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well. >> that kim now reaping the prestige of high profile summit symbolic value of red carpets and limousine rides. and that's certainly enhances kim stature. it shows that he's an equal on the world stage. and it also has probably an impact domestically showing came as the great leader that he can deliver for north korea, even though the economic conditions remained dismal >> north korea has been banned from importing luxury goods since 2006, but that has not stopped the regime from smuggling and items like high-end watches, yachts, cognac, and other expensive liquor, even ski lifts for the resort, which only north korean elites can use. wolf. we've also done features on his other high-end modes of transportation. he's got an armored train. he's got a a private plane that was custom made just for him. he gets around in some pretty incredible machinery. >> very interesting indeed, brian todd, thank you very much for that report. and to our viewers. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation the news
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continues next on cnn outfront. next, >> breaking news, russian interference, the former fbi informant charged with lying about the bidens business dealings in ukraine, says he got his dirt from russian intelligence officials. plus president biden vowing to punish putin with major new sanctions after the death of alexey navalny, as russia has now detained a los angeles woman on suspicions of prison after reportedly donating to ukraine. >> and >> we take you inside one of the most dangerous prisons, one overrun by terror groups and gain and where at least one gang leader has his own courtyard fridge and queen-sized bet. let's go outfront >> good evening. i'm brianna keilar in for erin burnett outfront tonight. breaking news, russian interference, the former fbi informant charged
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with lying about the biden's business dealings with ukraine is tonight making a stunning admission telling the fbi russia was feeding him false information about the president's son and the president. remember alex zander smirnoff was the republican star source of information into president biden and hunter biden, someone they repeatedly touted as quote, credible and most respected. here's republican jim jordan just weeks ago the most current operating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible, confidential human source >> highly credible, he says, but according to the justice department, smirnoff, who was arrested last week in las vegas, was quote, actively pedaling new lies after meeting with russian spies late last year. and according to the justice department's new court filing, smirnoff was scheduled to leave the united states just four days ago for a months-long multi-country trip. that by his own description, involved
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meetings with officials of foreign intelligence agencies and governments. foreign intelligence agencies in gaza governments that we now know in the past included russia. >> paula >> reid is outfront live in washington for us and paula, what else are we learning from this filing tonight? >> well, brianna, let's remind folks who made this filing today, special counsel, david weiss. he's the one overseeing both criminal prosecutions of hunter biden and here in this court filing, he's advocating to the court by smirnov should be detained. why he presents a flight risk now, as you noted, he has been charged with lying to investigators about the biden's business dealings. but in this new filing, weiss reveals that smirnoff claims he claims that russian intelligence officials shared with him some of the information that he had about hunter biden now, this was revealed after he was arrested and he also told investigators that he had, quote, extensive and extremely recent contacts with foreign intelligence officials. he had we learned in
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this filing previously told the fbi that he had many contacts and foreign intelligence. what they learned in the subsequent interview after his arrest, that he'd kept up those relationships chips. now, prosecutors did not independently verify brianna if he did have these contacts, if they were legitimate, and if they provided him with information about hunter biden. but in this filing, they also talk about the impact that is false statements about the bidens have had on us politics, on the election. they said, quote his lies targeted the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties in the united states. the effect of his false statements and fabricated information continued to be felt to this day because of course, these falls alleged false statements are part of what has boosted republicans in their effort to try to impeach president biden smirnoff has not gotten to the point in this process where he would enter a guilty or not guilty plea, but in a statement to cnn, his lawyer said that he quote, is presumed innocent all right paula reid. thank you so
