[upbeat music] it s hard to believe that just a few months ago the first wave of covid-19 had emptied the streets of naples and italy was in lockdown. thankfully, i ve arrived during a brief moment of normality. restaurants are open and masks are not required outside, and we ll be sticking to the local rules. napoli is a truly thrilling city. the second you arrive you re engulfed by a magnificent chaos and there s no point in fighting it. people here do things their own way. take the energy of new york, mix in the gritty elegance of new orleans, add 3,000 years of history and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous volcano. that is napoli. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. this place may be looked down on as the poverty-stricken underdog of italy. but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing t
spread. welcome to the show, everyone. it is 8:00 a.m. here in ukraine. we ll begin with a glimmer of hope for people trapped in the ukrainian city of mariupol after weeks under siege by russian forces and several failed evacuation attempts. a handful of civilians managed to leave on saturday. ukrainian commander at the steel plant, the last bastion of ukraine s defense of mariupol, says 20 women as well as children got out after a cease-fire r. but that is really a tiny fraction of the hundreds still trapped inside the plant and the thousands, of course, believed to be sheltering in other parts of the city, 100,000 or so. meanwhile, missile strikes hammered southern as well as eastern ukraine on saturday. in the southern port city of od odesa, you can see on your map, witnesses reported hearing several explosions. ukraine s military also confirmed that the runway at odesa s airport had been destroyed. in his nightly address, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vowed to
says the visit is an important sign of the u.s. commitment to ukraine. in a news conference, speaker pelosi underscored the message behind the visit. our discussion centered around the subjects at hand, as you would suspect. security, humanitarian assistance, economic assistance, and eventually rebuilding when victory is won. we re proud to convey to him a message of unity from the congress of the united states, a message of appreciation from the american people for his leadership and admiration to the people of ukraine. we re also following new developments on what is left of that steel plant in mariupol. evacuation efforts are under way. we will have the latest coming up in a live report. first, we want to get more on speaker pelosi s congressional delegation and that meeting with president zelenskyy. cnn correspondent matt rivers has the details. reporter: well, it has been about a week now since the last time a senior delegation came here to do kyiv from the unite
can kyiv actually emerge victorious? british prime minister boris johnson said maybe not but on thursday president biden asked congress for $33 billion in additional aid to ukraine, a dramatic increase. we need to contribute arms, funding, ammunition and economic support to make their current sacrifice have purpose. i will ask ukrainian president zelensky s top aide, andriy yermak, if ukraine is getting what it needs to win. then looking east. will putin s invasion inspire china to attack taiwan? that is the big question, and i put it to taiwan s foreign minister in a fascinating exclusive interview. but, first, here s my take. at first glance, the war in ukraine would seem to confirm president biden s oft expressed view that the world today is marked by a contest between democracies and autocracies. after all, autocratic russia is waging a savage assault on democratic ukraine and the latter enjoys the staunch support of western democracy. on closer examination, how
a personal level. it was true that my first days in the senate when i needed help very badly and it was through my last days in the senate as well. in 2008 fritz and i became close friends and i sought his counsel many times. i was asked to join the ticket with barack obama. i was, as i usually was, on amtrak going home. i commuted every day. they later told me over 220,000 miles on amtrak they should name a station after me. he called me after it was clear he was the de facto nominee. he said he would like me to join him on the ticket or at least consider it. could he do a background check on me. would have to do that background check, and i said, no, thanks. barack. i thought he was dragging that bloody cloth through the senate like presidential nominees do to get everybody excited and involved. there s only one other person i m considering. ba barack, i don t want to be vice president. he said why? i said, basically just stand by equipment. i said what i want to do and b