The protesters. You certainly can do that. But the pictures tell the story. There have certainly been arrests. Police have come in with Water Cannons. They say this ends at 8 00 local time in hamburg. This was an hour ago. Just a couple of minutes before then, they came in with the announcements in german saying youve got to clear the streets. The demonstrators didnt clear the streets. The police came out, as they promised they would with the big trucks, Water Cannons, smoke disbursing you see one on the upper right hand corner. Thats video from a few minutes ago. Thats not happening again. If we can come to the live picture, where in hamburg, overlooking all of this. There it is. The cops and the riot police are on the move. But the rioting is not happening. They certainly want to keep order, and theyve got rules about this. They told them they can demonstrate until 8 00 local time. After that, theyre going to move them out. It appears thats what theyre trying to do. They wanted to ge
minister rishi sunak in the coming hours. he will also be meeting with king charles. all that comes before he heads to lithuania, for a critical nato summit, where russia s war on ukraine will be high on the agenda. the summit comes just days after mr. biden approved giving controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. earlier, i spoke with michael o hanlon, sr. policy at the brookings institution and i asked him what impact the decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine will have on upcoming meetings. i think the decision on cluster munitions will be controversial, but, it is a pretty tactical decision. you know, the russians have been laying landmines here and there, left and right, and this decision will not demonstrably change the basic situation. so, you can agree with it, or not agree with it, it is not a
from this empty-handed in the middle of this critical moment in the war in ukraine, i think the weapon supplies will be crucial in this summit as well, clearly the decision to supply cluster munitions controversial but really, a clear sign of how the defense industrial base is struggling to keep up with the demands of this, president biden actually admitting one of the reasons they do this because they are running low on other types of ammunition, so that of course, the question of the f-16 fighter jets, the training has begun. they have yet to give the go- ahead to get those planes into the battle here. nic robertson, many thanks to you both. michael o hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the brookings institution, and author of military history for the modern strategist, he joins me now from bethesda. good to have you with us. it is great.
about the war and ukraine, and how we help ukraine do that on the battlefield and how we think about the long-term security, sweden with all due respect is sort of a sideshow to those big questions. michael o hanlon, thank you so much for joining us, i appreciate it. thank you. in the united states, congress comes back in session this week after the independence day holiday. the senate camels in later today, and the house on tuesday, legislators have a long list of priorities and right at the top, hammering out a spending agreement, ahead of the deadline. cnn s alayna train has more. reporter: spending is a top priority for congress when they return this week, the house and senate are careening towards a major spending standout that will likely consume congress this fall, it also raises the threat of a potential government shutdown, and as of now the two parties are far apart on what a budget deal
the mind games that were going on, that the russians are trying to for us all. with prigozhin and putin, maybe they are in cahoots? i don t think so. maybe i first they were thinking if they created some kind of false overconfidence on the ukrainian side that could produce mistakes, i don t know. putin did tolerated for a while. he can t tolerated for a while. he can t tolerated when prigozhin says he has is own on the columns moving on to moscow. ~ . ., , ., ., moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because we moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because we have - moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because we have more l audience, because we have more information about how this news came about. the belarus s president has apparently held talks with yevgeny prigozhin during which he agreed to stop his troops and de escalate the situation. this is being reported by