hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm max foster in london. we are following the breaking news on the war in ukraine. just ahead -- putin says he's only targeting military targets. >> [ bleep ]. sorry, russia bombed the building. the word dete was written on both sides of the building. it's russian for children. >> i'm' addressing president biden. being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news.

it's thursday, march 17th. 4 a.m. in washington, 10 a.m. in ukraine. we begin this hour with that breaking news. at least one person is dead and three others wounded after did he brings from a downed missile hit a residential building in kyiv. authorities say a fire broke out in the 16-story building but it was put out quickly. state emergency service reports 30 people have been evacuated from the site and rescue operations are ongoing. meanwhile, in the southern coastal city of mariupol, what could be one of the most brutal attacks since russia invaded ukraine last month. local officials say russian forces bombed a theater in the heart of the city where hundreds of people were taking shelter. still not clear how many were killed or wounded. here's part of what makes this attack so merciless. satellite images show the russian word for children spelled out in large letters on two sides of the building unmistakable. ukraine blames russia for

another attack on civilians in the northern city of chernihiv. russia denies its troops were responsible. protestors turned out in another city after russian forces detained the mayor, his deputy and the city council secretary. russian troops responded with tear gas. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy is bringing his support this hour. that follows his virtual address to the u.s. congress on wednesday. he urged president biden to be a world leader, a leader for peace. he repeated his request for a no fly zone saying it has turned ukrainian skies into a source of death. mr. zelenskyy compared this moment to turning points in u.s. history where urgent action was

required. >> translator: remember pearl harbor? terrible morning of december 7th, 1941, when your skies was black from the planes attacking. just remember it. remember september the 11th? a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories, into battlefields. when innocent people were attacked, attacked from air. yes, just like no one else expected it, you cannot stop it. our country experienced the same, every day, right now. >> after mr. zelenskyy's speech president biden announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to ukraine. it'll include anti-air kraft systems, drones, grenade launchers and ammunition. mr. biden said the world is

united in its support for ukraine and in its determination to make vladimir putin pay a very heavy price. in a separate event mr. biden made his harshest criticism. >> war criminal? >> oh, i think he is a war criminal. >> the president's allegations have to be proven in court to have legal weight. it's the kind of thing chief prosecutor of the international criminal court is here -- is in ukraine to investigate his part of his exclusive interview with cnn's anderson cooper. >> we have reasonable grounds to believe crimes within the court are committed. >> you have reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity has been committed? >> absolutely. it is a crime to intentionally target civilians. it is a crime to intentionally target civilian objects. now of course there has to be

further investigation. were those civilian objects being used to launch attacks? even then it's no license to use cluster bombs or disproportionate attacks in concentrated areas. there's a duty of distinction. >> russian troops may be getting some badly needed help. russian warships are passing through the waters possibly carrying troops and combat vehicles. meanwhile, president putin is lashing out at western countries which he claims are trying to cancel russia. still, the kremlin says he's open to talks with president biden despite western sanctions. mr. putin also condemned russians who are protesting against his special military operation calling them scum and traitors. >> translator: but any people, the russian people especially are able to distinguish true patriots from bastards and

patriots and will spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths. i am necessary that this self-cleaning of our society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, togetherness and our readiness to answer any calls to action. >> cnn's natasha bertrand is in brussels, belgium. first we'll go to lviv, ukraine where scott mclean is standiing by us. it's very hard to see the images coming out from mariupol especially the one with the words children standing out. we haven't had any verified information from there, have we? >> reporter: no, we are waiting on more information on what the death toll might be. you have to imagine that it is not going to be good. that is because local officials there, max, say that was the largest shelter in the city center housing more than 1,000 people. in fact, a video taken a week

