u. s. defense secretary has reiterated that america is keen to avoid a direct confrontation in ukraine, saying that kiev bears the brunt of the responsibility to resolve the conflict. this is ukraine's right is not the united states fight. at the end of the day, i can know what, what this looks like. what im state looks like will be defined by, by the ukrainians and not by us. well, in any case, some experts are worried about the us lacks enough of its own weaponry to continue supplying ukraine for much longer. retired army, colonel washington's plans have changed entirely, and they're not seeking to distance themselves from key if he thinks heckling their strategy in afghanistan. now they're talks about during western ukraine into quote unquote, ukraine to step, to try and build an endless war that will go on and quote, unquote lead russia, which i see not happening. frankly, i don't know the europeans will put up with it or let me stop you. what do you mean by ukraine is stan. well, the idea that's being hatched over the pentagon and in the white house is, well, we'll just turn wester

u. s. secretary of defense, michael maloof. mike a welcome to the program. do you believe in the self proclaimed impartiality of this report by the new lines institute? i think it's a total exaggeration. the when you consider who some of the think tanks were like the reason though, foundation for example, they're always trying to equate hostilities and violence of war with what happened during the holocaust. and that indeed was a true genocide effort by, by nazi germany. and i think it was a, it's curious that the allegations that they are saying against russians they're, they're perpetrating themselves from the ukrainian side in the eastern portion of, of ukraine, namely hitting infrastructure. and given the comments that were just made, i don't take, it's a genocide at all. it is the fog of war, and it is war. and it's, you don't have what you had in the rwanda situation, where there was a concerted effort by one tribe to eliminate and annihilate every member of another tribe. you just don't have that here. so i think it's gross exaggeration. it is a narra

u. s. defense budget raising valid concerns that their activities are not just medical but military with the luger laboratory, georgia is one example that the la gloria, dwayne lauren, is looking george's former minister of state security lieutenant general gord kelsey is talking about reliable documents that fell into his hands knew more sheet music, but as reading it as me, surely unless site yet but then too. so you know, next that omitted in that silly death is jelly gut order. and when you cook, use us so misty us lit, ship them put out system. wesley was then you might is, did the thrashing him was plus flinging it b d me that shem of us must say to labounty into sleuth sir, but bent the map miss below they lit that thing the about up but it wasn't much in the let us we linea was looking on a drunken ass, yacoma left judy tory, but i didn't you gasoline, you see any more smear, kill noah, or rumor, snake men? sham is up about them that ship the company did not say though, go the zyden jacob, but it gets its middle teeth. let's do the wedding. b peachy le smith to new stano little c

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u. s. defense manufacturers. it doesn't go to the ukrainian people, it doesn't go to the ukrainian government, it goes to the biggest defense companies. eventually, the u. s. government policy is going to have to be to support that means go courts because that's the only way that we can bring this conflict to an end and to try to minimize the loss of life. on another pressing issue discussed our doubles as a possible end of globalization. the conflicts in ukraine on western sanctions against warsaw exacerbates of the economic troubles created by the global pandemic, and of hence it how fragile the global economy potentially is. some speakers of the forum, the outlook is disastrous. you go back to 2007, 2008 in arab spring. you look at the economic indicators, then you had 40 nations with political unrest, ryah's protest, and today the conditions are actually worse. globalization is not a good thing. it's so great. is it moving? is it boise? i think it's them poor, really bossing. one of the main consequences of d

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u. s. defense manufacturers. it doesn't go to the ukrainian people, it doesn't go to the ukrainian government, it goes to the biggest defense companies. eventually, the u. s. government policy is going to have to be, to support them into the courts because that's the only way that we can bring this conflict to an end and to try to minimize the loss of life. so be, as president, has expressed his regrets about how the form has turned into what he called a mouth piece of the west. alexander, which it claims the only dominating issue is ukraine on descent, is not accepted. timber creek training issue dominate so much over all other topics that the form is basically just a huge support for ukraine. divorce used to be a place where you could hear different things, different opinions for him or person who seeing an angler. merkel came here at the same time. we were group now. it's become an absolutely and exclusively western oriented place. you can discuss something only within the given framework. the coming from the e

