they were of straightforward again wendy sherman's language. but she said this wasn't a negotiation. this was really the attempt, she said for the u. s. and for russia to take the measure of each other's concerns . sense of the meeting. last summer between president slide amir potent and joe biden. russia's president has meanwhile claimed victory in defending neighbor kazakhstan, from what he calls a foreign backed uprising, letting me put in, deployed russian troops to castanan, as promised. leaders of other ex soviet states that a most will lead military alliance would protect them to more than a 160 people were killed during last week's anti government. protests hasn't stands, president says the unrest was attempted coup. a port in myanmar has sentenced the ousted leader, uncensored cheat to a further for years in jail. so she was on trial for illegally possessing walkie talkies and breaking corona virus restrictions. the sentence is on top of a 2 year jail term handed down last month. it's fear that she could spend the rest of her life in j

we heard from when sherman the under secretary of state for the united states, saying that the u. s. s. position was that they wouldn't be talking about any one without them in the room. we then had also already heard from insult him. the thing that you bring was a big issue. of course, ukraine wasn't in the room at native today. begs the question whether the u. s. is a bit of double speak, but for the moment, no concrete break breakthrough on these negotiations. but it is some might say at least something that for the 1st time in more than 2 years, the nato, russia council has actually met. yeah, at least said something showed up in the sky there in brussels, bringing to the extensive coverage of these massive talks today. thanks for now. come back later. bad day again. far as johnson, the britain's prime minister is admitted that he did attend to downing street policy at the back garden of number 10 at the heights of the 1st national cove locked in 2020. and it was a tough lockdown to at the time for everyone else. he apologized to britain's then who at the time we're not even a

this combs as the deputy secretary of state that wendy sherman said, but as far as the united states source, they could see russia using force against ukraine before me to february. this, of course, something russia vehemently denies. we also heard from wendy sherman saying that nato had as of yet not made up a firm decision on what to do when it came to the situation regarding ukraine. very keen to see what anthony blinking has to say all very new news. this developing it of course, soon as we hear anything from gans, dalton book coming out of brussels as well be bringing you all of the latest here. what we have in terms of coming what's come out of europe so far. with relation to the, the german side, i'm seeing gay from berlin. there is a continuation of the message from germany that they will not send weapons directly to ukraine. they are sending age to ukraine, though of course there's part of the european union that will be sending perhaps part of a $1320000000.00. a financial aid package not still to be signed off by a lot of people though. but when it comes to, to immediate 8

now we have the problem of ukraine tend to, they're extremely high and it's clear according to wendy sherman and her press conference yesterday, that nato is not willing to shut the door. they're going to maintain their open door policy. and it's up to countries that they really want to apply to nato, that they're leaving the door open. and this is something that president putin has been clear that he was a treaty outlining that neither ukraine nor ga could ever join nato. so this is something i don't know how they're going to get around. so this is kind of an intractable point right now. and many analysts have wondered, did put, make these maps melissa request to see how much he would get in return. so this is a rose and clear about what put in his doing. he has it. we have fallen if, if his demands include all you other countries that join nato was 1987 would have to leave. and so in many respects what he is doing by surrounding you came with a 100000 soldiers. some haven't seen that as black mel trying to get negotiations, but others in russia feel that finally were being heard. so it rem

this just happened in the last hour or so, and this is from wendy sherman, who's the under secretary of state to actually lead the us delegation talks in geneva early this week as well. she was at those talks in nature today, and one point that she made was quite interesting. she said the u. s. family wants to reassure that its stance is nothing about he without you, whether that's ukraine, whether that's europe, where that's nato. an interesting point given that stilton burke had already said that ukraine was one of the major discussions of the day, despite the fact that ukraine wasn't in those discussions, a very confusing message coming there potentially from the under secretary of state . she also, once again accused russia of aggression saying, the countries building up troops on the bully that continues at something we also heard from you in stilton berg too, and said that russia essentially is preparing to invade. this is something that has been denied over an over by russia. however, russia has said what it needs to deescalate the tensions that is surrounding many different i

wendy sherman's assessment was that to the meetings on monday about 8 hours worth of talks. with the survey rubric coffin, his delegation were useful. they were frank heard language, they were of straightforward again wendy sherman's language. but she said this wasn't a negotiation. this was really the attempt. she said for the u. s. and for russia to take the measure of each other's concerns. sense of the meeting last summer, between president slide amir potent and joe biden. russia's president was claimed victorian defending neighboring kazakhstan from what he called a foreign backed uprising. more than a 160 people were killed during last week's antique government. protests, monica, when president daniel ortega has been sworn in for a 4th through his inaugurated comes in the u. s. on the you impose new sanctions on nicaraguan officials in response to novembers disputed election. the united nations held meetings and cartoon to find a way to end the political deadlock.

