arthel neville. the report of the missing women comes a week after the armed abduction of four americans who had traveled from south carolina and had just crossed the border into northeastern mexico. surveillance video appears to show armed men forcing them into a truck. two were later found dead allegedly at the hands of a mention concern mexican cartel. the other two are back in the u.s. debbie lesko says tourism is on the line if the and mexico won t work together to keep americans safe. our administration can do more to force the mexican government to the cooperate, and i would assume that the mexican government would want to get their act together and keep americans safe, otherwise tourism is going to the go down the tubes. and i would recommend that all u.s. citizens do not do so until the mexican government takes control of the mexican cartels. eric: bill melugin is live in texas where the three missing women began their journey as they crossed over the border. bill,
you may pay as little as $10 per prescription. arthel: ukrainian military has managed to keep russian forces from completely surrounding the eastern city of bahkmut. but as the casual i the count grows casualty the count grows, time could be running out. chief international corps responsibility steve harrigan is live in the capital of kyiv with the very latest. steve. reporter: arthel, there s not a lot left of the city of bahkmut in eastern ukraine. right now the russians say they have taken control of the ian part of the eastern part of the city. russian forces have been trying for some time to encircle ukrainians in the western part
of their military campaign as they seek to redeploy and conquer the east. unfortunately, this is the way that the russian military has decided to conduct its invasion of ukraine. its occupation of parts of ukraine and it is why we re so committed, number one, to holding the russians accountable for their actions and number two, continuing to flow military assistance into the ukrainians so they can defend their country. so the president stopped short of calling this genocide. i wonder what about what we re seeing does not constitute genocide? well, with respect to genocide in particular, there is a specific legal definition for crimes that rise to that level. and it is something that the united states assesses after a full review, that is conducted by the state department. we are just beginning to collect evidence of what is happening in bucha and analyze that evidence. it is not the kind of assessment we can make overnight. we did the president did make very clear that these were
there, that s a destroyed ukrainian vehicle. it has flowers put on the back of it, by local folks here, after the ukrainians won this town back. but we were speaking in the last hour, i was at that car that was picking up the bodies, and in the time since the last time since we spoke, which say little less than an hour ago, 55 minutes ago, we with them actually picked up another two dead bodies on their route. there was one person that was badly burned. seemed to be sort of hit by some sort of artillery strike and another person who had severe gunshot wounds, where they said they believed it was someone gunned down by the russian military when they were here. i spoke a little more to the people who were collecting those bodies and they said that all of the ones that they are collecting now are civilians. it really hurts them as they do this, because they say they really don t understand why these people were shot, why these people were killed in other ways.
shows the level of kremlin false propaganda of these that was drilled into these soldiers that they thought they would come to ukraine and find nazis and every single neighborhood. and the people in these towns kept telling them, there are no nazis here. we have no people like that. all we want is peace. people told us about how, you know, their chickens were killed for food, their cars were stolen, they were repeatedly threatened at gunpoint, that the russians would try to use these villagers as human shields every time, you know, ukrainian forces might kind of launch an attack or get close, they would move all their vehicles, they would position themselves between the houses in the driveways because they knew the ukrainians wouldn t be able to attack them, because they could potentially hurt civilians. so some of the stories were just absolutely crazy and really scary.