it's not ukraine, russia conflict, it's an intro ukraine conflict. and with me, all of this jingle with the cock, russia had no choice but to react within its own borders here. so, i mean, everybody talks about security, but it doesn't russia have the right to talk about its security as well. go ahead. partial certainly have the right to talk about insecurity of security, but russia has seized the crimea and is fed forces in the eastern ukraine. why, why did that have to, how would i did that happen? did russia over throw the democratically elected government to be ukraine in 2014? is that his fault? whose fault is that? who created reality? what created that reality was the fact that the ukraine was coming closer to the urban union and russia years, a democratic. so russia went through the government on its borders, rochelle, but through the government. well, no, i, i disagree. i disagree with your characterization there. i think what i should say are in the great, you yeah, well, what's happening there in the crate? is that president years having a

ukraine doesn't have a membership action plan, and there's no sign that you want ukraine to be a member of nato. but first of all, it's not a small thing to prevent any ally, orallallies, from being attacked by... ..by russia or any other potential adversaries. so that's not a small minimum. it's actually extremely important to preserve peace for all nato allies. second, we do a lot also to support ukraine. we give them strong political support for their territorial integrity and sovereignty, and allies are also providing strong practical support for ukraine with different types of training, capacity building. i spoke with several allies during the summit that are also ready to step up, so we are supporting ukraine because we... ukraine is a close partner, and we also help them to implement reforms because the way to move towards nato membership is to modernise, reform the defence and security situation, so one day they can meet nato standards. but the point is, mr stoltenberg, that those members of nato who are arguably most vulnerable to russian aggression, that is, for example, polan

ukraine does not have a membership action plan and there is no sign that you want ukraine to be a member of nato. first of all, it is not a small thing to prevent any allies from being attacked by russia or any other potential adverse areas. that is not a small minimum, this is actually extremely important to preserve peace for all nato allies. secondly, we do also support ukraine, we give them political support for territorial integrity and sovereignty, and allies are providing practical support for ukraine with different types of training capacity building, i spoke for several hours during the summit so we are ready to step up and support ukraine because we, the ukraine is a close partner, and we help them implement reforms because the way to move towards nato membership is to organise and mobilise reform defence and security institutions so they can meet nato standards one day. the point is, mr stoltenberg, those members of nato who are arguably most vulnerable to russian aggression, for example, poland and the baltic states, they all say that ukraine should be given the roadmap to me

the people of se, ukraine, the restoration of ukraine's integrity is absolutely possible. and we will support it, and because of that, i'm sure there will be a chance to normalize our bilateral relations on the understanding that they will not constantly hawk back to the subject of crimea. joe biden has reassured ukrainian president vladimir lensky, that he would stand up for ukraine in its tensions with russia. what leverage does the american president have in the dialogue with his rushing counterpart for linear 6 years or the 5th for sure. unfortunately, the position of the united states and its nathan allies on matters relating to ukraine, has a destructive character simply because unconditional support ukraine actually means indulging here on the point of non compliance with the minced protocol. i would hope that the sides will concentrate on an agenda of conciliation and addressing matters where we can achieve positive and constructive results by means of refreshment and cooperation. support of dover on the english south coast could start turning away child migrants w

and the behavior of ukraine and nato is such that it suggests that ukraine potentially will, could be offered neighbor membership when needed. so let me put and says that those, those are red line for russia that need to infrastructure and perhaps even nuclear weapons moving into ukraine for russia. that is an absolute red lot. and that's just about the majority of your news caught here for this our, on our, to international many more of your headline still to come on this program already a busy day for your news. we're back in 33 minutes. the one of the worst m. a mass shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy a close a little of the real last vegas where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners. the dangerous shooting revealed what? the l v m. p. d really is and now it's part of the spin machine. most of the american public barely remembers that had happened. that just shows you the power of money and las vegas. the powerful showed that true colors when the pen demik had the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades. and then you have a

