u. s. president joe biden. both leaders promising that in the event of a russian invasion, we would see to it the u. s. president saying what we see to it that the north stream to gas pipeline would be shut down. the german chances are made no such promise, but said the du countries are aligned on potential sanctions. you're watching the w news from berlin. this has been our live coverage of that 1st joy press conference between the u. s. president and the german chancellor. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day our coverage of this meeting at the world. one of mankind's oldest ambitious could be within reach. ah, what is it really is possible to reverse aging researchers and scientists all over the world are in a race against time. the dna molecules though has 28000000 different our glasses.

u . s. has of that certainly the u. s. president has suggested that american civilians should be leaving ukraine. this seems to be followed up by other governments as well. just remind us what you were talking about before we went to the press conference. yes, indeed, we've got the dutch embassy advising a dutch citizens to leave ukraine if they can. you've got the u. s. president, oh joe biden, advising american citizens to do the same. and what i can say is that, you know, a few days ago, we were talking here in kiev about this sense of optimism. because there had been this flurry of diplomacy would seen the french president come through t as in moscow, various other western leaders. and there was a sense of hope that perhaps the situation was getting better. but what i can say is it certainly doesn't feel like that. now not only do we have some wes nations asking their citizens to leave, but you have a situation in which the russian military buildup continues on 3 sides. you have those russian military exercises to the north of u

u. s. president was getting some criticism for this operation and those civilian casualties. so you heard there the u. s. president giving his version of events saying that it wasn't the result of the us special forces that these as civilians were killed. but instead he said it was an act of cowardice, cowardice this, this ice a leader instead chose in the final moments of his life to blow himself up, taking some of his family members with him. and so the u. s. president saying that there was also an effort by the us special forces to clear the house where the ice a leader was staying in advance. and they were successful in doing that. we understand, according to the white house of what we know is that there was a successful evacuation of some of the members of the house, but that that was not entirely evacuated. those that remained behind, we are told, were used as human shields. and that is what resulted in those casualties. so the u . s. president giving his account of the events, of course, as we often hear in these cases, they will differ from those witnesses on the groun

u. s. has announced export controls. we knew that this would likely target, for example, the aerospace sector, the artificial intelligence sector, and the u. s. president. now talking about how essentially this will impair at least half of the high tech imports or rather exports from the united states to the other nations. going to russia crippling it's ability in terms of defense capabilities. so this is very broad in terms of how this is being coordinated between the united states and it's european allies. so that is the 1st major announcement and all of this. but the other big piece of this that you heard is the president very carefully making the argument to americans. that right now? well, there are no boots on the ground of american in ukraine. should this conflict spill over into neighboring nato countries that would change. in other words, the u. s. president, re affirming the united states commitment to what's known as article 5, that an attack on one nato member state would be an attack on all. and therefore, all would come to that collective defense. so you heard there the u. s. president authorizing an additional deployment of us soldiers w

u. s. president joe biden host at the german chancellor, olaf schultz. mister brighton warned russia of strict economic measures, including blocking a gas pipeline project to germany. a white house correspondent, kimberly hallett now reports u. s. president joe biden and german chancellor. olive schultz sat down in the oval office for their 1st white house meeting, attempting to put on a united front to state the obvious. germany is one of america's closest ally, working on a walk step further deter russian aggression. your biden statement follows weeks of criticism that germany has been vague and it's supportive nato allies. schultz is also fighting accusations. he's been soft on russia, as it's a mask. tens of thousands of troops along its border with ukraine. but the biggest concern might be the issue of nord stream to a contentious $11000000000.00 natural gas pipeline. being built between germany and russia. germany relies on russia for natural gas. and even though nordstrom too is not yet operational, if russia invades ukraine, the u. s. insist nord

u. s. president, when he addresses the american public, will make good on that promise that if russia invades, ignores the 1st rounds of sanctions that were put in place by the u. s. and european leaders to trying to turn invasion that the result or consequences would be even more punishing. so we expect the us president to outline what that will look like. we believe it will be some sort of a series of sanctions designed to cat russia off completely from the global financial system and also, and europe's dependence permanently on russian oil. so that is where we're watching, we're very carefully, but also what we're watching for carefully is what is going to say to the american people. because already this is that an administration that has been innovated, there will be a cost to the american public, whether it is in the form of potential cyber attacks to american businesses, or even the rise in the price of gasoline for their automobiles to get to and from work so the you are present expect to talk about some of those costs, but why he feels it's important. he believes that this is about no

