to the american governments image of war, waged by all seeing drones and precision bombs. all things considered at least the pentagon has somewhat of a plan to ease the suffering of those unlucky enough to accidentally walk into american cross hairs. right. while human rights groups aren't 100 percent on board . for the past 20 years, we have been saying the exact same thing he has never happened. then all of this sudden secretary austin says ok, we're going to do this and all of those things. most of those things that we wanted to have been saying for 20 years on this plan. we have been hoping that

to continue with the pentagon caves into criticism over its deadly drones flying song, civilians and pledges to simply reduce the number of deaths from it's coming from other countries. that pakistan declared a state of emergency either was being called the worst humanitarian disaster. the decade, often more than 900 people die and devastating floods with malcolm asi international with the latest world news update is good to happy with us. and we start this out with some news coming in from north africa. at least 7 people have reportedly being killed. i'm 30 wounded after clashes wrapped in libya's capital ah, intense fighting grow cows in tripoli, early on saturday with rival militia groups reportedly exchanging heavy gunfire. according to local media, the clashes were initiated by one of the libyan capital, strongest armed functions as rival force is life of power in the north african country. when it says that the nearby house is anne's cause we're badly damaged. the not the latest on the conflict in ukraine with russia's defense ministry condemning what a cause keeps on going nuc

talk to ease tensions on site to continue with the pentagon caves into criticism over its deadly drawn strikes on civilians and pledges to simply reduce the number of deaths from its bombings of other kinds. class pakistan declines. a state of emergency rewards being called the was humanitarian, dissolved out of the decade. of 1900 people die in devastating floods with welcome to you. this is asi international. with the latest world news update. it's good to have you with us. and we start with the latest on ukraine as rush as defense, ministry has condemned what it calls caves, ongoing nuclear terrorism. as over the shelling of those apples, g, a power plant in southern ukraine, which is controlled by russia. moscow say the stations territory has been bombarded by ukrainian forces 3 times in just the past 24 hours with radioactive waste sizes . nuclear feel storage warehouse is in the line of fire. despite several shell sporting in the area, the radiation level is said to be under control with the russian staff at the facility handling all the necessary maintenance across in don't bass

we're from the pentagon stocks. now the biden administration will order it directly from newer, more modern , more expensive manufacturers, but the white house explains the money. not sorry, president biden woke up. he made it clear that we will stick to our position that russia should be held accountable for what is happening in ukraine for as long as necessary, in total, the president has already allocated an unprecedented amount of $13.5 billion just to help ukraine in the long term. the key here is that the united states is changing approaches before our eyes, preparing for a war that is increasingly turning into a war with russia on ukrainian territory, while europe is simply confronted with a fact. the united states announced the allocation of $3 billion worth of additional military aid to ukraine and how much i take off some of these weapons will not hit the battlefield sooner than in a few years. thus. we are preparing to help ukraine for many years. in the same time. we learned that the european allies did

retirees, as usual, have more to say than hawks in the pentagon. smoothly pass to the pronoun.e that we help president zelensky defeat russia and not just throw them back to the same positions as before medium-term long-term it is very important that we provide not only moral support, but also weapons, including us air power itself tf-16 they do not go in this package, but this is something that we need to consider in the future, the requests of kiev will be listened to even more carefully. they even promise not to put pressure on it, they say, it didn’t work out with the attack on kherson well, okay, the fighting continues, the importance of the result for the united states is more and more hidden for the value of the very process of a permanent proxy war in ukraine, we said from the very beginning that zelensky is planning this war, he is prioritizing it. i think we will give the zelensky administration and the ukrainian armed forces the opportunity to talk about their military tasks and plans to the extent that they are ready to talk about it, however, the ukrainian presiden

have denied that the pentagon is linked to bio labs in the country. ah, the me. since 2018, under order number 928, issued by ukraine's ministry of health international pharmaceutical companies have had access to the country's hospital patients as a testing ground, including children special safety measures in the handling of hazardous microorganisms are very expensive. it's a lot cheaper and easier to conduct that kind of research in countries where lives are of low value to the usa. the west, of course, does not care about the lives or the conditions of the ukraine or the population. it is also been historically either by people like adolf hitler and the german world war 2 strategic plans for defeating russia. ukraine was rich with oil and it was always i'd as a natural resource area that could be utilized. most of these to be was, would assume usually when we do it, we could do it was due to cost as well as the police. but then you where you can use cost as opposed to you and then you could use to paper. of course, when you, when you but the nation, yes, it's

