but you've seen usaid and other u.s.overnment actors throw their weight behind the support for independent media including actually once the war broke out a year ago getting flak jackets and sat phones to independent media but making sure they could survive a war and continue to report on what ukrainian authorities were doing in a critical way as a check and balance, civil society organizations, judges, we just launched a new initiative with the gao here in the united states to help ukraine build out its supreme audit institution and that is going to be incredibly important for reconstruction and all the resources that are flowing in. with regard to the very large investments that we make in providing monthly direct budget support so that health workers can be paid and educators can be paid and people with disabilities can get support when ukrainian budget is under such strain and such pressure, that we do on basically a reimbursable basis. we don't provide resources unless we see the receipt for the expenditure and up t

usaid provided food assistance to 660,000 individuals in syria and 900,000 affected people in turkiye. 840 metric tons of usaid including water, hygiene materials, disaster relief materials were delivered to help the earthquake survivors. the department of defense with humanitarian assistance has airlifted 541, 100 pounds of critical relief items including blankets and emergency food commodities, space heaters, tents and winter clothing. i commend the president and secretary blinken for their swift response. as the international community has responded, the assad regime has made it far more difficult. the department of treasury has taken important steps to clarify existing licenses to ensure the transfer of aid, the exploitation of this disaster is reprehensible and cynical. i condemn these efforts by the assad regime which has included preventing the united nations providing assistance. the people of syria have suffered tremendously since 2011 and used my means available including chemical weapons to suppress the votes of the syrian people. there is an intense need for international

by national security adviser jake sullivan and usaid administrator samantha power.rom the front lines of the war is yegor, a territorial defense soldier in the ukrainian military. yegor, i know you have a question you want to ask jake sullivan. what would you like to know? >> yes, i have a specific question for mr. sullivan. is the u.s. government planning are considering launch of production of -- especially for ukraine? i mean, 1:55 caliber shells, -- shells, and of course, himars missiles. do you consider this plan and if your answer is positive, could you please tell me when are you going to realize this? thank you. >> first, yegor, before i answer the question, i just want to say as you stand out on the front lines tonight, you are defending the freedom of your country. as president biden said in warsaw last, night you're defending freedom everywhere. so, i want to say thank you for your freedom, your bravery, and your courage, and for the men and women who are fighting with you, we are grateful for all that you do, the sacrifices that you are making. and we ca

nbc's matt bradley a few hours east at the usaid base.you rescued incredible rescues in the past couple of hours. >> reporter: that's right, jose, and i want to take off my mask that we've been wearing in between live reports because there's so much dust being kicked up where i am. it's the epicenter of this earthquake, and as you can see behind me, all this destruction. we have been witnessing search and rescue operations throughout the day. if you walk with me here, you can see that this destruction is just immense, it extends for entire city blocks. there's a huge cleanup effort underway right now, and jose, as we keep walking here, if we want to put up a double box video from a rescue that we saw late yesterday. it was actually overnight hours, a 57-year-old woman who was pulled from the debris. an incredible survival story. they say she had been trapped inside a very, very small enclosed space inside that debris, and she was able to make it out alive. she was alive. she was conscious. she was speaking with rescuers, and she managed t

we have pledged $85 million for usaid from turkia and syria. we're working to get as much assistance as we speak. in syria, we've been working in syria as usaid for the past ten years. we have a very robust network of partners. many of whom were able to pivot the resources they had to immediately respond to earthquake assistance. but we recognize it's not enough. we've worked with our u.n. counterparts and other partners to make sure we are sending assistance in. but this is an area that has been fraught with access challenges for years. it's only compounded by the tragedy of the earthquake. >> and that syria, and sadly, the war can help explain some of the difficulties in getting the goods in. but you have in turkey, a severe shortage of tents, housing, medical supplies. as an organization like yours that is used to rescuing and conducting these operations around the world, what do you think is the blame for the delay in getting some of these supplies in now? >> you know, i have to tell you, being on the ground here in turkia, i've been in a t