before then shot by a government film crew showed volunteers helping to feed the women and children and some men who were staying in that shelter, and they said in that video that there were more than 1,000 people there. there were military people guiding them through, the film crew through that shelter, but there's no indication it was being used as a military site. no indication that there were artillery positions there either. in fact, as you mentioned, the satellite image shows the word children written out in russian was visible from the skies for the russians to see. the russians have a very different story. they say there was an ultra nationalist militia that's been incorporated into the ukrainian armed forces that bombed this theater saying that they wouldn't have seen it as a legitimate target. there was also a swimming pool about 2 1/2 kilometers away that

was hit. local officials there max say only pregnant women and only women with children under 3 years old were able to shelter there. again, waiting for more information on the death toll, on the casualty counts. one other thing to mention, a little bit of good news for people in mariupol. more than 10,000 of them according to officials on the ground yesterday alone, though one convoy of some 70 vehicles did take artillery fire. thankfully no one was killed. five were injured, two were children. >> take us through as well what we're learning about this visit to kyiv from these east european leaders. obviously the security was shrouded in secrecy but you learn a bit more about that. >> yeah. so i spoke to the ceo of ukrainian railways and he said this was the idea of the three

prime ministers from slovenia, czech republic and poland to take the train because they figured it was the safest option. the head of the railways agrees. it was pretty hastily agreed. half a day. left in the morning. took them 8 or 9 hours to get there. they spent a few hours with the president and got straight back on a train in poland. once they were there safely he told me about their journey. something in particular that surprised them, which was the fact they announced their visit while they were still en route to kyiv before they had arrived there safely. obviously some safety concerns there were top of mind for the head of the railways. he said, look, i was keeping this secret. when they made this public i was pretty surprised. he called that move naive. max? >> thank you, scott. natasha, we're going to look at nato with you. we're heading towards this big summit, aren't we, where president biden is due to attend. this is going to be a big show

of unity. how are preparations going for that? got to be a big message coming out there? >> reporter: in preparation for biden's visit to nato, they are looking at what kind of deliverables they could announce during that summit, more humanitarian assistance to ukraine, more lethal aid that they will be perhaps sending to ukraine. they don't know yet what the deliverables will be. this will be more of a symbolic visit than anything else. the president visiting on this hastily arranged summit at nato in the middle of a russian onslaught in ukraine. the goal is going to be to get all of the nato leaders on the same page here about the new security environment they are facing given this russian onslaught there. the fact that the nature of the european security has changed and they need to come up with a way to fortify even further the eastern flanked nato countries that are feeling very vulnerable and threatened in the face of

this russian aggression. one of the things we will not see is the imposition of a no fly zone. that is something that stoltenberg made clear. the allies are united on this. they do not want to see nato forces in the air or on the ground imposing that no fly zone. it would put them directly in conflict with the russians. president biden did call president putin a war criminal yesterday so it raises questions about what the united states and nato to do to prevent the atrocities from being carried out. they are intent upon giving ukraine the defensive assistance that it needs to effectively fight the russians. we saw the president of the united states announce just yesterday another $800 million in security assistance to ukraine bringing the total just over the last week to about $1 billion in new security aid.

really important and key weaponry that they are going to be sending to ukraine, including armed drones and other equipment that they hope can change the balance of the conflict here, but ultimately what we're hearing from nato sources is that, you know, all of these proposals, for example, the polish proposal to send a peacekeeping force into the territory, no fly zone are untenable. they do not want to put those nato forces in confrontation with russia. >> thank you to natasha. we want to cut you short because we want to go to the german parliament where volodymyr zelenskyy is addressing the politicians there. >> translator: as russia bombs our cities ruining everything ukraine has, when residential buildings, churches and schools are being destroyed with missiles and heavy artillery,

many ukrainians, thousands died in these three weeks. the occupiers -- the occupiers killed 108 children in the middle of europe here in the 21st century. i address you after many meetings, talks and requests for support, some of which is too late after sanctions which are too few to stop the war. after we have seen how many links your companies have with russia, a state that is simply using you and some other countries to fund its war. in the three weeks of the war we

knew what we knew -- the last three weeks have proven what we knew before. what was not noticed before, but you must have noticed behind the wall that you are -- that we are now behind the wall. it's not a berlin wall but it is a stronger wall with each bomb falling on our ukrainian land and every decision taken for the sake of peace and help. when will that happen? dear politicians, dear german people, when we spoke -- [

speaking foreign language ] lots of translation issues there as zelenskyy speaking to the german bundestag. speaking about the nord stream pipeline. that's been written off by the german leader, but he's obviously addressing that and no doubt addressing the no fly zone as he has done in all of these parliamentary sessions. we'll monitor that and bring the highlights to you back in a moment. , dry and shine your dishes. solve 3 problems at once with finish jetdrdry 3in1.

