a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. welcome to alex witt reports. we are beginning this our new finding in ukraine as russia s war enters your two. ukrainian officials claim they suffered more than 70 attacks in the last 24 hours, including one they say led to this fire right here at a kindergarten in kherson. president biden meanwhile shooting down china so called peace plan to bring ukraine and russia back to the negotiating table. here is what he said in a new interview. we are deploying, it s not how could it be any? good i m not being facetious. i m being that they earnest. i ve seen nothing in the plan to indicate that there is something that would be beneficial to anyone other than russia if the chinese plan moved forward. this is the idea that china is going to be negotiating the outcome of a war that is a totally unjust war for ukraine is just not rational. also, new this. our protesters are mobilizing cities across the country against
meanwhile new health concerns three weeks after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in ohio. researchers finding levels of air pollutants there that could pose some long term respiratory risks. in contrast to statements by state federal regulators and, yeah, the air is safe. nbc s jessi kirsch is an east palestine for us. jesse, welcome. let s talk about what the residents are saying about their health concerns and couple that with the government s response. yeah, so alex, we have people more than three weeks after this derailment in this community still worried about their health. we were at a town hall event last night with erin brockovich, she s part of one of the legal teams that s looking to take action against norfolk southern railroad here in this community, and i saw a woman leaving the event because she was saying she couldn t take being there because her eyes, her eyes were bothering her that much. she felt like she needed to leave, and someone from the team invol
from the conflicts at the cost of the ukrainian people. joining me, now retired at admiral abbott now nbc news security analyst and a good friend to us. , admirable welcome. hours before this happened, as you, know u.s. officials were publicly warning china to refrain from providing any kind of lethal weapons to russia. did this overtures surprise you? but when you just heard, how seriously do you take it? and, i guess the bottom line is, can china be an honest independent broker to kickstart some sort of a peace process? those are the right questions,. alex let s take them in order. i don t think there is a great deal of substance in this proposal, because it begins from a flawed predicate. the flawed predicate is that ukraine and russia are somehow equal on the field of moral concern. it is russia, who invaded
look forward to watching is here to tell us more but welcome alex let s start with this this is quitting who is this conservative who left and why did he go so his name is nick bowles and his a very loyal conservative one has been in the past and he s spent the past few weeks trying to garner enough political support across the spectrum to support a self to brics it and that is despite the fact that he has supported to reason may s deal with the three times but he feels that he has to reach out that parliament has to reach out to get more support last night though his idea for a softer breaks it failed for the second time and only thirty three conservative m.p. s voted for it and he was furious. art circles are have. are have. chiefly because mari. refuses
do not put wall funding in the appropriations bill. i want to show this, the reaction of democrats on friday. it even came up on snl. check it out on friday, president trump temporarily re-opened the government, i know liberals are tweeting out, trump caved, trump caved. y all have to calm down, stop gloating, you didn t win yet, the man is still one tweet away from calling a national state of emergency and bringing back slavery. act like he s still crazy. isn t there a valid point about the dangers of the democrats gloating doesn t that make the president less willing to compromise this time around? thank you for having me, alex let s step back and say this is a good thing a deal was reached. we had 800,000 workers going without two paychecks in the longest shutdown in the history of our country totally true. hold on.