on that for in accordance with usaid, state department and the inter-agencies the department of defense has responded to the government of turkey's request to earthquake relief support and will continue provide support as requested by the turkish government. on february 7, u.s. rotary-wing assets began transporting first responders to the most impacted populations. in addition to be transported to civilian urban search-and-rescue teams from the united states to turkey could u.s. transportation command supported this movement tuesday from dover air force base in march air force base to the airbase in turkey. those teams arrived on paper eight and will soon begin their relief efforts there. the u.s. european command is applying a team to control the airbase to assist the usaid disaster assistance response team and we expect they will be in place tomorrow on the rain ninth. eucom is actively working to pre-positioned additional assets to support the relief efforts and respond to any new requests from the tricia government. we offer our sincere condolences and will stand with our allies tha

is john morrison from the fairfax county fire department and one of the members deployed with the usaid, and thank you for speaking with us, and can you tell us what you and your team are tasked with doing there? >> thank you, kate, for having us. our team is currently conducting the searching of the entire town here, and trying to locate victims here, and we have hope that there are victims out here that are viable, and we are working diligently to find them. >> talk to me about that, and you told my producer that you are not finding anyone alive yet, and are you hopeful? where do you get the hope that it can happen this many days on? >> well, we have seen the victim rescues seven-plus days with earthquakes. it happened in the middle of the night, and moes people were sleeping, and so we certainly know they had the beds and the sheeting around them to keep them in the ckocold areas, beca it is cold here, and so we certainly have optimism, and we will be working tirelessly to rescue any rescue victims that we have to find, and the turkish government does not need our services. >> talk t

>> i can speak for usaid search and rescue.e prepared with this not only with our equipment and personnel, but with the training that we do extensively in this area, serving -- we brought everything to be self-sufficient for three weeks. all we need is some fresh water and some fuel and we can go around the clock, 24-hour operations in rescue mode. we had teams just coming in 6:00 a.m. this morning working in 27, 26-degree fahrenheit conditions, tunnelling down the pile of a six-story building. currently, we have rescuers helping turkish government. so we still have hope. we're always happy to assist. and as usaid search and rescue, we are doing multiple things. coordinating the efforts here in the city with the local government on assessing the entire city. continuing with our searches and i just stated actually helping with current rescue operations with local first responders. >> frank, it's so important to keep hope alive in these situations, even in the face of these incredible odds. i am wondering what it's like for you a

in fiscal year 2022, usaid and u.s.drew down the full balance of the bill humanitarian and in total usaid programming $2.2 billion to entitled to emergency assistance in reliving these funds we provided significant the infusion of american ground commodities keeping the countries on highesi risk around the world. leadership is most evident in africa. currently expanding severe food security crisis in the world. in smaller, northern kenya and ethiopia, forecasted rains have sales, the sun dried up in this miles and millions of livestock have died. where i traveled the summer i met brothers, a pastoralist and mother of seven underground dried ups and vanished, livestok a plastic sheeting desperation. all 18 of her livestock, her entire livelihooder perished ina drought. no livelihood, she and one of her daughters divine and acute malnutrition and she worried her daughter might die. thanks to food for peace assistance, she and her family received nutrition support from partners her daughter has fully recovered. this was pa

stories the united states government is at full speed we have now sent over 150 rescuers to turkey usaidy for national development is leading our efforts we have helicopters that will help turkey reach hard-to-reach areas australians of turkish origin also rushed to collect humanitarian goods to be sent from the ocean when they learned about the scale of the destruction and humanitarian catastrophe, mostly warm clothes, australian prime minister anthony albanese said that a search and rescue team would be deployed in turkey until at the end of the week australia also promised to provide 7 million dollars in financial aid, corrected the recent missile strikes on kharkiv, the security service detained a russian agent who was involved in the shelling of kharkiv on february 5. a local resident who cooperated with russian military intelligence turned out to be a traitor. the perpetrator secretly recorded the locations of ukrainian military checkpoints and critical infrastructure facilities in the kharkiv region and handed them over to the enemy. the russians used the specified locations as po

stories the united states government is at full speed we have now sent over 150 rescuers to turkey usaidncy of national development is leading our efforts, we have helicopters that will help turkey reach hard-to-reach areas in the central and local authorities, there should be more people with war experience, said the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, as an example, the head of state cited the newly appointed heads of the security service of ukraine vasyl makyk and minister of internal affairs igor klymenko, we now have people who have gained experience of such a war, have clear results in their work for a state that fights for its people and for its independence, such there should be more people in positions of various levels in the central and local government bodies, the relevant appointments have been approved by the cabinet of ministers of ukraine for the situation with light from tomorrow, the ukrenergo company is changing the electricity blackout schedules in all regions . thus, each region on a specific day , once every two weeks, will have constant access to of light, an

