hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states an right around the world. i'm isa soares in london. we are following breaking news coverage of the war in ukraine and just ahead right here on "cnn newsroom" -- >> my heart is breathing. >> mariupol is under shelling. >> they want us to do more. >> more than 2 million people have left ukraine. >> if putin is not stopped in ukraine, there will be terrible implications for european and global security.

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it is thursday, 11 a.m. in ukraine and where we mark the beginning of a third week of war. the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers have been meeting in turkey. that's where they're meeting right now as condemnation over the invasion really just inten si guys. we're about to air some images from the besieged city mariupol that you may find disturbing. they show the aftermath of an attack on a maternity ward and children's hospital that turned deadly. 3 of the 17 people wounded in the blast have died and one of them was a child. the victims include extremely pregnant women as well as doctors and children all rushed out of the building or carried out as we've seen on stretchers. a few hours before the bombing russia's foreign ministry claimed they were hold up in a

hospital and expelled patients and staff. russia later insisted the forces were not involved in the bombing. they said they would not commit a crime like this even in the separatist region. >> translator: children's hospital? maternity ward? why were they a threat to russian federation? what kind of country is russian federation afraid of hospitals, children's ward? >> translator: a strike on children's hospital and maternity ward is a strike on genocide. >> ukraine's former boxing champion had a strong reaction. vladimir kalitschka said to attack chirp is to attack life. >> my heart is bleeding.

it is often said that the first casualty of war is truth. yes, it is. as you can see, russia. as you can see, the most unbearable casualties are children. children are dying by the dozens now, at home, in their houses, on the road. >> a warning, we are going to air more images that you may find upsetting. they shed real light on the suffering that continues every day in mariupol. so many people there have been killed that workers have been placing victims in a mass grave, their bodies wrapped in plastic bags as well as carpet. we are told this trench was dug next to a graveyard. overwhelmed workers and shell shocked families clearly unable to provide fitting funerals. mariupol funerals say some 1300 sivillians have been killed since the invasion. cnn cannot independently confirm

that figure. it far excites the death toll of 516 which is for the entire country. mariupol as you see there clearly in a world of hurt, but that attack on the eternity ward is especially outrageous because it happened during what was supposed to be a cease-fire. a cease-fire proposed by russia that was meant to help trapped civilians escape. sam kiley. >> reporter: we're really stretched. whatever cars you have, send them here. he said airstrike, maternity hospital. this was russia's response to a global appeal for a cease-fire to evacuate a city of a million people. a bomb dropped next to a maternity hospital in mariupol. it's hospital number three. inside, a frantic search for survivors. early reports say that there were more than a dozen injured. a miraculous outcome to an

attempted mass killing at a place where lives should begin. many women and children had fled to bunkers. ukraine's president renewed pleas to drive russia from its skies. >> translator: everything that the occupiers do with mariupol is already beyond atrocity. europeans, ukrainians, citizens of mariupol, today we must be united in condemning this war crime of russia. >> reporter: evacuations from other towns have been more successful but still very limited. around 00 people, mostly women and children, were bussed out of the site of europe's biggest nuclear reactor which was captured recently by russia. >> translator: the shops are empty. nothing is there. not enough medical supplies. we're tired. need to eat and rest.

>> reporter: it may seem extraordinary, but these are the lucky ones. they've escaped from the shadow of a nuclear power system. this is good fortune. this is a volunteer center from zaporizhzhia. it's empty. she's been waiting a week for news from home of her husband evgeni and daughter yessia. this morning she got a brief call. how's your daughter doing? >> my daughter told me she loves me. >> reporter: of course she does. >> she is alive. she is doing like all the children do now in mariupol. almost no drinking water, no electricity. it was minus 5 this night. they have no heat. cold basement. >> reporter: a small family is living in bomb shelter with hundreds of others. they can only survive another

