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This is not normal. This is the brutalization of a country and directly attacking everything its civilians, its citizens need to simply survive.

Is the United States doing enough to protect citizens of Ukraine from Russian brutality?

My interview with Secretary of State Anthony Blinking.

Then we tried our best for our future, but it's a dark one now because we're kept away from our schools.

The drip-drip of women's rights being restricted under the Taliban's top religious

leader.

The United Nations Representative for women in Afghanistan

joins me from Kabul. And it can be different to be the first and certainly

there is a little more attention on you because of that, but I'm okay with that.

A breakthrough for women's equality in New York.

Laura Kavanaugh speaks with Michelle Martin about becoming the Fire Department's first female commissioner. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Russia must pay for its quote horrific crimes in Ukraine.

That's the word from the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,

announcing plans for a special court to prosecute Russian offenses.

And while holding Russia accountable is a long-term goal,

Ukraine's need for weapons and equipment now is dominating this week's meeting of NATO foreign ministers in

Romania. Here's Ukraine's top diplomat Dimitri Kolobah delivering an urgent shopping list.

We need air defense, Iris, hopes, patriots, and we need transformers.

When we have transformers and generators we can restore our system, our energy grid

and provide people with decent living conditions which President Putin is trying to deprive them of.

Now the US says it's working to make sure that the Ukrainians get those systems as

quickly as possible but the German government in particular

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