>> reporter: whit, usaid told us they have only been able to assess one-third of the buildings. as you know, a state of emergency has been declared in ten cities across turkey. it gives you a sense of how widespread the destruction is here and how many buildings they have left to fully assess. whit? >> marcus moore reporting all week for us on this. thank you. >>> now, to that frightening collision at los angeles international airport overnight. four people sent to the hospital after what is described as a low-speed collision between an american airlines plane and a shuttle bus. the plane was being towed from a gate to the parking area when the incident occurred. this is the fourth accident or near-miss at one of the nation's airports in less than a month. here's abc's zarine shah. >> reporter: tonight, the faa investigating a fourth aviation incident in less than a month. at around 10:00 saturday evening, an american airlines airbus being towed at l.a.x. colliding with a moving passenger shuttle bus. the bus driver with his head bandaged, put in a wheelchair. two additional bus

also lost people in destroyed houses, their shops and urgently needed basic necessities and clothes, usaidloyees of the disaster response team went to turkey by plane globmaster to help in rescue operations and service members helped load large supplies onto a us air force plane to aid in rescue operations, us administrator samantha power expressed her condolences to the people of syria and turkey and said the united states is committed to supporting the recovery efforts after this earthquake and that is a priority, we have seen truly horrific pictures in turkey and syria we saw collapsed houses we saw children being pulled out from under the rubble thank god people are still being pulled out from under the rubble we are all deeply moved by the images and stories the united states government is at full speed we have now sent more than 150 rescuers to turkey usaid agency for national development is leading our efforts we have helicopters to help turkey reach hard-to-reach areas australians of turkish origin also rushed to collect humanitarian cargo to be sent from the ocean when they learne

stories the united states government is in full swing we have now sent over 150 rescuers to turkey usaid agency for national development is leading our efforts we have helicopters that will help turkey reach hard-to-reach areas australians of turkish origin also rushed to collect humanitarian cargo to be sent from the ocean when they learned about the scale of destruction and humanitarian catastrophe, it is mostly warm clothes, the prime minister of australia, anthony albanese, said that the search and rescue team will be deployed in turkey by the end of the week. also, australia promised to provide 7 million dollars in financial aid, and that was all the news at that time . you can read more at to our website espresso tv, also subscribe to our telegram channel espresso tv and watch us on youtube , the updated edition, wait for 15 art in the country of war, a series of documentaries , each of which will tell about one of of ukrainian artists, artists who have not left abroad and continue their creative path in ukraine it seems that history has just entered now, yes, at some such moment w

stories the united states government is in full swing we have now sent over 150 rescuers to turkey usaidional development agency is leading our efforts we have helicopters that will help turkey reach hard to reach areas that's all the information i have time to tell you as of this hour the next issue will be at 11. well, you can read more on our website espresso .tv a summary of the main points on our telegram channel news espresso.tv the most interesting information and videos on our youtube channel espresso.tv subscribe like us write comments be always with a ukrainian view of the world, my colleague lesya vakulyuk and andriy savchuk work tirelessly and will continue information broadcasting with the press in a few minutes we will listen to people suffering from rheumatism but arthritic is impossible to get used to it, it does not allow to move i tried everything and at the pharmacy i bought yellow cream dolgit saves me from pain in rheumatism, reduces swelling and improves joint mobility in one social pharmacy dolgit cream 150 g with a 20% discount. see this week in the program collab