former pentagon chief of staff.ng, the pentagon and the army said that when an employee leeves the pentagon and turns in their phone, the phone is wiped and text messages from around the attack were, quote, not preserved and, therefore, could not be searched. the government watchdog group american oversight sued for the records and is asking attorney general merrick garland to open an investigation into the pentagon's failure. senate judiciary committee chair dick durbin has also called on garland to investigate wiped texts from the cbs seek and the department of homeland security. the investigation into missing secret service texts is now a criminal investigation. top democrats want the trump-appointed dhs inspector general to step aside from that investigation since he knew about the erased texts months, months he told congress. joining me now is former white house chief ethics lawyer during the george w. bush administration and professor of law at the university of minnesota and a former federal prosecutor. richa

the pentagon had also sheltered several german, fascist. the removal of nazi criminals from the country was code named operation paperclip. it were thousands overall by one estimate as many as 10000. not just the scientist, the scientists totaled about 1600 or more. but there were also concentration camp guards from load of medium levels. there were even carboned dance at concentration camps or who in eastern europe. nazis really of all stripes, from scientists to spies who worked for the cia. ah eric little blue, an american journalist and pulitzer prize winner wrote the nazis next door, a book revealing the harrowing story of how america became a safe haven for thousands of nazi criminals. i think a lot of this is it was really a stain on the united states. it was a shameful period in which we allowed thousands and thousands of nazi persecutors who we had just defeated. we had just gone to war. we had lost just lost on hundreds of thousands of menu and you asked ah ah, the tokyo tribunal began on may the 3rd 1946. by this time, churchill

of the pentagon e-e ammunition, which have such accuracy, most likely, we are talking about the jk kitsovides for the conversion of any 155 mm caliber artillery projectile into a high-precision e, this kit is much cheaper than the simple excalibu excalibu there according to different costs with different data about 100,000 dollars and the gk kits are about 20 and it has a little more because a little i believe that the accuracy but in any case it is about 5-10 m of dependence er responsibility there or only satellite navigation is used. we also use, in my opinion, extremely effectively, a rather rare but extremely effective ammunition called smart a-a 155, which is a 135-meter munition that already had supplies for destruction of enemy armored vehicles that have individual guidance, that is, for example, a moving column is covered with smart shells, and this projectile throws out two misses with it, which independently hit each of its targets, eh, and there are already verified videos with the use of this system, when the same shells are simply destroyed, for example, on the move, hmm,

have denied that the pentagon is linked to bio labs in the country. ah, ah. since 2018 under odin number 928, issued by ukraine's ministry of health. international pharmaceutical companies have had access to the country's hospital patients as a testing ground, including children. special safety measures in the handling of hazardous microorganisms are very expensive with a lot cheaper and easier to conduct that kind of research in countries where lives are of low of value to the usa. the west, of course, does not care about the lives or the conditions of the ukraine or the population. it is also been historically eyed by people like adolf hitler, and the german were wor, doe to strategic plans for defeating russia. ukraine was rich with oil and it was always i'd as a natural resource ah, area that could be utilized, must've decreased. its fluid to it won't be was, would have to use them redo, it won't go through. it wasn't going to via jays squished as a bonus. of police, but then we need to list unions, conquest as a bonus, a is within your manual context of

it is coming from the pentagon. this is military money. the state department will certainly put something out. it will be more, i understand, around congratulating ukraine on its independence day and stepping up the criticism of russia. we have another big, international story going on. if there is a briefing, i would lead the briefing with the iran nuclear negotiations. that said, this package for ukraine is significant. it is a big deal and it is extremely important. host: matthew lee, diplomatic writer with the associated press. you can follow him @ap whether he's running for president in 2024, saying he was focused on supporting candidates in the 2022 middle terms. >> you don't need any introduction. i'm going to introduce vice president pence to the iowa state fair, the greatest of all the state fairs. but he doesn't need an introduction to that because he's been here and he knows how great our state fair is but i want to thank him and compliment him because he's come to