u. s. president. it warns russia of swift and severe costs if it invades ukraine, the kremlin, accused of the west, a war hysteria, while in care of thousands, march against russia's border, threatened ukraine's president cautions against punish the best friend for enemies, dead hispanic, in our country. and all these information details only for benny doesn't help us. ah, i'm darned, jordan, this is al jazeera live from dough are also coming up. thousands of protest has paralyzed canada's capital, demanding. i'm in to cobra. restrictions and copy got rally spread across the world . on spotlight on security in the asia pacific region, the us, japan and south korea and meet to discuss the threat posed by north korean. ah, yes, president joe biden has spoken to russia's. vladimir putin over the phone about moscow's military build up on ukraine's border. but the white house says it didn't result in any fundamental change the kremlin colby discussion, business like and balanced, but criticize what it sees

u. s. president on little sleep prepared to meet with the g 7 leaders. we expect that to happen about 14 g m t that will be a virtual meeting. and then the u. s. president promises to speak to the american public and we expect that some time around 17 g m t. but don't hold me to that. those times can be flexible. what the u. s. president wants to talk about is essentially next steps because of course the us announced and coordination with as partners and allies. what they said were the 1st wave of sanctions designed to deter russia from an invasion, but promised more if that were to happen. so now we expect that the u. s. president will again, and coordination with allies go a step further already. we know that there have been steps taken to essentially isolate russia from raising money in the global financial system and that shutting down of nord stream to that gas pipeline worth about $11000000000.00 now on hold in terms of the gas and oil that it could bring from russia to europe, but we expect the u. s. president is going to go further. was he talks t

u. s. president joe biden announce is a string of sanctions targeting russian banks in oligarchy. and he warns a russian invasion of ukraine is beginning. meanwhile, vladimir putin says the minced piece process is finished and blames ukraine. the russian leader signals his forces could push further into ukrainian territory. and the west sets its own punitive measures among the toughest germany holds. be controversial nor stream to gas pipeline project. ah . 2 a michael ok welcome. we begin with the latest on the escalating crisis over ukraine. the u. s. president joe biden has announced what he called the 1st tranche of sanctions against russia for each incursion in eastern ukraine. the american action follows a string of punitive measures set out earlier by european leaders biden says the sanctions will target russian banks in oligarchy and moscow's access to western financial. so today i'm announcing the 1st trance of sanctions to impose costs on russia in response to their actions yesterday. these have been closely coordinated with our allies and partners, and will continue to

u. s. but president joe biden is only releasing half the funds to afghanistan. the rest is to be shared out among victims of $911.00 in the u. s. as well as other attack victims bothers ago. coma that he got the $3500000000.00 belongs to afghanistan and the people. and if the u. s. is paying this amount to those who lost their lives in the 911 attacks than the u. s. should pay compensation for the 20 year war, and the people who died in afghanistan without war carpool is a city under pressure. many can barely afford to eat most, but other, more than i. so i was good, most of 1st sleep with empty stomachs because you don't have jobs to find money and feed our families, like before in shot. and now some one was distributing bread to the poor. and there were hundreds of poor and starving people, fighting over one piece of bread. and i was thinking, it's better to die than being disrespected this much. extreme hunger is nationwide. it's estimated more than half the $39000000.00 afghans are suffering . the human fat, the afghan economy is in free fall. and so or it's

u. s. satellite company claim to show an enlarged base in southern bella rose just a few 100 kilometers from the ukrainian capital p. f. u. s. president joe biden says, russia's evasion of ukraine has already begun. russian troops on the move, the heading towards ukraine's east and border as fighting between ukrainian and separatist forces continues far away from the frontline, the upper house of the russian parliament voted to authorize the use of force outside russia's borders. they also approved vladimir putin's recognition of the don yet, and lou haskell people's republics as independent states. but the russian president didn't stop there. he lay to renounce the borders of the 2 republics. include the ukrainian held territories, not just the rebel held areas, nor was it but his nell. we recognized that juliet's enhanced people's republics, which means we have recognized all the founding documents, including the constitution. and the constitution defines the boarders off the don yeske and lou hans regions at the time when they were part of ukraine. nobody mc ogden, you will have the civil crane. in response, u. s. president joe bid