aggression. ukraine should expand because of russia and aggression. but let me approval remembered 1020 years ago when the russian in the west, but friends and not to do so, the west. i didn't stop nato for expanding twice, twice towards russia. and the problem, the problem now, he says, is the phone for russia, that is a red light. because if need to infrastructure needs of troops. and god forbid, nuclear weapons are stationed in ukraine rather than poland and romania. the time it takes to reach for a missile to reach moscow, which is measured in minutes, gives down by 30 percent. and the same as was a red line for the united states when russia put nuclear weapons in cuba. it is a red line for russia. if need to put nuclear weapons, for example, in ukraine, nato expansion and his infrastructure getting closer to us. his borders. this next prima important issue for the security of all washington for country. it has an article significant. why is that? when pull into romania became nathan member states, they quickly agreed to americans. mr. defense sys

should ukraine join nato? should nato take on that responsibility and be effectively involved with a conflict with russia directly if you maintain work toing. >> independent sovereign countries should be able to decide md. the first and most important question is sdwhal line? does it want to have a closer affinity in. as of today, the ukranians would like to become part of nato. they have decided that is something that they would like to do. then the question is for nato strictly would enhance the unite nations which is key whether a country should back part of nato. the united states has led the effort to say, no, ukraine in nato is a good thing. there are other countries, germany and france, who say, no, this is not a good chance to be at nato. one of the reasons, russia is likely to react with a great fury. there is also the reality that russian troops today and is joining separate forces in eastern ukraine. it's a complicated issue. the key, however, is nato and the united states can never say russia has a

and the behavior of ukraine and nato is such that it suggests that ukraine potentially will, could be offered neighbor membership a native. so let me put and says that those, those are red line for russia that need to infrastructure and perhaps even nuclear weapons moving into ukraine for russia. that is an absolute red line. you case education secretary has slammed the behavior of some oxford university students as simply absurd and stuff too. they took down a portrait of queen elizabeth the 2nd from the college common room claiming they find it offensive represents the country's colonial past. the president of the college in question says the picture was removed after a vote itself. the initiatives of students these days. british educational institutions typically don't display queens portrait though. some cambridge knocks for colleges still do. the protest removal comes as the queen proposed amongst 70 years on the throne. next year we put the issue of the debates. the queen is the figurehead of our country. so i think it's a great, really, really great shames, come to this about t

and if nato proclaims that open door ball as it was ukraine, it means that ukraine also wants that's made for it. also wants ukraine, the joiner. right, and then rossa the reasonable question. why is the interest in ukraine joining a military alliance? right. and of course, we have to call sequences definitely a russia will be present. it will be the existential. if you can enjoy sneed though, in russia, read it to, to do almost anything to prevent this and there are the same applies, of course, the bellows. and i think that's a lot of identify those red lines quite explicitly before the weekend by them meeting and coming back to the role of the european union and will let me remind also that it was precisely that all of the european union, which resulted to the euro might, on crisis in the overthrowing of yellow cornish report. it was you that are in ukraine to make that choice, right? it's either or by the way yellow, or we want the a cmo pena's corporation, the european union with russia. and you would have been union right as well. be you, which press are you going to make a choi

tweeted. nato had just confirmed that ukraine could apply to could join nato. ukraine has been in the kind of waiting room in front of later for a long time. joe biden quickly came out and sort of denied that and said, no, you know, ukraine would have to do a lot still to, to join nato. pushing with us about that, and he said that there was no change in the situation or later, there was nothing to discuss. now let's bring it to perhaps what the reaction might be here in germany, for example, to base. what has this had you think the tone of this press conference, if you know before, we have to wait and see what president biden says. but you know, there has been a sort of a desire here in germany. and of course the you for tensions to be east a little bit. yeah. would that, would you say it's being interpreted? well, i think we'll see how this is received. but broadly, i think the europeans, not just the germans, but broadly the europeans were glad to see the summit happen. that it. and broadly, the view in germany always the dialogue is important. you know, that you have to keep talkin