. >>> the pentagon wiped the phones at the end of the trump admini administration.'ll get reaction from a member of the january 6th select committee. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, wolf blitzer is off, i'm pamela brown and you're in "the situation room." ♪ we begin with house speaker nancy pelosi's controversial trip to taiwan and the added strain it's putting on already tense u.s. relations with china. cnn selina wang has a report from beijing. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi staying overnight in taiwan, ignoring relentless warnings from beijing that there would be grave consequences. speaker pelosi touching down in taipei just before 11:00 p.m. local time, becoming the most senior u.s. official to visit taiwan in 25 years. but the high-stakes, high-risk visit also comes at a delicate moment for u.s./china relations. speaker pelosi expected to meet the taiwanese president and members of parliament on wednesday in an op-ed she wrote, we cannot stand by as the ccp proceeds to threaten taiwan and democracy itself. by trav

so the pentagon has received the money and the pentagon and its contractors are shipping their materials pretty much as soon as they can over to ukraine. but it's not really connected. i don't think to a strategy as much as it is a domestic spending program. none of what the u. s. is providing will assist in any reclaiming of territory. it's simply, in fact, increasingly is defensive on what's left of ukraine. and i think as long as there's money to be made between the ukranian elite and the, the military industrial establishment in the united states and, and some of the other european countries as long as money is, is it long as this war is profitable? it's going to continue for them, so they're not going to acknowledge anything. this is the, your parker see is astounding. here. i think in many ways ah, turkey is threatening to scrap an agreement that would let finland and sweden join nato. a stock home as not time today for to anchor a single person involved in terrorist activities, but instead extradited a man convicted of credit card fraud. if they think that by extra adding ordinary

country receives it, this new military aid package includes a very important one, as they say in the pentagon . this aid package is designed to provide the ukrainian military with exactly what they need. is happening in the east of ukraine, but also now in the south, what does it include, does it include additional rocket ammunition for himers systems? minute systems and ammunition for them, as well as ammunition for anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as a thousand javelins and 50 armored medical vehicles, among other things, it is important that this is the 18th package under the program of presidential powers, when aid is provided directly from the reserves of the united states, and they say that this package currently there is the largest one under this program, however, of course, magazines could not help but notice that this package does not contain additional himers systems, which people in ukraine may have hoped for and asked at the knees circle, this is the deputy minister of defense of the united states, in fact , why are there no such systems and has the united states not exhaus

i guess wait well, there's a pentagon official there is nothing, then it turns out that this is sometin, citing some source in the pentagon , who said that they reacted like this, but for the ukrainian media it was extremely important. and here there is one point. yes, for what why now? yes , why is this the goal? there are two key points, firstly, ukraine is reporting dependence. it has always been. yes, this extreme layer has very important things that they are trying to intimidate, including the local population. why is the question not here? to summarize that they encourage him . the question here is that today there are many significant events that demonstrate that 30 years of work on brainwashing the population were ineffective, that teachers, in fact, there are one retraining courses, that on september 1, children will go to school, and they understand that now a question will arise. what were we doing for 30 years? and why did people realize and understand everything so quickly and how much we failed everything, and the second important point is still this is a gangway that w

and provide new weapons to europe, but there is a common understanding in the pentagon in the whitese and here in the congress. well, in the press, it is absolutely necessary to do colleagues kyiv , thank you very much for the detailed information from, well , literally the center of events, it was our special correspondent dmytro onopchenko from washington, judging by from all over the congress building, among other things, the united states, the top topic this week in the eu was the issue of canceling tourist visas for russians in relation to it, and more than 10 countries of the west discussed and called on it. they no longer let russians in, but now we also need a collective decision from the european union. well , olena abramovich will now talk about the prospects of canceling the so-called golden passports for russians . the finnish city of lapaentranta is one of the closest to st. petersburg, and there is a constant stream of russian tourists here, one of the most popular for russians locations, a river dam that opens every day to loud music, for the last few weeks, the reper