u. s. president says he believes russia has decided to invade ukraine in the coming days. joe biden says there's still a diplomatic way. alba claims russia is manufacturing a pretext to attack. and the u. s. is ready to respond. make no mistake. if russia pursues his plans, it will be responsible for catastrophic and needless or of choice. united states and our allies are prepared to defend every inch of nato territory from any threat to our collective security as well. we also will not send troops in to fight in ukraine, or we will continue to support ukrainian. people is thought up 289-0000 russian soldiers remain near the ukraine border. but after a meeting with bell, russia president, alexander lucas shanker rushes that he may, putin said, his forces will now also begin at nuclear drills. he would dish. no, could he go? what of condition? at today's talks, we also discussed strengthening our joint defense space of russia. and belarus, we agreed again to take collect of mrs. the strength and security of our countries in the face of the growing military activity of nato c

u. s. president. and indeed, was pretty forceful. michael, and as republicans and democrats have been urging the president to impose harsh sanctions, he got positive reactions from both sides of the political spectrum. and this is pretty rare in this times united states. so what did president joe biden say? he described events for the 1st time as the i quote this here, beginning of a russian invasion. so he used the word invasion for the 1st time. he then, later in his speech, laid out what he called a 1st trans of you as a sanctions against russia for it's moved in, in ukraine, including on to financial institutions end on russian sovereign depth. and that is also very remarkable. and he talked about sanctions on russian elite ali galks and their families, and this probably will also include put him himself and that is also a 1st biden said there's still time for diplomacy to avert a worst case scenario. what else can you tell us about that? right, the president held out the possibility that diplomacy could still the fewest the crisi

u. s. president. otherwise there would be a reaction by the west. in other words, there would be a resolute, massive united transit land tick response, and the u. s. president underscoring as well to vladimir putin that this transatlantic relationship is more aligned than ever before. meanwhile, to hear a secretary of state and to me, blink and reiterated that a diplomatic path remains open with moscow that it must be escalate. if moscow chooses the path of aggression and further invades ukraine, the response in the united states and our allies will be swift. it will be united, it will be severe. yesterday we order the departure of most of the american still at the u. s. embassy and keith, the risk of russian military action is high enough and the threat is imminent enough that this is the prudent thing to do. no one should be surprised of russia instigates a provocation or incident, which it then uses to justify military action. it had planned all along while the kremlin says the phone call with president biden failed to address its key security con

u. s. president biden. and for the rest of the world to see that the russian threat to ukraine has not weakened the ties that bind berlin to washington. but when both leaders were asked about the nord stream to gas pipeline, the u. s. president had a clear answer. the german chancellor did not. mister president, he, i have wanted to ask you about this m. nordstrom project that you've long opposed. you didn't mention it just now by name, nor did chance sir charles, did you receive assurances from cancer cells to day that germany will, in fact, pull the plug on this project? and if russia invades ukraine, if firm, if russian vase that meas tanks were troops crossing the on the border of ukraine again, then there will be a we, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring it into psi one to be absolutely care we have intensively prepared everything to be ready with the necessary sanctions, if there is a, a military aggression against ukraine. and this is necessary, it is necessary that we do this in ad

u. s. president is also meeting with his national security council . in fact, we know that when he got up this morning and he has been monitoring this throughout the evening and overnight here in washington. but he convened in the situation room of the white house to speak with his the closest advisors on the next steps and how the u. s. might react. thank you. kimberly hawkins in washington, dc. the markets stock markets the tank as russia announced its military operation. oh, that's the phil pictures. this will st opening up for the day. i'm as it is at 9 30 in the morning. they are in new york. every lozano is of course, one at the new york stock exchange. today what the future is indicating for today gabriel. very bad as might expect. the futures were all in the read. they had been dropping the stock futures down at about 800 points as of before the markets open just now the s and p futures last about 2.5 percent. and it's looking like it's going to be a very bad day on the markets. it already has been in europe and asia where there's a huge sell o

