she has said that the conversation was wide ranging and deep. they talked about everything from wind farms and semiconductors to cyber threats and military cooperation. as you can imagine, it is military cooperation of people are most interested in. she said, for instance, quite firmly and directly that taiwan has friends who will stand by them. and she said that if need be, the uk would support taiwan, militarily, to protect its democracy. she said a number of times, for instance, the uk has a role and a duty to support democracy is in the indo pacific region. she did reiterate, though, that she hoped it would not come to that. as i mentioned, beyond the military angle, she said, for instance, she talked about economic collaboration. wind biotechnologies, semiconductors. she called on xijinping to vaccinate his population. she said he had a moral duty to improve on this front. she also talked about the uk s policy of robust pragmatism, as the way they should be dealing with china.
we have heard in a press conference from the chair of the uk s foreign affairs committee, alicia kearns. she has said that the conversation was wide ranging and deep. they talked about everything from wind farms and semiconductors to cyber threats and military cooperation. as you can imagine, it is military cooperation of people are most interested in. she said, for instance, quite firmly and directly that taiwan has friends who will stand by them. and she said that if need be, the uk would support taiwan, militarily, to protect its democracy. she said a number of times, for instance, the uk has a role and a duty to support democracy is in the indo pacific region. she did reiterate, though, that she hoped it would not come to that. as i mentioned, beyond the military angle, she said, for instance, she talked about economic collaboration. wind farms, biotechnologies, semiconductors. she called on xijinping to vaccinate his population. she said he had a moral duty to improve on this fron
world war ii, which frankly putin is bringing back. from a military angle what we see russia doing, they re still working phase one attempting to attack ukrainian command-and-control and integrated air defenses. in part so that zelenskyy cannot control and move around the forces that aren t defending and trying to fight off russia. at the same time parties underway with the ground forces moving to their terrain objectives. i think kyiv and ukraine must feel so alone and i m so amazed how zelenskyy is rolling his people and leading the world and standing up to putin at this point. trace: dr. grant, what you make of the russia forces seizing the chernobyl power plant? is there a reason for it or is the fastest way to get the key? chernobyl, that really caught my attention. we remember that big nuclear disaster in what could go wrong
i think when you combine the quantity or the quality the quantity of the force versus the will of the other force, you are going to see a mismatch and a disconnect and i think ukraine the ukraine army has really taken it to em right now. right. and as you mentioned, they have much heavier weaponry this time around. thanks very much retired lieutenant general mark hertling, always a pleasure speaking to you. we ll be in touch in the coming hours. well, that is obviously the military angle. but at this hour, there is another angle to explore. a fourth round of european union sanctions against russia has been implemented. eu leaders at a summit in france say the aim is to further isolate the country, and drain the resources that it is using to wage war against ukraine. now, among the tougher measures, russia will lose its most favored nation status in european markets. that means no benefits from being on the world trade organization, among other
conflicting information from the president. and the pentagon. over whether this was a sustained response or a one time shot. with me to discuss this, military angle. live for us in austin, texas. let s delve into what by most peoples assessments who watch the developments unfold. two different messages out of the white house. a sustained response. and from the military brass, saying this was a one time shot. it was done. when they briefed reporters the operation had concluded. what do you make of the discrepancy? are we reading too much into that language? perhaps. but there are a couple ways to look at it. first, they the defense department on the one hand and the president on the other hand. are froektly at odds publicly. frequently at odds publicly. there s not a great deal of