is worth usaid, they will go to the purchase of a new weapon, a small-diameter ground-launched bombhich has a radius of action of 94 miles - 150 km, and yes, i also offer about the tactical and technical characteristics of this small-diameter ground-launched bomb jlsb, let's listen and analyze with by mr. sergey, what is it, a small-diameter ground -launched glsb bomb, a guided missile, an m-26 guided air bomb, gb 38, developed its concert at the american boeing together with the swedish sap , the ammunition can be fired from the system m-142 himers and m270 and hit targets at a distance of 150 km, this is what the manufacturer declares . also, the accuracy of the meter bomb can be launched in any weather . thoughts about such possible, well, the name is gifts , and the pros, cons, pitfalls, as they say, well, there are obvious advantages, uh, everything that this type of weapon will allow us to hit targets already to the full depth of the russian army's operational order of battle, to hit it very high accuracy. so, we understand, you know, the specifics of russia, that it has a rig

states government is operating at full speed we have now dispatched over 150 rescuers to turkey's usaidgency for national development is leading our efforts, we have helicopters that will help turkey reach hard-to-reach areas , australians of turkish origin also rushed to collect humanitarian goods to be sent from the ocean when they learned about the scale of the destruction and humanitarian catastrophe, mainly warm clothes, prime minister of australia anthony albanese said that the search and rescue team will be deployed in turkey by the end of the week. also, australia promised to provide $7 million in financial aid to turkey. the earthquake spread to neighboring countries can also feel the vibrations in ukraine in the event of a threat, ukrainian emergency officials recommend leaving the building and going out into the open as far as possible from buildings and power lines; car drivers must stop and remain in transport after an earthquake; do not turn on electrical appliances and gas; avoid destruction zones and be prepared for of repeated aftershocks , we will add the echoes of the

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100,000 turkish responders that worked with help by teams from around the world including the u.s., usaidome 100 workers from virginia and california setting up base camp in the hard hit city. >> we're here to help the people of turkey and still potential for trapped victims in many of the collapsed buildings. >> they sent out to find a scene looking close tore hell on earth. buildings destroyed and power, water, and vital supplies gone and people angry with government huddled around fires to keep warm. >> there's been a lot of destruction ask it's pretty staggering honestly. >> still helpful to get something -- hopeful to get something done here? >> absolutely. reporter: u.s. at scene of turkish earthquake and los angeles fire department service connected and have rescue team drilling a hole in the side of this pile of rubble just to go inside, just to see if there's anybody left alive inside. there's been hope for the collapsed apartment building, one of the fire department sniffer dogs picked up a human scenterrier and they drilled, listened, opened up a gap and looked trying to find a

social media strategies, to iran material strategies and processing a raw materials, to the role of usaid, to defending the tactics the chinese are using, you get room going. a comprehensive strategy includes dozens upon dozens of strategic and tactical decisions that are combined changed over the years. it is essential in my view that we develop that kind of strategy and that is kept in a classified setting. it is not to go publicly. we really the. that we also in this legislation looked at the strategies of that nation though developed by president truman and reagan and others. the work of george cannon and david acheson. saying, okay, how these strategies develop back then? how do they put them together? they are dealing with strategies that deal with the soviet union. and they involve outside individuals, not just internally, because they knew internal people would be captured by a group think. they want to people from the outside. some who had experience in developing these kinds of strategies. i spent my private sector career doing something called strategy consulting. we help compa

he is the lead for usaid disaster response team. thanks for joining us.e important work you and your teams are doing. now it's more than 100 since the quake hit. how critical are your search dogs and specialized listening devices to find anyone still alive in this horrible rubble? >> thanks for having me. we are in a stage where a lot of the people who have been recovered have been recovered because they are easier to reach. people who are left are those who are deeper in the rubble, buried there hard to reach areas. they require specialized equipment. our teams have that equipment. we have teams out from virginia and from los angeles. specialized teams that bring equipment with them. they have dogs, listening devices. that can detect cases that might be alive and help find them this late into the situation. >> do you fear the window to find survivors is closing rapidly now? >> i think the important thing for the teams is to continue working as long as they feel like it's viable. we have teams out in the field right now working on sites where they believe

