the deal will see washington provide the eu with at least 15 billion cubic metres of the fuel by the end of the year. the block has already said it will cut russian gas used by two thirds of this year in response to moscow s invasion of ukraine. president biden will later travel to poland to meet ukrainian refugees. earlier, he said that any use of chemical weapons by russia would trigger a response from nato. the authorities in mariupol said russian forces besieging the city are in the process of forcibly deporting 15,000 residents to russia from an eastern district they have managed to capture. mark lobel reports on the suffering in the besieged city. even burying relatives lost in this war is a struggle. this mourner couldn t recover her dead family member for a while as the fighting went on. there is no good news in marry pole these days. these residents escaped after things got desperate.
his comments came at the end of a meeting of alliance leaders in brussels. the authorities in mariupol say russian forces besieging the city are in the process of forcibly deporting 15,000 residents to russia, from an eastern district they ve managed to capture. mark lobel reports on the suffering in the besieged city. even burying relatives lost in this war is a struggle. this mourner couldn t recover her dead family memberfor a mourner couldn t recover her dead family member for a while as the fighting went on. there is no good news in marry pole these days. these residents escaped after things got desperate. translation: we drained desperate. translation: - drained water from heating pipes and boiled tea with that, for children and the elderly first. ., , ., first. for the tens of thousands first. for the tens of thousands that - first. for the tens of. thousands that remain, first. for the tens of - thousands that remain, this is their only salvation. with russia blocking humanit
is that a deterrent, or is it something that will just stoke the fires? i think it is. i think it is very important to distinguish between deterrents by defence and deterrents by retaliation. i think ukraine has shown how effective defence can be and that obviously, you know, obviously strengthening defences of nato is terribly important. what is dangerous is threatening to retaliate. it s really difficult to get that right. the authorities in mariupol say russian forces besieging the city are in the process of forcibly deporting 15,000 residents to russia from an eastern district they ve managed to capture. for more on this, i m joined by yasmine ahmed. she is the uk director of human rights watch.