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what the berlin average would have meant for you if we had a safe sky because in our country now if we can't even have an air bridge and we are struck by russian missiles, i address the older people above you who have survived the second world war who were rescued during the occupation, who survived babinyar, babinyar where president stolmeier visited last year for the 80th anniversary of the tragedy and where russian missiles struck. it was there that families were killed. again, 80 years later i address all of you who heard politicians say every year, never again, but

i can see these words, it was nothing. now our whole nation is being exterminated in europe. >> president zelenskyy, as he often does in these speeches to parliamentarians and politicians around the world when he's addressing those nations referring to that nation's history and making comparisons to the ukrainian war and evoking those memories, trying to connect with politicians and trying to get more support for them in this fight against the russians as a result. so this is the zelenskyy show, i guess, that we've been seeing recently traveling the world and his unique ability to bring global support to his country's cause. joining me from here in london,

director of the ukraine forum at chatham house. i mean, we've spoken so much, haven't we, about what a towering figure he's become in global politics, but again channelling ukraine's experience to those of the nations he's speaking to. >> president zelenskyy is really bringing his voice, but this is really the voice of millions of ukrainians because he has a very, very strong backing as to the way he's leading the nations through this war of terror. we do see over 80% of ukrainians support what he does. i was struck yesterday by the public opinion poll where almost 76% ukrainians said ukraine is moving in the right direction. so there's a very strong belief in the victory as long as the democratic world stands hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder with ukraine, and this is what

president zelenskyy's calling. i think it's quite striking at the time when russian leadership is absolutely mistrusted. we've seen all these lies coming out of russia. they were not involved in donbas. i think president zelenskyy's words really resonate well and people understand and take deeply his words. >> what's fascinating about him speaking to germany is perhaps germany is the country that's changed the most in response to this crisis, of course, apart from ukraine. but the way that they are now buying u.s. military planes, they are increasing the military budget when in the past they've always avoided this with a legacy of world war ii and how actually they may be stepping up into a bigger nato role, and that's in response to zelenskyy and, you know, what's happening in ukraine. >> absolutely. the change in germany is a real

watershed moment, and it's not just rhetoric, it's actually stepping up finance for the defense sector. i mean, germany's the third largest economy, will be now, the third largest military defense spender. this is unthinkable, right? but i think this exactly proves how putin is completely wrong, where his actions are generating the opposite result of what he's trying to achieve. and that is why i think his strategy is doomed. of course, at the high cost to ukrainians already and i pray that it, you know, doesn't spill over, but i think that what europe is doing and the way europe is united jointly with the united states and now this upcoming nato summit is key because i emphasize, russia can never win against the united front. i don't think we should too much evoke these comparisons to speak

of world war iii. honestly, putin is on the russian side. the whole u.n. general assembly condemned this aggression. the whole world is seeing what it is russia is doing, and i think we can and should prop ukraine to stand, defend its territory and we'll all be better off. >> what do you make of what happened in mariupol, what's clearly unfolding into a true tragedy, an attack on that theater where we understand hundreds of civilians were hiding with the words children written in russian on the ground outside clearly labeling this was a site which was housing children. we're seeing the scenes there. we also heard president biden spe speaking. perhaps he felt it was off camera calling putin a war criminal. are we moving into a new phase where civilians are being clearly attacked and there are