few days. then they will have to surface, perhaps to face more of this. sam kiley, cnn, zaporizhzhia. president volodymyr zelenskyy are hoping more people will be able to leave ukraine in the coming hours. six humanitarian routes are supposed to be open from the sumy region. yesterday's efforts, mostly successful, 35,000 were rescued from mariupol in the south and areas around kyiv in the north. ukraine's interior ministry claims russian forces stopped some of the convoys. scott mclean is live from major city the refugees have been traveling through. let's start on the humanitarian corridors. we've seen pictures out of mariupol, that hospital. how can anyone take russia at

their word given what happened at that maternity ward hospital? they boomed it during a cease-fire? >> reporter: it only underscores the need for sees fires. blame is being placed on the russians. russia denies it saying it is ukrainian nationalists. several hours before it was bombed or a military strike against the hospital the -- the russians were saying that there were actually ukrainians taking up combat positions at that hospital and expelling the patients and the staff there. the mayor of mariupol says very clearly, look, the perpetrators of this will burn in hell right after they're brought to justice at the hague. mariupol is under siege. you have a city that was cut off from the rest of the country lacking food, no power, no water, no heat. no cell signal.

that's the least of their worries. now on top of all of that, you have this. watching through some of the video is absolutely horrifying. you hear the first responder saying, look, send all the cars you can. in another video someone says, where should we send the children from the maternity ward, which hospital? you can imagine, isa, how difficult it is to navigate a city which is under siege, doesn't have basic resources and now all of a sudden you're trying to send injured people from one hospital to another. >> yeah. there are just no words really what we are seeing in mariupol. let's talk about these new humanitarian corridors that have been announced. what are you hearing from people? you are meeting some who have been able to get out from these locations. >> reporter: sure. so far it's been hit and miss. the first couple of days they tried these humanitarian corridors, it did not go well. the ukrainians accused the

russians of shelling in these directions and corridors. they were called off. precious few able to get out. we saw the first sign of success on tuesday in sumy when several thousand people were able to get out, including almost 1,000 international students were taken out along a humanitarian corridor to a city 100 miles away. from there they were put on trains to lviv where i got to meet some of them. they described a terrifying experience sheltering in the basement bunker of their dormitory building. one student told me she accepted at one point she was likely going to die. thankfully they were able to get out in the corridors safely. their journey took 24 hours but nobody complained about the trains or the discomfort of the buses. they were happy to be alive and in one piece. so as for today, there is

potentially some optimism that things could go a little bit better. as you mentioned, the president said some 35,000 people were able to get out of a handful of cities yesterday. one of the problems is around kyiv in the suburbs. some suburbs were able to get out of the city able to take trains and other transport out. in other places, the suburb of bucha, they say the russians blocked the road. what ended up happening is some people who were in that convoy ready to go, could not get out, ended up going another direction and actually linking up with a different corridor where people were able to get out. the trouble is by the time they managed to get there and get on to a green corridor, it was past curfew, past the time the corridor was supposed to be open. you had some 15 kilometers of backup, people trying desperately to get out of the cities. the situation in mariupol does

not bode well. some 50,000 people want to get out. baja, some 20,000 want to get out. fingers crossed it goes better. >> temperatures so low. can't imagine what those families are going through. thank you for your terrific reporting, scott. top diplomats from ukraine and russia are meeting now in turkeys. talks are underway in the last hour between the officials. they're the highest level talks happening. no major breakthroughs are expected. jo jomana kurachi is there. they're talking and i suppose that's a good sign, but are there any hopes of progress

here? >> reporter: you know, isa, this has been a serious diplomatic push by turkey for days and weeks trying to bring both sides together to get them to start talking at a higher level. the foreign minister and the turkish president erdogan have been working the phones. they have tried to bring president putin and zelenskyy together for a summit. right now they have managed to get these two top diplomats to sit together in a trilateral meeting hosted by the turkish foreign minister. as you mentioned, that happened an hour ago. we understand from a single senior official, this is happening in the next 30 minutes or so. perhaps an indication but no one is expecting this to go on for hours. no one is expecting a major breakthrough to come from this meeting. things are quite fluid and that could change. we have seen preparations underway for two separate press

