The current battlefield lines. The current battlefield lines. Elsewhere, sarah ferguson, the duchess of york , furiously the duchess of york, furiously silences an audience at the Cannes Film Festival before launching into a speech about Climate Change, leaving the crowd utterly confused. Crowd utterly confused. Everyone in this room stop. Stop stop. Stop. Stop. Did you see i removed the microphone . Because all of you are saying , microphone . Because all of you are saying, oh, i want to go because where is the next party . I should under sixteens go smartphone free. A report from mps suggesting teens should be banned from owning smartphones to combat antisocial behaviour. Well debate that later. Well debate that later. Fans of both Manchester City and Manchester United prepare to make their way to wembley ahead of the fa cup final this afternoon. Afternoon. It could well be an early start as thousands of city and united fans prepare to make the journey down to wembley ahead of kick o
Defending on their home terrain, they can move those pieces a little bit quicker, and they still have guerrilla tactics like they can employ. those are the things like the switchblade drones, that will be used to go in and sort of strike these artillery pieces. things like the toes and the javelins and stingers. so, the advantage still lies with the ukraine. a point out, as you did, chris, the russians are having a terrible time in this war. they ve had their senior military leaders on the ground decapitated, so general, after general, after general has been killed. this is not a good prospect for them, and ukraine has done a tremendous job, of resorting to will and creativity. and ambassador, jason mentioned something very critical, and there s this ongoing debate in washington circles on how much of it to provide to ukraine. is the u.s. doing enough in terms of providing intelligence? in part because it is intelligence we don t really know what they are providing. but by every in
Veteran, with more than 26 experience in the army-navy. now, the executive director for the association of the native. i will adult, or former u.s. ambassador to nato, now the president of the chicago council for global affairs. jason, can we start with what we just heard, both in that plea from inside mariupol, as well as the details that we just got from ally. there is a desperate humanitarian situation there, they re begging for help to get out. is there any way to evacuate them, anyway to negotiate some sort of extraction, as you see it? well, as i see it, the russians have sort of play that game before, and often used faints to draw people out in these evacuation corridors, where than they proceed to artillery fire, on the civilians evacuating. that is a psychological warfare attack, i don t look for russia to try to expedite any evacuation, but they are the sudden mind as well. mariupol has been under siege,
Offensive into the east of ukraine. this is, as pentagon officials outlined to reporters today, a different kind of war, and a more intense kind of four in the east, than what we ve seen already in this conflict. so, that is going to require a different kind of military assistance. we can look for the u.s. and for eller allied nations to be providing more advanced weaponry, perhaps even tanks, sort of the weaponry that would be required for the ukrainians to hold their cities and towns for a long period of time, over the long haul of this conflict, as opposed to the weaponry that is thought to be needed in the immediate first few weeks of the war. so, we are hearing from biden and other senior administration, a real emergency to step forward, to provide the kind of help the ukrainians are asking for, and to keep up with the pace of the intensifying conflict from the russians. give us your take, jason, on this shift, now. because obviously, there is this feeling in the beginning,