war crimes to our support. >> well, absolutely. it's atrocious. it's hard for me and for most of us to find words to say how we feel and we've moved into that phase of civilian targeting already several week or two because russia was not able to receive this kind of surgical takeover operation of ukraine and is deploying these almost soaked world war tactics of city sieges when you think about what they are doing. and it's interesting that when this war started, i think it started because the crimes of stalinism and putinism were never actually punished. so ukrainians right now have a very strong sense that there must be justice for war crimes and there is already international criminal court from the haig, but something interesting is there was also a special declaration by several

others calling for a special tribunal. we need a special tribunal because russia doesn't recognize the international criminal court. those russians who would like to defect, they may be granted immunity from the prosecution. that for us is another way to split russian elite and to single out putin because honestly this is just a war of several man who captured russia. >> thank you for joining us with your insight. the latest on the fight in ukraine coming up after the break including the attack on the theater where hundreds of ukrainian women, children and elderly are taking shelter from the war. plus, some eastern european countries are being put to the test as ukrainians flood across

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welcome back. i'm max foster in london. ukrainian forces say pieces of a downed russian missile hit a high rise in kyiv. the debris started a fire but was soon put out. on wednesday a theater being used as a shelter in the coastal city of mariupol was reduced to rubble by russian shelling. satellite image taken before the strike shows the russian word for children had been painted outside. hundreds of people were believed to be inside at the time but the number of casualties isn't yet

known. and as the fighting rages on at home more and more people are finding refugees. poland has taken on a number of refugees. it's grown to more than 1.9 million. romania, moldova, slovakia have taken in the next most refugees. it is especially hard on moldova, one of the poorest countries in europe. the prime minister has said so many ukrainians have come in that one out of eight children in moldova is a refugee. she says about 3/4 of them are staying with moldovan families because there are few other places to place them. spain is willing to help saying it's ready to take some ukrainians from moldova and send more aid to that country. the foreign minister is touring

the countries affected by the refugee crisis. he's joining us from warsaw in poland. thank you for joining us. what's been more striking to you about your tour of that region? >> the border between poland and ukraine, seeing very young women with children and no men. it was a real vision of war and talking to those women who have lost everything. one of them was telling me that her best friend, 17-year-old was killed and her house was bombed. this is real humanitarian disaster. >> one of the most warming parts of this story, one of the few warming parts of the story is how countries like poland have opened the borders, how moldovan families have opened their doors

and let people in. other countries further away haven't done as much. have you been very impressed with the east european countries and what they have been able to do with smaller budgets than spain, the u.k. and germany? >> yes, very especially with moldova. all of them helping a tremendous amount of people. we have seen the european union in brussels to accept any people coming from ukraine. in moldova, one of the poorest countries in europe, the number of refugees that have gone through moldova equals 10% of the moldovan population, which is a very small country and a very large part, 80% because they don't have refuge centers. there are very few refuge centers. they are being taken by the moldovan families. spain will expand and we will

back them. we will bring ukrainian refugees, we have already 2,000, and we will be bringing many more thousands in the next few weeks and we will provide with humanitarian assistance ukraine and moldova. >> 2,000 isn't very much, is it, when you talk about 2 million going into poland? >> no, it's not very much but the war started two weeks ago and what we bring them is not just the treatment, it's people that unfortunately will be standing among us and some of them will remain forever in our society. so the places that we have provided in spain include permanent housing, permanent work and also location for children. we have already prepared 20,000 places like this and we are going to scale up. it's already four spanish cities we are putting all together.

we are taking positions very, very quickly. the war is only a few days old and unfortunately it seems that it will last very long. >> do you worry, i mean, a lot of people say to me who aren't necessarily informed about all of this, we talk about the low millions of refugees coming out from ukraine, when it's a country of more than 40 million, does that mean that many more are going to be crossing the borders or that the crisis for the refugees largely will remain within ukrainian borders? >> well, yesterday when i was in the border between poland and ukraine and i was speaking to the city next to the border, he was explaining what we have seen is the first wave. those with relatives in poland, those that speak other languages than ukrainian. he knows there are at least as many people on the border, people that have probably never

left ukraine, that don't speak any other language, don't have any relatives, they will need everything. so, yes, as the war continues, this illegal aggression of russian, more will come. just to see what we are talking about, all through the '90s during all the baltic wars, 2.5 million people left all of those countries, the former yugoslavia. >> thank you. we really appreciate your time on the program today. thank you for giving your insight into the refugee crisis around the borders. spanish authorities have detained a super yacht called crescent. they're trying to establish whether it belongs to anyone sanctioned due to russia's