. ♪ ♪ >> i'll bring you my interview with the national security adviser jake sullivan and usaid administratorantha powell about where the war and america's assistance go from here. also, who should foot the bill for the hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to ukraine? former treasury secretary larry summers says the answer is easy. listen to him explain his plan. then why putin's war in ukraine may not be proceeding as he hoped. ♪ ♪ >> the russian president may be getting exactly what he always wanted back home in russia. "the new york times" valerie hopkins will explain. but first, here's my take. one year into russia's naked aggression against ukraine, it's become clear that neither side is strong enough to win the war nor weak enough to sue for peace. the conflict has settled into a stalemate. after making impressive gains, ukraine's armed forces have not made significant advances in months. russia, meanwhile, has dug into the territories it occupies and its further attacks are having little success so far. the numbers tell the story. according to a washington post analysis, russia oc

usaid rescue officials and dogs scour hundreds of sites across the city hoping to find more survivors. u.s. military aircraft and supplies are arriving in turkey to aid the response, but across the border in syria there have been challenges getting aid to the victims. >> people have not got food, medicines, basic hygiene supplies. the water and sanitation is in ruins. this is a community for whom the earthquake was one massive hit, but the grave danger they face now almost affects more people. reporter: for those who survived many are left with nothing. temporary accommodations made out of shipping containers are now being shipped to turkey to provide shelter for some who are now homeless. dion: meantime more assistance is on the way from the bay area to the damaged areas of turkey and syria. about 300 boxes of supplies were gathered, package, and shipped out today by the turkish american association of northern california. clothes, tents, leaving bags as well as more personal items were included. all of it desperately needed in the earthquake zone. >> baby diapers, baby formulas, fem

usaid rescue officials and dogs continue to scour hundreds of sites across the city hoping to find more survivors. u.s. military aircraft and supplies are arriving in turkey to aid the response. across the border in syria there have been challenges getting aid to the victims. >> people have they have not got medicine. they have not got basic hygiene supplies. water and sanitation is in ruins. this is a community for whom the earthquake was one massive hit. the grave danger affects people. for those who survived the >> quake many are left with nothing. temporary accommodations made out of shipping containers. from the bay area to the quake damaged areas of turkey and syria. about 300 boxes of supplies were gathered, packaged and shipped out today by the turkish american association of northern california. clothes, tents and sleeping bags as well as personal items were included. all of it desperately needed in the earthquake zone. >> baby diapers pre-baby formula. feminine products. those are very essential needs and they are taking from here to is simple by turkish airlines. >> it will t

. >> the united states has been with usaid shifting lots of equipment over we can gather.e of it has been donated by our utilities, high-voltage switches, power breakers it said are over to ukraine to help in the immediate. it is also making sure that they have the ability to have agreed that is not so centralized. -- to have a grid that is not so centralized. the u.k. would like to see energy security through generating your own resources, clean resources ideally. >> that was the u.s. energy secretary. in ukraine, children have been living with the harsh realities of war for almost a year. 5 million have had their schooling disrupted and almost every ukrainian child has been left without sustained access to electricity, heating, and water. that is according to the u.n. children's agency unicef. reporter: school once again interrupted. the air raid siren takes us by surprise. we are filming the children's first week back at school. we just heard an air raid siren. that means we need to go outside. they are used to this. the sirens go off quite often. we are going to head t

that usaid, we are proud to stand beside the ukrainian people in the fight for freedom. foreign assistance is a critical tool to realize the united states goals of helping ukraine win its war for survival. and achieve a lasting victory as a free, prosperous, independent country with a path towards a session. ukraine will need a well functioning state a vibrant, inclusive economy. a free press and strong institutions free from corruption to secure this future when the war ends. the supplemental resources generously appropriated by congress allow usaid to address urgent needs immediately created by the conflict. who also remaining focused on what will be needed for recovery and reconstruction. with these funds, we are investing in ukraine's economy and helping resuscitate it after the kremlin's ruthless attacks on its civilian infrastructure. we are repairing the countries energy and heating systems to counter putin's attempts to wield the harsh winter as a weapon against the people of ukraine. we are protecting public health from the deadly consequences of russia's war. w

so the u.s., through usaid, airlifting more than 2.5 worth of emergency release to turkey, and pledged to turkey and syria following the devastating earthquakes. u.s. ambassador to turkey, jeff flake, met the arrival of the supplies, while they were loaded on to trucks for delivery to affected communities. secretary blinken has also announced travel to turkey over the weekend. over the coming days, usaid will transport relief supplies on ten flights, more than 1.8 million pounds of supplies, kitchen sets, hygiene kits, heavy duty plastic sheeting for temporary shelters and high thermal blankets to provide for hundreds of thousands of people. in syria, we must keep aid flowing so the syrian people get the help they so desperately need. the decisions earlier this week to open two additional border crossings for u.n. convoys is welcome but long overdue and we must ensure they cannot be turned off on a whim. we believe a security council resolution is the best way to do that, and will continue pressing that forward. i also want to say a few words about senator fetterman before we continue.