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u. s. defense department and overseen supposedly by the defense department that that is alarming. and i think if that evidence exists, the not the russia needs to take that to the united nations security council and confront united states representative with the evidence and demand a response and be very public about it. because this is outrageous and, and also russian ambassador anatole, in the united states, needs to approach certain members of the congress, particularly sen rubio, and provide that evidence in order to have rubio and the committees call in the state department representatives to explain that those actions are this is something has been swept under the table and needs to be written to be shown the light of the world today and, and it needs to stop because all of that is illegal. do you think it's possible that those who presumably establish such laboratories could be worried of possible leaks of legend deadly pathogens? well, i think they are now, particularly in a war environment. when you have, when you have a conflict, when you're in a conflict area and you ha

u. s. defense secretary has spoken to the russian defense minister for the 1st time since the invasion of ukraine. he called for an immediate cease fire. this is ukraine started its 1st war crimes trial of the contracts. the government is prosecuting a russian soldier. the 21 year old sergeant is accused of shooting a 62 year old civilian to an open car window. if convicted, he faces life in prison. turkish president friendship type ottawa says he opposes sweden and finland joining nato because they host when he called terrorist organizations made the comments a day off and then it would apply to join the block in suite and said it may follow suit. turkey has criticized european countries in the past for how they handle organizations like the curtis p, k, k and y, p g. any decision on increasing major memberships must be agreed by all members. on the switch on the unit, we don't hold positive views previous turkeys. governments made a mistake about gracious membership and you know greece's current attitude towards turkey by nato. we don't want to repeat similar mistakes. furthermore, can

u. s. defense secretary has spoken to his russian count for the 1st time since the invasion of ukraine and the court for an immediate cease fire. this as ukraine starts, its fast walk on trial of the conflict. prosecuting a russian soldier allegedly killing an unarmed civilian. the 21 year old sergeant is accused of shooting a 62 year old ukrainian man through an open car window. if convicted, he could get life in prison. ukraine is looking into more than 10000 potential war crimes involving more than 600 suspects. while turkish president ross of tobacco and says he opposes sweden and finland joining nato because they host what he calls terrorist organizations. he made those comments a day after finland said it would apply to join the block. and sweden said it may follow. sous turkey has criticized european countries in the past for how they handle organizations like the kurdish p k, k and y p g. any decision on increasing nature membership must be agreed on by all members. this ron, the swiss roof number that you do? we don't hold positive views. previous turkish governments made a mistak

u. s. defense secretary has spoken to his russian counterpart for the 1st time since the invasion of ukraine, and has called for an immediate cease fire. this as you cranes dance. it's fast war crimes, trial of the conflict, prosecuting a russian soldier for allegedly killing an unarmed civilian. the 21 year old sergeant is accused of shooting a 62 year old ukrainian man for an open car window. if convicted, he could get life in prison. ukraine is looking into more than 10000 potential war crimes involving more than 600 suspects. well before the. busy war ukraine was seen as the wilds breadbasket, supplying a significant chunk of the planets, wheat, grain, sunflower, oil. but the invasion has made farming difficult and cut off many supply routes. germany has also accused russia of stealing grain from easter new crane harbor. hamid reports now from odessa with the coming of spring diffuse of ukraine have turned bright green, wheat and other green sprouting as far as the i can see. but even farming is risky in a country at war workers now where safety vist. walmack young because of the shillin

u. s. defense industry takes in half the profits with the net worth of manufacturers are rising by billions of dollars and recent month with, by casting law direct, more studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. we start with the latest developments in the war in ukraine in the city i've done yet 5 people, including 2 children that have been reported killed in 16 injured an intense showing by ukrainian forces. local authorities have said 3 schools in the city, the capital of the done yet republic were targeted and attacked by ukraine's military. now, the city's mayor has said that the ukrainian bombardment was carried out with us heavy weaponry supplied the key. if local officials say that it has been the worst showing of don yet skim 8 years since the 2014, when the conflict initially broke out elsewhere in se ukraine, the city of money to poll currently under russian control, has been rocked by an explosion that local authorities are considering a terror attack there by ukrainian fighters to humanitarian volunteers were wounded i