i think there's a lot that can be negotiated about and deputy secretary wendy sherman has a long history of successfully negotiating with the russians. >> but these are all concessions, essentially, to russia, with nothing in return. was there something in 2014 that was possibly a mistake? i mean, should there not be more assistance to the ukrainians, so they can better defend themselves against russia, that has a history of wanting to go into ukraine, affect ukraine, invade ukraine. starve ukraine? >> yes. i mean, historically, they've starved ukraine going back to pre-world war ii, where millions of people have died. >> 1932, 1933. >> yes, exactly. and as you know, these russian hard-liners wrote a letter to the administration. jake sullivan reached out to them. the hard-liners want to give russians javelin missiles -- i mean, the ukrainians javelin missiles and stinger missiles and those kind of things to put off the russians. in the history of u.s./russian relations, they believe the only way to get russia to back down is to be incredibly aggressive. there are folks on the other side

they were off straight forward again, wendy sherman's language. but she said this wasn't a negotiation, this was really the attempt. she said for the u. s. and for russia to take the measure of each other's concerns. since are the meeting last summer between president slide amir potent and joe biden. nicaragua, as president daniel tiger has been sworn in for full term, will take it was re elected in november in a vote. the u. s. and the you described is a sham. they impose new sanctions on officials in nicaragua, written response to the disputed election moscow's president andre manuel lopez abra though has tested positive for cove 19 for a 2nd time. he says he only has light symptoms, but it comes as mexico reports a record number of new cases. but abra door claims hospital admissions and deaths. aunt increasing the same rate and the number of coven 19 patients in america has hit an all time high. the u. s has reported 1100000 new coin a virus cases in the past day, a global record, the 7 day average of new daily cases is tripled in the u. s. in

sherman being there doesn't give me much hope for that she was not only involved in the jcpoa but she negotiated with a nuclear dean with the north koreans and the administration did nothing. we shouldn't let the russians dictate our policy. should be and deterrence in europe around around the world. that's how the trump administration thought about this. i hope this administration will think about delivering real deterrence and protecting america the way we need to. thanks, secretary pompeo. >> thank you. >> martha: we're about to hear from the white house on these issues. the big story today, the supreme court shoots down a vax or test mandate. the issue was not under the purview of the federal government. we're going inside the briefing room next. stay with us. cranky-pated: a bad mood related to a sluggish gut. miralax is different. it works naturally with the water in your body to unblock your gut. free your gut, and your mood will follow. people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible... with rybelsus®. the majority of people taking rybelsus® lo

secretary of state wendy sherman told you that russia is not backing down. tell us more. >> yeah, jake, the two sides appear no closer to a solution for defusing this crisis on the ukrainian border than they were before these talks even started. now we're hearing threats from the head of the russian delegation who told reporters after that meeting at nato today, quote, we'll take all necessary measures to fend off the threat by military means if it does not work out with political means. jake, who is threatening whom? it's not that ukraine is poised on the border with russia, about to invade them. it's the other way around. russia has 100,000 troops looking like they're about to invade ukraine. so the head of the u.s. delegation, deputy secretary of state wendy sherman told me there is no sign that after these talks russia looks like it's going to de-escalate. take a listen. >> there was no commitment to de-escalate, nor was there a statement that there would not be. what i think is very important and which i think russia heard loudly and clearly from all al

