deal has indeed been reach, it would come ahead of a major possible offensive by the russians as early as a strain. perspective now from john kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the national security institute. admiral kirby, appreciate you joining us tonight. we know there has not been an announcement on the united states sending abrams tanks to ukraine. can you just talk, though, a little bit about what the debate has been internally about sending the abrams? there s been a lot of reporting about concerns that they re not, they re too complex, their training is too long, the type of fuel they need the spare parts are unique. is it that or is it concern that russia would see it as an escalation? i think, you know, with any system, particularly an advanced system that we re providing ukraine throughout the last 11 months, we have always gone through a very iterative conversation about, does it meet the needs that ukraine has on the battlefield now and in the future?
states sending abrams tanks to ukraine. can you just talk, though, a little bit about what the debate has been internally about sending the abrams? there has been a lot of reporting about concerns that they re not they re too complex. the training is too long. the type of fuel they need, the spare parts are unique. is it that, or is it concern that russia would see it as an escalation? i think with any system, particularly an advanced system that we are providing ukraine throughout the last 11 months, we have always gone through a conversation about does it meet the needs that ukraine has on the battlefield now and in the future? and if the answer is yes, then is it appropriate that it comes from the united states or should it come from another country? and then what kind of training, what kind of support, what kind of maintenance. how do we make it operable for the ukrainians in an efficient, effective way. so everything from the patriots to the nasams to the himars.
testimony where he actually pled the fifth amendment. when you pleaded the fifth, those kind of the fact of pleading the fifth cannot be universally against you in a criminal proceeding. it s not the case in a civil proceeding. you can actually draw efforts from the fact that someone has pled the fifth in an earlier statement if it concern something in a civil case. i think he really has to worry about what he has done earlier. really has t worry about what he there are ss here. i mean, this is a very detailed complaint with hundreds and hundreds of allegations and, as attorney general james makes clear, she thinks that there were criminal laws of violated. criminal laws she has not chosen to indict or prosecute them, but that doesn t mean that someone else can t. this is settler not, melissa, in this case? i think he would like to settle. i think he will certainly push to settle. attorney general james has made
all calling for an immediate ceasefire. the us has asked for talks between two rival factions and the us ambassador to libya has called for elections because the last one is meant to take place in december were postponed. what is at stake is libya s oil and these factions have been arguing around it and it s caused a lot of bitterness and intense fighting, given these two factions have their own international backers were not interested in the outcome. it must be said that as of saturday evening, locally things have come down, but the concern is this is not the end of it. it concern is this is not the end of it. ., ., ~ ., of it. it looks like no end in siaht of it. it looks like no end in sight nova two men who arrested under suspicion further murder of olivia practical bell have been 0livia practical bell have been released. detectives have repeated their appeal for
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