scale this cliff, didn t know the changes world. but they did a top the beaches. allied troops stormed on d-day to defeat the nazis, president biden, warning of renewed threats to democracy in europe does anyone doubt that they would want america to stand up against putin s aggression here in europe today. and at-home, if brought to vanquish your hateful ideology the 30s and 40s does anyone doubt they would move heaven and earth to vanquish hateful ideologies of today from the guy, biden surveying the hundred foot cliffs, american soldiers scaled, dodging the bombs that left craters in the hillside to overtake nazi lookouts and artillery positions, paving the way for a d-day victim jury and a free europe. those american troops honored here by ronald reagan 40 years ago in his iconic cold war era speech. these are the boys went to who we ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable
we re going to see the president only a short time from now. i want to show you what we witnessed only a matter of moments ago, the president upon his arrival doing a flyover above these sheer cliffs nearly 100 feet in total, an opportunity to see from the sky what those brave army rangers faced as they had to scale those cliffs to overtake these artillery positions controlled by the nazis during d-day. it is really a stunning place here, the president seeing it from there, he ll be able to speak to those gathered dignitaries in attendance a short time from now. as we noted among those who will be here is one of the last surviving rangers and here i hear the introduction, they re announcing joe biden, we re going to show you as he starts to walk this direction. the president trying to capture some of the same patriotic themes as a conservative counterpart of his, ronald reagan did at this very same site back in 1984. let s take a watch.
summoning us. they re asking us what we will do. they re not asking us to scale these cliffs. they re asking us to stay true to what america stands for. just a few minutes ago, president biden in marine one flew by these cliffs that aren t let me rangers scale to 80 years ago to take out those german artillery positions essentially enabling the allied forces who landed here on d-day to succeed. and president biden is going to talk about that efforts specifically through the lens of one of those army rangers who was still living. his name is john war del. he s here in the audience today, nine c 9-years-old, of course, there are more than a few parallels as you were just mentioning to the speech that a conservative forebear to president biden ronald reagan made here 40 years ago. he had 62 of those army rangers on hand. of course, it was a different time, but there were a lot of similarities, not just in the situation that was happening around the world as you ve been discussed? gossett
U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are destroying Russian positions in areas where Ukrainian troops had struggled to advance, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Aug. 8.
we will be discussing with our allies how we can strengthen our support for ukraine. so what is the convention on cluster munitions? it s an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production and stockpiling of cluster munitions. cluster munitions are an explosive weapon which scatter bomblets over an area. the convention entered into force on august 1st 2010 and a total of 123 states are committed to it. but the united states and russia have not signed this convention. but most nato countries have. live now to mark cancian, a former marine colonel and senior adviser in international security at the center for strategic and international studies. thank you very much for being with us. you have used these cluster munitions when you are in the military, how effective were they? well, they are very effective against certain kinds of targets. these are what are called aerial weapons, so they are very good at attacking infantry, artillery positions and truck convoys. unitary