scott griffin, deputy director of the international press institute. scott, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank. thank you for the agree government says 20000 forwarder signed up to help fight russian troops. president zelinski has created an international legion for volunteers from overseas . of some countries are urging their national citizens not to join the conflict that we've been threatening them with legal action. this is actually from finland. it's not his real name. we meet him at the polish trade station. mission packed was equipment and protected. yes. and i told he is waiting to board the train to ukraine to join the fight for me was right. thing to do as a human being by part of the solid earth movement. i strongly feel that i can contribute. by going he was studying art and design when he decided to answer. ukraine's call for foreign fighters was 5 years experience. as an instructor in the finished defense force, he's eager to share his knowledge with ukrainians. who like combat experience. they do have the manpower, w

scott griffin. it's good to have you with us tonight. may i ask you, do we have any evidence that russian forces are targeting journalists in ukraine? well, we don't have independent confirmation that we have obviously the statements by the ukrainian authorities. and certainly that is a plausible explanation of what happened given. we know that russia is targeting civilians, a new crane, so that is obviously possible, but we don't have certainty about what happened in that instance. what we do know for sure is that under international humanitarian law, journalists are civilians and civilians are never acceptable targets. in a conflict, and so this would be a crime and our position that obviously idea that this needs to be investigated and those responsible whether that ultimately is rational forces or somebody else needs to be held responsible. so it's also worth mentioning, this is the 1st of the foreign journalists in ukraine, but not the 1st debt as a media worker, actually, during the russian shelling of the television tower and have

will scott griffin is a deputy director at the international press institute. he says, the move is a blow to the kremlin from our point to view any time media place is bad or sanctioned in this way, the very, very serious position. no matter the circumstances and any type of decisions such as the one that i've taken should be subject to very strict scrutiny. but even if there are a precedent. having said that, i do think it is important to point out that the job to look into whether broadcasts have the license of hold basic standards, including the issue of impartiality off. com has concluded that that is not the case for russia today. it's new, but it is in principle, legitimate for independent regulators. these issues come to the decision. now that is a different question of whether the decision itself is grounded and the right one in the circumstances. there is no question that russia today extremely closely made to the russian government, which is much more of aggression on a neighbor. and what is also true. as i pointed out, environment for media freedom i

independence, it is nothing more than a tool of government bending to its media. suppressing will scott griffin is deputy director at the international press institute. he says, the move needs careful scrutiny from our point to view any time that place is bad or sanctioned in this way. very, very serious position, no matter the circumstances and any type of decisions such as the one that has taken should be subject to a very strict scrutiny. even if there are a precedent. having said that, i do think it is important to point out that the job to look into whether broadcasters have the license of hold basic standards, including the issue of impartiality. all calm has concluded that that is not the case for russia today. it's new, but it is in principle, legitimate for independent regulators. these issues come to the decision. now that is a different question of whether the decision itself is grounded and the right one circumstances . there is no question that russia today extremely closely made to the russian government, which is much more of aggression on a neighbor. and what is also true, i tho

now scott griffin, his deputy director at the international press institute, joint us live from vienna. good to have you with us, was our correspondent pointed out scott the a few moments ago. it isn't completely unprecedented. how worrying though, and how different is this move against our tea? good morning, 7, thank you. thank you for having me. from our point of view, any time that media is bad or sanctioned in this way, very, very serious petition. no matter the circumstances and any type of decision, the one that should be subject to very strict scrutiny, even if there are, as you mentioned, precedence having said that, i do think it is important to point out that that is a job to move into whether broadcast license a whole basic standard, including the issue of impartiality. i'm has concluded that that is not the case for russia. it's new, but it is in principle, legitimate for independent regulated strict issues and commonplace decision. now that is a different question of whether the decision itself is grounded and the right one. right and talking perhaps in general terms, scot

griffin right now. jennifer? >> neil, the director of the defense intelligence agency, lieutenant general scott barrier, wrote tommittee on intelligence and special operations that he assesses the russians face stiff resistance in ukraine, moscow would rely on a nuclear weapons. russia likely will increasingly rely on their nukely deterrent to signal the west and project strength to its internal and external audiences. the russias are facing stiff resistance and russian soldiers are experiencing food and fuel shortages and largely stalled on the ground and more reliant on a missile attacks like what we saw near the western city of lviv early this morning. defense secretary lloyd austin was in bulgaria visiting nato allies. he was in slovokia yesterday where the defense minister said the country would like to send s-300s to ukraine but would need backup support to bolster its own defenses if it senses. the dutch defense ministry said they would install patriots in slovokia. >> learn how the weapons systems work so when the time comes, we don't have to guess at this. the other thing we do when we do things like, t

griffin following all of that at the pentagon. jennifer? reporter: neil, you're referencing a memo that was sent to the house arms services subcommittee on intelligence and special operations by lt. general scotte and more weakened and frustrated from a conventional sense, that russia, putin, might rely more on the threat of nuclear weapons. now defense secretary lloyd austin is in bulgaria today meeting with u.s. and nato troops explaining why they trained together to learn how to make their weapon systems interoperable. >> we're going to communicate together, learn how weapons systems work, so that when a time comes, you know, we don't have to guess at this. and the other thing we do when we're doing things like this is we create trust, you know, you can't surge trust at the 11th hour. reporter: the secretary has been in europe this week meeting nato allies to bolster nato's eastern flank while also arranging defensive weapon systems needed on the ground in ukraine. the secretary was in slovakia yesterday during his visit, slovakia' defense minister said his country was willing to send it s-300 to ukraine but would need replacement systems as a backup. today the dutch defense ministry steppe