u. s. defense secretary has spoken his russian counterpart for the 1st time since invasion of ukraine, and has called for an immediate cease fire. this ukraine starts his 1st war crimes trial of the conflicts prosecuting a russian soldier for an actually killing and unarmed civilian 21 year old sergeant is accused of shooting at 62 year old ukrainian man through an open car window. if convicted, he could get life in prison. ukraine is looking into more than 10000 potential war kinds involving more than 600 suspects. ukraine's foreign minister has met his counterparts from the g 7 group of nations to discuss further action to help kids to increase pressure on moscow or diplomatic effort. james base reports from the vice in house in northern germany. the french foreign minister said the purpose of this g 7 meeting was to support ukraine in its war with russia. until this victory, the leaders discussed fresh military support with the european union proposing a further payment of over $500000000.00 for new heavy weaponry. with the global food crisis growing, the e. u is also working on plans t

u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin's met israel's defense minister, began sorta working breakfast, a correspondence, jamal. i shall asked the pentagon if the killing of american palestinian journalists sharina barkley was raised. i want to talk about the me working breakfast between the secretary of defense and guns. the readout, didn't mention anything about the killing of punishment. american journalist sharing a bottler. obviously there was a lot of condemnation that's come from us for me because with regards to the killing of the journalist, it is highly likely that she was killed using an american weapon. considering the weapon are used by the israeli military. was this discussed in between the 2 during the meeting, and if indeed there was some sort of an investigation that established the u. s. weapon was used to kill an american journalist, ruled there be any reprimand or sanctioning from the u. s. with regards to this, what i can tell you is the subject did come up in the breakfast and the secretary welcomed israel's intent statement, clear statement of intent to investigate this. he welcom

u. s. congress. as a result, the u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard anti ones defense forces. sen. duckworth also recently introduced to build the further prioritizes taiwan security. as part of u. s. military deployment in the indoor pacific region. as roles, defense minister says it's time to consider designating fall right wing israeli groups is terrorist organizations follows an ultra nationalist march through hebron in the occupied westbank on monday, leading to an incursion of the abraham me most compound the day before von ins broke out during israeli flag de marches in the miskin corso occupied east jerusalem. among con, tells us more about who may be targeted in such a terrorist as if nation. the 2 groups he's talking about all the hava, and um, la familia, la familia, is a football, hooligan organization. there's no other way of describing them other than that. they follow jerusalem bass hard, but they've been accused of races behavior of attacking palestinian israelis, arabs, and they've also been accused of criminal activi

u. s. congress. as a result, the u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard anti ones defense forces. sen. duckworth also recently introduced a bill the further prioritizes taiwan security. as part of u. s. military deployment in the indoor pacific region. 10 days after australians voted in a general election, it's been confirmed that the labor government has secured a majority in the lower house of parliament. it means the prime minister, anthony albanese, won't have to rely on independent and peace to pass legislation in the center left leader campaigned on stepping up australia's climate commitments and setting up a new antique corruption commission. the president of peru says that he'll bring in a law to end immunity from prosecution, the senior government officials, but at the same time, federal castillo as rejected the investigation against him for alleged influence. peddling, he denies corruptions, accusations, visiting heat in her eyes. yeah. if they want transparency, i must tell them i ratify myself from here that i have not stolen

u. s. congress. as a result, the u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard anti ones defense forces. sen duckworth also recently introduced to bill the further prioritizes taiwan security. as part of u. s. military deployment in the indoor pacific region. so i had an al jazeera ah, people joining police on light patrols to catch criminal gangs, robbing south africa, of electricity. and canada looks at banning the sale of hand guns following recent mass shootings in the u. s. plus ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to cattle group. your travel package today. how i was seen some flooding rains across southern parts of china, the usual seasonal downpours there on the may you front. you can see that organized band of cloud here. deadly flights in parts actually. and it does stay wet across southern parts of china. over the next few days, you can see the pulses of heavier ranges pushing out into the northwest pacific a child, some showers there on wednesday for southern parts of q. she see that continues to drive its wa

u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard anti ones defense forces. sen. duckworth also recently introduced a bill the further prioritize is taiwan security. as part of u. s. military deployment. in the indoor pacific region. the weather is next, then israel's defense minister says far, right? it was really groups which incite violence against palestinians could be deem terrorists. and will tell you what led to this dangers hitch invasion at a football match in ah hello, we got some fight and try whether across a good part of malaysia or at the moment, logically escalade into borneo stretching across much of sumatra, to the north of that some pretty wet weather town and 51 millimeters of frame the usual hey to the day heavy showers, of course the seasonal rains. i can get progressive tied up with them on soon downpours showers. they extend across a good part of in the china. plenty of showers in more than part of the philippines as well for wednesday. still a few showers there to know the sections of bornea a