he is deployed with a usaid-led response in turkey.or the fairfax county, virginia, fire and rescue department. john, thanks for what you do and thanks for joining us. you told cnn earlier today that your team has seen victims pulled out of rubble alive, up to seven days after the other quakes. we're now more than four days out of this quake. has your team found anyone alive today? >> no, not today. we're still working and doing those wide area searches that your reporter said, everywhere you go around this city, there are search and rescue teams working, and us among them. so we're working and trying to find those places where victims may be deeply entombed inside the structures so we can yuse or heavy breaching and breaking concrete tools to rescue these victims. >> john, how do you do this job and stay hopeful amidst all this devastation? >> it's certainly difficult sometimes, but we were sent here to do a job and that job was to help people as best we can. and so we certainly have seen victims, you know, that have been rescued seve

base here, all run by usaid and the state department. it includes two search and rescue teams, one from fairfax county, virginia. one from los angeles county. and you can see it is a huge operation here, a big base, we have all this equipment here, most of the operations they have been doing so far have been reconnaissance, they have been sending people in, looking for people who might still be alive, which seems impossible and yet we're still seeing people are alive. now, these crates, all of this flown in on huge c-130 planes, these contain the heavy duty equipment, they're going to be using when they actually find people. we're hearing there is at least one team out right now, these guys, they're getting ready to go out and to look for people who are still living. they're bringing this really tough equipment, but they're also bringing something of a simpler, more direct, a dog. we saw them in action yesterday with their canine. here is our report. this is vader, as in darth vader. what are you expecting to see here? >> we're going to

cooperate with you how to participate in your projects, what criteria must be met with our colleagues from usaid well as with the ministry of economy of ukraine, who monitor projects that are suitable for investments that can benefit from our finances, we work with them to identify potential partners, this is a normal procedure we have a website - a site that contains information about the criteria and how to apply for funding and we have many relationships today. i met with representatives of the american chamber of commerce and industry in our country with them constant cooperation when i was in lviv in december. i also had a meeting with them. we have dozens and dozens of companies that are part of the chamber. so we have many different channels that cooperate with potential partners so that they invite financial support from our organization. we know you have already started several projects in western ukraine, now quite a few entrepreneurs have moved their production offices to the west. but do you support those who remained working in the immediate vicinity of the front line or a little fu

stand with you and the world stands with you. widen announced an additional half a $1000000000.00 in usaid. but there was no mention of new advanced weaponry, such as long range missiles. the zalinski says his forces need ukrainian president stressed again. there will be no peace until ukraine liberates all its territory. a promise that is among many military analysts and some of ukraine's allies, increasingly unrealistic as the vast cost of this war and its global effects continues to grow, or is malia conditionally ran out of film. but it was the conversation that indeed brings closer our joints victory in this war. so we can and we must ensure that 2023 becomes the year of victory, which i want to underline that this unprovoked and criminal russian war against ukraine. and then tied democratic world much and with the liberation of ukrainian land from russian occupation, and with solid guarantees of long term security for our country, europe an entire world that l. u. s. president's 1st visit to ukraine almost. exactly a year since russia's invasion is rich in symbolism and a clear messa

l-70 , it will also include ammunition and two mi-8 helicopters, strengthening cyber security, the usaid fund allocates 60 million dollars for ukraine, the money will be directed to support the stable operation of digital products and the protection of critical infrastructure objects from cyber, so announced the minister of digital transformation, mykhailo fedorov, after a meeting with the patroness of the fund and zubel coleman, the minister added that the agency a reliable partner at the beginning of the existence of mines numbers for its support launched an application and a portal to actions and many other digital services and to the cultural front in 11 months of war the russians destroyed or more than a thousand cultural objects were damaged in ukraine, tens of thousands of exhibits were stolen from museums and private collections in the occupied regions, intangible heritage was also affected, all these are signs of genocide , the participants of the international forum on the safety of cultural heritage said. they are all convinced that it is the interaction of authorities and pub

