a sprawling steel factory in mariupol is all that remains really of ukrainian forces defending the strategic-port city. the other complex is surrounded by russian troops and is being constantly shelled but rather than storm the facility, russian president vladimir putin has ordered a blockade, even a fly can t get through his words. well, hundreds of men, women, and children, and unknown number of ukrainian fighters are believed to be inside without much food or water. not very far away, the grim discovery of this. more suspected mass graves. mariupol officials estimate 20,000 city residents have died, so far. many of those bodies are now believed to have been dumped in these very long trenches you can see right at the top of your screen. and despite president putin s boast of so-called liberating mariupol, ukraine denies the city has fallen. ukraine s president says it will not accept any russian annexation of its territory. have a listen. translator: i want to say, str
the azov style complex is surrounded by russian troops. it is constantly being shelled. but rather than storm the facility, russian president vladimir putin has ordered a blockade that in his words a fly can t even get through. hundreds of men, women and children are believed sheltered inside with no way out. their only protection an unknown number of ukrainian fighters vowing to stand their ground. now not far away, the grim discovery of more suspected graves. mariupol officials estimate 20,000 city residents have died so far, many of those bodies now believed to have been dumped in those long trenches you see there at the top of your screen. despite president putin s boast of, quote, liberating mariupol, ukraine denies the city has fallen and it s bizarre if that s what liberation looks like. the u.s. president joe biden says he has doubts about the kremlin s claim. it s questionable whether he does control mariupol. one thing for sure we know about mariupol. he should al
General when the air raid sirens and wesley clark? yes, and wes clark and the air raids were going off. and i looked to see what was happening, and then we went downstairs and rushed to the scenes, and got there as quickly as possible. john and i talked about this earlier, because i was surprised how close this is to the center of town, and it is in la veef as close, and not in the city center proper, but i thought that it would take a while to get, there because i thought that it was further in the distance and they said it was a valley before we got there, and lo and behold we got there and we were there within ten minutes and that is with traffic, and so we were there with the residential neighborhood, and people were leaving with emergency workers trying to get the people out, and there were obviously a number of different emergency personnel on the scene, and firefighters and ambulances and police officers and military folks as well directing the traffic, and so we
Do we know what that is? we suspect it s going to be one of two things, alex. first, it s the probable announcement that they have enriched a sufficient amount of uranium in order indeed to proceed to a level that would permit the weaponization of a nuclear weapon. in other words, they now have enough to do it. the question is whether or not they have reached the point where they can actually take that uranium and transfer it into a bomb. that s the hard part. okay. how about in terms of timing? because the u.s. and israel are very split on how much time is left before israel feels that it has to attack iran s nuclear sites? what s your take on this? well, the defense minister of israel gave a speech a few days ago in tell la veef in which he said, quote, we no longer can assume that we can wait until later. later is too late. in other words, what he was saying and telegraphing is iran