Good evening, everyone. Im robert citino, executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World War Ii Museum. Thank you. Thank you to the museum for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks i appreciate it. Im also the samuel Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest boast. Welcome to another installment of our meet the authors heres here at the museum where we bring you the best new world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. For i have just two nights, a man who needs no introduction, let me carry out the tradition of the National World War Ii Museum at all all of public programming. Are there by any chance any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . There we go. All right. I knew there were two right up front. [applause] and to say we thank you for your service is an understatement of the century. In the veterans of any other service or any other era please sta
So that we begin in baghdad where thousands of people are attending the funeral procession for those killed in the u. S. Airstrikes targeting Major General custom sort of money on friday the formal funeral for the top iranian commander as well as. The Deputy Commander of the iran backed Popular Mobilisation forces is underway but will later be buried in najaf in iraq sort of on his body will be flown to iran lets go live to samoa fulton whos in baghdad for us and so many thousands out on the streets all seems pretty peaceful right now and theyve theyve actually crossed the river now is that right. These crowds are now marching through an area thats called the japanese which is opposite of the fortified green zone on the other side of the tigris river were seeing huge crowds consisting of people who are wearing civilian clothing were also seeing some people who are wearing military fatigues presumably members of the Popular Mobilization forces and you can see that some of the footage th
victory will be ours. fighting his raging of the east with russian forces close to taking complete control of the don bass region. the leaky, narrow them will legally and grace people of grace ukraine. exactly 100 days ago we all woke up to a different reality. exactly 100 days ago we woke up like others when ukrainians were awakened not by the sun s rays, but by the explosions of miss. i ll set his how home you look at been completely different. ukrainians woke up al jazeera zane boss rob is in cave and has more on the fighting at eastern ukraine. there s 2 ways to look at the math here for resisting russia s intervention in their country. it is cost the country of ukraine, 20 percent of its territory on the other side of it is that ukraine, $100.00 days later, is still in this fight. now we have to remember that russia was intending to take even a matter of days, and the best experts in the world estimated that after keith, the rest of ukraine would follow in a matter of we
fighting in soviet due. yet the fighting s force more than 14000000 people from the homes. meanwhile, the u. s. has announced a new round of sanctions against rationale, galks and elite suzanne bus. robbie has more from cave. if we go back to a 100 days ago, the whole world thought that ukraine would fall within just a few days, 3 days a week, maybe a few weeks. that was the, that was the estimation by experts and world leaders that ukraine could not withstand the, the force of the russian invasion. they come to its doors, but he is still standing many cities in the west. they are still standing. the russians have had to re mobilize to other parts of the country pulling out of places that they intended to conquer within the hours if not days. so that certainly does represent a victory in and of itself for the ukrainians. and now in terms of what s happening in the east, it is, it is difficult to forget that the war is, of course, still going on and is absolutely devastating m