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much for that joining us now is ryan goodman, our outfront legal analyst, and doug london, former cia counterterrorism chief, and the author of the recruiter spying and the lost art of american intelligence. ryan, you have read this court filing, how strong as the case and the evidence the case and the evidence is very strong for the purposes for which the government is using it. so the government is basically saying that mr. smirnoff should not be allowed to go out on released before trial. and it's very strong. i mean, it's almost saying, look by his own admissions and what our intelligence community knows to some degree. he is a risk in so many different ways and he's a present risk as well given his very recent, they say extremely recent context with senior russian government officials who are trying to spread misinformation into the 2024 election. so it's just really incredible what they're presenting here to the court in a certain sense to the country country. >> sounds like it was to
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continue with the trip where he was going to meet with officials of foreign countries here, doug some stunning information in this court filing is we have learned now that smirnoff has been working with the fbi since 2010, just how significant is this admission that he was also working with the russians? >> well, there's still a lot we don't know including how much of what he's telling us is true and how much is a lie. but if he's been in touch with the fbi since 2010, it has to inevitably be because of his contact with russian officials and russia didn't tell tides. we still don't know much about him. he's described as a globe trotting, russian speaking businessman. we could assume at least the us personal, some residency here, but that's a long time for a confidential human source relationship, which by their definition is essentially what we would call a cia agent. the fbi's primary interests would be criminal or counter-intelligence. so it would be those contacts would would make him of interest. but the challenges even if that access was legitimate and it might be what was his agenda was always under hostile
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control. did he volunteer under russian direction or did he turn at some point during the course of his engagement with the bureau? >> yeah. obviously, many questions. we don't know the answers to. we may not know all of those answers. ryan republicans, they've been basing really their entire impeachment case against president biden on information that we now know was fed to smirnoff by russia. let's listen to some of what they've said even a trusted fbi informant has alleged a bribe to the biden family. >> we already know the president took bribes from burisma incredible long-standing fbi informant, saying that that a ukrainian oligarch has given than $5 million directly to the president in addition to the 5 million to hunter >> well, every day this bribery scandal becomes more credible >> what does this do? to the
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basis of their allegations? >> it pulls the rug out from underneath them, to be honest, it's really quite incredible. the xor we just heard there from kevin mccarthy when he was speaker. he's actually announcing the impeachment proceedings at that point and he's using this particular individual, mr. smirnov as the basis for it. that's the justification that he's saying is the trusted fbi source. and lo and behold, in the filing today, smirnov is saying that he is passing the information about burisma and hunter biden from not just some cutout, but russian intelligence officials themselves and so i think that's just quite devastating in terms of where that's even brought us to this point in the country, given that this is the source of some of that information >> doug, what do you think? i mean, you have the chairman of the house judiciary committee saying this is our most corroborating evidence brianna, i think it's another brilliant
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success as a part of russian intelligence in meddling in our elections by taking advantage of are >> inherent weaknesses and strengths as opposed to 2016, as far as information narrative goes, the russians have been able to amplify actual us content with what but us political groups and political officials have been saying and claiming which feeds their narrative. now, obviously they're going to complement that through clandestine activities such as directing sources against us and trying to make us believe they're credible. and by at least establishing that he had legitimate contexts, refreshing intelligence, and i presume he must have to have compelled the fbi's interests. they could then feed information that would suit their purposes and influence rather than inform decision-making >> i do want to read to you another part of the special counsel's filing here, ryan david weiss writing this about the 2024 election, quote, smear navs, efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties in the united
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states continues, he is actively pedaling new lives that could impact us elections after meeting with russian intelligence officials in november, very recently, it seems obviously very clear here that russian never stopped trying to metal in us elections. but what does this tell you, ryan, about the extent of russia's efforts >> so in a certain level, this is russia's playbook, where used to seeing it from 2016 were used to seeing it from 2020. but this is quite incredible that we have the doj telling us in real time. this time around that it's ongoing and that these contexts we're extremely recent, i think is part of the reason they've said that in this report is to say it's extremely recent that he met with the russian officials and it's in coordination with these ongoing efforts where he's actually trying to inject it into the 2024 election so i think it's not just that the doj is speaking to the court, which they are, and that's their principal purpose, but i think has just the american
