director of human rights watch. his group has been documenting extensively how russian forces have been fighting this war and the alleged atrocities. ken roth, thank you for joining us on the show tonight. you and your organization, human rights watch, have documented human rights abuses and accusations of war crimes around the world, everywhere from syria to yemen to myanmar to the central african republic. put ukraine and what you ve documented in ukraine into context. how bad is it? what we re seeing is widespread indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas. this is the kind of thing we ve seen from russian forces before when they encounter military resistance. this is what they did in chechnya and syria. we re seeing it on a widespread basis in ukraine. what s particularly disturbing is over the last couple of days we ve heard and actually received concrete evidence of very direct war crimes. that is to say summary
i spoke earlier about these allegations of russian atrocities in the kyiv region the executive director of human rights watch. his group has been documenting extensively how russian forces have been fighting this war and the alleged atrocities. ken roth, thank you for joining us on the show tonight. you and your organization, human rights watch, have documented human rights abuses and accusations of war crimes around the world, everywhere from syria to yemen to myanmar to the central african republic. put ukraine and what you ve documented in ukraine into context. how bad is it? what we re seeing is widespread indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas. this is the kind of thing we ve seen from russian forces before when they encounter military resistance. this is what they did in chechnya and syria. we re seeing it on a widespread basis in ukraine. what s particularly disturbing is over the last couple of days we ve heard and actually
but how is it dpakts him and he thinks it doesn t hurt him politically. what is interesting to me about in is if you go back to during the mueller investigation, the one talking point that so many republicans on this network and elsewhere would say in defense of the president and his self-provosted toughness against russia was that there were u.s. troops in syria and even a fight in which russian backed forepersons were killed by u.s. forces and that that shows the president s resolve and that he bombed an airfield. he is now given all the rest of the one third of syria to for the assad regime and to russian backed forces and iranian backed forces. and walked away, took us out of the picture completely. and opened this piece of business in a terrible place to slaughter. but more important, senator romney is onto something here. there is a record of what the
in any of these fights that we re talking about. even in the case of afghanistan and in afghanistan, it s not even the united states leading the fight in taking the brunt of the casualties at this point. the president doesn t note that. right, and that s very disappointing. and as david correctly pointed out, these allies are really taking the lion s share of the burden here. and you know, to expect a country like afghanistan or some of the forces in syria to, quote, pay for, unquote, these operations, u.s. military operations, is just impossible. it doesn t work that way. they re doing us a favor by helping us in places like afghanistan and syria. and the fact is that these are all either actual or potential launching points for terrorist attacks. that s the reason we went in on 9/11, as david knows so well. and one of these key things is that if you don t allow your forces to learn the geography,
journalist in pyongyang. also joining us a panel of professionals. we begin with a look at how the administration is dealing with it. jim sciutto has details. i order a targeted military strike on the air field in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. reporter: to what extent does a single strike against a single target define president trump s approach to what u.s. intelligence agencies call the most diverse array of national security threats to the u.s. in decades, from syria to, russia, to north korea, china and isis? the world is a mess. i inherited a mess. whether it s the middle east, whether it s north korea, whether it s so many other things. reporter: what is the trump doctrine? we do what we can to make