spend two weeks with churchill in war torn and bombed out london and at the end of churchill or hopkins told churchill from the book of ruth wither i goest you goest. churchill wept. this could not have come at better time and got to be the greatest morale booster for them possible. so great, thumbs up for the president for dog it today. bret: jeff, it s no small feat to get a president secretly into a place that is under war conditions. you have been on these trips before. it s a big deal. it is i have been on a couple secret trips before one with obama to afghanistan and mike pence to iraq and afghanistan. there is certainly a lot of secrecy around it. this one was unusual in that at least the trips i have been on the president lands in a plane a u.s. air base and that was not an option here. president biden landing first in
having any impact on the front lines? the only outcome will be a number of the kremlin s choosing, don t consider this to be anything democratic. it s under military law under war conditions, frankly. but it seems that by monday or tuesday moscow will declare what they have conquered basically here in ukraine as potentially part of the russian federation if today is to be believed. a lot of expectation tonight, possibly early this morning, that we might hear from russian president vladimir putin possibly outlining some new measures, maybe to endorse the referendum. they allow moscow to start acting like the parts of ukraine that they ve conquered are actually part of russia. does that mean they can send different types of troops, more troops, given their man power struggles towards the fight? does that enable them to reach deeper into the less conventional parts of their
that process starts today and today, too, russia is still losing on multiple fronts here. yesterday appeared to be making some blog guess near bakhmut, but elsewhere it s is a bad story for their military. we ve seen them struggle as you ve been seeing yourself over the past six months just to equip their regular army once they are inside on multiple fronts around ukraine. a tall order certainly and one i think that may be more about trying to explain to the russian people that they are in this war, too, so much of ordinary life in russia has continued untouched, despite this war damaging nearly every corner of ukraine. on top of that as well we have these full referenda in occupied territories being no doubt no democracy at play here, we will just get a number at some point monday or tuesday telling us essentially fake how many people have voted in favor under war conditions, under military participation to join russia. it s likely moscow will accept
the planes in the air while terrible things, essentially, happening outside. and this goes all way through and this is actually discovering the door. that is a reinforced steel door. we made sure that the inside, they can continue to operate under war conditions. this is where the radar works but how they communicate with the rest of the world under tight conditions as the transmitter bunker. this would have maintained communications with the raf sector of operations. i love the fact that it sits in amongst the rural idyll of southdown. history s imprint on the land. drjames o neill there on northern ireland s cold war heritage. thousands of people have flocked to venice to celebrate carnival, for the first time in two years. the event usually draws tourists from around the world, but it was curtailed in 2020 as infections soared in italy, and the following year, it was cancelled amid another wave of infections. organisers and attendees hope this year s event will mark a slow return
used to the war-conditions, and because i never expected that this full-scale invasion could attack my kyiv, my city and other ukrainian cities, so we were not ready, to be honest. i know many people, americans as well, warned us, but this morning when we woke up altogether and realized that the war, the big war has started, it was a nightmare and the last four days were strongly the longest days of our lives, so my son is trying to be brave. at least he is pretending. when we were sitting in our corridor in our kyiv apartment, he was listening to sounds of chants, and it was so scary and