but the smallest amount of land. they have declared under domestic law that they own it. these are contested areas by other countries south korea, japan, vietnam the philippines. they talking scarborough hole is. these islands don t just belong to china. they have simply taken them. brian: all right. so they always think long term. they are looking to defend. they are under the assumption we are going to attack or is it all about taiwan to make sure they are blocked any type of defense? well, i think this is part of a broader strategy that allows china to project power and become a global power and also to threaten taiwan. you know, you have heard that china one china policy which we observe is to assimilate taiwan by 2049. but the previous commander of the indo-pacific said that he expected that to happen within the next six years by 2027.
what s to come. this adorable little girl who was singing frozen from a bunker she just sang her country s national anthem in poland at a charity concert. brian: we begin with a fox news alert. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy addressing parliament. steve: mike tobin joins us on the ground with the very latest from lviv. mr. tobin, we heard the president say just about 45 minutes ago, mariupol completely destroyed. it s a shame. the bombardment of mariupol is still, with all that destruction, unrelenting. and the russian forces have to
people are buried everywhere, he said. brian: there is more indications that the russians are running out of ammunition. they are running out of troops interest is certainly a sentiment within that country they are in a war that s unnecessary that s going terribly for them. remember, two years after afghanistan. the russians the soviet union fell apart. this country if the ukrainians can hold out, fight back and get on the offensive, even if they can just hold out, this country s close to maybe having to recede. we don t know the exact number of the russians killed but i know it s in the thousands. we see different numbers. brian: 10,000. ainsley: exactly. so many russians killed there put in body bags, black bags and loading them it in cars and vans and shipping them back to russia. steve: it is tragic essentially what he said to the italians was help us. and we ll see what they are able to do. brian: next up japan. what he is doing by talking to
those beaches meant? we are not exactly sure. we have seen increased activity in the northern black sea. they have a dozen or so ships they are maneuvering south of odesa. some surface combat tans and some amphibious. it could be prelude to a move on odesa. could be a way to shore up a ground assault mykolaiv down to odesa we think is possible. could take a left turn out of mykolaiv but haven t been get through it. it could be, just could be, brian, a chance to sort of pin down the ukrainians in the south there so that those ukrainians are tied up trying to defend odesa and not able to come a to the north and to assist the defensive places like kharkiv and kyiv. so it could be a fake just to try to hold the ukrainians down. we are seeing a similar sort of tactic in the east, brian one of the reasons want mariupol cut
can things get worse? the answer continues to be yes. seems totally out of her depth on every other issue. especially when she has to ad-lib or talk from the heart or extemporaneously about the issues she should have thoroughly digested of this on the heels of news she lost her 10th staffer who thought there has got to be something better for me to do. ainsley: 10th staffer quit. she was the national secretary advisor you see on the screen all the people who quit the little more than a year since she became our vice president. this lady s name is nancy mikhail downey and replaced by her deputy. said she had to i step down to focus on pressing personal matters. steve: we don t nope what that is. with the latest harris staff shakeup there have been well publicized stories in the the washington post and politico about how hard she is to work for. brian, you alluded, to you know, what is she talking about. this particular woman who just left who is going to be replaced