and i think the pentagon is quite concerned about it. there is no defense against it. and if you have a submarine launch right off the coast that your, your reaction time is going to be virtually nil. we're talking here about conventional weapons or are they able to be armed as nuclear capable muscles that the 0 con is new killer capable. and that makes it even more intriguing it's, it's initially going to be developed for ship and for submarines. it is developed for those, but it is still under development from land. so it basically makes the ballistic missile obsolete. in fact, this missile would probably be much faster in terms of velocity in terms of velocity. and then then even a ballistic missile. so this is quite a formidable weapon. you mentioned that there is no defense against them. certainly with no thing that not the united states and the european countries have such weapons. how does it affect the balance of power to it? affects it tremendously. that's why i said at the start that this has gotta be looked at as a political, as well as a military's problem

the pentagon has just come to its senses and canceled the counteroffensive the us department of defense admits that ukraine's military potential is hardly enough to achieve success in the south direction together watch tv channel russia goes out to lead all viewers. hello, i'm mary. they worked with something large 155 mm, donetsk and its suburbs were again under fire, but this did not prevent foreign journalists from coming to the republic. experts have already arrived in kiev from vienna and zaporozhye. nuclear power plants, meanwhile, continue to methodically fire. the russian military built a bridge through the seversky donets, right next to the one destroyed by the nature of the destruction, it is clear that it has developed, as it were from the inside, that is, this is not a shell hit, but targeted mining and undermining the regions of russia by the academic year, more than 17.5 million students are ready to sit at their desks. new standards have been introduced in the state budget. a brigade of doctors got into an accident with a fuel tanker in the yaroslavl region, and in abakan

the pentagon said that this was a test of capabilities there, reconnaissance in force, and so on.re is nothing official statements from the pentagon, then it turns out that this is some kind of separate journalist with a tin, citing some of his source in the pentagon, said that they reacted like this there, but for the ukrainian media it was extremely important. and here there is one point. yes, for what why now? yes, why is this the goal? there are two key points, firstly, ukraine has always been a dependent country of the report. yes, this is the last layer. there are very important things that they are trying to intimidate, including the local population. why is the question here not a referendum to have what they encourage him? the question here is that today there are many significant events that demonstrate that 30 years of work on the brainwashing of the population was ineffective, that the teachers, in fact, have retraining courses, that on september 1, the children will go to school, and they understand that now the question will arise. what were we doing for 30 years? an

, but it is still believed that the deputy head of the pentagon, kolnikalyu, voiced this opinion, heined that most of the targets for a-a military e-e facilities are in the access zone of projectiles with a range of 70-80 km, we need more such weapons, but we don’t really need shells with a range of up to 300 km for this, why and do we really have enough of the weapons that we have, of course we do not have enough of these weapons to i wanted to hit more complexes and the number of these complexes in order to strike at a greater depth the logistics system of the armed forces of the russian federation and the control points of the armed forces of the russian federation, but what they say in the pentagon does not mean that it corresponds to the reality of sometimes political statements, it is one thing and directly what is going on and what is being worked out within this system is completely different for the pentagon. it is important that they maintain a political face and show education that they directly provide assistance in the minimum of such needs, so that, relatively speaking,

the same eh m-3 sevens they were transferred in relation to the data of the open pentagons, they weren the amount of 2000 shells per one gun, and for example why we'll just take the packages of aid from the usa in the last two weeks, we received an additional 140,000 shells. that is, we are returning to the 400 million that were on february 24. there they are transmitted on a wheeled or autumnal course for foreign production. what is the peculiarity and what is more important for us there are three sevens or less, the number of more mobile howitzers, well . look, in principle, on active areas of the front, where active counter is conducted, active counter is conducted battery fire from the side of russian artillery, the firing range is important because the same crabs and caesars have more data thanks to a longer brain and mobility is important because it is important not to stay in position for a long time because it will fly away in response to simpler sections of the front passive here e m-77 is enough of a howitzer, the main thing is the availability of shells for it. that is, whe