and the behavior of ukraine and nato is such that it suggests that ukraine potentially will, could be offered neighbor membership in native. so let me put and says that those, those are red line for russia that need to infrastructure and perhaps even nuclear weapons moving into ukraine for russia. that is an absolute red lot. and you can learn more from that wide range. and if you were the russian president vladimir, put in online at r t dot com for the meantime though, thank you for joining us. we're back in half an hour. me the the me ah, i will. the the one of the persian gulf, the wealthiest country is, has spend billions of dollars on state of the art stadiums. well, look at the stadium is really taking shape. you can see the bowl and most of the stands now, when we were here a little bit over a year ago, at the same construction site, it was just a foundation and a few metal structures. so it seems that time why this idea to use shipping containers as building blocks has definitely paid off. i mean, they're easy to assemble and easy to dismantle, just like playing with lego the

ukraine doesn't do it. russia decides they will intervene in our elections again in 2020 to help trump again but it's not enough. joe biden beats trump. and now we're in this incredible moment, this clarifying moment ahead of putin's first meeting with biden, putin locks up every opposition figure he can lay his hands on and ahead of biden's first meeting with putin, biden embraces the ukrainian president, invites him to the white house, hosts the leader of nato. just in case these two competing visions for the world were not laid out starkly enough for you, here it is. black and white. night and day as these two leaders prepare to meet. . president biden has now published an op-ed in the washington post about his forthcoming trip, saying on wednesday i depart for europe on the first foreign travel of my presidency. stacked with meetings with many of our closest democratic partners, group of seven, nato allies, leadership of the eu, before concluding by meeting with vladimir putin. in this moment of global

ukraine doesn't do it. russia decides they will intervene in our elections again in 2020 to help trump again. but it's not enough, joe biden beats trump and now we're in this incredible, clarifying moment. ahead of putin's first meeting with biden, he locks up every opposition figure in the country he can lay hands on. ahead of biden's first meeting with putin, biden embraces ukrainian president, welcomes him to the white house, and hosts nato leader. black and white, night and day as the two leaders prepare to meet. president biden has published op-ed in the "washington post" about his forthcoming trip. on wednesday i depart for europe on the first foreign travel of my presidency. stacked with meetings with many of our closest democratic partners, group of seven, nato allies, leadership of the eu, before concluding by meeting with vladimir putin. in this moment of global uncertainty, this is realizing america's renewed commitment to allies and partners and demonstrating the capacity of democracies to meet

president biden has not ruled out letting ukraine join nato. cbs' holly williams went with ukraine's president to the front line in that battle. >> reporter: the trenches in ukraine look like something out of world war i, but this is modern-day europe, and the fighting has claimed more than 13,000 lives. we hiked through decimated villages with ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky, at one point so close to the enemy we were told they could hear us. >> in may, two guys were killed by snipers.igh >> reporter: the russian-backed rebel fighters are about 700 yards in that direction. and some say this is the front line in a new cold war that's brewing between russia and the u.s. the war began in 2014 when vladimir putin sent troops to seize control of crimea and backed an armed soorgs in backed an armed insurgency in eastern ukraine. this year, russia massed an estimated 40,000 troops on ukraine's border. why should ordinary americans care what's happening here in ukraine? >> it can be tomorrow their houses. >> reporter: you're saying if russia wi

so don't ask and ask parts of ukraine, which are currently occupied by russia, returned to ukraine. they will enjoy all those vast possibilities for development and prosperity. yeah, but why does your president say he's not going to talk to them? russia says, talk to the separatists. your president refuses, i'm curious as to why he refuses because the people don't that's going to cons. castille ukrainian citizens. why is your president refusing to talk to you graham's? if he 15 area back under his control, my president will talk to legitimately elected ukrainians. in the currently occupied parts of dawn, it's going to move on. so we will not talk to holder so fresh and passwords who vigorously in newly implement only instructions coming from moscow. the. we should not to mix these 2 categories of one. we hold elections as provided by the means. agreements when the rot legitimately elected representatives, they will be become part of the political system and we will talk to them. but today the only party that makes decisions and instruct people on the ground, how to act is moscow. it

