laughs, it was just remarkable. >> thank you so much, andrew. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate the time. >> and thanks to all of you for being with us. don't forget, you can watch "outfront" any time. go to cnn go. our coverage continues. this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm lynda kinkade at the scene in headquarters here in atlanta. we are following breaking developments out of ukraine, where yourself hours ago, cnn teams on the ground in kyiv heard a loud explosion followed by sirens. it comes as an adviser to president volodymyr zelenskyy says russian forces are stepping up their missile strikes across the country, including in the city of kharkiv, already the site of widespread destruction.

russia awes assault coming as ukrainians launch counterattacks on the ground and gain back some territory. on tuesday the two sides are set for another round of talks in turkey. so far the discussions have failed to yield any real results. still, president zelenskyy shared his hopes for the latest negotiations. >> translator: our priorities in the negotiations are known. ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are beyond doubt. effective security guarantees for our state are mandatory. our goal is obvious. peace and the restoration of normal life in our native state as soon as possible. >> well, meantime, ukraine says there will be an immediate investigation after a video surfaced showing what appears to be ukrainian soldiers shooting russian prisoners in the knees. it was said to have taken place during an operation in the kharkiv region. u.s. officials are trying to walk back u.s. president joe

biden's fiery remarks about vladimir putin on saturday. >> for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> mr. biden's off-the-cuff remark delivered at the end of his visit to poland sent shockwaves around the globe. the white house clarified he was not calling for a regime change in moscow. other officials -- those comments on sunday as did the president himself. >> mr. president, do you want putin removed? were you calling for regime change? >> no. >> meanwhile, some european leaders seem to be distancing themselves from mr. biden's remarks, calling vladimir putin a butcher. emmanuel macron suggested the comments could escalate the situation. >> translator: i think we must keep to the facts and do everything to not escalate

things. i wouldn't use this type of word because i continue to hold discussions with president putin. what do we want to do collectively? we want to stop the war that russia has launched in ukraine without waging war and without escalation. and through diplomatic means, the objective is to obtain a ceasefire and complete withdrawal of troops. if this is what we want to do, we should not escalate things, neither with words nor actions. >> well, british officials are also reacting to president biden's comments. a member of prime minister boris johnson's cabinet says it's up to the russian people to decide who leads them. ukrainian forces have pushed back the russian military in some of the rural areas outside of kyiv. but not after intense fighting destroyed homes and villages. itv has this look at a town obliterated by russian strikes not far from the ukrainian capital. >> reporter: shevchenko

survived, but a statue of the ukrainian poet still stands after almost everything else was wiped out by a russian air strike. the library was hit. residents take the books they might have once borrowed. the town hall was destroyed too. and the shop for kids and the pharmacy and even the license. bishiv is a village one hour from kyiv, and it tells two stories. the crater reveals the force of russian might. but there is a story of failure too. more than a month into this war, life of sorts carries on. the russian troops never arrived, although plans were laid to stop them getting in. it looks like an earthquake hit. there is complete destruction absolutely everywhere.

but maybe the most interesting thing to see is not the fact that this place was flattened, but it wasn't flattened into submission. in the capital, monuments are being protected as history is rewritten. because met with the fierce resistance, moscow now says it no longer wants to focus on the capital, but the ukrainians don't believe that. >> we cannot trust them. at the moment, we don't see any withdrawal of russian troops from certain areas of kyiv. >> because you needn't go far from kyiv to see the area around it was in russia's sights until not long ago, and the strategists protecting the capital believe nothing has changed. row hit kachroo, itv news.

the heavy fighting in the city of mariupol is devastating the lives of those who remain. many have taken shelter in basements during the russian bombardment are returning to find their homes destroyed. >> translator: i've lived here since my birth. my husband as well. we got married here and had babies. what now? what is left for us? i don't want to go anywhere from mariupol, but there is nowhere to live here. >> well, it comes as ukrainian officials say humanitarian aid is beginning to wane, adding that more support is desperately needed right now. according to the united nations, more than 3.8 million people have fled ukraine to nearby countries, and another 6.5 million are displaced inside ukraine. well, crossing the border is just one stop on a long journey for many refugees, and there is no telling where it might end. cnn's ed lavandera has more from lviv near the border with poland.

>> we are now more than a month into the war here in ukraine and the refugee crisis continues. i've spent a great deal of time in the last few weeks reporting from the polish border city of przemysl. some officials there tell us they're still getting about a thousand refugees a day coming through the train station there in that city. at one point in the early days of the war, they were getting about 50 to 60,000 refugees a day in that region. so even though the numbers have declined dramatically, there is still a steady stream of people arriving. not only just there, the thousand or so at the train station every day, but there is still several thousand crossing by foot at the land crossing several miles away from there. the need for humanitarian care, the need for housing for many of these refugees still moving into much of europe is still very much needed. and right now the focus on helping those refugees is to get them away from the border region, putting them on buses and heading to cities like