u. s. president says he's convinced russia has made the decision to invade ukraine. joe biden said intelligence suggested it could happen in the coming days. separatist leaders in easton, ukraine say civilians are being moved to russia from don yet and law hands. they've planed an increase in shelling in the region caused for an immediate de escalation in ukraine. i've been front and center at the munich security conference. you in sector general, antonio gutierrez, she says tension seem higher than during the cold war. and when ukraine was promised, nato membership back in 2008, that same promise was made to georgia. a russian forces occupied nearly a quarter of george and territory and its hope of entering and nato remains distant . robin forest here walker reports from the line of control between georgia and it's breakaway region of south or set. you do not the best i have. finally came home this week. the 53 year old was detained by russian forces on george's de facto border with its breakaway territory, south of cynthia. back in 2019 last november, kennedy was f

u. s. president joe biden says he's convinced to russia's president has decided to attack, but biden says, there's still a diplomatic way out. he insists rushes manufacturing a pretext to invade. and he says the us is ready to respond. make no mistake. if russia pursues his plans, it will be responsible for kit catastrophic and needless or of choice. united states and our allies are prepared to defend every inch of nato territory from any threat to our collective security as well. we also will not send troops in to fight in ukraine, or we will continue to support ukrainian people. it's thought up to 190000 russians . soldiers are now deployed near the border wave ukraine. after meeting bella, russian president, alexander lucas shanker, russian leader vladimir putin says his forces will begin nuclear drills. he would just look at he go of canyon at today's talks. we also discuss strengthening our joint defense space of roster and belarus. we agreed again to take collect of mrs. the strength and security of our countries in the face of the growing military activity of nato countries near th

u. s. president's response or a very strong condemnation, michael. he called vladimir putin's actions, a flagrant violation of international law and referred to his speech that we heard just yesterday saying that biden, that he believes biden, that putin would go much for further, that we might see a major military attack on all of ukraine. and he also questioned the ukrainian right to even exist. so therefore, what present by in the last days and weeks announce that there will be sanctions following, a russian troops crossing into ukraine and, and invading ukraine. that this is what we heard here today. and some of them are blocking to russian financial institutions, cutting off russia from the debt market, so they cannot refinance their sovereign debt. and then also targeting russian leads families. and this is actually the 1st time that president biden spoke about the oligarchy in their connection to vladimir putin. so, 1st trans of sanctions. but it's also important to point out that there will be more and can be more, should vladimir putin decid

u. s. president urges americans and ukraine to leave. now joe biden says things could get crazy quickly as concerns grow moscow could invade. ah phillips who robin watching all of their life. my headquarters here in doha also coming up. i'm john hender in the u. s. border with canada, where the truckers blockade has really slowed down comma us inflation. it's a 40 year high seem prices jumped more than expected. raising phase of interest rates could also go up. was butcher was beaten, was beaten with the blood. jones, we speak to the award winning uganda and all the forced to flee his country after he criticized the president. ah, welcome to the program. the u. s. president is warning that things in ukraine could get crazy quickly. and his urging americans to get out russia has been sending troops to the ukrainian border raising fairs that it could invade. not joe biden said, if that happens, he won't send troops and to rescue americans who are fleeing high. did you, castro is live for us in washington, d. c, with the very latest. and he

u. s. president is wanting things in ukraine could go crazy quickly. is i think americans to lead now as concerns grow that moscow could invade the country. now this comes as russia and by the roost begin 10 days of joint military drills, navy cranes, border western countries of war and russia of economic and political consequences. should it ramp up military aggression tools, kia, olivia's parliaments, as of appointed a new prime minister fatty rachada was picked to replace abdul hamid de baber. he's refusing to step down to bay, but says load me hand over power to an elected government more now and i'll top story and just a 2 hour drive from by the roof. ukrainians and kia are watching rushes drills closely. many civilians have begun lining self defense and gun sales were on the rise. natasha bought the reports from give ukraine's front line may be far from the shooting range in the capital, kiev, but is never, far from the mind of leonid or stout. save a veteran of the conflict in the east of the country where ukrainian forces are fighting russian b

u. s. president joe biden spoke about the operation. he ordered that killed the isolator . abu ibrahim al, has she, me, al, karachi, and i directed the department of defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. knowing that this terrorist had chosen surround himself with families, including children, we made a choice to pursue a special forces raid at a much greater risk than our to our own people, rather than targeting him with an air strike. as us special forces moved in the ice, a leader reportedly detonated an explosive and a final act of desperate cowardice. he chose to blow himself up, taking several members of his family with him. the mission happened thursday in northwestern, syria in it live province. residence on the ground said at least 13 people, including children, were killed in the operation. the pentagon said there were no true casualties. with the credit or more might in his vice president and national security advisors oversaw the mission from the situation room of the white house. it was