conferences taking place after the talks conclude. one here where foreign minister sergei lavrov is expected to address the press and then a separate room where foreign minister kalava was speaking. turkey was hoping, isa, that this is going to be, you know, as we heard from president erdogan, opening the door towards a permanent cease-fire, but i think realistically no one is expecting any sort of a major break through especially when it comes to the key issues at the heart of this conflict. we heard that from foreign minister klava saying he doesn't have high expectations coming to this meeting but he's hoping his russian counterpart is going to approach this in good faith rather than from a perspective of propaganda. we have to wait and see what comes out of here. we know for ukraine on the table according to the foreign

minister it is the same. and according to kalava, they're going to be speaking about quote, unquote, liberating our territory. we'll have to wait and see what happens. one important thing, isa, that foreign minister kalava said, they are coming to these talks from a position of strength this time. they feel they have the backing of the international community. they've had the support. had the sanctions slapped on russia as well as the fight that the ukrainians have put up on the ground. >> yeah. i think that's a very good point that kalava makes. they are in a position of strength. the russian troops digging in. they haven't been able to take kyiv. out the ukrainians are defiant and the rest of the world sanctioning russia. are we expecting realistically,

jomana, for them to budge on their list of demands? >> reporter: that is the big question here, isa. how much is this international pressure going to impact the russians? we have heard from officials saying, look, we're going to have to wait and see what directives foreign minister lavrov has coming into the meetings. i don't think a 90-minute meeting is going to be one where you're going to see any sort of concessions or any sort of major changes to the situation but, again, as you mentioned, at least there is this optimism, this hope that they are starting to talk at the highest of levels right now. we'll have to wait and see, isa, what comes out of it. at least' cease-fire. really, turkey wants to present itself as a serious peace broker in all of this and has been trying and working really hard

behind the scenes to try and use its good relations with both countries to brianne end to the violence. >> turkey's interesting, of course, because it has called russia's invasion unacceptable but it has not sanctioned or posed sanctions on russia. jomana in antalya. thank you. vice president kamala harris is in poland with talks with the country's president and prime minister. she will reiterate u.s. support for nato allies and the ukrainian people and announce russia is heading for resounding retreat. well, children are among the millions of refugees from ukraine. for them, the journey from home can be as terrifying and confusing as the attacks they

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the world health organization says it's verified 18 attacks on health care facilities in ukraine so far, and now as more than 2 million people have fled the fighting, the w.h.o. is helping to provide care in the neighboring countries that have taken them in. most of the refugees, as you can see there, are women and children. one group is taking care of the orphans who needed help to escape the attacks. sara sidner says they are safe for now but have no hope of returning home. >> reporter: the normal beautiful chaos of children at play, but these children have been through hell and back more than once in their young lives. some are orphans, others foster children in ukraine and suddenly

overnight -- >> welcome. >> reporter: -- they became war refugees. fleeing over the polish border from kyiv. the youngest one says, i want to go home. i'm telling him that he can't. it's scary there. he doesn't understand. this is the only woman they know as mama. this is their comfort, their constant. she helped them escape ukraine, but doing that meant leaving her own family behind and becoming a refugee herself. i have a daughter and mother in ukraine. i'm worrying so much, but these children should be saved. her daughter is staying behind to fight russia as a member of the ukraine territorial defense. these children have been fighting for their place in the world from an early age. we're not showing their faces to protect them. is there actual abuse as well, actual physical abuse? >> translator: before the war our children have been abused,

physically, psychologically, economically and sexually. they suffer. they didn't have a childhood. now in poland they are safe at the sos children's village, but the trauma of war and abuse never really goes away their long-time mental health counselor says. she's held it together to reassure the children, even while they all hid in the basement with bombs exploding outside. it was around 4 a.m. i woke my husband up and told him, this is war. we started to seal the windows. the children started to scream. i was trying to calm him. look at me, breathe, we're going to seal the windows. everything is under control. now we need you to stop the panic and help us. so far sos children's village says it has brought 107 children out of ukraine. some escaped without seeing it, others witnessed horrific scenes. there is a girl just coming to

us. she broke free from the hell of irpin. she witnessed a family being shot before her eyes. when she thinks of the man responsible for raining down bombs and bullets, her tears turn to rage. putin is the second hitler. it is serious. if the world doesn't stop him, there will be world war iii. >> putin has said he is going into ukraine to kill nazis. you are saying putin is, in your mind, the new hitler? yes, it is obvious now he is not fighting nazis. while they are all grateful to escape to pole land, the children and adults all say they want one thing, to be able to cross the border home to a safe ukraine. and i should mention that now the number of refugees in total that have come over the polish border from ukraine is now up to 1.3 million people. sara sidner, cnn, poland.