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public, as we see this, it's a wake-up for us in the sense that they are alerting us to an ongoing russian misinformation campaign because the doj is also identifying this information as false, derogatory information. i think that's really important to understand. >> really incredible developments this evening, gentlemen. thank you so much. ryan goodman and doug london. we appreciate it >> and >> outfront, next, president biden vowing to make putin pay for the death of alexey navalny. next, i'll be speaking to a friend of navalny who said as the kremlin is also responsible for a suspected poisoning that he survived back in 2018, also breaking former president from firing back taking on nikki haley after she tore into trump calling him a disaster and vowing to stay in the race. and they were some of the first tourists to visit north korea since the start of the pandemic what did they witness? we have a special report ahead >> biggest story of sin city sunday at ten on cnn
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directly? >> is it my spinlet behind me? it's the ik three polar wolf colony where my son, alexey navalny died on february 16. i haven't been able to see him for five days. they won't give me his body they don't even tell me where he is. i'm addressing you vladimir putin. the solution to the issue depends only on you. let me finally see my sundays. i demand that alex's body be immediately handed over, so that i can bury him humanely. >> nick paton walsh is outfront in southern ukraine and nic putin appears to be extremely defiant for someone who insists he had nothing to do with navalny's death yeah. >> i mean, a man who would never even mentioned navalny's name when he was alive today, gave the deputy director of the russian prison service a sense, a promotion some suggesting his critics that may have been related to the untimely horrific death of navalny near
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the arctic's circle. at the same time too, we're hearing that russia has detained us, russian citizen, kseniia catalina, thirty-three-year-old, los angeles resident into catherine berg for sending they claim just slightly more than $50 in humanitarian aid to ukrainian civilian fans. and also too, we are hearing of the remarkable news that a russian pilot who defected in september with the helicopter he was piloting to ukraine. well, he appears to have been found dead, potentially shot in spain. so a series of suggestions here that essentially putin is certainly unbowed after the intense it's. national criticism around navalny, but frankly, you would expect that from the kremlin man who is now on for nearly three years, pushed his forces in an illegal invasion into ukraine and putin neck also hailing this withdrawal of ukrainian troops from the key eastern city of abdivka as an
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>> unconditional success, he's vowing that russian forces are going to continue to advance their, which of course it the big question? what is the latest that you are seeing and expecting? >> yeah, look, we do expect the kremlin to feel boyd by the withdrawal by ukraine on saturday from avdiivka, but they're comments are also reflected in the things ukrainian officials are saying cranium, a command is on the frontline near as accepting that russia has significant forces after you've got a may just continue to push forward to the next village in their site. that's just there near abdivka. now, the key thing we're also hearing along the frontline, other areas where russia appears to be probing if not having some limited says, a tiny village called are bought and there was one of the main successes of the summer counter offensive by ukraine. they took it them, but they appear to be under intense pressure now to separate nights in a row, ukrainian officials saying they've had to repel intense russian onslaught. there at the
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same time too. we're hearing martin curse south of of defka held by ukraine under intense pressure and suggestions further north along the front line, russia is pushing again to the real fear here, frankly, is that we're looking at a moment potentially where western aid has run out. it's impacting ammunition is already impacting morale and we maybe seeing that sort of tipping moment on the front line where russia, you can hear in her son with the lights are off constant shelling. russia has plenty of ammunition, plenty of troops, and is facing ukraine with the opposite all right, nick paton walsh, thank you for that report >> out front. >> now, i keiter vissel law, he is a russian opposition activist and a member of the anti-putin group riot. peter also says the kremlin is responsible for a suspected poisoning that he survived back in 2018. peter, first of all, we're so sorry for your loss. you were very close with the navalny. you had been friends for years. what is his death mean for the fight against