u. s. u s. president joe biden says russia will pay an even steeper price if aggression and ukraine continued. and germany holds the certification of north stream to the completed gas pipeline was meant to double the flow of russian gas to germany. well the middle of cardboard, this is dw business, i'm christy plots, and in berlin us president joe biden has an out sanctions on russia that will go far beyond those use when moscow and ex crimea in 2014. the move is in response to russia's military escalation against ukraine. the sanctions will target 2 large russian financial institutions and moscow access to western financing, as well as russian oligarch and their families. biden said the u. s. is prepared to go further. should russia expand its aggression against its neighbor? for more we go now to james sweeney in new york city. james. hello. what's the reaction we're seeing on wall street? well, it's interesting because at 22222122222. i was on the floor, the new york stock exchange, and that to 23. why didn't hit the screens in the markets which were down about $700.00 points, received a b

u. s. president and vice president are also holding discussions with european and nato leaders. you know, it's ironic that what mister putin did not want to see happen was, was stronger nato on his flight. and that's exactly what he will see going for. ah. all right, let's bring in our guess in washington d. c. we have william taylor, he is vice president, russia and europe at the u. s. institute of peace and a former us ambassador to ukraine. from odessa, hannah shall asked director of security programs at the think tank ukrainian prism and in moscow by skype is pablo falcon, how're he's an independent defense and military analyst, a very warm welcome tea wall and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story, william let me start with you from your perspective. at this stage is war inevitable? war is not inevitable. mister putin has a decision he can invade, in which case there will be a war, a major war in europe 1st time since we're war 2. or he can decide to negotiate. uh, that option has been on the table. he's expressed some interest in this, at least in some aspect

u. s. president. otherwise there would be a reaction by the west. in other words, there would be a resolute, massive united transit land take response, and the u. s. president underscoring as well to vladimir putin that this transatlantic relationship is more aligned than ever before. joseph jabari is falling to relevance from the russian capitol most good. apparently vladimir putin told us president joe biden does the information the united states has is false and that's the hysteria that is created is at an all time high, the russian president reiterated that he does not have any interest in invading ukraine. but once some guarantees from the americans about nato's expansion, now, the russian president also said that ad nato's expansion could lead to direct russia nato confrontation. this is that the core of the disputes that we're seeing unfolds and increase tensions. that is, that russia does not want to see nato increase its memberships and, and further expand eastwards, something that the russians say is very much a security concern for them. n

u. s. president, he said that the, the russian president vladimir putin is rewriting history. and he made it very clear that he and western allies are trying very hard at this point to isolate russia. and that's very clear what we heard as a strong message also of unity of course, on the one hand side. but really a strong condemnation together with a new level of sanctions that we have not seen before. he called of president prudence move. they are to send his troops into ukrainian territory, a flagrant violation of international law. and he referred to the putin speech that we heard last night, saying that he believes that russia and putin will go much further than what we have seen so far. and major military attack on ukraine attacking ukraine. you trains right to exist essentially, and therefore acting together with the european union, of course, and the international partners and a rolling out some very severe sanctions here. we heard this quote, a lot in the last couple days of flagrant violation of international law. and no doubt we will probably hear that again. it's a,

u. s. military will not be able to evacuate them. the u. s. president, being very clear about this, that if us soldiers were to go in to ukraine to rescue those americans that may be stranded, the possibility of russian military and u. s. military, confronting one another in his words would be equivalent to world war. in other words, he says this would be a different world than we've ever been in before. and so given that the u. s. state department on thursday issued yet another warning to americans, telling them to leave, telling them to evacuate. we do know that the u. s. is along with its nato allies, has said that it is prepared for the possibility that the russian military could invade, not only militarily, but also with steep financial sanctions. at the same time should point out that the u. s. president. is already we in terms of his calendar moving forward, looking ahead to the weekend planning to be at camp david the last time he was there, he spent the weekend with his national security advisors, as he continued to strategize about whether to