now we have some breaking news coming in to cnn. the u.k. has added oligarch and chelsea football owner and putin ally to its list of sanctioned individuals. in a statement on thursday the u.k. government said it was adding seven further oligarchs and chelsea club owner to the list of sanctioned individuals. that means basically its assets will be frozen. u.k. government coming under pressure to sanction them. well, life under siege in ukraine's second largest city, one member keeps a video diary. her account is heart wrenching.

>> last night was probably the most terrifying night of my life. we were terribly bombarded last night, kharkiv. airstrikes all over the city. dozens of buildings destroyed. civilian buildings where people were.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." talks coming against the backdrop of the bombing of a maternity ward and children's hospital in mariupol. there is more condemnation for the attack. they killed three people, one of those a child. new satellite images show the widespread destruction in the southern port city. six humanitarian routes are expected to be open today including one from mariupol. less than a kilometer away from the bombed out children's hospital a city building were hit by an apparent russian strike. then this in central ukraine . that shows an airstrike in a city. all of the windows were blown

out in a hospital, including a children's hospital. a senior u.s. defense official said they are getting close to kharkiv. >> our city was bombed for the past three plus days with cluster bombs, which is illegal. the aim of the bombs is human. not buildings but everything that is alive so they use cluster bombs to kill people. i wouldn't be surprised if they use chemical, et cetera. >> incredibly chilling. in northeastern ukraine the russian military is unleashing massive fire power on the second largest city. they tweeted kharkiv is now

completely encircled. its mayor says heavy artillery and airstrikes are constantly pounding the city targeting civilian areas. we have the story. >> reporter: kharkiv is increasingly resembling the 21st century stalingrad. only this time it is russia laying siege to a city which is defiantly resisting. somehow amid all of this its residents are surviving. the day after a missile slammed into kharkiv's town hall we asked a resident of this city to document what's happening to her home. >> my city, kharkiv, is under constant attack. bombings, rocket fire, artillery fire all day nonstop. just today four russian war

planes flew near my house. >> reporter: she is trying to keep her body, mind, soul together in their apartment where they're sheltering from the bombs. >> this is our hiding place. it's vestibule area between two walls with no windows. we also have a little bit of space for our bunny rabbit. >> i just found out russians have bombed my favorite place in kharkiv. feel really angry. look what they've done. i celebrated my birthday one time in this bar.

>> reporter: as the siege tightens, so does her struggle to survive forces her to venture outside. >> me and my sister are going to get water. my sister is going to fill this bo bottle. >> the elevator is not working for ten days now so we need to walk on stairs. >> go, go. >> reporter: her sleep is now often interrupted by the sound of war planes circling as the bombing of kharkiv intensifies. >> i have some good news. my family is alive. i am alive. my house is still standing.

my friends are okay. no one i personally know have yet died during russian invasion of ukraine. i have electricity, drinking water, some food. not much but enough. >> reporter: each day the bombs are falling closer. this is the university sports complex. >> we heard very loud explosion. the doors shook, windows, too, and this was it. apocalypse now. and among the ruins we have found a little dog. look at him. my sister said he is really trembling really hard. >> last night was probably the most terrifying night of my

life. kharkiv was terribly bombarded last night. airstrikes all over the city. dozens of buildings destroyed. civilian buildings with people in them. just -- i'm not going to take much because i'm hoping i will return soon enough. my sister says it's like going