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putin in russia >> well obviously it's a huge historical loss for many tens of millions. i would say hundreds of millions of people around the world because besides being my personal friend and one of my best friends over the past many, many years, alexey symbols has great historical importance for people in russian, for people around the world who hope to one see russia of free and democratic country. he was like alexei navalny was essentially russia's best present chance for democracy. obviously it's a huge personal tragedy, huge historical tragedy. you see him gotten now. >> you have vowed to take revenge and destroy this regime. how do you make that happen when you can't be in russia, when opposition leaders cannot be in russia without facing prison or possibly death
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well, in my particular case, i do. i'm located mostly located in ukraine these days. and what we do with in close work together with the ukrainian forces, we do everything we can to stop the russian aggression, to stop the occupation, to help you queen wind back those territories that have been taken from it illegally by the invading russian force. and right now that's one of the best ways to turn this world into better and just place into make putin go, we make people disappear from the political life and from russia. and changed the world into completely different place, avenge, as you said, the death of my close friend and rushes opposition leader navalny had survived famously, a suspected poisoning by the kremlin in 2020, which is about 18 months after your suspected
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>> poisoning in russia. and navalny is he's now gone and his family says that it's because putin poison him again, russia has been silent on speculation that it is behind the death is well of a russian helicopter pilot who defected to ukraine last year. so many of putin's enemies have met these sudden and mysterious deaths per go prigozhin, russian oligarchs, journalists activists. why do you think putin acts with such a parent impunity? >> well, first smell food. now has this fascination in destroying his opponents with in ways that will sweat and make other people afraid of him in his view, that this gives him the strengthens his own political power and give some allows him to appear more like the statement that he wants to be putin is a crazy and sick person who has a lot of fascination for destroying other people's lives,
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destroying countries, conquering countries, and has a sick man. she does a lot of second discussing things, including murdering people, murdering his opponents. >> i spoke last night to evgenia kara-murza, the wife of vladimir kara-muza who is a top putin critic currently serving a 25 year sentence in siberia. and i asked her if navalny's death makes putin stronger or weaker? and this is what she said >> i believe adopts the fact that vladimir putin eliminates every single of his opponents is indeed a sign of weakness because no strong leader would have to do anything like this. >> yeah, putin in his opposition, keeps them off the ballot. maybe signs of weakness. is it enough in your opinion, of a weakness to bring putin down?
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>> well, obviously, you know, to bring putin down, it will require a combination of all forces that we have available. for example, we think that it's very important on the american side that congress passes the age to ukraine bill, which is stuck in the lower house right now, because in our view, that's one of the main things that can make it weaker one of those things that can actually help achieve the tree both in ukraine and russia. and >> definitely the more of these crazy actions that putin does, the more chances he gives to the world. track show really overcome him? find victory over him. so we have to continue to use those chances and not give up no matter what putin doesn't, matter what moves he makes next we'll continue to follow that. obviously it's very much stuck in congress, but it isn't dead yet. so we'll be keeping an eye on that. i'm
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peter again, our thoughts are with you. thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. >> thank you >> and outfront next, sources telling cnn that president biden's campaign now plans to zero in on the crazy expletive that trump says in public. as trump response to nikki haley's decision to stay in the race and an outfront exclusive we're going to take you to a huge prison complex housing killers and mobsters. one that is so dangerous are david over had to actually be escorted by armed soldiers >> candidate john edwards cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, had baby with his girlfriend, and then tried to pass it off as a campaign staffers kid >> we're here to get your side of the story. did your intimate relationship with him begin that night? yes. >> how did you end up with sex tape and john edwards and real hundred tabloid trash is full alive. >> donner was believed he could outsmart anyone's on the campaign trail is still running for president. >> what did he think was going
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retribution outfront. now, scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w bush, and jamal simmons, former communications director to vice president harris, and scott, i mean, haley saying she he's not going anywhere as trump's campaign is issuing a memo projecting he's actually going to have enough delegates to clinch the nomination here and less than a month. what is haley's goal? >> well, short-term i'm not sure she has a strategy to win. obviously, trump's on track to get the delegates probably before the end of march as his campaign pointed out today, long-term, she may be setting herself up to be the i told you so candidate. i mean, it may not be about getting the nomination anymore. it may be about a world where donald trump gets the nomination patient. donald trump loses to joe biden and nikki haley steps up and says, hey, i tried to tell you and she's trying to position herself for the future. i question whether what she's doing now is going to be putting herself in position for the kind of party that donald trump has built over the last few years. but i think that's the longer-term game that she
