at the moment. there s no mechanism for getting rid of a rogue u.n. member. so i think we are going to have to see basically the facts on the ground play out in such a way that russia realizes eventually it is losing and cannot win and is only destroying its own country. when that happens, then we may see an end to the war. i don t know how we ll ever recover the united nations as long as vladimir putin is in power? ambassador, thank you so much for your time. i appreciate you. this just in. the white house says vice president kamala harris has tested positive for covid. mj lee is live at the white house. do we know if the white house is showing symptoms? no, she is feeling just fine according to the white house. the white house saying that the vice president has no symptoms right now. she tested positive for covid this morning. she actually came to the white house. she was supposed to have a presidential daily brief in the morning as she often does when she tested positive, she
in statements from both him and foreign minister sergey lavrov, the appearance that some negotiated solution with ukraine isn t about to happen, but the u.s. continues to hold the position that if putin wants to end this, he simply can. even if that s not likely to happen. that s why the u.s. and others are preparing for this to go into the long-term. and nic, i understand we just got putin s version of events out of his meeting with the u.n. secretary general. what is putin saying? no surprise that we got a version of putin s propaganda, obviously played out to the russian people on state television. he criticized the united nations. the secretary general sitting right in front of him, criticized the united nations saying that the charter says that all countries are equal but goes onto say essentially that russia is being treated unfairly enimplies the united states is behind that. earlier in the day the russian foreign minister said the united states fixes the votes at the u.n. b
economic failure on the other, that s ultimately, i think, going to put enough pressure on the russian regime that they will have to call an end to the war. that s what we have to hope for, but it s going to take time to come. we see the pictures every day of russia s unprovoked invasions. the aptrocities taking place, ad russia still has a table at the united nations. how can russia still be given this kind of power? is the u.n. broken? yeah. well, unfortunately i think the u.n. is stuck with the structure that it was given at the end of world war ii when we had these five powers that we thought would be the five key powers in the world. but what we see now is that russia is an outlier. china a little bit less so, russia certainly is an outlier. and it is russia that now causes the breakdown of the u.n. system when it comes to international peace and security. i don t see any way to fix this
vote the way it wants them to, by cut off bank accounts by threatening to stop their children going to school. unfounded allegations. putin was on a roll with the propaganda about the russia is being treated unfairly by the united nations and by the rest of the world. then he goes onto justify the war in ukraine. again, glossing over not even mentioning the fact that russia invaded ukraine in the first place back in 2014, saying that they had to go in, that there was a cue da tau and russia was forced to go in and defend people there, but perhaps the real kicker and chilling thing here is and this tells us everything we need to know about president putin. 62 days into the war, he still does not accept that his forces were committing war crimes. about the war crimes he said we re aware of these things. these are provocations by the ukrainians. we know how they happened. this was all ukraine. it wasn t us. he is in denial.
president sat down for talks with the u.n. secretary general in moscow. two very different tactics to try to end this war. as the u.n. investigates 30 0 unlawful killings, allegedly carried out by putin s forces. so far the mission has documented up to 5,000 casualties according to a monitoring group. that s how many we know of. in reality is number is thousands higher in mariupol. the mayor says a third mass grave site has been found. more than 200 meters long. think about that. that s longer than two football fields. and worse still, the mayor claims the dur vie vors are being forced to bury their deceased neighbors and loved ones in exchange for food. let s get you now to cnn s nic robertson in brussels and oren liebermann. first, secretary austin doubled down on the idea of weakening