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. stocks in europe could be in for another big day after the u.s. federal reserve announced it was raising interest rates. markets are up right now in early trading. let's have a look. you can see they're only up by 1.1% -- 0.1% i should say. the u.s. fed's increased rates a quarter of a percentage point on wednesday. the first big step to help rein in inflation and the first hike in more than three years. as many as six more increases could come this year given the consumer prices rising.

the feds slashed rates to near zero at the start of the pandemic. even with this hike it's still relatively cheap to borrow money, but chairman jerome powell warns the war on ukraine adds another element of uncertainty. >> the implications of russian's invasion of ukraine are highly uncertain. in addition to the direct effects from higher global oil and commodity prices, the invasion and related events may restrain economic activity abroad and further disrupt supply chains. >> live now to hong kong and cnn's kristie lu stout. so many uncertainties. the markets hate that. actually, what was interesting about yesterday was how there's going to be many more rate increases in the u.s. that's going to affect all the other markets around the world. >> reporter: yeah. it's injecting a lot of confidence into the markets. in fact, shares in the asian pacific region all closed in the green. they rallied on thursday after the u.s. federal reserve, as expected, hiked interest rates

in order to detain inflation. you can see how the region reacted to the news. the anything kay closed up. added more than 1%. seoul kospi and here in hong kong a strong gate at the end of the day adding 7.04%. today's gains added to the surge that we witnessed on wednesday when chinese shares experienced their strongest days in years after they stepped forward and pledged to help boost economic growth and pledged to stabilize the markets. earlier in the week we saw a major selloff over concerns about the ongoing covid-19 outbreak in china. it's growing and concerns in regards to ukraine. the war there. those concerns perhaps

alleviated somewhat the news that came out just this afternoon local time of a chinese envoy in lviv pledging support to ukraine. now from asia, we are monitoring u.s. futures. let's bring up that data. on wednesday we saw that there was a volatile day of trade there. look, futures all in the green. marginally so. nasdaq futures up just a touch over 0.02%. that's the picture right now. analysts say the impact of the invasion, of the on going conflict, war in ukraine, related sanctions, the impact it's all going to have on global economic growth is uncertain. investors should be cautious and maintain balance. listen to this from jpmorgan asset management. >> we would argue that the hardest decision right now is to do very little and actually think more around about imbalanced portfolios.

it's a case that's impatient and holding firm when it comes to a more neutral stance in portfolios rather than moving out of risk assets completely given that there is not a clarity around what might happen in the coming weeks and months. >> throughout the conflict prices for energy, for commodities have been rising including commodities like wheat which is a key export from russia and ukraine. all of this could be a drag on global economic growth especially if consumers make the decision to hold back on spending, back to you. russia has avoided on going into default. they paid $117 million to investors from foreign reserves which had been frozen by the u.s. the payment will be allowed to go through though. the international energy agency said an oil supply shom may be coming. russia may be forced to limit

the output by 30% as demand slumps and trading houses and shipping companies reject that. it is your region, isn't it, that would be forced to step in to make up for shortage of supply from russia. >> reporter: absolutely. that's the hope. that's the anticipation because it's the uae and saudi arabia that has currently excess capacity that they can tap into to alleviate the shortfall or deficit. the international energy agency talking about an oil shock is creating so much concern about what it would mean for the oil price which has been extremely volatile over the past few weeks since the start of the war, but that is the issue, that the volatility is showing there's a lot of speculation, max, in that oil price. how much does it really have to do with supply and demand? that is the stance of the opec countries that they say in terms