on a trip, but an awful one, i guess. so as my parents can no longer withstand it, the constant bombing, especially after last night, which was truly a terrifying thing, we are going to leave, if we live that long, of course. so i don't want to leave and i won't be living in ukraine. we'll be moving in somewhere just further away from russian border. i don't know why we're being bombarded in our home. >> dan rivers with that report. because of the attacks like you just saw, ukraine's top

prosecutors calling for a special war crimes tribunal for her country. she says the current legal structure is just not enough. she's calling for what she described as a new mechanism to investigate alleged war crimes in ukraine. earlier she spoke with my colleague michael holmes in lviv. >> what we have in ukraine, we have innocent civilians killed. yesterday you remember it was a maternity hospital in mariupol. every day we see them bomb to kindergartens, to schools, to just cities and every day we have more and more deaths. >> war crimes are often hard to prove. are you confident that there will be the proof of war crimes and the evidence to hold those responsible? >> we prove everything. now we have a thousand cases in ukraine. we have big case against people

because what we see now, yesterday before this bomb attack on the maternity hospital, russian speakers from minister of defense told them troops go in the hospital. >> reporter: ukrainian troops were in there. >> it is absolutely untrue. it is a question of life and death, actually. i am from kharkiv. i am russian speaker and i have been 100% in kharkiv, people who spoke russian before this war. therefore, ukrainians, very important to stop this war. this is cruel, brutal war. you remember chechnya and syria. >> yes. >> who were the people responsible, what happened? nothing. look at chechnya. now i am very scared that whole

civilizations decided that ukr ukraine, okay, let's speak about this later, but not gentlemen and women. it's very, very important if we want to stop putin now, the war will be in other houses, in houses of europe and other parts of europe. zpl the prosecutor general also said in her opinion russian president vladimir putin can personally be charged. if you'd like to help people in ukraine who may be in need of shelter, food, water, many to as you've seen on cnn, please go to cnn.com/impact. you'll find several ways you can help. we'll be back after this short break.

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there is a russian bombing of a kindergarten in northeastern ukraine. they are both okay. we spoke to cnn about the incident. >> i was in constant contact with ukrainian military it prevented us from going there. instead, my colleague and i wanted to get away from what could potentially be a new invasion. when we did that a car hit the post from behind, stepped out with an automatic rifle and just shot into our car. and i just want to add that our car was labeled press, it was labeled so it was obvious that we were journalists.

we did not expect that, you know, there would be shootings directly at what would be the press, right? that's not what we were expecting. that's not what we had heard had been the case. but what we have seen in the last few days have been that numerous journalists have been shot while driving around in their cars labeled press. it seems like this is happening deliberately, right? this was something i couldn't grasp in the beginning. my colleague and i seemed to be the first ones deliberately shot at. >> glad to hear they're doing okay. journalists are facing a crackdown and they're looking to control the narrative. jill doherty took this photo before she left the cnn moscow bureau. she tells us why it's such a troubling time for independent journalists. >> when i took that selfie i took it because i really wanted like a symbol for me of perhaps

the last time that i'll be there. i honestly don't know. i want to go back. i'm not a full-time reporter but i go back a lot and it's a place i'm very interested in. i think it's so important to be able to have not only foreign journalists but russian journalists able to cover whatever is happening, and right now the independent media are banned. there's no way they can cover much of anything in an objective way, they are not allowed to. right around that time i was talking to friends, i had some coffee with some friends and most of them were saying where they go next. when you just stop independent broadcasting and that approach to news. and then see what russian state tv is doing. it is just all day 24 hours a day showing pictures not even of what's going on in kyiv. it's not showing that war.

