there has been escalations of schelling. there is the regrouping of the russians in donbas in preparation for the attack that is said to be imminent. the latest report is the russians have around 76 battalion groups stationed in the area. the expectation is that the attack will come shortly. for the russians, that is the last military chance if they lose the battle. that is why the russians will try to focus on this military operation in order to try to get as much out of it as they possibly can. >> we have to consider the fall of mariupol to russia. that would be a huge loss to ukraine. what would this mean for the defense and security calculus in kyiv? >> in reality i think we have been expecng the fall of mariupol for a while now. it was a question of when, not if. this is all about whether the ukrainians were able to support their fighters. over the next few days, this will effectively fall. in terms of what it means, it will be seen as a victory for the russian side. it is important symbolically because it cuts off the

peace and quiet, a relief for families who have spent night after night under schelling.ers say number of people coming through their doors have fallen because of the siege and that people can often out. they are likely spending another night under heavy bombardment. catherine, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. laura: despite tensions between the u.s. and russia over ukrae, russian authorities released an american who has been held since 2019. trevor read is a former u.s. marine -- trevor re is ae former marine who was held on charges of assaulting a policed -- police ofcer. tells about this prisoner swamp. >> yes, it took months to achieve as well. so he was convicted by a court in moscow. he was accused of assaulting two police officers in russia, which his family and the u.s. government said were false start does and they were politically motivated. what galvanized his release was concerns over his health. this exchange happened in turkey. he was swapped for a russian citizen called konstantin, convicted in 2011 for conspiring to smuggle drugs into e u.s.. his family protested o

she denies that this was an airstrike and says it was schelling and she says that the hospital was occupiedy ukrainian army officials. the russian embassy in the u.k. in france claimed this woman was an actress and that the photos of the hospital victims were fake, so how do they sustain these actor claims? they base it off her previous occupation as a beauty blogger. she posted pregnancy issues before the attack or photos like these supporting, sponsoring beauty products, which is what would give the credibility to assert that she is an actress/model posing as a victim for the maternity hospital attack. so what information do we have on this young woman? according to this journalist who follows the story closely, he says she is not in russia, but separatists-occupied area, russian-controlled territory, and she says she was kidnapped by russian forces and lately russia has been widely accused of kidnapping ukrainian civilians, but the kremlin continues to deny that the hospital airstrike alleges that this was created by western propaganda, contrary to all the evidence we have on this attack

ministry of defense, schelling has continued in the areas of donetsk and the hands, with ukrainian forcess a convoy of military vehicles heading south to the donbass region, redeployed from the north. our correspondent is there. >> we heard the sound of artillery intensifying in recent days. many people in the region have already led, that is why you see a few lights in the flats behind me. the fighting will be different from kyiv, it is more open countryside. the advantage the ukrainians have, they are already well dug in. they have been fighting russian-backed separatists here for eight years, some of their most battle hardened troops, tired, but their morale is still high. the advantage for the russians, they are now fighting on fewer fronts, and they have the numeric advantage. one western officials saying they expected russia to double or possibly triple the number of forces it has in the region, also saying that could take some considerable time. everyone knows this next phase of the work could be decisive in the east. it could also be bloody. the new russian general in charge is kn

we have just gotten in the last couple of minutes and that is that schelling has killed five people and3 in kharkiv�*s city centre. local health officials have been cited. the public broadcaster, the bbc equivalent if you like are saying these casualties and fatalities have taken place in kharkiv. we are going to go live to keep. where our correspondent anna foster is. this is all the details that we have presumably for some time. . , ., ., , time. that is normally the time. kharkiv has _ time. that is normally the time. kharkiv has been _ time. that is normally the time. kharkiv has been the _ time. that is normally the time. kharkiv has been the scene - time. that is normally the time. kharkiv has been the scene of. time. that is normally the time. - kharkiv has been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks. i have spoken to families who have managed to flee and describe spending weeks underground, hiding in basement. there was one family where the mother said they had spent five weeks in the basement of a school which was being shelled by russian forces. kharkiv is again strategically

she was at a metro station in kharkiv were residents have been hiding out from the schelling. >> i'm in a metro station, a subway station a short drive away from the scenes you saw there. many of the people, many of the 700 people sheltering here on the platforms, the stairs, and the empty train carriages behind me are from that neighborhood and have come here. many have in here for several weeks now to escape that almost incessant bombing. i have spoken to one lady who said she arrived on the first day of this war and she is only planning to leave when the war stops. people here are tired. they are exhausted. they are crowded in to each other, very little privacy, and there's no hot water. there are washrooms, toilets, but very little supplies. they only go out when they dared to get supplies from their homes. many people, their homes and possessions have been damaged and they fled here quickly, so it is a difficult existence for people here now five weeks into the war and people telling me that they are still scared that russian forces could destroy their city. they have been watch

schelling has intensified in kharkiv than across the east of the country but intelligence assessmentsans aren't gaining much ground. still, the ukrainian president is warning of the fight he believes is to come. translation: the russian invasion of ukraine was intended as only the beginning. then they wanted to catch other countries. of course, we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. ~ . ., , ., federation. ukrainians are fighting back. they claim _ federation. ukrainians are fighting back. they claim this _ federation. ukrainians are fighting back. they claim this shows - federation. ukrainians are fighting back. they claim this shows one i back. they claim this shows one russian helicopter evading attack by firing flares is brought down near to zaporizhzhia. nearby vehicle that is more evidence of mass claimants. satellite pictures show how one of thatis satellite pictures show how one of that is thought to have been extended over the last month, you can in hide evidence of war crimes —— mass graves. those who escape my people

