the chinese are thinking looking at this in terms of helping further russia or are they wanting to maybe distance? do you have a good insight into that? a bit of both, dana. i see this as really cold war two but the chinese are the senior partner. the russians the junior partner. putin wouldn t have gone ahead without a green light from xi. now that it has gone wrong and wasn t the cake walk that putin implied it would be, the chinese are trying to distance themselves and i fully expect them to play the peacemakers. they ve already indicated they would like to play that role. they re having it both ways and we should be wary of that. dana: should we be wary or encourage it or both. we should take the initiative in peacemaking. we should not be sitting on the back seat leaving it to china or the europeans to try to broker this peace. if you think back to the 1970s
bret: the war in ukraine has caused many orphans to remain in the country instead of being beginning, rather, their new lives with adoptive families here in the u.s. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has the story tonight from lviv. hello, mom and dad. 13-year-old julia, one of many orphans waiting for this war to end hopes her aadoptive parents in chicago are watching this. i want to go to chicago. if it weren t for war, she might already be in the u.s. her adoption was due to be finalized just before the first bombs dropped. now she waits in lviv and plays with friends, all of them orphans. [siren] all of them forced to leave their previous orphanage on the outskirts of kyiv after spending five days and nights huddling in a basement as the russians attacked the capital.
hammered yesterday with the maternity ward. it wasn t just the hospital that s been hit in that city. these are satellite images. three sets i want to show you. june of last year now. it s june 21 in mariupol, a supermarket, it s a shopping center. that was last june. now this is as of yesterday. entire destruction for both buildings. they have nothing to do with the military or the war that s happening in that city. show you neighborhood right now. this is june of last year, june 2021 same day. this is what it was yesterday the 9th of march. if it s hard to see at home i ll show you. this is a residential area and these are homes and it is just dot, dot, dot all the way up. i m not a military expert, dana, but it looks like there was a plane from above and they straifd the land with bombs based on what s left over there in that neighborhood. here is another shot. looks like more of a business district, perhaps.
jonathan. bill, we met an extraordinary group of children who despite the horrors of war still somehow manage to smile and in some cases dream of a life in the united states. mom and dad. 13-year-old one of many orphans waiting for the war to end hopes her adoptive parents in chicago are watching this. i want to go to chicago. if it weren t for war she might already be in the u.s. her adoption was due to be finalized just before the first bombs dropped. now she waits in lviv and plays with friends, all of them orphans. all of them forced to leave their previous orphanage on the outskirts of kyiv after spending five days and nights huddling in a basement as the russians attacked the capital. kyiv is ukraine. kyiv is our blessed capital of ukraine. bill: the director of the
united states and poland are united in what we have done and are prepared to do to help ukraine and the people of ukraine. not everyone is impressed including ben sasse from the senate intel committee. the administration isn t leading from behind, they are not leading, period. they deny a request to set up a no fly zone over ukraine. blinken said the goal is to end the war, not expand it. given a recent attack on a children s hospital and watchdog groups and the president said they constitute war crime. officials at the pentagon aren t going that far. the pentagon is not making judges on war crimes. what we want to see is for the destruction and death to stop and short of that, to be observed humanitarian concerns to be observed by the russian