u. s. president joe biden says he's convinced to rush as president has decided to attack. but joe biden says there's still a diplomatic way out. he insists russia is manufacturing a pretext to invade. and he says, the u. s. is ready to respond. make no mistake. if russia pursues his plans, it will be responsible for kit catastrophic and needless or a choice, united states and our allies are prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. are many threat to our collective security as well. we also will not send troops into fight ukraine, but we will continue to support the ukrainian people and start up to $101.00. 900000 russian soldiers remain near the ukrainian border. after the meeting, bella russian president, alexander lucas shanker, rushes vladimir putin says, his forces will begin nuclear drills. he would just go, what of can you look at today's talks, we also discussed strengthening our joint defense space of russia and bellows. we agreed again to take collective mrs to strengthen security of l countries in the face of the growing military activity of nato countries

u. s. president joe biden. that's true. so this is actually what i'm waiting for, a new summit between president putin and president biden. just the one like we've seen in geneva in june last year. i think this is coming probably in spring. and only after that, we will know if there is any chance for peace or the escalation. ok, thank you for that roman contractor from d. w is that russia, ukraine, and the eastern europe service just to bring you some breaking news on that. russian media reporting that some russian troops and are returning to their basis after completing military drills close to ukraine. and the country's defense minister is quoted as saying that some units have completed the exercises and the loading equipment on the trains to return. however, other drills are continuing or should military units have been carrying out large scale exercises near its board with ukraine, which prompted those western concerns about an invasion. moscow of course, is always denied. it has any plans to invade more on that story ac

u. s. president has to say when he makes those remarks. the other point that i think is important to note here is that of the fact that the united states is even still operating in syria, i think will be of the surprise to many americans. and they were under the impression under donald trump, george, or rather our joe, by his predecessor, george, joe biden's, predecessor, that the most of the us troops had withdrawn. and so the fact that this operation has been conducted will be a bit of a surprise and be a lot of americans really say, why was this even happening? so there's going to be a little bit of frustration, a little bit of irritation, and some questions are going to have to bend, and there's going to have to be some explanation. and so will be watching very carefully to see what you as president joe biden has to say in the coming hour or so with regard to this operation. kimberly, as you mentioned before, the u. s. military had been criticized for it's joan attacks, which had resulted in civilian civilian casualties. this one, as y

u. s. presidents are reportedly willing to meet for talks on the escalating the crisis. do you believe a diplomatic solution is still possible? do you think that president putin wants that? i think that what present put once now is international attention and that he's guessing and secondly, he wants to continue to pressure. oh, the west to pressure. you cried. i think what martinos that from carma doors is very relevant. hootin doesn't believe that to grain is a sovereign state and that you gradient to have their own national interest at all . and i think that he still thinks the west can do something about. and in this respect, one fear of that maybe you granules will have over this meeting with vitamin pollutant with the mediation of macro. i think that put ms. k to b officer. he knows the good cop bad cop routine that micro and biden. and i'm trying to play from that with him and he is probably prepared. well then on the other hand, i think the last few days actually showed that he's trying to protract russia without crossing some kind of red line up to which everythi

u. s. president and also the u. s. secretary of state. any idea why these warnings are coming? now what we can surmise is the fact that the concern is that, well, there has not been a lot of detail provided there does seem to be according to the secretary of state, some feeling that russia may use the opportunity of the olympics as an event to potentially coincide with a possible invasion of ukraine. and so that's why the next 48 hours, according to the secretary of state, could be particularly for carry us. and to that end, we know that this weekend the u. s. president will once again be spending it at camp david along with some of his national security team monitoring events. you as president has also said that he believes that ted, this is a time when americans should not be in ukraine speaking to a local or rather a national american network. here in the united states, he really cautioned americans to get out to leave because you have to remember that if there is an invasion of ukraine by russian forces, a u. s. military will not be able to evacuate americans. because if th

u. s. president joe biden said he thinks a russian invasion will take place any day now. moscow immediately fired back, accusing the u. s. of fueling tensions. russia continues to deny any invasion plans in says it is withdrawing some troops from the border with ukraine in this government held village and eastern ukraine, a kindergarten hit by a shell. ukrainian and western leaders believe it was struck by pro russian forces . no children were injured, but the kindergarten teacher said it was a close call. no idea. let me get him on his mazda 3 children were having breakfast at the time and were planning to have lessons in that room at 9 a. m, according to the schedule, shows luckily the children were not heard. only the employees were shell shocked by western observers. believe the shelling may have been a false flag operation by russia to a prompt, a counter attack. that separate just accused ukrainian government forces of opening fire as well. you as president joe biden believes the russian invasion will take place any day. now how high a drought move worker? number one, number 2, we bel

