welcome to world news america. we start with the deepening crisis in niger as european nations begin evacuating hundreds of citizens from the country. france, italy, and spain announced the evacuations over concerns that their nationals would become trapped after a military coup plunged the nation into crisis. the regional bloc ecowas has threatened to use force to reinstage niger s ousted president mohamed bazoum. niger s new military leaders have warned against these attempts. some countries in the region have come to the new leadership s defence, including burkina faso, mali, and guinea declaring that any military invention in niger would be considered a declaration of war. niger is located in the sahel region. it s a key region for western countries in counterterrorism operations. the uk foreign secretaryjames cleverly is visiting west africa and talked to the bbc about the coup s impact on the fight against insurgency.
moldovan government is aimed at focus on the economic security and establishment. they have lost import markets, export markets, the fuel prices are up 360%, if you can believe it, since the war started. this is a government doing all of the right things, all this impact apart from any military invention to it, is jeopardizing an important journey that they re on, toward democratic progress. samantha power, head of the u.s. agency for international development. former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. it s really nice for you to take time, especially with the intensity of your work right now and your travels. thanks for being here. of course, thank you, rachel. we ve got more news tonight. stay with us.
have the appearance that there was some agreement that forestalls a military intervention that we don t want, that the ukrainians don t want, and that frankly would be bad for russia s interests. not just because of those sanctions. look, as they ve already learned in eastern ukraine, this is not a military invention that would be cost free and that you have ukrainians preparing to fight and resist russian occupation. you want that cost and that diplomacy to be enough to get putin to climb down from the ledge. and arguably a lot better prepared in ukraine than they were in 2014 because of our buildup and because of their own governmental reforms and actions as well. that s why we need diplomats or somebody. desperately. you don t want the war. if you don t want the war, you need the diplomat. thanks so much, ben rhodes. appreciate all that. and the omicron tsunami, hospitals overwhelmed by staffing shortages from breakthrough cases to burnout. how one major hospital system is
vladimir putin. it will not protect ukraine. that s the bottom line. sanctions are a penalty for putin s actions, but to stop and to turn around the offense in ukraine requires great military assistance of the army, or some type of military invention where the west has suggested there is no appetite for. i don t think sentient should be put out there is a solution to this, right now the greater conversation is do the sanctions ultimately cripple the economy of russia and provide a political consequence to vladimir putin for his actions. and is the west willing to now increase and shore up, the military presidents against the western border of ukraine. poland, latvia, lithuania, romania and so on. that is probably the only military staff that will stop putin from continuing to move rest. okay, but why do you think,
soviet union was sparked by the success of a pro democracy here in poland, a pro democracy movement here in poland. you will remember, it the solidarity movement. it began as labor strikes in a polish shipyard and quickly grew into a national phenomenon under its charismatic leader, let valencia. the communist government in poland being forced into compromises with these democratic labor activists. and the soviet union did not like that one bit. in the end, though, the soviet union did not need to invade poland. the communist polish government declared martial law and staged its own military invention. protests were brutally put down. demonstrators were killed. thousands of opposition activists were in prison. but that was not the end of the story. actually, it was just the beginning of the story. because the solitary movement was not destroyed. it operated underground through years of repression, until it burst back into the open in the