u. s defense secretary today. fense department official cells while the conversation didn't lead to any changes in the war, it was important in keeping communication open faxes. three angst has more from kiev. this is president putin, who caused this look at the mirror. the fighting in ukraine escalates could soon be expanding to russia's northern border. finland announcing it will seek nato membership despite a new threat from moscow, which says it will move military resources to the finnish border. if helsinki joins the alliance. but that's not deterring the finnish government, and we could soon be getting a similar announcement from sweden, which is poised to apply for membership after more than 70 years of neutrality, the and still possible swedish nato membership would raise the threshold for military conflicts and thus have a conflict preventing effect. expansion comes as the russians are retreating in north east ukraine. following major counter offensive by ukrainian forces there, but russian shelling contin

the us national guard and ty, one's defense forces with senator duckworth also recently introduced to bill that further prioritize is tiwana security. as part of u. s. military deployment. in the indo pacific region. i'm actually we look forward to closer cooperation on matters of regional security, but tie one securities routinely challenged by chinese air force sorties into its air defense on each time this happens, the taiwanese air force response, and one former sealer is there at hand to monitor this challenge shortly after dawn on a southern taiwanese beach, the 1st radio message of the day from taiwan air force warning away chinese aircraft pings through robin suse, phone attention. you've entered our air space inter jeopardizing aviation safety turnaround and leave immediately. he could be a hobby plain spotter anywhere in the world, but sue has a more serious pastime. the former navy radar operator has made it his mission to gather days on military activity in one of the world's most tense flash points. the strait of taiwan, chinese aircraft have flown repeated missions over the democratically ruled island, as it steps up its sovereignty c

u. e. s . constitution, the federal council, which groups the rulers of the 7 emirates must meet within 30 days to elect a new president. shakily for been cited at mckeyan, who's 73 the u. s. defense secretary has spoken to his russian counterpart for the 1st time since the invasion of ukraine. there's called for an immediate cease for this as ukraine starts. his 1st war crimes trial of the conflict, prosecuting a russian soldier for allegedly killing an unarmed civilian 21 year old sergeant is accused of shooting at $62.00 roads. crenan ran through an open car window. if convicted, he could get life in prison. ukraine is looking into it more than 10000 potential war crimes involving more than 600 suspects. ukraine's foreign minister has met his counterparts from the g 7 group of nations to discuss further action to help to you and to increase pressure on moscow or diplomatic edited james bay's reports from vice in house in northern germany. the french foreign minister said the purpose of this g 7 meeting was to support ukraine in its war with russia. until there's victory. the leaders discussed fresh military support with the european union proposing a further payment of over $50

u. e. s . constitution, the federal council, which groups the rulers of the 7 emirates must meet within 30 days to elect a new president. shakily for been cited at mckeyan was 73, and the u. s. defense secretary has spoken his russian counterpart for the 1st times as the invasion of ukraine, as called for an immediate cease fire. this is ukraine starts its 1st war crimes trial of the conflict, prosecuting a russian soldier for allegedly killing an unarmed civilian 21 year old sergeant vadim. she, she, marian is accused of shooting a 62 year old ukrainian man through an open car window. he was captured from a russian tank unit in the early days of the war and could get life in prison. crane stop prosecutors looking into over $10000.00 potential war crimes involving more than $600.00 suspects, including russian soldiers and government officials. before the war, ukraine was seen as the bread basket of the world, applying a significant chunk of the planets, wheat, grain, and sunflower. oil invasion is made farming, difficult, and cut off many supply routes. germany is also key, is russia stealing grain from east in ukraine and reserve? honda abdul, hamid is in odessa with the coming of