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might be playing because the short-term game and work and i mean, she's not going to win south carolina and these states coming up or not, not looking to hot in the polling right now for her yes. she's definitely been more long longer viewed here. and jamal, she's staying in the race. she's attacking trump pretty aggressively. she's calling him unhinged. many in her own party is too cowardly to say how they really feel about the former president can democrats use that to their advantage because she is also criticizing joe biden to be clear >> the criticisms that she's making on president biden, other criticisms that everybody is making about president biden. so i don't think democrats are quite as worried about that, but it is helpful to have a republican are conservative voice that is going after president trump, former president trump, because that does remind people that there were things about him that you may not even not remember. but when you hear them, you know, you don't like them. i think that's the part is important. the second part is donald trump from all accounts has work to do with
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the middle of the electorate east tried in the past to try to triangulate, to bring think back an old phrase, the triangulate. and there's show people that he's not as conservative as maybe some of the most conservative people in the party. he can't do that while he's battling nikki haley. so he's going to have to get back into a bet fight with joe biden. he kept from doing that as long as haley is still hitting him, basically from the left there was an interesting moment, scott, were halley got emotional. she was talking about her husband who is in the national guard and currently deployed overseas, whose absence from the campaign trail was recently mocked by trump, which is very odd, especially for republican candidate. here's what she said. >> i wish michael was here today, and i wish our children and i could see him tonight, but we can't he's serving on the other side of the world.
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we're conflict is the norm what did you think about that moment and i guess what kind of impact or the fact that it may not have an impact with republican voters when normally you would expect that it would well, i mean, this goes to jamal's argument from just a moment ago that this primary is affectively over from the perspective of republican voters >> have already made up their minds. they're not weighing two candidates right now. you look at the polling, may trump nationally right now is leading at 20. he's winning by 20 plus 25 plus points in south carolina. these aren't people who are weighing two different people. they're just waiting to vote for donald trump now to what donald trump said about nikki haley's husband. several days ago, and to what she was responding to in that speech, it was despicable. it's wrong. and if i were her, i would be emotional too and i know that there are service men and women all over this world who saw that. and were disgusted by it.
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and i know there were spouses and family members sitting at home looking at an empty table at the empty chair at the dinner table, who were disgusted by it what is the numerical impact of that? i don't know, but i know what's another log on the fire of people who just when they think they might be coming back around donald trump, they are reminded about things like this. so it was not a good thing to say. it was a terrible thing to say she's right to be emotional about it. the electoral impact and the republican primary, though at this point, brianna is negligible because the minds are made up and they're not open to changing at this it's point because they've already decided what they want to do from all what do you think about president biden seeing an opening here? sources telling cnn he's told senior campaign aides to ramp up the focus on the quote, crazy s-word, i guess i'll call it that. trump says in public, like mocking haley's husband and so on. >> oh, i think this has always been the democratic strategy, which is to remind people of the crazy s-word that donald
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trump represents. and that when they may get reminded of that, they will then say a second look at joe biden's like, okay, so we have a guy who's maybe a little bit older than we want. but then we got this guy who's kind, of corrupt and kind of chaotic and maybe it's more chaotic than we want. we just don't want that kind of chaos we're talking about quantifying this. there are you know, this. there are 170,000 active troops around the world right now serving our country they have families, they have friends. and when you take after one of them, i gotta believed that there like when my old boss masculine was in the senate, all those vets kind of stuck together. i gotta believe that people all kind of get zynga little bit when they hear it. the united states, over the united states has taken years to build this kind of security framework around the world and donald trump undermining nato, not take holding russia to account, going after nikki haley's husband. he's undermining our very security nature of what it is we look for a commander in
