sergey karaganov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome and let me ask you a simple question, after almost a year of war in ukraine is russia ready to acknowledge that it is going badly wrong? it is a war. and we will be winning the war, there is no question about that, the question is of course, the casualties, the destruction of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in order war as cannon fodder in our war with the west, i sympathise with them. but it is their fate. i m surprised you say that because a month before the invasion began on the 24th of debris, on the 19th of january you actually said this. i am sure we have no plans to invade ukraine because it would be and to quote your precise words, senseless. at thatjuncture this piece was never published. iassumed. but you still wrote it? i wrote it. i accept that. i assumed it would happen later or else i thought that it should have happened earlier but it happened when it happe
thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a whole lot. they could see it was flying at about 40,000 fe
today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on january 5,
standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
phil keating and chad pergram from the white house. let s start with alex and roy hoff live from cape corral, florida. hi, alex. alex: we are in an area called matt lachet and the coast guard is leading major effort to rescue people who have been stranded on the pine island ever since the storm, this is a major operation, we have probably seen at least a hundred people in this location coming in by boat. those residents had been on the island since the storm including even volunteers who showed up just after it. some really have arrived here in terrible condition. ems personnel have been on hand assisting several people who have returned by boat. one man said he had been suffering with a broken hip for days and laura was very emotional. she told me that she lost her entire home and spoke with gratitude for those who came to save her especially after the effort she made to make sure that she needed help. it s very devastating. we are just great to have our lives. the water a