election night and hungry, ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy issued a blistering rebuke of orban s failure to help his ukrainian neighbor. or even to admit what has happened to him. here is a portion of what s wilenski said that grab me. quote, i want to turn to another person who does not seem to fully understand what is happening. not only in ukraine, but throughout europe. to the prime ministry of hungary. he is virtually the only one in europe to openly support mr. putin. we did not ask for anything special from official budapest. we didn t even get whatever one else is doing! doing for the sake of peace. we did not receive the vital transit of defense aid, we did not see more leadership. we saw no effort to stop the war! why so? the whole of europe wants peace. the whole of europe does not want the benefit to be moved from mariupol to budapest, or from kharkiv to krakow, or from chernihiv to vilnius. the whole of europe is trying to stop the war, to restore
planned today, dana? good morning, yes, the president for president lech kaczynski and wife maria is just now getting underway in krakow. how difficult this has been for poland not just that they lost 96 dignitaries when the plane crashed in smolensk. but getting the president s body from warsaw, poland, lying in state for a week down to krakow, they had to fly it low level by aircraft and had so many dignataries having to cancel. they expected about 80 leaders of nations from around the world, including president obama, many of them canceled, just under half of them have canceled we re told. president obama issued a statement saying that president kaczynski was a patriot, a close friend an ally of the united states and those who died along with him and the american peoples will never forget the lives he led.
president medvedev was one able to fly in, low level from russia, and where the funeral ceremonies are taking place and later on the bodies of the president and his wife will then be moved to the cathedral up the hill in krakow, normally reserved for kings of poland to be buried and caused controversy in poland because a lot of people say in some respects he was a polarizing political figure and shouldn t be buried there. we have new home video of the crash site which surfaced in the last couple of days, dramatic, moments after the crash, russian investigators are saying, again and again this was a case of pilot error, the polish crew were told not to land at the airport because of fog and saying despite earlier media reports especially poland and the rub shun press the plane attempt today land three times. they re saying just one, it did an approach to the airport, hit some trees and crashed and burned. that s different from what we d heard in the past.
body moved from warsaw to krakow and wound past the landmark associated with president kaczynski. the latest on the investigation, they re saying the aircraft did not attempt to land four times as originally reported by russian media. they said there was one approach, hit the trees and crashed and burned, back to you all. boy, thank you so much, dana lewis, that s, that s very new news this morning. the united kingdom as you might imagine one of the hardest hit countries from the volcanic ash, again, canceling all flights today. joining us from edinburgh airport in scotland is the sky news reporter. what the is latest there? well, normally this airport is alive to the sound of some 12,000 people who come in and out of this terminal building. there s around 330 flights in and out in an airport like
maria after they were killed last saturday. the coffins containing the president and his wife arrived in krakow and taken to st. mary s cathedral where the ceremony will take place. why krakow, 4,000 dignataries expected to attend, that s been scaled back, almost half of the 80 invited because of the volcano. as you mentioned at the top of the show, the president canned, and from germany, angela merkel considered. president kaczynski was a patriot, a close friend and alou of the united states as are those along with hem and the american people will never forget the lives they led. and the family insisted between with the problems with the flight the funeral would have to go ahead. they would not agree to a delay. and thousands lined the street of warsaw as the president s