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chief to provide the guard, takes on a lot of responsibility. i think a lot of americans don't realize how much they're quite overburden. so shout out to the guard. jamal simmons, scott jennings. thank you so much to both the really appreciate it. and also tonight, democrats deploying kamala harris as a weapon for 2024. the vice president was in the battleground, state of pennsylvania today, part of this effort to make her more visible on the trail, it's also making her a bigger target for the gop. jeff zeleny was with harris today. he's outfront she's a weapon for democrats. >> these extreme and weaponized by republicans. >> we will have a female president of the united states the hard truth it's either gonna be me or kamala harris. vice president kamala harris,
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is it the red hot center of the 2024 campaign? firing up the party's base and taking fire from rivals who argue a vote for president biden may as well be a vote for a president harris while vice presidents are always a heartbeat away from the presidency, harris's burden is even higher as concerns over biden's age have dramatically escalated. >> as she said that's up or travel across the country. harris often starts with an urgent plea to protect abortion rights. >> let us be very clear about who is responsible former president trump hand picked he picked three supreme court justices because he intended for them to overturn roe today in pittsburgh, harris announced $5.8 billion in clean water investments, replacing lead pipes and more. as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law, biden signed in 2021, clean
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water can you believe that in the united states of america that is still not necessarily >> guaranteed to all people >> her biggest assignment is trying to win over skeptical young voters. black and latino supporters. and those protesting the administration' s policy toward israel >> all >> part of rebuilding biden's spring coalition were just so tired of being told that it's our job to prevent a trump presidency. >> tenisha long welcomes the vice president's greater visibility in the investment in clean water. but said voters want to hear more about their second term plans. >> the only messaging we're receiving is if you don't vote for biden, you're voting for trump. and what a lot of younger voters want and a lot of voters of color as we want people to earn our votes. >> harris has often been a punchline during her three years as vice president >> i went out script a little
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bit but allies now believe she could be a critical lifeline for a reelection bid facing steep challenges. a second impression, she's trying to make by taking on donald trump, former president trump it has made clear time and time again his fight is not for the people. he fights for himself. >> the vice president was busy selling the accomplishments of the biden administration, literally standing on the streets here in pittsburgh watching some of those lead pipes be replaced. but brown, she was also listening listening to the concerns of democratic officials and community leaders here who have deep concerns about this presidential campaign and are concerned about the reelection effort. but there is no doubt she is at the center of this race. unlike anyone else, republicans it's also intend to make her the center. there'll be gearing up their campaign against her. >> i'm told shortly, brianna. all right. we'll be watching jeff zeleny. thank you for that
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played out across ecuador over the past few weeks. the armed forces making a very public show of force, attempting to reinstate order within their own prisons it's part of ecuador's effort to neutralize terror groups and wheat out gangs, which have unleashed chaos nationwide from a live tv studio, armed takeover >> two >> random shootings in the streets this most recent surge in violence sparked by this suspected escape of this man, her say either from ics known as fetal on january 7, officials reported that while serving a 34 year sentence for murder and drug trafficking, the notorious gang leader vanished from this prison and guayaquil uh, drones view allows us to grasp the scale of this complex. it is sprawling, not really much of a prison uniform. they're all kind of in their own clothes officials, tell us it's made up of five different prisons through
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military in prison sources. we get a sense of the layout. we learned the women are kept here. these buildings house the men and they range from minimum to medium-security. and over here, maximum security known as ocha or the rock >> with the >> military escort, we go past the first of three perimeters. any farther, we're told to dangerous, even with armed soldiers were told inmates are separated based on gang affiliation and are essentially self-ruled. and you can see behind one of these gates, folks kind of moving comfortably and casually from cell to cell. it's kind of an indoor outdoor complex cnn obtaining these videos from inside by prison standards, they reveal a life of luxury fur fito, drug kingpin. >> the images >> captured last year by members of ecuador's military. >> they >> appear to show feet those cell messy, but complete with home comforts on fridge, a queen bed upscale shower fittings artwork featuring an
