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ali velshi filling in live from ukraine, starts right now. hi, ali. hi, joy. thank, you my friend. have a good. evening j good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden s planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine s show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it ....
Unanswered is where are we going, and how do we get there? we are watching marine one waiting to depart for the white house. i want to talk about the statecraft of this thing. it was remarkable. you can see it from where i was standing on this balcony in st. michael s cathedral behind me. you can see those two presidents walking out on cue, an air raid sirens going off. these guys did not flinch. they kept on going. there is actually some expectation that they would get into a car at that point and that would be the end of the trip, that would ve been fined. they did not. they went and continued on with their plan. then the president goes to poland, and there is walkout music. it felt like a rally, it felt like a pep rally for nato. tell me a little bit about the stagecraft, and what was meant to happen there. what s happening behind the scenes leading up to moments that you just described, ali, it s a very small group of ....
I think that what biden said this week is right. we stand with ukraine, we stand together as a native alliance, but the question that he left unanswered is where are we going, and how do we get there? we are watching marine one waiting to depart for the white house. i want to talk about the statecraft of this thing. it was remarkable. you can see it from where i was standing on this balcony in st. michael s cathedral behind me. you can see those two presidents walking out on cue, an air raid sirens going off. these guys did not flinch. they kept on going. there is actually some expectation that they would get into a car at that point and that would be the end of the trip, that would ve been fined. they did not. they went and continued on with their plan. then the president goes to poland, and there is walkout music. it felt like a rally, it felt like a pep rally for nato. tell me a little bit about the stagecraft, and what was meant to happen there. what s happening behind the ....
Chris livesay is there, good evening to you. reporter: good evening, errol, pope francis is back on his feet, even delivering his traditional angeless prayer on sunday but instead of doing it from his balcony in st. peters square he did it from here on his balcony of the hospital. a sign of light. buongiorno. from a ponton tuishednow rel. like fourth year med student giorgio cannetti. we were concerned because, you know, a surgery is always a surgery. francis should now be surgers discharged any day, the vatican says, after the pontiff s first hospital scare since becoming pope in 2013. since then he has never slowed down. even this spring during the pandemic he made a daring visit to iraq, limping through pain caused by sciatica and ailing hip, but last week his health caught up with him, raising ....