we are getting on it. that is exciting. you can see the tracks were the other cars will go. i love trains but i like the idea that the train goes on a boat. i think we should get a car on top of the sentence have a horse on top of the car. i am stanley tucci and i am fascinated with my italian heritage and i am traveling across italy to discover how the food is as unique as the people and their past. sicily is a mythical land of contrasts. fire and water. dry and fertile. refined and rough. [speaking non-english] how did one of the poorest regions in europe create the richest of cuisines? get ready. this is delicious. every mouthful here is a eruption of flavor. before i arrive in sicily there is one delicious food ritual i have to experience. it is a tradition to eat these while you are on a boat passing this statue. these beautiful little cones with rice, saffron, peas and meat. the story goes that the arabs brought these two sicily in the 9th century, handr
celebrate the nazis surrendering in 1945. you and i talked about mariupol because it s been the site of some of the most brutal and blatant targeting of civilians from the largest scale we know about since the war began and when you hear we started with the press conference from president zelenskyy saying we can hope but even president zelenskyy is trying to guard his country for what? what are the fears? are the fears about the toll paid by the civilians or what is sort of anxiety in the country if what you said comes to pass? again, i think we ve all learned better than to count any ukrainian fighters out. nobody is doing that. in their own words, they re saying we probably have days left to live. reporter: exactly. look, mariupol is such a pivotal city in this war.
mariupol in the seven weeks. we know it quite probably something horrific based on what we re hearing from people leaving the city and of course, when those revelations came out about what went on in bucha, everybody s next thought is what does this mean for mariupol, which is bigger than russia. in the event this city does, is beginning to see inevitably fall, that will block human rights investigators, forensic investigation tors from going into the city to use for a potential war crimes case to bring the perpetrators of this to justice. there is a lot of questions how will we piece together and how do we ever fully know what went on in this city over the past several weeks and how are you people responsible going to be brought to account in the future. amy, i want to read from this section of your piece because it s just haunting.
would. they left and forced people to stay. the hopes are not high to get them out again until that city finally falls into russian s hands because they re using the civilians as pawns to gain traction in that city, which they have devastated over the last 56 days and it s a desperate situation for the tough fighters that have been fighting so hard against the russians there. you can see the desperation on their faces and video messages. we saw a video message from different to one of the marines you showed now. those are the guys saying they re going to fight until the last drop of blood, until the last bullet in that city. they have some family members in that city because they live there and we saw a video from the deputy commander of the brigade. he was saying look, if a peace deal can be made, if some sort of agreement can be made with a third party because they don t
families. families that have relatives left in mariupol who have had difficulty getting in contact with them, communications have been cut off. you know, there is been great difficulties getting food and fresh drinking water into the city and so even for the families in all of this, it s finding out what is happening to the relatives, where are they and what is going on? i can t imagine the heartbreak that so many current and former residents of mariupol are going through right now. bobby, i m coming to you. i want your thoughts on just how quickly the horrors came to be the reality. eight weeks ago, they were going about their lives. we talk about the war on the donbas going on for years. taylor talks about a hot war. but that s not the circumstance in mariupol and when you see the president sort of speaking with this characteristic optimism and drive and unrelenting ability to tell the story over and over to