a small town, and then they send the message to get the russian troops out that they ve been ordered to destroy the town and to kill the civilians in the town. and then they re asked to repeat the order and they specifically say that they have been ordered to kill civilians in the town. so i think people were suggesting earlier today this wasn t just soldiers aktsing on their own. they were ordered to do this from above. this is systematic, not rogue. as gabe said, they re rejecting accusations related to what you saw in bucha. sergey lavrov argued the videos we ve been watching with our eyes are fake. russia calling for a special u.n. security council meeting today to address the issue, but the russians say the uk has blocked that request. here s a statement from the defense ministry in moscow
crisis was debated during a special u.n. security council meeting on saturday. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo urged other nations to support the opposition leader. several eu nations indicated they would if maduro failed to call new elections by next week. cnn s michelle kosinski has more. reporter: well, this was a special session on venezuela called by the united states. secretary of state mike pompeo went there to try to get other countries on board. to supporting the opposition leader, juan guaido as the legitimate leader of venezuela. he said at the very least he would like to see a presidential statement come out of the security council. at least supporting the people of venezuela, supporting democracy. but he said that could not happen because russia and china blocked it. and that was indicative of the
off the korean peninsula and is conducting joint naval drills with the south korean navy. this always infuriates north korea and it s noteworthy that the kind of missile they attempted to launch is a modified scud that we actually saw at that massive military parade earlier this month. a missile that analysts say could be used to try to sink warships like the carl vinson so moving forward, north korea has promised that they will continue with their missile tests and with nuclear tests as well despite mounting international pressure and despite secretary of state rex tillerson sharing that special u.n. security council meeting on friday where he urged the world to isolate north korea and put more economic pressure to try to rein in programs here on the ground they say they absolutely will not stop. ana in. will ripley reporting from pyongyang. thank you so much. let s get back to our panel now. maria, i ll turn to you first. obviously president obama also wrestled with north korea
hoping is that he can take a little bite out of ukraine here and there and that he can then stop and wait for the west to impose some rather weak sanctions. and then he can move forward again. and that seems to have been the patent so far. and the special u.n. security council meeting didn t really achieve very much, did it? france was saying it was disappointing, and really, nothing has changed. and for russia, surely at this point, it looks at that and goes, we can move forward and do as we choose at this point. well, i think you re exactly right, rosemary. that is exactly the problem. it was entirely predictable that the u.n. security council discussion wasn t going to get anywhere last night. it was a meeting which was called by the russians to be able to put their case that it s all the fault of the ukrainian government which very clearly isn t the case and the
further economic sanctions. further isolation of the north. here s what nikki haley said yesterday at a special u.n. security council meeting. only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. we have kicked the can down the road long enough. there is no more road left. perhaps oil sanctions cutting it off from china to the north would have some impact. is there any sense in the military community that any further sanctions will have any impact on the north s development of nuclear weapons? it really depends on how effective those sanctions are, and especially how well they re targeted. so if you re looking at oil, for example, that could absolutely be something that is cut off. the problem is that it s a very porous border between north korea and china.