unaccompanied child showed up at the border we would let them starve to death and let them stand on the other side, no previous administration has done that except trump and i m not going to do it. i m not going to do it. that s why i asked the vice president of the united states to be the lead person on focusing on the fundamental reasons why people leave guatemala and el salvador in the first place. let me start with you on this immigration issue. so much to unpack. what stood out to me in his response, he kept saying migrants come here every year and nothing has changed and has been placing a lot of blame with the previous administration. what do you make of his response and what are the facts? he also made clear, brooke, he does not think the reason there are record numbers coming to the border is because of his policies or his demeanor, and he pointed to the surges that happened in 2019 and there were surges under barack obama when joe biden was vice president and he
questions to gun control got a vague response, offering no specifics. he faced a new covid vaccination goal, say ing he hopes to see twice his original goal. a tornado emergency as severe weather moves across the south. right now, as we speak, there are reports of energies from at least one tornado in alabama. let s go straight to cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlin collins. the president fielded questions from reporters, including you, for over an hour. his first formal back and forth with the white house press corps. we are told he spent the week preparing for this first major news conference that he was going to host with respects. please, please, sit down. thank you. tonight, president biden taking questions from the white house press corps in his first formal news conference. i ve not been able to unit the congress, but i m uniting the country. biden was pressed on multiple fronts and became animated. republican voters i know find this despicable. r
president, is what s happening inside acceptable to you? how the president responds. also, the president on the mass shootings. two in less than a week in this country. the president on north korea, on u.s. troops in afghanistan, will they still be there in a year? and will he run again in 2024? how he answered on all of this. cecilia vega and martha raddatz both standing by tomorrow. the coronavirus here in the u.s. and president biden also making news tonight, announcing he is doubling his goal from 100 million shots to 200 million shots in arms in his first 100 days. amid news tonight new cases are on the rise in most states. in 20 states by more than 10%. and pfizer and the trial involving young children tonight. and governor cuomo under fire again, this time, accusations he put members of his own family at the front of the line for covid testing early on in the pandemic. the governor s response tonight. the mass shooting in boulder. tonight, the suspect has now been
president, is what s happening inside acceptable to you? how the president responds. also, the president on the mass shootings. two in less than a week in this country. the president on north korea, on u.s. troops in afghanistan, will they still be there in a year? and will he run again in 2024? how he answered on all of this. cecilia vega and martha raddatz both standing by tonight. the coronavirus here in the u.s. and president biden also making news tonight, announcing he is doubling his goal from 100 million shots to 200 million shots in arms in his first 100 days. amid news tonight new cases are on the rise. in 20 states by more than 10%. and pfizer and the trial involving young children tonight. and governor cuomo under fire again, this time, accusations he put members of his own family at the front of the line for covid testing early on in the pandemic. the governor s response tonight. the mass shooting in boulder. tonight, the suspect has now been charged with sho
applause hello. welcome to the mystetskyi arsenal cultural centre here in kyiv. let me tell you who is on my panel, who will be taking questions from our audience here. the deputy prime minister of ukraine is olha stefanishyna. she s been very much the international face of the ukrainian government during this current crisis. kristina kvien is the charge d affaires, that s the acting ambassador for washington, here in kyiv. carl bildt is a former swedish prime minister and one of europe s leading statesmen, and professor sergey radchenko is a russian born political scientist based in europe. that s our panel. welcome to you all. give them a round of applause. applause and remember, you too can join the conversation it s #bbcglobalquestions. now, we re going to take a couple of questions to kick off with. first, from olha. your question please. is the build up of russian troops on the ukrainian . borders, in your opinion, an attempt to get. the world s attention or is there