schelling, house is shaking. people you know get shot in front of you. men didn't go out at all.because we saw bodies of men on the street. men, men, men. >> all killed and tortured people, shot at close range with their arms and legs tied. some were blindfolded. they're in the end are six people shot and burned altogether. >> shannon: more first-hand account tonight of the horrible toll of the war on the town of bucha. on the ground in ukraine tonight, from valerie cushion , thefounder of the institute of chernobyl. we thank you for your time and we know you are there as this is playing out. what is the reality of day-to-day life ukrainians right now? >> i think it'll change everything. i remember how i went out with my child from the missile bombing. it was an early change in my life. and also for today's exchange and for everything. it is -- we have a lot of proud people, a lot of skill. we also are trying to help each other. also trying to help the result for the electricity, i imagine the war will come to my house and also my life. and other people who are in a really cruel

in the south kimura schelling and war fighting in mariupol.nwhile ukrainian forces have captured a pro-russian ukrainian lawmaker suspected of spying on the kremlin and a candidate for future public regime and also claims putin is his daughter's godfather. >> he has been hiding for 48 days and finally decided to try to escape from our country. i think it is especially cynical of him to use military camouflage. he tried to disguise himself like that. >> todd: and a senior defense official telling fox news that the administration is considering sending m-17 helicopters and can be used in a combat role as part of a new $750 million aid package. todd and carley. >> todd: all right, grip thank you very much. black lives matter defending $6 million mansion they allegedly bought with donation money. but guess who isn't talking about the story, the mainstream media. joe concha on deck to to talk about that. >> carley: california to propose a plan to punish companies that want to work standard for the standard work week. live coming up, don't miss it.

most of them were killed in bombings or schelling's apparently, but at least one of the men we have seenppears to have been executed. he had his hands tied behind his back. >> the russian retreat from the areas around kyiv has revealed a heavy toll civilns paid for russia's attempt to capture the ukrainian capital. a picture emerges of a pattern of apparent war crimes. this body is badly bruised, suggesting a brutal beating. his hands are tied behind his back and there is a bag over his head. >> in the case of this body, he's tied up. the cause of death with either a gunshot wound for injuries sustained by the body he could not survive. we don't know for sure. after the coroner's investigation, we will identify the cause of death. >> residents told us russian troops went from house to house, checking duments and confiscating phones. men were asked if they had any connections to the military. >> they check homes. the first thing they asked was if there were military people for weapons. if there were military people, they shot them. one guy had his ear cut off for looting. others were simp

are available in the archives now both at mit and in presidential archives that were run by thomas schelling in lincoln bloomfield in the late 50s and early 60s, and they were run partly at mit and then then transferred into the pentagon to run in classified settings, but they were run by academics who took their experience in showings case at it was at the rand corporation and then brought it to the person to the academy to use the perspective of political scientists to ask questions that they are interested in and use social scientific design principles to design a new type of game that was useful for academics. right, and so the finding that i am most intrigued by in the the archives that that i have seen, right? is that even when these games went to the pentagon and were running classified settings now declassified in game reports that it was difficult to get any team to use nuclear weapons in these games, right even though they're simulations, but there were conflicts over west berlin vietnam or other cold war crises, and so even when war plans would have called these nuclear weapons. i

best buy is going to have bare schells. the bathroom renovation is going to have to wait.t happens in shanghai went you shut down 26 million people and you lock them in their homes, it spreads to the rest of the world. and the problems here started way before covid, right? it started with economic mismanagement hear, it start -- here, it started with sending our manufacturing johns to china. -- jobs to china. and we're finding we're totally exposed to china from everything from teslas to iphones, and hopefully we learn a lesson from this and bring those jobs back here where we can control the situation. neil: so the story on this is that when china had problems and it's responsible for so much of the production and the tools that we use for technology and so much else, it shuts down, we shut down. but these images, the tents and offices and all, a lot of people look at that and say i thought we were over this kind of thing, i didn't think it could come here. it's nothing like it is in shanghai where this lockdown persists. but we have seen a spike in as much cases, certain

get along too well necessarily with stanford, although i have a lot of close friends -- tom sowell, schell steele, people like that -- at the hoover institution. >> host: in the national review last april, you wrote this:. today's universities and colleges bear little, if any, resemblance to postwar higher education. instead imagine a place where the certification of educational excellence, the bachelor of arts degree, is no guarantee that a graduate can speak, write or communicate coherently or think redundantly. >> guest: yeah. i wrote that after talking -- i didn't just write that, i talked to a lot of very successful ceos and business people who hire from our elite colleges. and they all said same thing to me, and i think it's borne out if you talk to faculty grade inflation, etc. they all said the same thing, our top universities are graduating people who cannot express themselves cogently or coherently. their vocabularies are diminished, they do not write as well, they don't have same computational skills. and yet rather than being aware of that deficiency, they're more confident in