it worth mentioning there is a map of ukraine on it would show its crimea as part of the country. ukraine in football authorities defended their decision, saying this will strengthen the players. they will quote unquote, wide for the whole of ukraine. now the thing is that the but in solar became a part of russia back in 2014 after referendum, which saw over 95 percent of the population voting in favor of the reunion with russia. ukraine as well as western countries said that they don't recognize, developed, but given the context, putting an image of a contest to region on a football jersey can be also seen as to have some political message to it. that's according to several russian football officials and even russian president spokesman. dimitri passed off, who insisted that sports must stay out of politics. by the way, for said that they have nothing against the map. well, it's not just you phrase, football show that russia has been objecting to glad to be a potent has explained why he thinks key adds new, dropped nationality law, couldn't danger millions. this was a wide raging intervi

currently ukraine in football shirts have to captions on them glory to ukraine and glory to the heroes. the problem is that these phrases have dark history, dating back to world war 2, when it was used by ukrainian nazi collaborators to greet each other. the slogan on the inside, the one that now has to be removed is glory to the heroes. because as they explain, the combination of that with the other phrase can be deemed to be politically loaded. gore it to ukraine, which is seen on the outside of the shirt, can state the whole story around the ukranian football uniform has kicked up some controversy with the russian football union along with the russian foreign ministry among those outraged by the design. this is another hand by cave state propaganda to consolidate in the public consciousness. a slogan that many korean brought associate with the ukranian insurgent army lead based upon funds era and there are crimes during the 2nd world war. there is another thing about this. sure. it worth mentioning there is a map of ukraine on it would show its crimea as part of the country. ukraine

if they are put in ukraine, if ukraine joins data, then it will be half the top of nato's expansion. and his infrastructure getting close to his borders is an extremely important issue for the security of all russians and for country it has a practical significance for us. why is that? when pulling the romania became nato member states, they quickly agreed to americans, missile defense systems being stationed on the territory. but the launch pads used for those systems can also be used for offensive weaponry, which can reach central russia, including moscow within a very short time frame 15 minutes. imagine if ukraine were to become a nato member, it would then take 7 to 10 minutes. if such missiles with stations stay near, hark of ordinary patrols to reach moscow. is that the red line for us or not? no russia has been attacked enough times to either for nuclear weapons m. f. of odds of an international coalition. encroaching, moving close, inclusive, russia to start bringing alarm bells and only snoops, let me know who talks about ukraine's prospect of joining nathan obsession. real

ukraine is just one of many of those. so one thing we do note from these photos, wolf, is you can see the officials are now wearing earpieces. that allows for that simultaneous translation of the comments being made between both sides. it allows the conversation to move a lot faster than what we saw in the meeting earlier when it was president biden and president putin in the room and one would make remarks and the interpreter from the other side would translate it for them and then they'd react in a little bit of a delayed fashion. you're seating the meetings get under way. we're still waiting to find out if they've addressed the substances of their differences which is what the white house said they came here to do. reminder, this is a meeting president biden initiated. they worked out the details for several months before actually coming out and confirming it because, of course, typically the negotiations between the russian side and the u.s. side can go on for several weeks, and as it did with the format for today, it

so right, you've agreed on consultations on cybersecurity, on ukraine. do you think there will be any working groups establish, do you think any red lines will be respected? can you describe something? i think i've spoke about the red lines at length. you see the understanding and confidence in this is created. it stamps for, from negotiations. there's no reason to meet each other and threatened to exchange trade verbal attacks. there's not a point the restrictions, the sanctions is something i've, i've brought up already. we don't know what's brewing in the american political apparatus. i mean, we know the, you know, the broad strokes the, the currents, but we don't know the details. there are probably opponents and proponents of developing better relations with russia who will prevail. it's difficult to say hopefully a steps will be taken after this summit. well, hopefully, what my think so, but it would only mean a missed opportunity if it happens. and the final question to a journalist from canada. thank you for the opportunity. i'm summer hunter sch