so a stern statement coming today from the pentagon. >> oren lieberman at the pentagon, thank you so death toll from russia's attack on a train station in ukraine has risen to 25, including two children. that's according to ukrainian officials. while russia's defense ministry is claiming to have killed more than 200 ukrainian soldiers in the same attack. cnn cannot independently verify russia's claim. meanwhile, the power line to the russian controlled power nuclear plant in zaporizhzhia, ukraine has been cut off twice today because of nearby fires. all of the reactors at the plant remain disconnected from the power grid now. cnn's sam kylie has more on a region on edge. >> reporter: a test for radioactive fallout. it's an essential ritual repeated several times a day. it's safe for now. but the war and the shelling that puts this city on the frontline of a potential nuclear disaster continues. the pattern over the last month is that this city has been hit mostly at night. in the last week, the locals are telling us there's been regular attacks during the daytime. more or less at exa

vets poisoned by the pentagon's use of toxic and pets in iraq and afghanistan.we will talk about the impact of these burn pits on both u.s. vets and on a rackis -- iraqis. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "waiting for the crisis" by kate fagan. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. sent republicans reversed themselves again and passed a bill to say not with democrats to aid u.s. veterans poisoned by toxic waste from u.s. military burn pits in iraq and afghanistan. the measure would require the department of veterans affairs to remove the burden of proof from vets who say their health problems are linked to the pentagon's use of these burn pits. expanding health care and benefits to some 3.5 million former u.s. service members exposed to the burning toxic waste. the legislation passed with a bipartisan vote of 86 to 11. just days after senate republicans last week blocked the bill known as the packed act, triggering outrage for military veterans and supporters who led around-the-clock protests o

ukraine can become a second afghanistan for the us the pentagon began to prepare military afghans for the transfer to the independent premier by the day of writing, belarus film has prepared an animated film of the classics and a chess tape will be presented in the shower. a detailed conversation on the state of affairs in the vitebsk region with the president today according to the report of the head of the region alexander subbotin, in the foreground, a hunting company in the northernmost part of the country harvested 90% of the klin grain there, the average yield in the region is more than 31 centners of a hectare, the governor did not come empty-handed with a traditional loaf to the office. this means the region has already made a million tons of grain for vitebsk . this is rather a rarity, completely empty- handed, a million came to me. i looked closely and i think it's a one or two. ahead, while the unit is still the unit. well, there is good news too. i am i want to go to chang to congratulate you on this achievement. as i understand it, there will be more than a million, becau

jon, what's the pentagon saying about this tonight? >> reporter: linsey, the pentagon is saying, essentially, that it is standard operating procedure to erase cell phones when an employee stops working for the department of defense. this all came about because a group called american oversight sued to get access to these text messages and was told there are none because, quote, when an employee separates from d.o.d. or army, he or she turns in the government-issued phone and the phone is wiped. but linsey, there is a federal law called the federal records act, which requires federal employees to preserve their communications, which are then stored in the national archives. it is unclear how text messages on government-issued cell phones would not be included in that, especially messages sent in and around such an historically significant date as january 6th. linsey? >> so many questions there. jon, thank you. >>> next tonight, critical primaries under way in arizona, michigan, missouri, kansas, and washington state. former president tr

american labyrinth global health and its founders are former employees of the key contractor of the pentagon in the field of military biological activities of the company metabiota. i would like to note that within the framework of the us department of defense program to reduce the biological threat. one of the areas of research of labyrinth globals is the study of coronaviruses and the monkey virus we trace. a clear trend of pathogens in sleeping sickness that fall into the zone of interest of the pentagon in the future receives a pandemic distribution, with the acquirer's benefit becoming us drug companies and their backers us democratic party leaders previously documented us use of biological weapons in our department of defense. this is also being claimed in other countries in july, venezuelan president nicolas maduro announced the involvement of the united states in the assassination of the former head of state. hugo chavez according to the venezuelan side. to eliminate it, a special drug was developed. filed by the venezuelan side a similar drug to poison chavez claudios, who were part