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image of a fito himself with guns and cash. >> going he lives like a king. >> you can hear one of the soldiers say in this video obtained by cnn and verified by ecuador's military outside his own courtyard at a half dozen fighting rooster's believed to be his, a military source tells us veto had a fresh fish important for his meals, and somehow even managed to shoot a music video from within the prison walls isa showing these images of fritos, 42nd birthday in 2022, the prisoners reportedly enjoyed cake. music, and drinks. the night capped off with fireworks >> somebody might have to >> he had more power outlets than a marriotto hotel room. ecuador's president danielle naboa said late last year. >> so >> why escape ecuadorian
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security experts believed that feed to was tipped off, that he was going to be transferred in the same complex back to the rock maximum security vetoes spent a few weeks and the rock last year moving him they're involved in estimated 4,000 police and soldiers. his sudden disappearance suggesting he wasn't ready to leave the comfort of his cell >> the >> government's focus now is to reassert control within but it won't be easy prison rates have turned up everything from laptops to guns >> present >> naboa. >> also an lte nick construction of new prisons designed by the same company behind el salvador's notorious mega prisons, where thousands of suspected gang members are locked step back outside of the prison in guayaquil. you can >> hear >> church services going on, some sort of religious ceremony loud speakers soldiers and police stand guard on the perimeter, knowing that it's
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often the gangs whose still dictate what happens on the inside david culver, cnn, guayaquil, ecuador outfront next, north korea, welcoming its first tourists since the pandemic. and tonight we hear exclusively from those who were allowed in to arrest tonight. and the mass shooting and the kansas the city chiefs super bowl celebration >> vegas >> story of simcity. sunday at ten on cnn. why choose asleep ever smart bet. >> can i make my side softer? >> my side firmer? >> sleep number? does that now say 50% on the sleep number limited edition smart thing plus 10% of all basis ends monday have you heard sling tv offers the news you love for less weight. you look and sound just like me. actually i am, you. because on the same news programs on sling for less, you mean you're me but for less money, a lot less. i'm all
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post-pandemic tourists events visiting kim jong-un's hermetically sealed nation amid its deepening ties with russia they flew from vladivostok to pyeongyang on a vintage russian plane operated by air koryo north korea's only airline. i've flown it more than a dozen times when westerners were still allowed in diplomacy with the us collapsed in hanoi in 2019, when observers say kim made a strategic pivot, bolstering his nuclear arsenal i ortizes ties with moscow and beijing, both protecting kim from fallout at the united nations for his unprecedented missile testing, binge again, russia is reportedly releasing millions of dollars in frozen north korean assets, facilitating access to international banking networks. the new york times reports, setting the stage for a new chapter of kim's nuclear
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ambitions. possibly with the help of russian rocket scientists this russian tour and perhaps more to come is about more than sightseeing. it's about the bigger picture of international relations. russia and north korea strengthening ties icing out the west iliya vause, please. cienski is a travel blogger from st. petersburg, a tough job these days, many european nations ban russian tourists the result, of putin's war on ukraine, good diode. we do >> i signed up for this tour at the moment, i heard about it it's like stepping back in time, reminiscent of the stories my grandparents told me about life in the soviet union, the empty streets, the lack of advertisements. >> it's surreal ileana beach to via is a marketing professional from moscow recording >> to the meticulous
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preparations for our visit, felt like being in a theater production. but amidst the choreographed scenes, couldn't shake the feeling that there's another side to north korea, one that remains hidden beneath it, carefully controlled facade encounters with north korean children, revealing curiosity, genuine >> interest in the outside world tourism is one thing, but tonight there's growing concern about this deepening military partnership between russia and north korea and investigative organization out of the uk says that north korea is firing ballistic missiles. they analyze one of them and they said hundreds of components in that missile were made in the united states, possibly within the last three years, briana, at least 14 ukrainians dead by north korean missiles. and of course, an exchange vladimir putin promised help kim jong on launched his own satellites and rockets will ripley fascinating report. thank you for that outfront. next, police charging two men after the deadly mass
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