they also want them lifted like yesterday and our enrichment of the ccp also extends to america s colleges and universities that gladly g matriculate more than three hundred thousand chinese every year. now when biden was vice president, the number was about half that . but he was giddy last year. one hundred and thirty thousand chinese were studying in the united statesdd. they re really good. we re going to try to keep some of them. i m only joking mujer but they are creepy s but high profile federal criminal investigations of chinese spies in academia they should have pushed us to stop h the practice long ago, but we didn t. the chairman of harvard university s chemistry department arrested by fbi agents charged with lying about more than a million dollars in payments from the chinese government about a university researcher accused of being a a chineseartive of
from russian assets in the see it as off. and they worry that with this city it s been cut off from civilization for weeks now with no water, food, no communications, electricity, no heat. they worry that the one hundred and thirty thousand plus civilians in there may be facing a similar fate of those in buka. and that s really part of what s really driving the mood here on the ground, even though here in the west, as i mentioned, they re out of the immediate path of danger, but they know they re not ultimately really safe for these horrific images have been out there for a while now, several hours. many people have seen them. president solecki is well aware of them. he has called these atrocities. we have talked throughout this show, grif, about his speech before the world right. telling the world what is happening in his country and yet the president continues to say that peace talks will go forward.
thank god, are continuing their protest on behalf of freedom in ottawa, canada tonight . that s the capitol of canada. they re demonstrating against covid restrictions, vaccinest r mandates, among othr things. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau remains in hiding. apparently he fled in the face of truxton. we re not exactly sure is the question for us . however, could there be an american version of this trucker convoy for freedom? well, apparently truckers, the united states are planning a convoy to washington, dc, a facebook group called convoy to dc 2020 to gain more than one hundred and thirty thousand members 1 in recent days. now that effective community organizing, the kind we re told is good. it s an exercise of democracy. so of course facebook had to shut it down immediately because it s a threat to the powers that be.m they banned the group facebook coorganizer of convoy to dc 2020 two and he joins us now. thanks so much for coming on .
from other places outside of ukraine and in fact from outside russia. this as a desperate attempt to flee mariupol is again blocked by russian forces. the red cross says a team helping with evacuation efforts is being held about 12 miles west of the seaport city where as many as one hundred and thirty thousand are believed to be trapped there, cut off from food, water and electricity. and the un s humanitarian chief is meeting with russian officials in an effort to secure humanitarian cease fire in places like mariupol. although no word yet on whether that s producing any progress. very tough. you, griff, back to you. in moments as grif was saying, the speech that is certain to garner much attention on the world stage tuesday later today in ukraine, vladimir zolensky will deliver his heartfelt words before the un security council just one day after confronting a wartime atrocity along the streets of buka, which is
now authorities say the bodies of 400 civilians have been retrieved from butcher and other areas around kyiv and follows documented cases of torture, in summary executions. meanwhile, the pentagon says russian troops and mercenaries are moving into eastern ukraine where the battle is intensifying. also seen indications that the russian ministry of defense is looking for other ways to reinforce their manpower, bringing troops in from other from other places outside of ukraine and in fact from outside russia. this is a desperate attempt to flee. mariupol is again blocked by russian forces. the red cross has a team helping with evacuation efforts ,is being held about 12 miles west of the seaport city where as many as one hundred and thirty thousand are believed to be trapped. there, cut off from food, water and electricity and the un s