u. s. defense secretary has spoken to his russian counterpart for the 1st time since the invasion of ukraine, and has called for an immediate cease fire. this as ukraine starts its 1st war crimes trial of the conflict, prosecuting a russian soldier for allegedly killing an unarmed civilian. the 21 year old sergeant is accused of shooting a 62 year old ukrainian man through an open car window. if convicted, he could get life in prison. ukraine is looking into more than 10000 potential war crimes involving more than 600 suspects. now before the war, ukraine was seen as the world's bread basket, supplying a significant chunk of the planets, wheat, grain, and some flower oil. but the invasion has made farming difficult and cut off many supply routes. germany has also accused russia of stealing grain from eastern ukraine. huddle. hamid reports now from odessa with the coming of spring diffuse of ukraine have turned bright green, wheat and other green sprouting as far as the i can see. but even for me, is risky in a country at war workers now where safety this woman, young because of the shilling

she's a professor at national defense university and former nato operations director in the office of the u. s. secretary of defense. so it's very good. have you with us on al jazeera. thank you very much. indeed. as sweden and finland have been neutral for so long and yet they seemed to have a perceived threat now from russia is the threat from russia that great that it should move. they should move into nato. well, they perceive it that way. i mean, look, this is a spectacular own goal by vladimir i, you know, his, he claims that his reasons for the ukrainian invasion are to prevent the expansion nato. and yet he's caused 2 countries with it. one is that centuries of neutrality to calculate based on their own self interest that their best jasper, sir, by hallucination, is to join nato. so he, he is re, by nato, more than anybody else in my life. and it really shows a spectacular policy failure. so what to sweden and finland bring to nato if they join that's a good question. so if you look at most expansions since the cold war, they've been countries that are emerging from communism that have

u. s. allies who are specifically acting in defense of us national security. now this legislation did pass with overwhelming support from the u. s. congress. however, there were a few members who spoke out and warned of the new and unprecedented powers that the u. s. will be giving to ukraine. congress just authorized biden, to transfer virtually any weapon of war, other than a nuclear weapon to ukraine. insane. here is the link to the bill and the statutory definition of defensive article, the bill references i voted no. now this all comes as the bind administration is already signed off on more than $3700000000.00 and funding for ukraine. it's calling on congress for an additional 3x3b2xb of that will be given directly to the ukrainian military. now this legal aid is new and unprecedented, and it's also reason concerns about whether the u. s. will still have weapons to defend itself here at home after it's done sending off supplies to ukraine. we just burned through 7 years worth of javelin, and that's not only important as we continue to try and help ukraini

u. s. congress. as a result, the u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard anti ones defense forces. sen. duckworth also recently introduced the bill the further prioritizes or taiwan security, as part of us military deployment. in the indo pacific region, corolla virus restrictions in china's to biggest cities of finally easing for millions of people who been stuck in doors. shanghai is lifting, it's 2 months locked down from midnight. wednesday. many businesses can now reopen and they'll be fewer restrictions on going out and working in beijing, gyms, museums and theaters reopening, but with limits on visitors. i'll just here as katrina, you reports out from aging. this is the busiest this area has been for weeks where in beijing, eastern young district, the biggest district in the city where people have been told they no longer need to work from home. authorities invading say the current growth of ours outbreak is basically under control and many restrictions are easing. public transport has resumed here after almost 3 weeks of being flor

u. s. sent 2 secretaries to cabinet secretaries to keith, also to be meet with zalinski and following that visit the defense way that the u. s. is approaching this, which is very significant. and given the pentagons assessment, that momentum does appear to be on the ukranian military side. and he want mookie tell us about president biden's were request for further aid to be provided to ukraine. yeah, this is 33000000000 dollar from the top senator in the senate, the leader, a chuck schumer who said that he wants to pass legislation that would also allow the u. s. government has seized the ass arcs, take their money and send it right to your brain. this is the kind of stuff we're talking about. yas, managers. now if that passes, it would be a significant shift because currently the sanctions against russia involved blocking transactions. but for the usa, ukraine's army says russian forces are intensifying their attacks and preparing for a major push into the east areas. well back from the frontline of being increasingly hit, shall stratford reports from the town of dub rope hillier. the russian missile slamm

