taliban if, for no other reason, to facilitate perhaps the evacuation of many people that have been left behind in afghanistan, to facilitate getting them out, if the taliban would be amenable to that. i m not sure they would be. so some dialogue, some channel of communication is of value. but i don t have much hope that much will ensue for it, but it is useful to have a conduit. jim clapper, thanks so much. thanks, fredricka, for having me. on to jerusalem now. an israeli soldier was killed in a shooting at a military checkpoint. police say a gunman in a passing vehicle opened fire on security forces who were manning a border crossing. it happened near a refugee camp in east jerusalem, an area considered occupied by most of the international community. the attack comes after a violent
military target, not far from where you are. what can you tell us? reporter: hey, brianna. that happened around midnight last night in the odesa region. just on the outskirts of town, northeast of the city. three strikes in the area. russian minister of defense is claiming that it was a military target where foreign fighters were training, but i can tell you, we were able to get somewhat close to that site. some of it is blocked off by a military checkpoint, so it s impossible to get terribly close to this area but many of the residents we spoke with in that area say that they re very skeptical of this idea of foreign fighters training at this base, the location that s being talked about is a military base that dates back to the 1970s in the soviet era. so it s, appears to be a well known ukrainian military location, but this does kind of highlight the dynamic nature of the situation here in odesa. these multiple strikes overnight
kyiv now. what s the situation? what are you seeing, erin? hey, ali, we moved out of the capital in a southern direction, moving to the south and now we re cutting west. what was remarkable as we were going through the capital was just how empty the streets were. there were very few people out. saw very little in the way of military presence inside the city itself, despite the fact that ukraine is currently under marshall law. we saw little in the way of police officers, it wasn t until we pushed further out of the city that we saw our first military checkpoint, a combination of ukrainian soldiers and civilians. the military seemed to be training civilians how to fire weapons, guns, a javelin. as you can see, the roads here are pretty clear. we ve seen very few ukrainians evacuate today. we are seeing this is a country
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then reported the incident to the british embassy to alert them that this is what has happened and we were given direct contact with the british embassy in romania and they tried to assist us as much as they could but i think with all the politics their hands were tied so they couldn t actually cross the border. indian students who had actually witnessed went happened and they then told us to join the key with their men we then spent a further ten hours in the pedestrian queue waiting to cross the military checkpoint and it was raining, it was snowing, we didn t have any food, there was no water, just a few locals, localwomen food, there was no water, just a few locals, local women and children who werejust locals, local women and children who were just trying to hand out food and water but they didn t have much considering how many people were bare so after spending, like, ten hours in the pedestrian queue we then finally managed to pass the