Was about having the chance to not talk notjust about a particular Step Or Tactic but a strategy in relation to ukraine. Vladimir putin says lifting these restrictions would represent the nato alliances direct participation in the ukraine war. We heard the same argument from Russias Representative at the un. Translation if the decision to lift restrictions is really taken, from that moment, nato countries are conducting direct war with russia. In this case, we will have to take the relevant decisions with all the consequences for this that the western aggressors would face. Ukraine very much wants to be able to use these weapons. Our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera explains why. These are the western weapons at the heart of todays debate. They include american atacms and this, the british Storm Shadow system, which has a range of at least 250 kilometres. Storm shadow has already been used by ukraine against a russian base in occupied crimea last year, but up until now the countri
the special counsel investigation on trump s attempt to overturn the election, tonight a look at how jack smith s prosecution of that plot could play out. plus, breaking news in that investigation with reporting tonight that trump s son-in-law jared kushner has testified to the january 6th grand jury. also, the radical normalcy of joe biden on the world stage. he s leading a united nato after his predecessor publicly sided with putin. hollywood showdown, the actors have joined the writers on strike. what they re fighting for and how it will affect what you see on tv and at the movies. we begin tonight with breaking news in the special counsel s investigation into donald trump s efforts to try to remain in power after his 020 election loss. late this afternoon the new york times reported that federal prosecutors questioned multiple witnesses in recent weeks including trump s son-in-law jared kushner on whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 20
defending mr. biden s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn t do it, if we don t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we re doing this, when we re doing it. my conversation this morning with nato s secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden s leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. sweden will become a member of the alliance. that s good for sweden. it s good for turkey. it s good for whole of nato. with both in the alliance, the whole task of protecting the baltic area becomes so much easier for this alliance. this is important for the whole nato, but in particular this region. good day. i m andrea mitchell in lithuania. we begin with the scene moments ago. president zelenskyy at a concert here at nato just hours after he
support and hold iran accountable that iran pay the price and frankly i think the time has come for them to strike oil or military infrastructure in iran. sandra: former vice president mike pence saying the u.s. needs to cross that line, hit back inside iran and do it now. he said that right here last hour, and here we go to hour two, i m sandra smith in new york. a live look at the pentagon as we await that briefing. john: john roberts in washington, the president is in jupiter, florida to raise cash for the campaign. he says he has decided how the u.s. will respond. sandra: parents of 24-year-old kennedy sanders, 1 of 3 soldiers two died in the drone strike want the world to know she was a hero. she chose to serve the country and give us our freedom, be part of us getting our freedom, and stuff happen and it s hard for the parents to endure. that s why i honor her so much and believe she s a hero. however the president or united states decides to respond, it won
minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi