that this front may escalate even further or turn into a full war. the enemy must calculate carefully. please understand the clock is ticking. my grandmother has no time. we are absolutely focused on getting hostages back. humanitarian pause could help that effort. is this the most complicated time of your presidency so far? thank you so much. thank you. nothing to it? john: secretary of state antony blinken back in israel to meet with that country s war cabinet as fears grow president biden may soon turn his back against israel s fight to defeat hamas. all this as just moments ago a rocket lands near foreign journalists in southern israel. trey yingst among them. john roberts in washington. so starts a friday afternoon. sandra: sandra smith in new york. in his third visit to israel since the start of the war, blinken telling reporters the u.s. stands in solidarity with israel s right to defend itself. also urged prime minister benjamin netanyahu to halt his gro
They really don t. i think they re really running out of cruise missiles, i mean, they were lunching them from submarines over the weekend. i think they re probably running out. they re able to surge aircraft to interdict these logistics lines only on occasion. now the ukrainians have the s-300 air defense system so they re getting more effective. certainly they re trying to take these out, i just don t think they are going to be successful. the americans, the nato allies are now pushing thousands of tons of munitions and military equipment out to the east and of course we re seeing a lot of success. the ukrainians are fighting a very active mobile defense and it s been very effective. the kharkiv area now, we go back to the map, they ve been able to push them all the way out. i mean, a couple days ago this was all red, now there s some yellow around it. they ve been able to push them out of artillery range and that is absolutely huge. the russians continue to fight, i believe, a faile
Ambitions of one man. ukraine is fighting a war of necessity to defend its democracy, its sovereignty and its citizens. defend its democracy, its sovereignty and its citizens. and the uk defence minister james heappey went a little further. explaining that it was completely legitimate for ukraine to use the weapons nato is supplying to strike logistics lines and fuel supplies inside russia. in recent days there have been a series of explosions at russian oil depots. amid concerns nato is now creeping towards full confrontation with russia. mr heappey denied that was the case. i don t think that right now there is an imminent threat of escalation. i think what the west is doing to support its allies in ukraine is very well calibrated. the russians of course see it very differently. sergei lavrov accused nato forces of pouring oil on the fire and warned tensions between east and west are now worse
Ukrainian officials that they are intercepting communications where the russian troops say they are demoralized. they can t always pick up their dead and wounded. and they don t have some of the basic supplies that u.s. troops are used to traveling with. and their logistics lines are still pretty verbal. they re running out of food. depending on where you are located on the battlefield. this is the kind of thing that nato worked with the ukrainian military to fix. is this what we see as belarus gets into the fight? . yes. russia deployed about 75% of its tactical battalions, the combat forces it uses to prosecute this type of invasion. that means if the battle losses are as reported between 7,000 to
For refugees, they are saying we don t trust you. you re going to afghans who are fighting right now and they are saying, we don t trust you. and i want to address something that martha touched on and she is absolutely right, it is really, really important for all of our conscious, for the moral conscious of america. it is very important to correct the record here. the afghan forces did not just collapse. as martha said, they were always dependent on u.s. air support. but i will say, the afghan air force was actually doing a phenomenal job. the problem is the way that it was set up with the u.s. it had american contractors and when they pulled the american air support, they did not just take that. they took the contractors that kept the afghan air force in the sky. they took those supply lines and logistics lines, they knew that they weren t attic adequate in place, and they took everything at the same time. so what you had was a catastrophic collapse of really