. >> deputy secretary of state wendy sherman today said the u.s. sees every indication russian president vladimir putin intends to use military force against ukraine. she made the remarks during a virtual discussion. >> cohosted with the foundation . support ukraine's european perspective. totally understandable ukraine feels it as a hostage. what can europe and the west do to protect ukraine's territorial integrity and also most importantly, ukrainian freedom to choose their own way echo we are honored to welcome wendy sherman, the u.s. deputy secretary and a brilliant diplomat. welcome and welcome under in the name of my fellow board members. the united states played a key role for protecting the principles of international law and for the right of every nation to choose their own way into the future. what can you tell ukrainians and europeans today? what is our way forward? >> thank you so much. i love to say madam president. it is very exciting. someday we'll be able to say that in the united states. he did an extra in our job as president of y

to miss you, marcia sherman. amanda, we go as far as potsdam, under the bridges, and on to lake van z, a, where we look at the sailing boat and other boats of buttons, eons, children, but as ego board torn under border in spring 2020. when the corona virus pandemic brought public life in germany to a standstill, friedlander had to slow down too. but at 99, she was on line to present the ma got friedlander award, which is bestowed on school projects that keep alive the memory of the nazi era. terrors is this adam done so? so we're all sitting in very different constellations in front of our screens in so many places. and some of you are together. some of you are alone. i'm just happy, it's working out in my name is peter landman. my name is ron sherman, with the support of survivors and volunteers. the association presents readings, stories and contemporary witness statements to the public nog. why did you have to get on the train? shante girl? no. michelle, not my. i'd like to thank you again, shin to school. i t

they were off straight forward again, wendy sherman's language. but she said this wasn't a negotiation. this was really the attempt. she sat for the u. s. and for russia to take the measure of each other's concerns. since the meeting last summer between president is vladimir putin and joe biden, rushes present, his claim victory and defending neighboring cause. it's dawn from what he called a foreign back to uprising. more than 160 people were killed during loss, weeks, antique of protests. nicaraguan present, daniel ortega has been sworn in for a 4th term. he's an old gratian, comes as the u. s. in the you impose that new sanctions on nicaraguan officials, in response to novembers disputed election. and mexico's president andre manuel love has over it all has tested positive for cove it 19 for the 2nd time, and he says he and he has light symptoms, but it comes as mexico reports a record number of cases, alberto claims hospitalizations and death. i'm not increasing at the same rate experts say these indicators lag behind infections white several

. >> deputy secretary of state wendy sherman today said the u.s. sees every indication russian president vladimir putin intends to use military force against ukraine. she made the remarks during a virtual discussion. hosted by -- european strategy. >> welcome to this online conversation cohosted with the foundation support ukraine's european perspective. ukraine -- free democratic process. kremlin has put striking demands to all of our russian could security concerns. russia said if the demands are not met it will consider military measures. it's totally understandable that ukraine feels it is a hostage. what can europe and the west do to protect ukraine's territorial integrity and also most importantly, ukrainian freedom to choose their own way echo we -- their own way? we welcome wendy sherman, the u.s. deputy secretary and a brilliant diplomat. welcome and welcome in the name of my fellow board members. the united states played a key role for protecting the principles of international law and for the right of every nation to choose their own way

we cannot assess that from here and ftd secretary sherman did not as well. host: this question is from "usa today," "why ukraine fate matters." here's what they report -- host: robert, east hampton, connecticut, what do you think should happen here? caller: i don't think that we should send troops. the first thing that biden did when he got into office was give the ok for the nordstrom pipeline. that should have been held as a bargaining chip. it makes no sense, sending troops. he's just a buffoon. the important thing is the new covid information that the head of the cdc said yesterday, about 75% of the covid cases, over 75% had comorbidity. host: ok, let's stick to the topic this morning. dan, independent, oregon, democratic caller. caller: thank you. why is no one talking about the treaty that we signed with ukraine along with russia and great britain to protect ukraine if they gave up their nukes. i would like to know why no one wants to talk about it. maybe i'm just too old or something. host: dan, tell us why that is important. caller: what? host: tell

at off i, sherman was in charge of logistics. the vans he conference has become a symbol of bureaucratic re planned mass. murder hearing is the issue here was how individual sectors of the administrative said participate in the planning organization and implementation of the matter of european juice. this is an important point for us, but it's also important to highlight that without the participation of society, this mass murder could never have taken place most in much more honest gibbon, conan, private denunciations and laws that excluded jews worked together. at the end of the process, there was to be a relatively harmless sounding re settlement. deprived of their property and citizenship. deportees were left with only one suit case. they had to pay for their own tickets to the labor and extermination camp. a one way ticket to our shreds. in 1992, the site of the perpetrators became a memorial. the museum and educational center focuses not only on the past. it likes to relate it to the present. for example, when studying the