we basically the usaid, it was really concerned that china was potentially considering supplying deadly weapons to russia to use this war against ukraine. and then antony blank and apparently told wang either if he did so there would be great consequences for the russia china relationship. we then had, after the meeting, the chinese foreign ministry set dismiss that and say that it will not have it relationship with more school dick teacher to buy the u. s. but to really strong language. and if that wasn't bad enough, when he is heading to moscow today, but she's not going to come nav and europe in washington as we kind of head into the anniversary of this war. fascinating, couple of days database met more. thanks so much. ok. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. this are brazilian or 30 say at least 36 people have been killed in heavy flooding and landslides in the state of south palo. the torrential rain hit on carnival weekend, whole neighborhoods around the water and rescued seems i struggling to find survivors. u. s. secretary of sta

and the usaid reported that blinking told when the, the top diploma of the chinese site that there will be serious consequences for the us. china relationship if as u. s. u. s fears that china sens, lethal weapons to russia to use in its war against ukraine. now, china is foreign ministry afterwards said it would under no circumstances tolerate an attempt by the u. s. to dictate its relationship with moscow. and i think it's kind of interesting that, that comes just as while he is on, is in moscow today to discuss potential piece plan as we had in the report. and also this, there's this fear that, that china is really trying to kind of and checked itself into the war a little more steadily. right? so many talks, one of many points of fascination that relationship. so many talks they're held across 3 days. so many world leaders, broadly speaking and in reference to ukraine, again, do we feel what the conclusion of the mean, meaning security conference, western support for ukraine had weakened, had it been maintained or had it strengthened? i think it's fair to say that after the 3 days o

representative of the state department that it is possible that even the abrams will not be allocated under the usaidterm program, when they should be transferred directly to the camps by the end of the year, because they still need to be produced, and they may even to be transferred according to the presidential withdrawal program, that is, much faster, and maybe you are a change of this, we imitate the abrams transfer of some kind and is connected with the fact that, unfortunately, all of it is the european segment of nato plus sweden plus finland plus canada, we managed in a step-by-step perspective of everything in total, transfer to ukraine about 100 leopards of the second, which is only 5% of the 1,000 units that are currently on the island on paper , finally, mr. oleg, i would like to ask you about the production and supply of mortar mines they were in such great demand a couple of minutes ago. well, i don’t know. an hour ago , we talked with our soldiers who are now in the direction of bakhmut . well, that is, the production and transfer to ukraine of mortars and ammunition in particular is ,

no accident that everything fell apart with the arrival of the first american auditors. yes, from usaidments, the pentagon, and so on, and it was not by chance that it coincided with the fact that the summit will begin on friday. you of course, no one will take ukraine in the next two years, this is clear when corruption increases strongly and so on. no one will ever want in any eu, in principle, in ukraine, that the russian army will be waiting with flowers and well, he continues to tell the kremlin that you see, everyone will talk about corruption there, they will not let all the stupid ukraine go anywhere that he did not sign the agreement on participation in the eu single market program at the summit itself there is a conversation about the start of preparations for negotiations on joining the eu, well, that is, well, actually , what is the main thing i wanted to talk about , uh, already the second wave in the last 12 months it was like this on a massive scale and in the spring and summer before the start of the ukrainian offensive , the russians tried to conduct special information

being a congressman, ambassador, and minister to usaid, head of the mccain institute, and so much more. he was an election observer in ukraine in 2014 following the revolution of digny. here at the wilson center he was instrumental in helping the center meet the moment after russia's invasion. most importantly he directed the expansion of our center's coverage of the war through the establishment of our hindsight up front ukraine webpage which includes contributions from all programs of the wilson center, covering not just the war, but it's global consequences. ambassador green will come to the podium after a brief video on bucha. i direct everyone to the screen. [video clip] >> i was getting paid $1,000 a month if not more. >> not quite sure who that is. welcome, everyone, to the wilson center. as we get going, aid like to begin with a very special word of thanks and welcome. to my friend john sullivan, who served courageously as our ambassador in moscow. and he was there during the early dark days of the russian invasion. as some of you know and as we just heard from will, i had the