jennifer griffin has more on that warning from the pentagon.e. five years ago, panama under pressure from beijing shifted their long-term policy of recognizing taiwan. severed ties and now only recognizes china. a hong kong-based company book and took control of two ports on either end of the panama canal. america's general issued this warning two weeks ago. >> worry about -- they look like civilian companies, state-owned enterprises that could be used for duel use. could be quickly changed over to a military capability because they needed that, too. looks like agai -- >> 6% of the world's commerce passes through the canal. 66% of cargo that passes through the panama canal. 5.16 million tons of goods passed through the waterway this year alone. a recent report raised alarm bells about china's rising influence on america's door step. >> martha: china's increase interest in panama is something that the united states has to pay attention to. we had a conflict in the south china sea and started to escalate, one of the areas that kline might look to

thank you for having me on, david and, yes, in retrospect, having been in the pentagon when it was hithe pentagon when it was hit by osama bin laden, it is pretty personal and termination of ayman al—zawahiri is a very significant event, from my perspective. it highlights the fact that terrorist leaders will ultimately be held accountable for their actions. it is not the first time that has been an attempt to remove him, ifi has been an attempt to remove him, if i can lose that sort of language. —— use. are you surprised at the timing? hat surprised at the timing? not reall . it surprised at the timing? iirrt really. it highlights a couple of things that generally get assumed or taken for granted. the first one, it demonstrated the value of airpower with global reach and precision, as well as the excellent intelligence in the precise targeting that went into this event. his whereabouts had long been a mystery so i am sure ayman al—zawahiri's followers took lessons from 0sama ayman al—zawahiri's followers took lessons from osama bin laden �*s hiding but it demonstrates the long reach an

construction of these cities, the united states remains the leader in financing ukraine, while the pentagon admitted that they do not officially announce all types of weapons that are sent to kiev and another way to go into the shadow of sponsorship the kiev regime will be told by andrey skvortsov from toronto with love and london sends greetings in the area of ​​such messages on rockets doubted. even western journalists, the organizers of the crowdfunding site , offer ordinary people to send a letter on a projectile in britain, the issue price is 2,500 pounds in canada, a couple of hundred dollars, on a site blocked in russia, they advise to mock, it’s not necessarily possible, say, to make a date in exchange for money, the ukrainian military will write words on the projectile due to order and shoot them at the russian positions reporting photo and video is included in the tariff of what is called a donation goes to the purchase of equipment for the armed forces, according to the british magazine spiktetor. such allegedly unofficial voluntary contributions are convenient for everyone, both

. >> next, a news conference at the pentagon announced in ukraine will receive 2.9 billion dollars in new military aid. the announcement came on the six-month mark of the russian invasion as well as ukraine's independence day. this runs about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon. >> it is good to be back with you again. last night at president biden's direction u.s. military forces conducted precision airstrikes in eastern syria. our forces accomplished their mission of destroying several infrastructure facilities used by groups used by iran's irgc to protect u.s. personnel in syria, the targets of several recent attacks by several iranian backed militia groups including the most recent ones on august 15. our response was proportionate and precise, designed to minimize the risk of casualties. it responded to the nature of the attacks by iran backed militia groups. that being said, we cannot accept further attacks on our personnel. this operation is a demonstration that the u.s. will not hesitate to defend itself against iranian and iran backed aggression where it occurs. now, nazmi turned to

the pentagon's suggested that 10 switchblade 600s we're going to be going into ukraine. have any of those arrived in theater. and will this package include any switch 600. >> yes. so this package doesn't, it includes uh puma us systems and then also some additional parts for scan eagle. um but it does not include switchblade 600 as it relates to the actual delivery of the switchblade. i'll have to get back to you. i don't have that information in front of me. you had a question on taiwan, >> we've seen this week that the p. l. a. is still maintaining an aggressive tempo. um flying close to taiwan has the pentagon seen any indications that this is going to slow down? and should we view this as the new normal over in taiwan at the taiwan strait? yeah, so ouressment, i mean i think we're still we'll still have to see what settles out and what the new normal looks like. i'll tell you what we've seen thus far. um the tempo of their activities is less than it was in the immediate aftermath of speaker pelosi's visit, but it's still higher than historical norms. uh and they have