it's showing the donbas region and saying how it's being pacified and everything is fine. it's a completely non-real image of the world and younger people don't watch tv for the most part, they really don't. but older people do and older people are the people who vote for president putin and they make up the majority of the country so that's what the kremlin watches and looks at. >> jill doherty there. along with russia's control of war coverage comes amid the misinformation campaign. the white house and state department are blasting the campaign. we look at how the bunked claims are finding new life. >> reporter: the for boweding music, biohazard warnings. this russian day media footage

from 2015 claims to show america running facilities in ukraine and georgia that cause deadly outbreaks of disease and killed local livestock. >> this story is false and it doesn't stop it from continuing to circulate. it's a key part of russia's disinformation campaign justifying the claims of ukraine. the claims were debunked when in 2020 the united states issued a statement to, quote, set the record straight. their facilities are for vaccine development and to report about outbreaks before they cause security or stability threats. this week the story was back. >> translator: we are confirming a fact unveiled that indicates an emememeen cleanup of military biological programs by the kyiv regime. they were carried out by kyiv and financed by the united states of america. >> reporter: multiple times they

have resurfaced the debunked story. on tuesday it was mentioned by a russian ally. >> translator: it is reported that the biolabs have dangerous viruses. during russia's military operation, it was found the u.s. is using those laboratories. >> reporter: it's being repeatedly shared from facebook, twitter, telegram. cnn is tracking it. it's being posted in canada, australia, germany and this tweet is one example. you can see it's been retweeted over 500 times already. the theory has attracted people with significant -- >> go into ukraine and take out the biolabs. it has been featured on a far right platform. >> u.s. bioweapons labs in ukraine. >> reporter: so russia's false narrative on american biolabs in

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i want to take you to natalia in turkey where ukraine's foreign ministry is speaking after meeting with his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov. listen in.

[ speaking foreign language ] >> i came here with humanitarian meeting decision, arrange a humanitarian corridor in and from mariupol, from mariupol for

civilians who want to leave this area of here, struggle, and humanitarian corridor to bring in mariupol humanitarian aid. unfortunately minister lavrov was not in a position to commit himself to it but he will correspond with respective authorities on this issue. we also raised the issue of cease-fire, 24-hour cease-fire to address the most pressing humanitarian issues. we did not make progress on this since it seems that there are other decision makers of this matter in russia.

we agreed to continue efforts to seek a solution of the humanitarian issues on the ground. i will get ready to meet again in this format if there are prospects for a substantial discussion and for seeking solutions. i believe that when two foreign ministers meet, they have by definition the mandate to negotiate issues of piece, security, the mandate by their parliaments, and i'm ready to continue this engagement with the purpose of ending the war in ukraine. stopping the suffering of ukrainian civilians and

liberating our territories from the russian occupying force. i will now say a couple of words in ukrainian. [ speaking foreign language ] . you have been listening to the foreign leader who is meeting in antalya with his russian counterpart, lavrov. the meeting was very short, probably an hour. it doesn't seem like it was a very positive meeting. he says he came here with a purpose, a humanitarian purpose, to try and arrange a

humanitarian corridor for the city of mariupol, the main city, the one they're most worried about given what they have seen in the last 24 hours, a maternity hospital being sh shelled. he said unfortunately mr. lavrov, his russian counter part, wasn't in a position to commit but will continue corresponding with a local authority. no signs of agreement on a humanitarian corridor for the city of mariupol that's been under siege for nine days. on the question of a cease fire. it seems that didn't go well either. he's saying they didn't make any progress, those were his words, but they will continue these efforts and continue talking. mariupol is of huge importance to ukraine. we've seen against this backdrop really of this children's hospital being bombarded

overnight and they're seeing broad condemnation that local officials to that attack, we've seen local officials killed three people, one of them a child. and we have seen mariupol on the ground that had no water, no electricity, no food, completely under siege and away, of course, from any support and any humanitarian corridors. that is what the ukraine foreign minister was hoping to negotiate here. that was the aim of this meeting. so we heard from the ukrainian foreign minister. i want to take you now to the russian foreign minister, to his analysis of that meeting. let's have a listen. >> translator: ladies and gentlemen, today we met with

turkish minister and then we had a trilateral conversation attended by ukrainian foreign min minister. this meeting took place at the initiative of the turkish side as a result of the conversation between president erdogan and putin. president erdogan proposed and we agreed with our turkish friends because we are in favor of any contact on the issues at the root of today's crisis in ukraine and the ways out of this crisis. one thing we said at the beginning was there should be a value added contacts and they should not be used by our ukrainian colleagues who do this quite