erin, the ukraines never did. even in the trump white house did unfreeze the money, president zelensky never got the funds. that was the latest news. the president of ukraine says he has now been invited by president biden in july for a visit. >> thank you very much for all of that reporting and obtaining that exclusive audio. i want to go to elie honig along with our gloria borger. >> how important is the recording? >> erin, this incident, the pressuring of ukraine have sort of receded in history in a way that it should not have. this was a subject of impeachment. this recording should remind us that there is still potential crimes here. doj under donald trump and bill barr covered this up. they refused to open an investigation into potential crimes. there is a new doj, there could be bribery we here and we hear about quid pro quo and solicitation of foreign election aid. the new attorney general and the new doj, they are the responsibility to not let this sit and do a real criminal investigation here. >> so it i

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he's gone to ukraine. he made it posting on facebook explaining why he left and he said by remaining in the country, it remaining in russia i cannot be effective and environment where essentially any political activity leads to jail terms, not only for the politicians himself before their supporters and family members. about his decision to play to the ukraine he said, quote, this is not a defeat this is a tactical retreat. so russia goes to war against our ally, ukraine. under the previous administration, president trump uses that as leverage against ukraine. holds up military aid and all those other signs of support for them unless and until they agreed to cough up something he can use against or biden. with the 2020 election. ukraine doesn't do it, russia decides they will intervene in our elections again in 2020 to help trump again but it's not enough. joe biden beats trump. and now we're in this incredible moment. this clarifying moment, right? ahead of putin's first meeting with biden, putting locks

occur in the history of ukraine. actually generate a democratically elected, and not corrupt, led by oligarchy in any other regions. nation. and i pointed out to them when i made that speech, that they will go down in history as the founding fathers of ukraine. if in fact they do that, they have more to do. but does, does not justify the fact that have more than do russia taking aggressive action, either the dumbass or in on to see or in any part of ukraine. and we're going to put ukraine in a position to be able to maintain their physical security. thank you also very much . sorry. you're all here. so late. thank you very much to abide in there at his news conference in the brussels nato headquarters after that meeting with fellow natal leaders. a day that he described is incredibly productive . he started by talking about the discussion that he had with president of turkey thing. it was a productive and positive day, much stronger words that he used in relation to russia and china saying that there were seeking to

and the behavior of ukraine and nato is such that it suggests that ukraine potentially will, could be offered neighbor membership a native. so let me put and says that those, those are red line for russia that need to infrastructure and perhaps even nuclear weapons moving into ukraine for russia. that is an absolute red lot the case education secretary has slammed the behavior of some oxford university students as simply absurd. and after they took down the portrait of queen elizabeth the 2nd from the college common room, claiming that they found the defensive. since it represents the country's colonial past, the president of the college in questions as the picture was removed after a votes, which itself was the initiative of students. the state's pretty shape cation institutions typically don't display the queen's portrait. the some cambridge and oxford college is still due. the protest removal comes, as the queen passed amongst 70 years on the throne next year. when we put the issue on the ministers reaction for debate. well, i think he's because he was elected in fantasies and elec

well, i think that out of ukraine and sweden, ukraine would have been england's preferred opposition. and they suffered so many injuries in extra time. one of their substitutes came on and then had to go off, with a potential but not quite a broken leg, after a red card challenge by a swedish player. so the question is, who's going to be fit for ukraine? but what england have is pace, they have options, and they will have superior fitness as well because they did not play extra time. and of course, they have not conceded a goal so far in this tournament. no, they are the only team not to have conceded a goal. italy conceded their first against austria. they're probably now the favourites, italy, after france were knocked out, but they've got a very difficult game in their quarterfinal against the world number one belgium, so they are going to have to earn their place in the semifinals, never mind the final. mani djazmi there. and you can find much more on euro 2020 on our website, including all of the statistics and analysis of matches so far, plus the fixtures to come in the quarterf

