podium, and houthi rebels responding to the new maritime protection force. sandra: great to be with you, john, this is america reports . houthi rebels have been attacking commercial ships in the red sea forcing u.s. navy ships to engage in a firefight. the new force is expected to play defense, patrolling the waters and offering protection. but the houthis now say the u.s. is violating international law. chief national correspondent, jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with the new response from the houthi rebels. not just the houthis but iran is responding to the new maritime task force, hours after the defense department announced a new maritime task force to protect the red sea, iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps announced it has a new voluntary unit to carry out its military operations at sea near the strait of hormuz. according to a top commander, local sailors will be allowed to carry out missiles on vessels armed with rockets. secretary austin announced th
to the 1997 status quo, that 1997 date was actually invoked directly by deputy foreign minister sergei ran could have just over the weekend as they walked into these talks and he said something essentially to the extent of rufgts has been giving on the nato issue for 30 years and it s time for the united states ornate toe to give something in return. so we re now just kind of waiting to see is russia serious about that demand? that s a very hard line to ride and one that we know to be unpalatable to the united states, to nato or is this just a very strong bargaining position, can the united states, for example, today offer something that russia might go for? one of the things that might be on the table is some kind of return to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that the trump administration withdrew from. we know that s something russia would probably love to see. they have said specifically they want to talk about american missile placements, nato missile placements in east
however? will the u.s. have to give more concrete concessions or incentives to make this process move to a peaceful resolution? the united states and our allies have been clear that there is a lot to talk about when it comes to reciprocal interest-based security parameters in europe we can talk about missiles and missile placements as we have historically with intermediate nuclear capable missiles we can talk about the size and scope of exercises. we can talk about greater transparency and risk reduction measures to reduce the possibility of unintended conflict. it is ultimately going to be up to the russians to determine whether they want to engage seriously on a substantive agenda or whether diplomacy is a pretext for them to take military action. what is the trip wire the white house trip wire to begin these very severe sanctions that have been proposed. if russia chooses to roll across the ukrainian frontier and
well, of course, they are dangling this response. they have been teasing it for a while. you know, from the very start they said not to expect a speedy response. they have been waiting almost three weeks now and basically vladimir putin kind of killed suspense on this issue. there s been a lot of signals in the mast 24 to 48 hours, that you know, could be interpreted as russia looking for an off ramp. you know, we ve been talking about this this claim of a troop withdrawal. something we re not yet seeing. lavrov telling putin in a meeting that was televised on state television that it s worth continuing diplomacy. putin came out today at his press conference and said, yes, we are open to dialogue essentially, but he reiterated russia s core demands of nato, and he also rejected this idea that they would decouple those demands from a broader dialogue about security. you know, you ll hear them use this word secondary concerns, things like the u.s. offer to talk about missile placements
recent history and the most important foreign policy event of her career, her whole background was in domestic politics and as attorney general in california before she became senator and then, of course, vice president. so this is really a very important moment for her. later today she will be with president zelensky of ukraine. we have now been told by his government that he is, indeed, coming. we reported last night that, in fact, and i ve confirmed today the u.s. warned him of the risks of coming, of leaving his country at a time when russia has as many as 190,000 troops now surrounding ukraine and is in many respects controlling the airspace over ukraine by missile placements in belarus of russian missiles, therefore, it is very dangerous for him to be flying here today from kyiv to munich and he has been warned, in fact,