of fundamentals, supply is actually in, you know, sort of unison with what they see on the demand front. some companies are, for instance, not going ahead and buying some of those barrels of oil from russia, that could create a bigger deficit. now importantly, the british pm came to visit the crown prince of abu dhabi in the uae and the crown prince of saudi arabia, two strategic relationships in terms of building up and securing an increase in oil supply. we haven't heard any public pledge in terms of what that would look like. many people say boris johnson walked away with not being able to fulfill that expectation, but importantly here the region has been trying to stay diplomatic and veryneutral. they are calling for deescalation. it's also important for the opec countries to maintain a

relationship with russia. that means more stability in the oil and gas markets going forward. it's a fine balance. british pm wanted to walk away with a commitment. we heard some news that perhaps that could be on the cards in saudi arabia and the uae have not actually publicly said they would do so. what is the supply/demand going to do? inflation is hitting all countries around the world as oil prices rise. >> elani in dubai, thank you. the chinese ambassador is quoted as saying, we will help, especially economically. we will act responsibly and that china is a friendly country to the ukrainian people. this show of support comes after u.s. intelligence reports that russia had asked china for

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officials say at least 4 people are dead and 460 injured after a strong earthquake that hit japan. it has a magnitude of 7.4. japan's prime minister said there are no problems at the nation's nuclear plant. the earthquake struck east of fukushima prefecture where another quake and tsunami led to a meltdown 11 years ago. the shaking derailed this high speed train on wednesday leaving almost 80 passengers trapped for hours, but they later escaped through an emergency exit without anyone getting injured you a british iranian woman was held for 11 years. she was detained in 2016 while visiting relatives. she's now at home with her husband and daughter who was just a toddler when she last saw her. cnn's natalie bashir has more on

her release. >> reporter: free at last. she is finally home after almost six years in detention in iran. the end of a long and arduous fight for freedom for both nazanine and her family. gabriella was too young to understand the serious nature of her mother's situation. arrested and detained in iran in 2016. the coming years would see nazanin separated from her daughter. she was seen delivering a speech for her mom. >> one day may we live in a world where we do not need to fight for our freedom. >> reporter: the british iranian national had been on vacation visiting family with her daughter when she was arrested, accused of working with nations allegedly plotting to overthrow the iranian regime. it is an accusation she has

vehemently denied. it was complicated in 2017 when boris johnson then foreign secretary made an appalling blunder inaccurately telling parliament she had been training journalists in iran. >> i acknowledge the words i used were open to being misinterpreted and i apologize. >> her husband, richard, tirelessly championed her case throughout her detention embarking on hunger strikes to pressure the british government to take tougher action against the iranian regime nkts the government strategy isn't working. the government's approach is unchanged. >> reporter: after several years, she was placed under house arrest due to the coronavirus pandemic and in april 2021 she was handed a further one-year sentence and a travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the iranian regime. in the background ongoing negotiations to revive iran nuclear deal, controversy around

a now settled multi-million dollar debt to iran pre-dating the iranian revolution and tenacious british diplomacy. >> i did pay tribute to foreign officials who have worked tirelessly to make this happen. >> reporter: for now, the wait for her return has been long and difficult. now their fight for freedom is finally coming to a close. >> i think, you know, it's going to be the beginning of a new life. >> cnn, london. thanks for joining me. i'm max foster in london. our breaking news coverage of the war in ukraine continues on "early start" with christine romans and laura jarrett. you're watching cnn. with mucinex nightshift you've got powerful relief

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this is cnn breaking news. it is thursday, march 17th. st. patrick's day. 5 a.m. exactly here in new york. thanks for getting an early start with us. i'm christine romans. laura has the day off. we begin with the war in ukraine. russia escalating its attacks on civilians in ukraine. new this morning, at least one person was killed, three injured when debris from a downed missile hit a residential building in kyiv. emergency services officials say a fire that broke out in the 16-story building, 3