now that russia has invaded ukraine, does that effectively rule out ukraine ever entering nato, given that being in nato is nato and ukrainians defending against russia? president biden: the second question is no. the first is whether they meet the criteria. the fact is they still have to clean up corruption. the fact is they have to meet other criteria to get into the action plan. and so it's -- you know, school's out on that question. it remains to be seen. in the meantime, we will do all that we can to put ukraine in a position to be able to continue to resist russian physical aggression and it will not just depend on me whether or not we conclude that ukraine can become part of nato. it will depend on the alliance and how they vote. but i know for one thing, there has to be a -- they have to convince -- and it's not easy. i made a speech years ago to the rata saying that ukraine had an opportunity to do something that's never occurred in the history of ukraine. actually generate a democratically elected and not corrupt, led by oligarchies, in any of the region nation. and i pointe

ukraine was the central focus of this interview. one of one of the themes that a lot of attention and concern was devoted to was this new indigenous peoples law that is sitting in the holes of the ukrainian government in a draft version so far, but essentially a little background very briefly. this rule guarantees the protection and legal protection for the various ethnicities indigenous as they say. if nice, if you see you quit, the ukranian government specified what those necessities are and those ukrainians contracts and cried me and thought us so those ethnicities will be protected by the law. they will be represented on a government level. so they, they will be protected against attacks, racially motivated, religiously motivated, culturally motivated attacks, that cultural identity will be protected by the government, their values, their symbols, icons, you know, anything that identifies them will be protected everyone out. not so much of nice that i've seen this draft and one of the articles and it says that native admitted ca

the ukraine? that is to say, those gas transit fees, even without gas moving through their country. it seems to indicate that. but think about what you just said. so the, if the fear is, well, what if the russians decide to turn off that, that pipeline, they don't let you have the gas anymore? well, right now, the gas is coming from russia. it's just coming from russia across the land, through ukraine, and going to europe through the north string to pipeline it's bypass in ukraine and going directly between russia and germany. so number one, that argument a little tough. number 2, why would, why should do this? right? it's in russia is best interest to sell gas and natural gas to germany in germany's best interests, to take that natural gas directly from russia instead of paying transit fees. and thirdly, the united states makes this argument, while the number to seller of natural gas to the united states is russia. and that's something that the trauma ministration never wanted to admit when they'

as far as for ukraine. yes, we would very much like to to be a solution to this past year of ukraine. we believe in the national corporation has to develop the battery to as the more stability it means for all of us. and the battery, jazz for development is actually not just newer, but also elsewhere. so if you say that this is just the way the international system works, but ed was built back in the 20th century as we have always lived through a quarter of the 21st century and say that the dollar denominated system as reliable. but how can it be reliable ones? a 3rd external policy can block the payments at any time. so is it really that reliable? as you say, in my present, we are not in a humane thing. yes. okay. market prices across the was my calculators and us dollars. so as just tradition wait could pay in euro for our energy requirements. but we don't think this is to be. this has to be a question of politics. it's here. we can mix for base, we can be able to, if the price is a calculated in dollars,

now that russia has invaded past ukraine, does that rule out ukraine ever entering nato, given that nato would have to defend the ukrainians against russia? president biden: the second question answer is, no. the first question is, it depends on whether they meet the criteria. they still have to clean up corruption. they still have to meet other criteria to get into the action plan. school is out on that question. it remains to be seen. in the meantime, we will do all that we can to put ukraine in the position to be able to continue to resist russian physical aggression, and it will not just depend on me, whether or not we conclude that ukraine can become part of nato, it will depend on the alliance and how they vote. but i know for one thing, there has to -- they have to convince, and it's not easy. i made a speech years ago saying that ukraine had an opportunity to do something that has never occurred in the history of ukraine, actually generate a democratically elected and not corrupt led by oligarchies in any of it regions nations. and i pointed out to them when i made that speech th

