March 1, 2022

What are Russians watching and reading during the crisis? Kremlin propaganda dominates the Russian media and journalists are compelled to parrot the party line. Only one independent news channel remains: TV Rain. Forced off the airwaves, the channel continues its broadcasts on YouTube. Its editor-in-chief joins the show from Moscow.

Christiane speaks with former Republican senator and former Defense Secretary William Cohen about the U.S. response to Putin's war.

In France, President Macron continues his effort toward a diplomatic resolution. In the meantime, the European Union and the U.S. are aggressively going after Putin’s economy. Russia's stock market has closed and as of today, the ruble is worth less than a single cent. Christiane speaks with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Paris.

A strike on a local administrative building in Kharkiv killed 10 today, and President Zelensky told the EU that at least 16 children have died in bombings. More than one-half million Ukrainians have fled the country, and the U.S. is warning that worse may be yet to come. Dmytro Kuleba is Ukraine’s Foreign Minister and he joins the show from inside the country.