the russian government of war crimes. we have seen the british cabinet minister saying the war crimes are being committed in ukraine and wouldn t go as far as the ukrainian deputy prime minister says it is genocide because that must be determined by an international court, it is a legal call and it is very difficult for one to make and we ve seen the international criminal court deliberate for years and years on genocide and saying the u.k. will do what it can to help collect the evidence that is needed and look for other avenues such as nuremberg style trials and this is a very high legal bar however it may look to us watching. and you didn t want to get drawn into defending a prime minister s comments on ukraine at the weekend, he was talking to others and seemed to compare with ukraine fighting for
government just can t, and i think it wouldn t go and satisfy russian demands that are basically unchanged, because, i mean, russia just wants to dictate another country how to live. it wants to take away territories, and it wants to get away with all the mass murders it already committed in ukraine. russia s demands, you re saying, are not diplomacy. in fact, for them, to you, it is an ultimatum that they are offering. veronika, thank you so much for all the brave reporting that you are doing from kyiv. and please, please, please, while you are doing that reporting, and living there, stay safe. thank you. so, when social media giant tiktok announced it would be suspending russian users from uploading new videos it was seen as a widespread effort to rail
my view is if we actually had reason to believe that a face-to-face meeting, one carefully coordinated between the united states and its european allies and with ukraine would serve any purpose, i wouldn t be against it. diplomacy is a tool of national security. it s a means to an end. but there s no reason to believe that mr. putin is willing to significantly compromise and to give him the show of diplomacy and of acceptance and legitimacy without real reason to believe everything is wired and we ll have an acceptable result. i wouldn t go ahead with it unless i was confident of what the outcome would be. putin s top spokesman didn t rule out the use of nuclear weapons. do you think putin is contemplating this? they said it could be used if there s an existential threat. my own hunch is they re likely bluffing. they want to intimidate us into backing down from our support of
todd: here we have an update. jillian: a little bug in the corner. massachusetts governor charlie baker did not get invited to former president obama s birthday party but if he did get it rotation he says he wouldn t go. here s why. i can tell you if i were invited i would have declined because i think 700 people at an event like that is not a good idea. carley: that is his perspective but the obamas are requiring mandatory testing, you have to be vaccinated, the party will be outside. you know where i stand. i m pro party. todd: i m pro that house. todd: field trip. jillian: i thought you were going to say something.
bucha s mayor saying hundreds of people buried in a mass grave. this new satellite image shows a 45-foot-long trench near a church. there is no dignity here. bodies loaded into this van. the horror each victim faced now a task for investigators to uncover. ukraine s prosecutor general telling me tonight that more than 400 victims have been retrieved from liberated areas around kiev. but it might be just the start. they did it systematically. it s crimes against humanity. what we can see now in the kyiv region, it s a huge number. it s absolutely full of dead bodies. that s why we will do this job to prove all these crimes. reporter: today u.s. secretary of state antony blinken wouldn t go as far as saying moscow is committing genocide in ukraine, but he said reports of russian atrocities are a punch to the gut. since the aggression we ve come out and said that we