u. s. involvement in any form or fashion of the russia ukraine conflict. so the u. s. president doesn't have americans on his side with regard to this. and so that's another reason that we saw what could be determined as not the maximum effect sanctions than initially the united states had been threatening. kimberly, thanks i. kimberly, how can life in washington for so now russia's attacks on ukraine pose a challenge for china, the chinese government refusing to condemn the military action. and while the west imposes sanctions, china is boosting the russian economy by importing wheat. katrina, you reports from beijing less than a month after chinese president. she didn't ping met vladimir putin. russia's lead a lot, the most aggressive attack in europe for decades. the china's leaders have refused to condemn the invasion or use the word invasion at all. or now and he, she would, she'd hack the ukrainian issue has other very complicated historical backgrounds. today, it may not be what any of us want. so we hope that all parties will work together to give peace a chance, look in

u. s. president. bear cast casting some doubt. what should we be reading into this? it is the right approach to be cautious. we have seen in the past that announcements from the russian ministry of defense to withdraw troops actually led to just troops. we stationing troops remaining in position. that was the case. for instance, in the spring of last year. so it is the white approach to we may cautious until with all thought of tube. but we fight. but on the other hand, and child's trip to moscow has symbolized this. that is a window of diplomacy which now has to be used and both the talks and key of as well as the talks and moscow showed the path ahead which is the implementation of the mens agreements that were concluded in 2014 and further discussions on security the stationing of missiles in view. so in your opinion, is that what would represent some form of diplomatic breakthrough an agreement on the implementation of minsk and on security measures. arms control measures in view of could be enough for the russian president to withdraw and to argue that he has ac

u. s. president spoke to german chancellor, olaf sholtes a short while ago. what more do we know about that conversation? well, june, chance lola schwartz, india as president biden see little progress in the border area. he loves ukraine. both politicians agreed that the risk of further military aggression by russia is actually still wary. high both said that the highest with vigilance is required and that a significant withdrawal of russian troops has not been observed so far. so the opposite of what president put in the saying, they agree on that. the situation in the border area is still extremely serious. yeah, there is kenny, confusing messaging with russia, saying it's pulling back its troops, nato, and the usa. that's not really the case. here's the latest press conference from the state department spokesperson. net price. to be very, very clear. we have not seen that. in fact, we have seen the opposite in recent weeks. and even in recent days, more russian forces not fewer are at the border. and they are moving concerning li into fighting positions. t

kimberly both president biden and u. s. secretary of state, raising the alert level now with respect to ukraine. why? well, there is this feeling that the u. s. for rather, the russian president vladimir putin may take advantage of the olympics in terms of the timing to potentially launch an invasion of ukraine using the russian military . and as a result, the next 48 hours, particularly critical according to the secretary of state. but he has not provided any sort of proof for intelligence, simply saying that this is a time of high alert. now the u. s. president joe biden has given an interview saying that americans need to leave the key or even the country as a whole ukraine. because the concern being that if there are russian troops inside ukraine, the u. s. military simply can't go in to ukraine to evacuate them. the prospect of having u. s. military potentially firing russian soldiers, you, as president says, would essentially be world war and his words, different a different world than has ever been. so this is somet

u. s. military will have to explain, but it's also something the u. s. president will have to explain why i, he's continued this trump era policy. donald trump is predecessor saying that most of the is true for out of syria, but as the commander in chief, joe biden, obviously carrying on some of those policies, keeping those troops in place. even if in a very small number, he'll have to explain why that is why he decided to take out the ice, a leader now and at the same time, risk innocent lives. and so we're expecting that statement from the u. s. president, you will be speaking from the roosevelt room of the white house. we expect that to happen at the bottom of the hour. in the interim already, the white house has released on social media a photograph of the national security team, which includes the vice president comalla harris sitting alongside joe biden. as they watched this operation be conducted in our what we suspect is the secure location of the white house, where the types of operations are observed. that is now public. again, a little bit is not unusu