u. s. congress. as a result, the u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard, anti ones defend forces. sen. duckworth also recently introduced a bill, but further prioritizes taiwan, security. as part of us military deployment in the pacific region. and at sneeze from mexico, the headless bit heavy rain and strong wind, still pounding the southern pacific coast off to a powerful still made landfall. on monday, august, there is the strongest harkins requoted region during the month of may. it arrived as a category to storm, but it has since weakened in watching the news, our life from london. we're going to have all the sport very shortly and tell you about the american teenager who's lighting up rollin gauss level. the french open action coming out ah, cats are always official elling of the john with a whole a fish and line of the journey blue. the point now is fine. thanks so much marianne world number one. know where chalk of edge and 21 time grand slam champion. rosmer dow are on court right now. the to 10 is heavy. weights are battling it

u. s. congress. as a result, the u. s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard, anti ones defend forces, sen. duckworth also recently introduced the bill, the further prioritizes or taiwan security. as part of us military deployment in the pacific region, canada as government plans to ban the sale of handguns, prime minister just intruder says the tougher laws will already in the works. but the mass shootings in the us have spurred further action. i was just us, kathy, a lopez, follow our reports. it's been seen as the most ambitious proposal yet to restrict firearms in canada. prime minister justin trudeau describes it as a national freeze of hand gun ownership. what this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy cell transfer or import handguns anywhere in canada. in other words, were capping the market under the bill canadians who all ready have hand guns can keep them. but any one involved in domestic violence or criminal harassment will lose their firearm license. the size of ammunition magazines will be limited and there will be i

u. s. is already sent over a 3rd of a stockpile of javelin missiles to ukraine, with defense contractors like lockheed martin pledging to double their production this year as well. and lease act goes into effect. however, u. s. a visuals of already admitted that when they send those weapons over to ukraine, they don't quite know where they go. exactly, raising even more concerns as the u. s. and it's only supplies into unknown hands. that's ortiz, rachel blevins, thanks so much for joining us from washington. thank you. well that brings us to the end of the program will be back at the top of the hour for, for we catch up this monday victory day, 2020 two's main developments. thanks for joining us. ah. the for the moving the business and you clean the 3 day notice shoes and you made it comes green when you really got to really is the function of the ceiling in for when you.

not all nato members, including on letting the scandinavian countries become part and the defense alliance. u. s. secretary of state antony, think and arriving in berlin for nato talks at a time. the alliance is seeing a shot rise in its geopolitical relevance. the talks are focused on long term goals, but more immediately the accession of finland and sweden are also on the table. not on the said sweden and finland, join nato, but they should do so quickly. of course, i'll have a good conversation with my counterpart. it is important that we have also consensus. consensus could be an issue. they to member turkey accuses sweden and finland of harboring bulletin curds. turkish people, predominantly a big majority of the turkish people, are against the membership of those countries who are supporting a pico k y p g that his organization. and they're asking us a to block this membership. finland, at least, is confident this issue can be smoothed out at court to my good colleague, her middle social group, to foreign minister and a little bit to take the tensions down and villa so meet, meet to day an

u. s. department of defense as 20 countries of pledge, new military aid for ukraine. the donations include ammunition tanks and coastal defense system. i'm especially grateful to denmark which announced today that it will provide a harpoon launcher and missiles to help ukraine defend its coast. and also like to thank the czech republic towards substantial support, including a recent donation of attack, helicopters, tanks and rocket systems. and today, several countries announce new donations are critically needed, artillery systems and ammunition, including italy, greece, norway, and pole. the cranium military's capacity to defend their homeland against russia. attack is directly tied to the quality and quantity of the assistance they are receiving. a senior russian diplomat has resigned in protest over the ukraine war saying he's never been so ashamed of his country. boris bunder, have worked at russia's un mission in geneva, and a statement posted on the line he said president putin's aggressive war was a crime against the ukrainian and russian people. he added the

u. s. president joe biden invoked the defense production act. it requires suppliers a formula manufacturers to fulfill their orders before delivering to other customers. he also authorized special flights to import supplies from overseas. our director at the department of defense and the department of health and human services to send aircraft planes overseas to pick up him from formula that meets us health and safety standards. so he can get on store shelves faster. the shortage has sparked a search of interest at milk banks. mothers are increasingly coming here to feed the children with donated milk from other women. we were able to come here and get as many hours as needed to keep her fed and keep her growing on this chest. friedman cod a jess, wasn't any. a now boss has been pretty scary to. she realized that you may not be able to teach her baby. great, so it's a public health crisis that could easily turn into a political crisis for the by an administration. the u. s. president will be hoping his executive action will end the shortage and