welcome to the programme. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has been in kyiv today hoping to shore up a deal struck that was between ukraine and russia in the summer to allow for the export of grain from both countries. the agreement, which was brokered in turkey and is overseen by the un, must be renewed by 18 march, but there s concern, moscow will refuse to renew it. the deal also aimed to facilitate the export of russian food and fertilisers. moscow says those shipments are still being disrupted by us and european sanctions. exports of ukrainian, as well as russian food and fertiliser are essential to global food security and food prices. i want to underscore the critical importance of the rollover of the black sea grain initiative on 18 march, and are working to create the conditions to enable the greatest possible news of export infrastructures through the black sea, in line with the objectives of the initiative. this really matters. ukraine is one of the to
florida. algae blooms threatening the east and west coasts and what they are doing to prepare. and taking to the streets protests and clashes with police in france as the president moves to raise the retirement age. this is what we are watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan and a milestone and potential troubling statement on a developing partnership of russia and china. xi jinping is traveling to moscow to meet with putin, and this is first trip since the launch of the war in ukraine. this is coming after cnn has learned that u.s. has intelligence that china is considering providing lethal aid to russia, and the u.n. has said that would kcross a red line. and turkey has said that their country would start the process to ratify finland s nato membership, and that is a significant move. nato requires the unanimous approval of its 30 members to start this move. let s start with will ripley on this trip that xi is planning for his trip to russia?
nashville. as i said, the students go down to 3 years old up to sixth grade and we re waiting to get more information. they said, you know, inside of this hour, we ll learn more. stay with us. we ll get another update. i would ascertain that they have information that they are almost ready to reveal and they re likely making sure that everyone has been notified before they reveal this other information. we learned quite a bit here about the suspect in this case. a 28-year-old white woman who they believe went to the school. we ll get more information on that. they said she had two assault-type rifles and a handgun with her. she was killed on the scene of this horrific killing at this beautiful christian school that is up a long windy road. it s not this easy to get into this complex if you take a look at it from the other side. it s up a long windy road. he also said interestingly that her car, her vehicle, the vehicle they found nearby, gave us a clue to what she was. i don
and it was all apparently to impress a bunch of his teenage friends in a video game chat room. the washington post interviewing one of the members, who says teixeira acted like a father figure to the group during covid. it felt like i was on top of mount everest. it felt like i was above everybody else, to some degree, in that i would be able to brag to some people that i knew stuff that they didn t. he is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the u.s. or other countries. he was a young, charismatic man, who loved nature, god, and bottom line, if they want these to be private, it is because they have something to hide. dana: so, the biden administration appears to have been caught flat-footed by this leak. teixeira was essentially an i.t. worker with the highest level of clearance and access to military intel systems. we had been circulating information for months on line with the pentagon only learning about it last week through the media.
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again