you quit smoking. now do the easy part and get scanned for lung cancer. if you smoked, you may still be at risk, but early detection could save your life. talk to your doctor and learn more at savedbythescan.org the battle over eastern ukraine is raging nearly one year into russia s assault on the country and the two sides are talking past each other in suggesting peace talks with ukraine fighting to reclaim all of its territory and russia unwilling to budge this as some ukrainians celebrated christmas on december 25th, instead of january 7th like russia does, in its latest push for closer ties in western europe correspondent matt bradley joins us live. why was christmas so different this year? reporter: cory, this whole debate really brings up and adds new meaning to the words war on
russian forces. there are there s military hardware in residential areas, we understand. a direct hit on this is a very strategic move for ukraine, fighting back now, taking the war to russia. and these explosions in crimea are very much the same. this is going to be unsettling for the kremlin, obviously. because you see ukraine fighting back harshly now. they re no longer just a country being invaded, they re taking the war to russia now too. and barbie, less than 48 hours after his release, a notorious russian arms dealer, victor bout, sits down for an interview expressing his support for russia s war in ukraine. russia wanted him back bad hi. could he play a role in the war? he is playing a war in the role to a certain extent because he s very useful for the propaganda machine in russia right now. he s not going to be very useful on the battlefield. as you mentioned, he said he d be happy to volunteer. it s unclear if he has the skill set to actually fight. but he does have a
meanwhile, morocco becomes the first african and arab country to reach the semi finals of the football world cup. they will play the defending champions, france, who beat england. authorities in jersey say they are no longer looking for survivors after a explosion that destroyed a block of flats yesterday. they have recovered three bodies so far. oscar winning actor rita moreno has been speaking to bbc 100 women about racial stereotyping and representation in films and on tv. southern ukraine has been hit by strikes from both sides in the war, with russia launching drones at odesa and ukraine fighting back in melitopol. ukraine says russian drone attacks have left one and a half million people without power in the southern region of odesa. the military said ten iranian made drones were shot down but five
that s not the evidence. steve: fox news contributor and u.s. marine vet joey jones joins us live from the patriot awards here in hollywood. good morning, guys. so what do you make of that? it looks like we were on the verge a couple days ago of world war iii if that missile was from russia, but now it looks like the ukrainians, according to our pentagon, shot it. you know what s interesting to me of the three actors saying something, poland, the u.s. and ukraine all saying what you would expect them to say. all saying what is most advantageous for them. ukraine says this is a russian missile. bring those nato forces in and go to war. of course the u.s. says no, that was not a russian missile and we shouldn t just bring those nato forces in and go to war. what do we do as the american people. see the exact same amount of skepticism. not over the legitimacy of ukraine fighting back but the information we are getting from our government about what s happening and there is nothing
like green is to say that, this is someone to have this boundless earning for attention. and, that is really the subs told of all that she. is there is truth to that. she certainly yearns her attention. but, she s managed to succeed in the attention of the political internet world. as a result of that, she has a great deal of power. she is a fund raising dynamo. the fact that the maga base is an approximate warrior, now that trump s left washington means that kevin mccarthy, who also wants to be speaker of the house has to give deference to her. and we ll take the form, not just on committee assignments, which she said she had expected to get it, but also the policy of. it i don t know that mccarthy would have the stomach to have this debate before or to push from the end of ukraine fighting. but, now, i think that he s really gotten no choice but to interact with. because the maga base is going to be insistent that you do so.