sherman has not taken atlanta, block aid runners are getting through the federal navy blockade. for many people 3 years of war was about enough and gotten us to nothing and the leaders of the republican party said came to lincoln and said, we are going to have to do something desperate. lincoln is very, very eager to draw as many democratic votes as he possibly can to side with his republicans. he's not sure if they run just on the strength of the republican votes that they are going to win because many people who are satisfied with the course of things that they would shift the votes. how to appeal to the democratic voter who doesn't particularly like republicans or republican policies but nevertheless wants to see the war brought to a successful conclusion? well, what you do rename the republican party. so when the republican party comes together for convention in baltimore in the early summer of 1864, it is a new title. it calls itself the national union party and while they renominate abraham lincoln, republican nominee as presidential nominee, they also select a democrat an

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reassured just by the fact that 30 allies in russia sat around a table because of the russians, as wendy sherman said, did not commit to de escalate. there were, were, was no indication they would pull back any of these tens of thousands of troops from ukraine's border, nor discuss deescalate in eastern ukraine. so really as we, as we discussed before, nothing was achieved in a tangible way at this point. and that's going to be felt very keenly in here at the same time. they are going to be very reassured in, in a, in another sense, that 30 ally sat around the table and complained to russia about his behavior in eastern ukraine and in and along the entire border with russia. so i mean a little of this and that, but i would imagine that he is not feeling so confident at this moment yet. so what's the way forward now for both sides of it. if you build up what both sides would like to see is that the other side, of course, come around to their way of thinking that's not going to happen on many of the proposals that russia laid out, of course, on nato, promising not to expand further east to never g

emily sherman has more. the a city turned into a war zone. this is cause ox downs, commercial center almighty. in early january. what started as anger of a rising fuel prices soon escalated into full blown riots. arson and looting. many locals tell us they're still in shock. most boy, what were they even trying to take your ice cream? bought a goes, said the mit of us apartment is right on the corner of almighty's republic square. the location of the city administration building and the at the center of the recent unrest. out of her window, she witnessed peaceful protests turning violent. cuz i guess i went a bit nuts. i opened my window and started shouting at the riders. you should be ashamed of yourselves. what are you doing? the people who opened these shops are people just like you rebuilding will take time. the authorities estimate the value of the damage to local businesses in the country at over 150000000 euros. nearly 2000 shops suffered at the hands of the rioters artist and designer. meaning you need sca has been picking up the pie

m o . sherman moscow there. thank you emily. tom, now to have look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world who see rebels and yemen have claimed responsibility for a drone strike in abu dhabi. the kill 3 people, united arab emirates vowed reprisals for the attack which targeted an oil refinery who these are at war with a military collision in yemen that is backed by the way, medics in sudan, se several protest. this was shot dead at demonstrations against military coup leaders. thousands of people turned out for the largest of the protests in the capital cartoon. monday's release come ahead of a visit by u. s. delegation this week meant to revive efforts to return the country to civilian rule. a prominent mexican photojournalist has been killed outside his home in the northern border city of tuana. margarita martinez was known for his work covering organized crime in the violence place city border. the u. s. is the 2nd journalist to have been murdered in mexico this year. one of the was deadliest countries

that's more important than, than an event and understand the perspective from their sharing people to sherman government. but australian government and the victorian government should have been clear on what is going to happen beforehand. and i think it's not very fair to 4 person to come here and not be able to play. i yeah, i think that all this could have been avoided like we like, we've all done by getting vaccinated and doing all the things we had to do to come here in australia because everybody knew very clearly that the rules the united states is warning that russia is preparing possible sabotaged efforts in ukraine that could justify potential new invasion. us intelligence officials say moscow would then blame the government in kiev as a pretext to launch new attacks against the country. it comes after a week of talks between russia and the west, failed to diffuse a tense situation that began with russia, began massing troops on ukraine's border. here's pentagon spokesman john kirby. we have information that they preposition, a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag

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oh, interesting with zoom in our briefing with wendy sherman. it was all so what do you mean by d escalating on the border with ukraine? m. how? because after all these russian troops are in russia, is a russian troops in russia. how on earth can the west say, move your troops around when this is but it's, we're rushes to the us over the country. and when the showman, when pressed, was quite interesting, actually, because she said when she, when i talked about the escalation, she means returned the troops to barracks. and this is new, or tell us what exercises are on going and what their purposes russia. keep saying, these are just military exercises that are going on at the border that seem to be a bit a bit new from wendy sherman, that it's not necessarily a get the troops back to barracks or else, but actually be more transparent about what exactly those troops are up to share frequency with the latest from washington d. c. she had thank you. or meanwhile, russia's president has claimed victory in defending neighbor kazakhstan from what he ca

so we did a study with 2 colleagues at the international monetary fund, andrea atoria sherman, we looked at like exactly this, a, what implications the energy transition might have on metal prices. and as you said, demand rises strongly and then supply is often slow to react, as it takes long times from humans to open up. and we see that prices over the next years might actually reach peaks similar to historical highs, but for an unprecedented sustain period. so peaks could be reached around 2030 and a global net 0 emission scenario and only come down from this very gradually. so this would then make the transition more costly and potentially it is that a recent interview that these metals could assume something of the significance of oil in the economy. are there really no alternatives for them? right now? i'm so that's, that's a critical point. i mean, we could increase extraction and some points, like for example, teams deep sea mining, but it's still in its infancy. but then when we need substitution, that's very hard. so for example, concerning batteries or different types that use

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wendy sherman is just getting off a plane. she may have gotten off a plane in the last few hours. we will take stock of where we are, consult, then determine next steps. the russians will have to do the same. all i can tell you is as far as we are concerned, we are ready to move forward on diplomacy and we are ready to go down the other path. both of those, in my view, that question of which path is one that is facing us now. it is not facing us a year from now, it is facing us in the foreseeable future. >> [indiscernible] -- this massive amount of troops , is that something you can live with? will there be sanctions, less sanctions? >> we are trying to first determine and -- deter and prevent a possible massive russian invasion. if we end up in a circumstance, we will -- as it comes but i am not going to get into hypotheticals today. >> at this moment, are we in a position where the next step is reducing the troops on the borders of ukraine? is this the next thing that could happen that could satisfy the u.s. and allies? >> what do you mean? >> after the week we have had, what ar

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kristin: i don't think brad sherman is representative of where most policymakers are asked. if you look at the past couple of years, it was originally a very small group of devoted policymakers trying to wrap their heads around it. after this infrastructure fight where there was a crypto provision in the legislation, it became clear the cryptocurrency community is incredibly active, incredibly interested in being part of the process. we also see companies that are hiring professionals in washington, d.c.. membership at the blockchain association has skyrocketed in the past couple of months. the crypto industry is here to be a partner with policymakers. they want to explain why old regulations don't make sense or can't work with the current crypto networks, and we want to find new ways to reach the same public policy goals we have in other areas, whether with internet policy or financial services policy, but do it in a way that makes sense with the way crypto networks are structured. there was a positive hearing at the end of the year in december in the house financial servic

succumbs to sherman and everything that stood in the state of georgia, that's not really the case. but places which did pay a high penalty if the armies were tracing back and forth across them and one place certainly was virginia. the south loses by the capital in slavery and farm animals. probably the south's losses mounted to as high as in some estimates that i've seen $13 billion. that's $1,865. -- that's 1865 dollars and trying to create the slave system in a sense that the great punishment, the south suffers in reconstruction is not union occupation, union occupation by contrast was minimal. the real punishment the south suffers in reconstruction is self-administered. the south decides what it really wants is to walk away from industrial, 19th century transatlantic economy and to return to what it had been before the war which was a state and that will take another 80 years in the life of the south to change, so in a sense, the south became its own worst enemy in reconstruction. >> host: allen guelzo, you mentioned were you born in yokahama, japan to army officer and then mast

tennis start posed a threat to public health framed the verdict comes after a 10 day battle between the sherman, the australian authorities over his vac in exemption status. it is expected that jock events will be deported within hours and could face a 3 year band from the country. the full reasoning behind the ruling will be published in the coming days. the court's decision was handed down by the chief justice of the federal court of australia. james, else up here, some of what he had to say. the orders of the court ah, one, the amended application. they dismissed with costs such cost to be agreed or filing agreement assist. 2 reasons to be published at a later date. those are the orders of court. the orders of the court, ah one, the amended application. they dismissed with costs such cost to be agreed or filing agreement assist. 2 reasons to be published at a later date. steve pierce is a journalist, specializing in tennis commentary. he's been covering the australian open for more than a decade in joins us now from melbourne. steve, finally, a clear decision on this matter. what more can yo