and the world stands with you. widen announced an additional half a $1000000000.00 in usaid, but there was no mention of new advanced weaponry such as long range missiles. the zalinski says his forces need ukrainian presidents stress again. there will be no peace until ukraine liberates all its territory. a promise that is among many military analysts and some of ukraine's allies, increasingly unrealistic as the vast cost of this war and its global effects continues to grow, or is malia conditionally ran africa fina. but it was the conversation that indeed brings closer our joint victory in this war. we can and we must ensure that 2023 becomes the year of victory. i want to underline that this unprovoked and criminal russian war against ukraine, and then tied democratic world must end with the liberation of ukrainian land from russian occupation, and with solid guarantees of long term security for our country, europe, and the entire world. u. s. president's 1st visit to ukraine almost exactly a year since russia's invasion is rich in symbolism and a clear message to moscow. for biden's

was carried out on the initiative of the union in the mizin zapade consortium and by the support of usaidand the main goal was to study the state of civil society in war conditions in particular, studying the experience of adaptation and the work of public and charitable organizations after a full-scale invasion, i want to say that it was quite such a thorough study that we conducted an analysis of the available data of open state registers, media monitoring, an expert survey of the expert environment and a survey of representatives of public and charitable organizations currently operating in ukraine, in total, more than 1,500 representatives of the organization were interviewed, in general, the study showed that despite all the challenges, civil society adapts to the conditions of war and continues its work, at least we we see that in the 22nd year it was able to self -organize itself to combat the consequences of the invasion , the manifestations of this are a significant and significant increase of newly created charitable organizations, initiatives to continue the activity of those p

more precisely, the so-called big three , the ministry of defense is the state department and usaid ,nt agency, initiated a hotline for investigating corruption stories without using allocated funds. by american taxpayers for ukraine in one of russia , ah, all these stories are on ah, in general, corruption stories in ukraine will now be on the pencil of our western partners, i don't think that if the western partners had objective reasons not to trust mr. rezhnikov in terms of the use or his participation in corrective scandals melted by the obvious, they were silent about it due to the strength of some diplomatic politeness , they are quite frank both in official and unofficial meetings, so i, as for me , the reflection was more surprising. and what then how is that how medin's reflection in the western press of course there is no corruption scandal, especially this series of searches of suspicions of dismissal and the media hype of this scandal, they clearly did not add to our advantages, there were many questions about what is happening in the government, why certain figures are b

he's the congressman and ambassador and minister to usaid head of the institute in so much more. he was an election observer in ukraine in 2014 following the revolution of dignity and hear the wilson center he was instrumental in helping the center made the moment after russia's invasion and most importantly directed expansion of our coverage of the war to the establishment of her hindsight up front ukrainian web site which includes contributions from all programs of the wilson center not just the war. its global content. ambassador green will come to the podium after a brief video and i direct everyone to that. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> i've been getting paid a thousand dollars a month ifai nt more than the not quite sure who that is. welcome everyone to the wilson center and as we get going i'd like to begin with a special word of thanks and welcome to my friend john sullivan who served courageously as ambassador to moscow and he was there of course during the early days of the russian invasion. as some of you know and as we just heard from well i had theer opportunity of serv

he said that president biden has directed usaid and other federal government partners to assess response options to help those most affected. and that the u. s. will continue to closely monitor the situation in coordination with the government of turkey. display families in northern syria were already living in dire conditions after the destruction of their homes. but they been worsened by a severe snowstorm that had the area. i'm at vall as the details. they're left in the cold. these displaced families in north and syria are facing a new ordeal brought on by a severe snowstorm. and they are not equipped for the challenge. jewels, you'll be liberal, but as you can see for your own eyes, only this night, 5 tenths of collapsed children left on the rain and snow without any shelter. this situation is the same across all the displacement. camps in ali, post northern countryside and italy, low temperatures, along with heavy rain, hath taken a heavy toll on the people here. most of the tents are not water resistant. there is a visible absence of essential sanitary facilities, fowl, water pant