The spanish vessel hopes to use a new Shipping Route to arrive the next few days but where it will arrive is still up in the air. No Functioning Port in gaza so it is unclear where that boat will dock. The ship called the open arms will set off. Its taken an enormous effort to even get this far with this relief mission. But the real challenge will come as they get closer to gaza. It might take as long as 2 3 days for them to make the 210 nautical miles from here in cyprus to gaza. But when they get there, they are arriving at a territory that has no Functioning Port so they have to off load that aid, and in the north of gaza distributing aid, its the most badly affected, most desperately in need part of gaza. Distributing aid there is extremely difficult. All Law And Order has broken down there, its absolute chaos on the ground, so they were also have to manage that. That will be a Great Success if they managed to open this first maritime aid quarter. There are others who say, in fact,
serious worsening of our strategic environment to extend that instead today, we are living to the most dangerous moment of the post covid 19 war period. with the threat of a russian invasion on the horizon, western countries have been stepping up their arm deliveries to ukraine. this plane landed in kyiv earlier today. it s carrying equipment from the us military also known as lethal aid . here s the white house press secretary with more. 0n the russian side the kremlin wants an assurance that ukraine will never be allowed to join nato. this map shows current nato members. russia already shares a small part of it s border with nato countries. if ukraine was to join, it would increase the number of countries in the alliance, on russia s borders. the kremlin has accused the us of whipping up tensions. we are seeing an escalation of
from virginia carrying equipment, eagerly awaited christmas presents for all six spacemen. the ship was supposed to make the delivery last moment but space station issues and weather delayed it. amazing story to tell you about in minnesota. this is j.r., iraqi war vet, seriously wounded, lost an arm in 2006 while scouting for ieds. recently he got in a cab. the driver was originally from iraq. what happened next. j.r. joins me to tell us. you were on a business trip to dallas. the cabdriver asked you how you lost your arm and what happened? yeah, i told him i lost my arm in iraq. he immediately said, what city? i said baghdad, i was on my way back from anaconda. i told him it was an iranian charge, efp. after that he got pretty quiet.