we can t have these conversations without you, so i know you are juggling a lot of things. but thank you very much for making some time to talk to us. we re grateful. e time to talk to us we re grateful . ,. . it to the to th according to russian state media, the criminal case against yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group, a private mercenary army in russia critical to russia s ability to wage war in ukraine, will be dropped. that s what they re saying at least. and he will be an exile in belarus. so far, it is not clear if you will actually give up leadership or commands of the wagner group. but he sent a voice note signaling that his forces would stand down. that order comes after a day of putin back negotiations with prigozhin to avoid russian losses inside russian territory. with promises of safety guarantees for the wagner fighters. until just a few hours ago, wagner forces were marching toward moscow. appearing to be ready to wage an armed result against
thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i m bret baier in for martha maccallum. welcome to a special edition of the story. breaking reports of a new attack on a container ship in the red sea after the u.s. retaliates against iran-backed hezbollah strikes on american troops in iraq injuring three of our service members. one of them critically. the attacks against u.s. forces in the region piling up. we re at more than 100 since the start of the war. u.s. officials for weeks now have been warning the situation could spiral in to escalation. congressman michael waltz says our response has not been nearly strong enough. first to trey yingst reporting live from tel aviv. good afternoon, trey. brett, good afternoon. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targeting belongs to militants in iraq. according to u.s. central command, three separate strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of hezbollah militant
The seaport would be locked, and no commercial ships can go there and pick up all the food. Supply will be stopped. We calculated over 200,000 families would be affected, losing their livelihood, probably for a generation, 25 years. The clean up would have cost 20 billion, thats the best estimate that we received. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Spill leaked Hundreds Of Thousands of gallons of crude into the gulf of alaska, a slick that covered over 1,000 miles of coastline. Even now, pockets of oil are still being discovered. Yet on yemens fso safer, four times as much oil. This is big. And i looked at the first price tag of, how are we going to raise 141; million . In the end, after two years and between 23 countries, private companies and even the general public, enough funds were raised to launch an operation to transfer the oil. An Elementary School in bethesda, maryland. Kids, six, seven, eight years old, heard about this and went out and raised. They sold lemonade or whatever they cou
Theres major breakthroughs in the south. The Land Mine Situation was incredible. I could not be more proud of how theyve used the Military Equipment provided by our countries. Theyre putting pressure, theyve broken through the first defensive line. I think theyll split the Russian Forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. So i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. Well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from Classified Pentagon documents suggesting, and im quoting here from a leak in the washington post, that kyiv wont fulfil its Principal Objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this years counter offensive. I think theyre wrong. Those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days, that the whole country would be in russian hands in two weeks. I go there enough to know whats real and whats not. Its been extremely tough sledding because of all the mines, but when they get contact with the russians, th
senator lindsey graham an ally of donald trump. is the seemingly never ending trump soap opera about to plunge the us into turmoil? senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. senator, you are one of the strongest republican supporters of ukraine and of us military assistance to ukraine. right. would you acknowledge that, right now, the war isn t going the way you wanted it to, or indeed the way you expected it to just a few months ago? not at all. i think it s going exceedingly well. i just got back from ukraine last wednesday. there s major breakthroughs in the south. the land mine situation was incredible. i could not be more proud of how they ve used the military equipment provided by our countries. they re putting pressure, they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may