and new overnight, it appears writers on the picket lines are about to get some reinforcements as failed negotiations set the stage for another strike in the entertainment industry. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 13th. i m ali vitali in washington along with jonathan lemire who has another location change, this time in helsinki, finland, where he s still covering the president s trip overseas. lemere, i hope you re drinking coffee and all this travel doesn t have you too jet lagged. but once again set the scene where you are this morning on this next leg of the president s trip. reporter: well, it s not way too early here. it s actually noon. a pretty easy time to do this show, ali. yes, today is the final day of the president s trip to europe, and we re going to get into it. yesterday in many ways was the center piece. he met with president zelenskyy who had been so upset ukraine was not going to be given an immediate entry into nato.
In sevastopol hours after the attack. The Russian Defence Ministry Said one serviceman was missing. Our Correspondentjames Waterhouse has more from kyiv. This is clearly a continuation of ukraines tactic of specifically targeting sites in occupied crimea, but the apparent direct hit of russias naval headquarters in sevastopol is hugely symbolic. Its not yet clear what operational damage will be caused for russia, but this is a place where it has exerted such dominance through its navy, where it launches missiles across ukraine, it blockades ukrainian ports. And i think what this attack does is undermine russias continued occupation in a place that seems a cornerstone of its invasion from as far back as 2014. There is also a connection between this Missile Strike and ukraines continued counteroffensive further north. What they are trying to do is frustrate russian supply lines and isolate swathes of occupied territory in the hope that troops will run out of supplies. Now, president Zele
In sevastopol hours after the attack. The Russian Defence Ministry Said one serviceman was missing. Our Corespondentjames Waterhouse has more from kyiv. This is clearly a continuation of ukraines tactic of specifically targeting sites in occupied crimea, but the apparent direct hit of russias naval headquarters in sevastopol is hugely symbolic. Its not yet clear what operational damage will be caused for russia, but this is a place where it has exerted such dominance through its navy, where it launches missiles across ukraine, it blockades ukrainian ports. And i think what this attack does is undermine russias continued occupation in a place that seems a cornerstone of its invasion from as far back as 2014. There is also a connection between this Missile Strike and ukraines continued counteroffensive further north. What they are trying to do is frustrate russian supply lines and isolate swathes of occupied territory in the hope that troops will run out of supplies. Now, president Zelen
and he understood ukraine couldn t come into nato while affectively at war with russia because that would trigger nato jumping in as well. it was still a tricky path forward especially because at least initially ukraine s counter offensive, pretty slow going. yeah, and we don t know what the time line would look like for ukraine to join. there s some hesitation about, you know, what is the end of the war. is it when crimea is no longer annexed by russia? like, what does it look like to be at the end of a very messy war right now? and then lastly the speech last night which is sort of seen as the center piece and it s sort of an easy one for many e any american president to go to a former soviet state and preach about democracy. there s 10,000 people there the white house tells us and certainly a pretty raucous crowd. but that message how does this white house sort of translate that into action, pledging to keep support for ukraine growing when the rumbles back home from
russia, and president biden said he and zelenskyy had had a pretty candid conversation about it. a lot of that classified he felt he couldn t say publicly, but he did acknowledge the ukrainian leader said to him it was a hard slog for his forces. that s an open question is what does the end of this war look like especially with relation to crimea, and to the extent the president can talk about it and it s not classified, that is a point of contention, right? it certainly is, and zelenskyy has made clear that he believes, his government believes that crimea belongs to ukraine and needs to be returned to ukraine as part of this process and any sort of end of war scenario, any sort of negotiated settlement needs to involve crimea. and the russians have made it very clear that s not going to happen. and they ve been dug in there for nearly a decade. let s recall that, too. as slow going as it is for ukraine and some of the territories south and east, those are places where the russians