Now, the offensive has been going on now for almost two weeks. and that s a fairly modest amount of land to have been taken. it s widely believed that the ukrainians have yet to commit the bulk of their forces to the fight. this is perhaps still part of the shaping operation, the probing maneuvers being undertaken by the ukrainians before they actually commit full time in sort of en masse with their forces and with the new western supplied equipment that they ve received. but so far there are worries that this offensive is simply not making the sort of progress that was so widely anticipated. alex? yeah, this is going to be a long, tough fight, and both sides are going to try all kinds of things. ben wedeman, thank you very much. joining us now is congressman ro khanna who serves on the house arms services committee, also a member of the china select committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. i do want to start with the
Operations even harder. 0ur ukraine correspondentjames waterhouse sent this report. with fighting continuing in ukraine, i discussed the recent developments with ro khanna, democrat congressman from california. we recorded this interview before the news of the former president s indictment. vote thank you so much for joining us on bbc news tonight. i want to start with the situation in ukraine. you sat on the house arms services committee, and there s this key nato summit coming up injuly in vilnius, and the former nato secretary general andress rasmussen said the following.
What happened to those eight voe votes? reporter: some said it didn t go far enough and argued perhaps some of these churches could be hit with lawsuits if he decided not to perform a same-sex marriage. that argument rejected by some advocates of this legislation but that s the argument why fewer republicans this time supporting this bill, despite the fact the earlier version of the bill did not provide any of those religious exemptions. nevertheless, jake, this is passed, bipartisan support and signed into law by joe biden in the days ahead. thank you. manu raju on capitol hill. and nearly $860 billion national defense authorization act comes with significant changes to the military s policies and funding and notably a repeal of the military s covid vaccine mandate. let s bring in republican congressman mike walsh of florida on the house arms services committee and also the
Evening. this is coming as the biden administration is asking congress for more than six billion dollars in aid, to help ukraine s military and its people. with me now, california democratic congressman, who sits on the house arms services committee. we ve got to start meeting this where. but i do appreciate you joining me at this evening. amidst all of that is happening. talk to me about this classified briefing that you will be receiving later on today. why are you wanting to hear? i would really be interested in following up on the conversation that you just had with your reporter. i believe that for a long time that putin s principal jeopardy are the people of russia and it s all about the bodies. the sanctions which are extremely important, very heavy, they go right after the oligarchs and obviously it is going to go after the russian people also. they ve already been in the streets, and i ve heard numbers
Muster points for those u.s. citizens for the taliban to bring them towards the airport so they could get onto the airport and onto flights. that was previously not reported. of course, that was sensitive information until the evacuation and the withdrawal were complete because if it was public that the taliban was helping the u.s. like that, first the taliban might have to respond to that, and, second, it would give isis-k another opportunity to target the taliban and of course to target u.s. citizens. but there was another arrangement even beyond that. special operations forces were in touch through what one defense official called call centers to be in touch with u.s. citizens to get them to the airport to effectively a secret gate in order to get them onto the field and get them out. there are still a lot of questions about how these operations function. did the taliban turn away any of the u.s. citizens that were supposed to get to the field that might still be in country? let s