Washington Week Ahead {20MARCH2022} -- WEB
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- Washington Week Ahead {20MARCH2022} -- WEB
- March 20, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script Washington Week Ahead {20MARCH2022} HEADLINE: Russia's War on Ukraine Prompts Biden's European Visit; Emergency Summit TEASER: After calling Putin “war criminal,” Biden to visit European allies; unveil new punishments on Russia PUBLISHED AT: 03/20/2022 at 3:09 pm BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Washington VIDEOGRAPHER: AFP/ AP/ REUTERS/ RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY/ MAXAR/ RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY/ UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/ ABC “THIS WEEK”/ TWITTER / @FILIPPOGRANDI/ CHANNEL ONE PRODUCER: Arash Arabasadi SCRIPT EDITORS: SV, MPage NOTE: PART NO OBSCURE LOGO/ PART NO ARCHIVE VIDEO SOURCE (S): AFP/ AP/ REUTERS/ RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY/ MAXAR/ RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY/ UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/ ABC “THIS WEEK”/ TWITTER / @FILIPPOGRANDI/ CHANNEL ONE PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __ TRT: 2:32 VID APPROVED BY: sv TYPE: UPDATE: )) ((INTRO)) [[Russia continues its attack on Ukrainian cities as its invasion is in its fourth week. The U.N. says 10 million people are now displaced both in and out of Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden travels to Europe this coming week to meet with allies to discuss the crisis. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has more.]] ((VAR, COCKPIT, SKY, AP/RDM, 03/20)) ((mandatory cg RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY)) ((NARRATOR)) The Russian Defense Ministry released these images of its SU-35 fighter jet in action as a ministry spokesman said Russia launched another hypersonic long-range missile on what he described as a Ukrainian military target. It was the second such attack in as many days. ((STILLS, SAT IMAGES, MARIUPOL THEATER FROM SPACE, AP/MAXAR, 03/14)) ((NO OBSCURE/CROP MAXAR LOGO)) ((mandatory cg SATELLITE IMAGE ©2022 MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES)) ((NARRATOR)) This follows a week where Ukrainian officials said Russian forces destroyed a theater where hundreds sheltered in the building bookended by the Russian spelling of “children” in the front and back. ((WOMAN AT PODIUM, MOSCOW, AP/RFM, 03/17)) ((mandatory cg RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY)) ((NARRATOR)) A representative from the Russian Foreign Ministry called the accusation “a lie.” ((VAR, MEDICS, MARIUPOL, AP, 03/02)) ((NARRATOR)) A contradiction seen through the eyes of medics in Mariupol, who for weeks have been fighting to save lives. ((ZELENSKYY ADDRESS, KYIV, UKRAINE, REUTERS/UPPS, 03/19)) ((mandatory cg UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE)) ((NARRATOR)) Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s Mariupol blockade “will go down in history of responsibility for war crimes.” [RADIO TRACK: Sunday, ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Dick Durbin, told ABC’s “This Week” the U.S. will continue providing support to Ukraine short of starting World War Three.] ((mandatory cg ABC “This Week”)) ((Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat)) “The United States, through our president and NATO alliance, are totally committed to this Ukrainian effort stop Putin. The desperate things that he’s doing now, killing innocent civilians and children, for goodness sakes. He will have a stained name in history forever for this.” ((ANIMATED TWEET, AFP/USER, 03/20)) ((mandatory cg TWITTER / @FILIPPOGRANDI)) ((NARRATOR)) UNHCR ((United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)) chief, Filippo Grandi, tweeting this week — the war in Ukraine so far displaced about 10-million people, nearly one-in-four Ukrainians. ((VAR, FLEEING MARIUPOL, UKRAINE, AP, 03/17)) ((NARRATOR)) With more fleeing every day awaiting help from the West. [RADIO TRACK: Sunday, Senator John Barrasso, a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, told ABC “This Week” the Biden Administration has been slow to act.] ((mandatory cg ABC “This Week”)) ((Sen. John Barrasso, Republican)) “The president has had to be pushed and pulled to where he is today. It was Congress that brought about sanctions, that brought about the ban on Russian oil, that brought about weapons, and all of this big aid package that I voted for a week or two ago. 13-billion dollars. So far, the administration has released only one billion of that.” ((VAR, DEMONSTRATORS/ARRESTS, MOSCOW, AFP, 03/13)) ((NARRATOR)) Demonstrations around the world backing Ukrainians and denouncing the Russian invasion, even on the streets of Moscow, where authorities carry protesters to vans and drive them away. ((PROTESTER ON RUSSIAN TV, RUSSIA, REUTERS/CO,03/14)) ((NO ARCHIVE)) ((mandatory cg CHANNEL ONE)) ((NARRATOR)) Perhaps none more famous than Marina Ovsyannikova ((OVS-ya-NIH-kova)) on Russia’s state TV, Channel One. She burst into a live broadcast with a sign reading “NO WAR” in English and “Don’t believe propaganda. They are lying to you here.” in Russian. [RADIO TRACK: Sunday, through an interpreter, she spoke on ABC’s “This Week.”] ((Marina Ovsyannikova, Russian State TV Editor Protesting War)) ((WOMAN, SPEAKING ENGLISH THROUGH ENTERPRETER)) “I could show to the rest of the world that Russians are against the war, and I could show to the Russian people that this is just propaganda. Expose this propaganda for what it is, and maybe stimulate some people to speak up against the war. And I was hoping that my performance, in a way, would help people change their mind.” PROTESTER ON RUSSIAN TV, RUSSIA, REUTERS/CO,03/14)) ((NO ARCHIVE)) ((mandatory cg CHANNEL ONE)) ((NARRATOR)) Her future remains unclear following a recently enacted Russian law criminalizing descriptions of the war in a negative way. The offense carries a jail term of up to 15 years. Arash Arabasadi, VOA News
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Location (dateline) WASHINGTON D. C.
- Embargo Date March 20, 2022 15:44 EDT
- Byline Arash Arabasadi, VOA News
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English