Over the weekend, Russian Forces opened up a new front near kharkiv, pushing closer towards ukraines second largest city as they captured a number of small villages. Nearly 6000 people have fled the region amid heavy fighting. As ukrainian troops push back, heres what president zelensky had to say a little earlier. Translation our task is crystal clear. To stop russias attempt to expand the war. The fulfilment of this task depends on everyone who is on the ground. From kharkiv, there should be no safe place for the occupier on the ukrainian soil, and in our sky. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale is in kharkiv with this update. Russia claims it is still advancing, it says it is now entered at vovchansk, which is just a few miles from the russian border. Ukraine firmly denies that, the governor showing video of himself in vovchansk, saying civilians were still being evacuated, still in ukrainian hands. There are not many left there now and not many buildings intact. We spoke to a
of explosions that rocked the capital. some of them were so powerful that our location actually shook. these explosions were suicide bombings, roadside bombs and car bombs. they were targeting busy intersections, marketplaces, one of them exploding in front of the integrity commission located in the heart of the capital. another explosion taking place very close to a school, just as children were arriving. these attacks taking place in a two-hour time frame from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. exactly when the streets would have been at their busiest. people right now absolutely terrified. many of them fearing the situation is potentially going to worsen. we just spoke with the minister of finance who said that the current political crisis lends itself to these types of attacks in the sense that the extremists in society that are going to be carrying out violence look to the political chaos, the government disintegrating and they will continue to carry out acts of violence because the
accused terrorist has a right to defend himself, why doesn t a member of congress? i don t think it hurts the democrats either, they have so many problems because of unemployment and the economy. by the time you get to their ethics problems i with a hasten to add on the republican side you have senator ensign embroiled in a tawdry scandal, senator vittor of louisiana, his opponent i did some consulting for so i have some bias there. neither party has a monopoly on virtue. i have to say, i m very impressed by paul, because a lot of democrats who are in tough competitive districts would love to see both congress members rangel and waters resign very, very quickly, and a lot of folks on the right are very eager to see senator ensign resign as well. because it does complicate the story. you have bill crystal telling republicans, be quiet on the charlie rangel thing, let it
many problems because of unemployment and the economy. by the time you get to their ethics problems i with a hasten to add on the republican side you have senator ensign embroiled in a tawdry scandal, senator vittor of louisiana, his opponent i did some consulting for so i have some bias there. also involved in aettics scandal. neither party has a monopoly on virtue. i have to say, i m very impressed by paul, because a lot of democrats who are in tough competitive districts would love to see both congress members rangel and waters resign very, very quickly, and a lot of folks on the right are very eager to see senator ensign resign as well. because it does complicate the story. you have bill crystal telling republicans, be quiet on the charlie rangel thing, let it play out. yeah. you could argue, there s no need to get in the way of this thing, they re destroying
has that been vingdy indicated by the fact that he slinked away seeing the public resistance? i want to talk about maxine waters, charlie rangel, both facing charges of violating congressional ethics. should they step aside for the good of the democratic party? heck no. i m a dissenter on this. you think they should go to trial and play it out in trial? you bet. you bet. wow! they are entitled to a defense. we heard the charges against them, they are very serious, and they are troubling. but they have a right to defend themselves. for goodness sakes, if an accused terrorist has a right to defend himself, why doesn t a member of congress? i don t think it hurts the democrats either, they have so many problems because of unemployment and the economy. by the time you get to their ethics problems i would hasten to add on the republican side you have senator ensign embroiled in a tawdry scandal, senator vitter of louisiana, his opponent i did some consulting