because it redraws the energy map, changes not only how they face. they face west now instead of facing east if this can be accomplished. it really does change the financing picture potentially for russia. we re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars every day that flow to russia from countries in europe for oil and natural gas. president biden also spoke with president duda about the humanitarian crisis out of ukraine. united states said they ve agreed now to take in 100,000 ukrainian refugees. that s been a very slow process so far. do you expect that number to go up? well, i think in the meantime it may well go up partly because poland is and you can t overstate it anderson. poland is really bearing a tremendous brunt of this right now. and they are at the center of this in multiple ways. a lot of the weapons transfers that are going into ukraine are coming through poland. and obviously now they re absorbing these refugee flows. so, poland and the united states have t
in a show of strength and unity between nato members, president biden has arrived for talks in poland. the president landed in the town of rzeszow in the south east of the country around an hourfrom the border with ukraine. he was greeted by the polish defence minister and the us ambassador to poland. mr biden has also been meeting us troops stationed in the area. he s due to hold talks with the polish president with the polish president duda later today. let s go to rzeszow and speak to our correspondent, danjohnson. a hugely symbolic visit? absolutely. this is an enormous a hugely symbolic visit? absolutely. this is an enormous show a hugely symbolic visit? absolutely. this is an enormous show of - a hugely symbolic visit? absolutely. | this is an enormous show of support,
the presidential motorcade now arriving at air force one in brussels where it s 11:41 in the morning. president biden will momentarily step out of the beast there and ascend the steps and take off from poland, and he will be greeted by president duda and talk about the refugee crisis. we expect president biden to make a visit somewhere near the border to perhaps talk with some of the refugees. we ll keep a close eye on this all morning. and then back in ukraine, new video released by the city council shows large-scale devastation endured by that port city. as you watch president biden walk up the steps there. and the streets are filled with
biden met face to face with poland s president duda during which he reiterated america s commitment to its european partners and called article five of nato, quote, sacred. unity has been president biden s core message as he spent the week meeting with world leaders to fortify america s alliances as the world faces this extraordinary challenge. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy who spent the past month lentlessly advocating for his country s needs while remaining in the capital see it of kyiv addressed those world leaders on thursday. what results from this trip has a chance of affecting the outcome of this war. while a number of european countries have remained reluctant about imposing energy sanctions against russia, the u.s. announced yesterday that it s going to work to supply the eu with natural gas which is a step toward becoming less dependent on russia for energy supply. i m going to talk more about that later this hour. amid the stories and images of total horror and des
about 100,000 ukrainian refugees being accepted, there was no time line, there was no date set and the president, frankly, hat not met his goal of 125,000 refugees worldwide being accepted into the u.s. in the past year, and he s only had fewer than 10,000, maybe 7,000 from around the world. now you see secretary blinken shaking hands with president duda from poland and defense secretary lloyd austin. they met earlier today. there s jake sullivan, the national security adviser. they met earlier today with ukrainian officials importantly, matt, the first chance the president s had to talk to the foreign minister since the 22nd of february, two days before the invasion in washington. there s sam powers, samantha powers, the head of usaid, who has been meeting with refugees and so important to the