back on the ground. however, and i should say, by the way, that you are also the author of hunting the caliphate, i m sorry i didn t see that book pop up there. what is your assessment of how effective they can be without more either anti-aircraft weaponry or some sort of air exclusion zone? well, good morning, hala. they have been effective, to an extent, with the weaponry that they have. their courage and their tenacity. but to be able to really stop the russian offensive, which is temporarily culminated around kyiv, um, they are going to need more. right now, the russian forces are still moving in the south and reaching many of their objectives. obviously, mariupol is one that has not been reached. but temporarily, russian forces around kyiv have been halted. so, in order for ukrainians to continue on with a counteroffensive, they are going to need more assistance.
in one way or another. and it deserves to be covered. the front of the telegraph deserves to be covered. the front of the telegraph has deserves to be covered. the front of the telegraph has a deserves to be covered. the front of the telegraph has a photograph - deserves to be covered. the front of the telegraph has a photograph of l the telegraph has a photograph of the mps listening on the government benches with the prime minister down bottom right, and the picture of president zelensky above as he addresses mps. but the story the telegraph goes with it is one about poland offering fighterjets to ukraine. the committee still wrangles internally over whether there is any purpose to some kind of air exclusion zone, or at least in finding ways to beef up ukraine s air defences if they can t stop russian aircraft flying over at. yes, but before i come to that, can i dwell yes, but before i come to that, can i dwell on yes, but before i come to that, can i dwell on the picture fo
destroy their infrastructure, create refugee settlements which will be patrolled and protected by the national government, syrian army and hezbollah and call them safe zones. we re not talking about an air corridor or air exclusion zone where we ll protect the refugees like in the historical context of humanitarian action. i think he s talking about the assad government doing it, and i don t think he cares one way or the other whether these resistance groups that we have been supporting, as democratic groups, fighting against, you know, the 30% alawite and syria and other majorities to dominate that 60% of the country. i doubt very strongly that you re going to get anything other than a low grade insurgency for a very long time funded by the same gulf state that he s claiming is going to actually create, you know, pay for the humanitarian aid that s
with the huge economy and poised to be the number one economy in the world. china is developing something that is akin to the greater east asian spear. japan s way of doing business is like this back in the 1930 s and that is what got us involved in world war ii. china set up a system where they want to control all of the resources they touch. if they do that, they feel they will have more national power and that is why you see such things as this happening where they have an air exclusion zone surrounding the chinese mainland. and the vice president is going over the next week and the latter two country leaders don t like each other. but the united states is
tonight. barbara, obviously a lot of tension between the u.s. and china over this part of the world, the south china sea. what are your sources telling you about these military maneuvers, b 52 aircraft carriers? reporter: what they re saying, erin, the don t expect military confrontation with china, but, and a very big but, tensions are escalating. already secretary of state john kerry, defense secretary chuck hagel, have weighed in on this warning china not to raise tensions in the area. so the u.s. on monday flew two b 52 bombers from guam, quite a long flight path from guam all the way over to the east china sea. and the flew right through this air exclusion zone. stayed about an hour in this area. and then flew back to guam without notifying the chinese as the chinese had demanded. the didn t file a flight plan, didn t raid yes their data, nothing. nothing happened. it all happened without event. but that may be small comfort for now. because tensions in the area center around wh