europe, good evening to those in asia and a warm welcome to those waking up in the united states. i m guy johnson. francine lacqua is off today. this is the pulse. we are live from bloomberg european headquarters in london. british foreign secretary william hague has just been making statements in kiev. let s get the latest from what he has to say. remember, ukraine mobilizing its military within the last 48 hours. as russia tie-ins its grip on the crimea. ryan chilcote has been joining following the story by kiev from kiev and he joins us by phone. foreign secretary arrived here earlier in the day. like you said, there is going to be a whole number of foreign ambassadors and secretaries who are coming here. saying thatbeen russia complained that its interests in the east and the south of the country when it comes to the russian speaking population had been ignored. of course, first and foremost, he is saying that he is in ukraine to express his support for ukrainian so
pulse. i am guy johnson. vladimiran president putin is competing with leaders in the land, peace talks we could call them but his latest to cuthave been a threat in cut the flow of natural gas to the ukraine. a few words with president putin. the hot topic in the lawn is without a doubt the war in ukraine. they were supposed to meet last night at 7:00 p.m. local time, that was going to be their first meeting since they met at the d-day celebration in june. the meeting did not happen until a 11:00 p.m. and did not and until after 130 in the morning. we will still standing there outside the hyatt hotel when he came out and i had an opportunity to ask him what he makes of the allegations that he is not doing enough to resolve the crisis in the ukraine. he inferred that the criticism is nothing new. it will get messy in this video but how about a watch. askeveryone wanted to questions from the russian president. the russian president got in his limousine and before he was wh
vantage points. kristin: that s right, i m kristin fisher. more than 7500 killed by the coronavirus, wyoming is the only state not reporting any deaths, not yet. and steve is in atlanta georgia. hey, steve. hey, kristin. the c.d.c. coming out with new recommendations urging all americans to wear masks, cloth masks, when they go outside or some sort of clothing that covers their noses and mouths. the president made sure to say that this was a voluntary recommendation, that he himself would not be wearing a mask. we re getting a new information out of new york from governor cuomo s presser, the single worst day in new york, the death toll in new york state 3500. that number has doubled in the past three days alone. some bright spots, they re getting 1,000 ventilators donated today from china, arriving in new york today and also 140 on loan from oregon. the mayor of new york says those ventilators are desperately needed. if we re going to save every single life we can save,
Guidance. well, blinken will hop on an airplane to doha, qatar. he ll be leaving tomorrow, and that s where the american diplomatic corps is. they were in kabul, but now in qatar. right now secretary of state says there are no plans to meet with any of those leaders some of whom are taking up time in qatar. david, more than 100 americans still left in afghanistan. thank you for the live report from wilmington, delaware. griff. well, less than one week after the u.s. withdrawal, reports of fresh fighting in afghanistan as taliban fighters seek to consolidate power amid pockets of resistance. ryan chilcott joins us with the latest and it seems that the fighters are not laying down their weapons? not just yet, that s right. as you know, the taliban is in
Israel. these are balloons that effectively go over the fence, land and then cause brush fires. how in the past, the israelis would not have responded to that because there was no loss of life, loss of life, lots of damage. but they re too dangerous. how dangerous is the situation? dangerous enough for the u.n. secretary-general to issue a statement which he just did, i call on hamas and other palestinian militants to cease of launching of rockets and incendiary kites along the fence and israel must exercise restraint to avoid further inflaming the situation. the concern for the secretary-general here is that israel and hamas on the other side fought three wars over the last decade. he is worried we may be on the brink of another one. elizabeth: all right, ryan chilcott.