now the expansion of nato rushes relations with ukraine. these were some of the topics touched upon by russian president vladimir putin in a wide, raging interview on russian state television. on wednesday, it comes the head of a much anticipated summit with the american president joe biden. next week, earlier, my colleagues union o'neill and more ad gazda of discussed the interview here in the studio. ukraine was the central focus of this interview. one of one of the themes that a lot of attention and concern was devoted to was this new indigenous peoples law that is sitting in the holes of the ukrainian government in a draft version so far, but essentially a little background very briefly. this rule guarantees the protection of legal protection for the various ethnicities indigenous as they say. if nice, if you see you quit, the ukrainian government specified what those necessities are, those ukrainians come jugs and cried me and thought us so those ethnicities will be protected by the law. they will be represented on a government level,

is supporting ukraine with money, weapons and training. but what he really wants is america's backing to join nato, giving his country more protection from russia. >> speak about nato with us. propose us. >> reporter: in the u.s. there are fears nato membership for i relations but froms it friends. many ukrainians have little hope the summit between presidents biden and putin will change anything here on the bloody battlefield that has divided their nation. >>> president biden's meeting with russian president putin marks a new chapter in the complicated history between ukraine and russia. >> reporter: even at the peak of the cold war u.s. and russian leaders met often for frank discussions. long time observers agree the relationship is at a low point, but at least the leaders are still talking. >> the conference is to seal hitler's fate. >> reporter: leaders from the globe's major allied powers met to negotiate peace. >> this meeting crystallizes th. >> reporter: it set up a decades long cold war. still, diplomacy5 minutes the t hurled cha

and the behavior of ukraine and nato is such that it suggests that ukraine potentially will, could be offered, need membership and needed. so let me put and says the lose. those are red line for russia that need to infrastructure and perhaps even nuclear weapons moving into ukraine for russia. that is an absolute red line. austrian police say they've arrested 81 people as part of a global sting operation led by the united states the f. b i is claiming to have caught more than $800.00 criminals worldwide, including arms and drug dealers by tricking them into using an encrypted app. aside from austria, rates have also taken place in more than more than a dozen countries, including australia, where a federal police worked alongside us intelligence services. the app called a nom was run by the f. b. i. security forces apparently got senior figures in organized crime to use and promote it and allowed the intelligence agency to monitor communications between gangs, the f b i legal attache in austria hailed the sting as a major success. this operation demonstrates how the f, b, i and our int

ambassador to ukraine, william taylor, for his take. >> i think ukraine is going to be a very important topic in the summit. again, president biden is going to lay out where the russians, in particular mr. putin, have caused problems. and one of the big problems that they've caused, of course, is when they invaded ukraine and tried to annex, illegally annexed part of ukraine, crimea. it's clearly going to be an issue. as long as the russians are occupying part of their neighbor, that's going to be very difficult to re-establish any kind of rules of the road, any kind of predictability, any kind of stability that the president has been talking about. so i think ukraine will be a serious topic, and ukrainians of course are watching this very carefully. they were pleased, i will tell you, that president biden did call president zelinsky before meeting president putin later on today. >> i think one of the interesting things that we've seen in the past, this is, you know, if we look at the basically escalating conflict between the u.s. and russia, it's essentially been going on since 2012. i

although ukraine still considers crimea to be part of its territory for us and insist ukraine's euro 2020 kit meets the organizations rose. we've asked them for their response to russia concerns and let you know if we hear one back. we spoke to sports column with alan morale and thinks ukraine's created on welcome destruction for its own clears. no point order and you're trying to kind of get attention or flat. we took pretty bad before was because they're not going to be certain the world like your days, your old every country, every country was kind of wanted to try and show themselves and kind of lacking and as well as pushing for that to go there. so you've got this, you know, i guess you could say like, this pretty election for showing off when another nation's or not for sure. or there are 2 nations. so that might be the case in the case with the ukraine right out. i think this is a really bad move the ukraine because of this and also better, i don't think the most right thinking and intelligent fans, we're backing ukrainians on a lecture by a psychiatrist at yale university ha

what we heard was, yes, we talked about ukraine. we agreed that men skipped the way forward. minsk remains the way for which we both have all republicans on ukraine, i'll repeat needs both, differ on ukraine, joe biden saying, min skipped the way for which we have differences of opinions. what happens with ukraine right now concerning these 2? as you said, a repeat the mantra mean for bias and the face, the says, will defend the sovereignty of ukraine. nobody attacks ukraine, that i know what you know. so even the fresh i had military maneuvers, america has mother for maneuvers. one america says it's too close to ukraine all through nato countries, so far as we can, can say to the last guys just across the, the, the, the, the straits of bearing. so i just also next door to us. so it's, it doesn't go anywhere. but i think something that i'm afraid off for the future is the war longer. scientists, in nato. some countries are very much anti russian and out the we will not war mongers now that the people talking after yesterday's meetin

now that russia has invaded parts of ukraine, does that effectively rule out ukraine ever entering nato, given that being in nato would mean defending the ukrainians against russia? president biden: the second question is no. the first is whether they meet the criteria. the fact is they still have to clean up corruption. the fact is they have to meet other criteria to get into the action plan. and so it's -- you know, school's out on that question. it remains to be seen. in the meantime, we will do all that we can to put ukraine in a position to be able to continue to resist russian physical aggression and it will not just depend on me whether or not we conclude that ukraine can become part of nato. it will depend on the alliance and how they vote. but i know for one thing, there has to be a -- they have to convince and it's not easy. i made a speech years ago to the rata saying that ukraine had an opportunity to do something that's never occurred in the history of ukraine. actually generate a democratically elected and not corrupt, led by oligarchies, in any of the region nation. and i

now that russia has invaded ukraine, does that effectively rule out ukraine ever entering nato, given that being in nato would mean the u.s. and nato having to defend ukrainians against russia? president biden: the second question is no. the first is whether they meet the criteria. the fact is they still have to clean up corruption. the fact is they have to meet other criteria to get into the action plan. and so it's you know, school's out on that question. it remains to be seen. in the meantime, we will do all that we can to put ukraine in a position to be able to continue to resist russian physical aggression and it will not just depend on me whether or not we conclude that ukraine can become part of nato. it will depend on the alliance and how they vote. but i know for one thing, there has to be -- they have to convince, it's and it's not easy, i made years ago to the rata saying that ukraine had an opportunity to do something that's never occurred in the history of the ukraine. actually generate a democratically elected and not corrupt, led by oligarchies, in any of the region nat

what did ukraine propose as a first step? the armed forces of ukraine to their place -- what does it mean? it means that ukrainian forces should go there. the second thing they propose is closing the border between russia and ukraine. and third, elections should be held in three months after these two steps are taken. you don't need to be an attorney, have a special education, to know that has nothing to do with the minsk agreements. what additional commitments could russia shoulder, i think everything is understandable. just like the united states carries out exercises on their territory, we are carrying out exercises. we didn't carry out exercises bringing our equipment to the

in ukraine these days, and that's in our interest. but one issue that has come to my attention that i had not fully realized is the feeling not just from the eastern border where russia sent thousands of troops and left most of those troops, but also on the northern border with belarus where the military's presence is increasing. again, something that perhaps isn't fully understood is that the pipeline itself in a way was a way to encourage the safety of ukraine and that russia would be unlikely to destroy its own pipeline, to make a mistake and engage in further aggression toward ukraine. can you comment on why you changed your mind? i've seen you talked about this today, i wasn't able to listen to all the testimony, and how you answer to ukraine, when they say no one bothered to talk to president zalensky about this before the decision was made. >> yes, we did have a chance to talk about it before, but first let me say president biden spoke to president zalensky today. he invited him to washington in the coming weeks, and they had a