like russia s quartet friendly to lgbtq people. how does that make the situation more precarious? she represents, for putin, everything he, in the russian orthodox church, say is wrong with western states, and allies, culturally. not only is she demanding freedom is a minority, she openly wears black lives matter clothing when she s out on the road, but she is married to a woman. she s gay, and proud of it. in russia, right now, the entire country, effectively, operates under a don t say gay mechanism. it is illegal to promote a gay lifestyle in russia, right now. so, lgbtq people live under fear, every day. talk about why she was there to begin with. is $200,000 a year, and it is a star player of the wnba.
one girl, her name was maria, she was crying not because she felt pain but because she already understood that she just lost her leg and she was crying because she understood that for her for young teenager girl, it was a disaster. that s all being committed by russians and this is why we need to stop them. some of your politicians say you don t want to close the sky over ukraine because it may provoke the start of world war iii. i m convinced the opposite is true and world war iii may start much quicker if you don t if we all don t stop putin now and if to some extent we don t quit now and he will he can succeed in ukraine, he will definitely go further and further and while now ukrainian troops are fighting on our ground, just for everybody then
but the main supermarket is still operating despite being shelled earlier, a lot of the fridges and storage areas are damaged. the constant volley of attacks seen half the town empty and the other half can t understand why this is happening. they ve attacked our houses, our schools, our shops she said. they re hitting us too much. for what? please someone explain. putin s scorched earth tactics are more apparent in mariupol where 80% of all residential buildings are damaged or destroyed according to local officials who spoke to the bbc. without water or electricity, residents facing starvation must scrounge for food and have no opportunity to bury their dead except in temporary graves. according to the new york times , there are reports of on going street fights between ukrainian and russian forces and even more chilling, evacuated residents and a local official tell the times resident haves been forcibly taken across the border into russia against their
the three americans, which is an obligation among the vienna convention. joining us now, host of the world tonight, on dnc news, and the senior state department advisor. yes, there is a vienna convention that says that our government should get access to britney griner, and these two gentlemen, but we ll talk about russia here. we re talk about vladimir putin. he doesn t go by any conventions, including the geneva convention. he s murdering civilians right now. what can the state department do if putin is unwilling to abide by international law, and let americans talk to putin griner? this is the challenge we are facing right now with britney griner. she is an american citizen, effectively, in a war zone, run by a country that is our adversary right now. it would be different if this was the united kingdom, for example. a strong ally, and had been accused of committing a misdemeanor there. usually, diplomatic channels to work out, where it s a slap on the wrist, or the person returns
are saying and everything that we re hearing from western officials is true. it is the civilians who are paying the price for this war even in the capital of kyiv where we saw the strike on a mall. you re looking at the pictures there. it s not just the mall was hit. you see surrounding apartment buildings heavily damaged. in all cases, it s hard to accurately report a death toll because these rescue teams as they reach the sites are sometimes coming under fire themselves, certainly true in the east. it makes reporting this story and reporting accurate civilian death toll very difficult, joy. cal perry, thank you my friend. appreciate you. stay safe. clint, i m writing down notes here. a woodchiper is who our secretary of defense described as what putin is sending his forces into. there is kidnapping people and dragging them into russia which i guess is good, you know, for their propaganda inside to make it sound like people would ever want to go into a country that s completely fi