warsaw, krakow, deeper into poland. and from there, they can start reassessing and figuring out where they're going to go. and of course the big question that so many of these people are facing right now is just how long are they going to be gone, where do they set up? where do they find a place to live for what could be weeks, if not months? those are the questions that are facing so many of these families. and it's a question that just continues to happen as this refugee crisis continues. folks leaving ukraine, trying to find safe haven in other parts of europe. ed lavandera, cnn, lviv, ukraine. russian president vladimir putin has framed russia's invasion of ukraine as a campaign denazification. that description has been widely dismissed by historians and political observers. keep in mind ukraine's president is jewish, and some of his family members were killed in world war ii. so with the next round of talks between the two countries set to begin tuesday, take a listen to

what volodymyr zelenskyy had to say during an interview on sunday. >> translator: we won't sit down at the table at all if all we talk about some demilitarization or some denazification. for me, these are absolutely incomprehensible things. >> susan glasser is a cnn global affairs analyst and joins us now. good to see you, susan. >> good to see you. thank you. >> so i want to start with the zelenskyy interview. ukraine's president gave this 90-minute zoom interview to four russian journalists. the kremlin squashed it. how extraordinary is it the way the kremlin is not only pushing its own propaganda, it's censors anything that doesn't support their narrative? >> yeah, that's right. the iron curtain has fully descended on putin's russia, and with such speed i think that it's still taken us aback. but, you know, you have the

nobel prize winner dimitri muratov saying he cannot publish an interview. and you get a sense of how quickly russia has closed what remained of freedom of speech. immediately, interestingly you have president zelenskyy taking advantage of that and then giving an interview to other journalists and pointing out that russia is so afraid of him they're censoring interviews. zelenskyy has been a sort of one-man weapon of soft power in this war. he has been probably ukraine's most effective international weapon. he has spoken obviously to parliaments around the world, including the u.s. congress. now speaking directly to russian journalists and to the russian people in any way that he can. it's really quite remarkable how successfully they have deployed president zelenskyy. >> it really is. and susan, it was interesting that the journalists inside the country couldn't publish it given the threat of jail time,

but those outside the country did. i want to play a small part from that interview. let's take a listen. >> translator: the reality is this. the city is blocked by the russian military. all entrances and exits from the city of mariupol are blocked. the port is mined. a humanitarian catastrophe inside the city is unequivocal, because it is impossible to go there with food, medicine, and water. the russian military is shelling humanitarian convoys. drivers are being killed. what happens to these cargos? i can't tell you. many of them were taken back. >> ukraine's president there describing just how dire the situation is in mariupol. susan, is it clear whether anyone in russia is getting access to the truth about the reality on the ground? >> well, obviously, the state media, which is by far and away the main way in which most russians are getting their information is filled with not only censored information or untrue information, but just

wild outrageous claims about ukraine. i mean, it's really the inversion of reality turning president zelenskyy, ukraine's first jewish account, three of whose grandfathers were killed this the holocaust, turning him into the leader of a nazi nation that needs to be de-nazified. no. the answer is russian people are not getting the correct information about what's happening in mariupol. it is possible, as it is in china and other places that impose censorship on their people, if you get a vpn to find accurate information or go back to the old cold war ways of listening to the bbc shortwave radio. that's the situation we find ourselves in. the siege of mariupol is absolutely horrifying, a crime against any definition of the law of war. it just is a horror. unfortunately, it's not the first time russia has done

something like this to a city in wartime. >> yeah, you're right. and of course we are seeing this changing strategy, if you like, according to russia. they claim the first stage of the operation is over, and that they are now focusing their efforts in the donbass region. what do you make of that, especially given we are seeing the russian strikes near lviv in the west of the country? >> well, i couple thoughts. one, first of all, the missile strikes in lviv seem very clearly designed to be sending a message as opposed to signaling a major new front in the war. president biden was just over the boarder in poland, giving a very, very full-throated speech at that moment, criticizing russia and those missile strikes seem designed to send the message from russia that, hey, we can strike where we want, including the western part of ukraine that is mostly outside of the combat zone, number one.

number two, as far as the question of whether russia really is kind of recalibrating its war aims, first of all, that's a sign of the incredible failure so far of putin to have achieved any of his strategic objectives. i think one of the reasons so many people are concerned about what's happening in this war and what kind of end game can you envision is putin has been so unsuccessful, he hasn't even managed to conquer the eastern part of the country that was the first goal that he set for himself after seizing crimea in 2014. so maybe that's a recalibrated war goal. maybe that's just a sign of refrenchment after a month and the need to resupply and regroup russian forces who have failed to take kyiv or other major cities. we don't know yet. >> as always, susan glasser, good to get your perspective. we'll leave it there now. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. well, some families have found a unique place to lift

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wearing blue and yellow ribbons with some holding signs urging peace. ♪ the organization choirs for peace created the event. were joined by choirs from portugal and eight other countries. singers also observed a minute of silence before the event to honor victims of the war. u.s. president joe biden's powerful denunciation of vladimir putin saturday in poland may be controversial in some quarters, but the ukrainian ambassador to the united states approved. asana makarova spoke earlier with dana bash and said the russian president is a danger to democracies everywhere. >> the reason he attacks ukraukraine is he wants to eliminate us as a democratic neighbor. he hates everything democratic.

he would like to destroy anything that is not autocratic and that cannot be occupied. it's up for all of us to understand that we have to stop it. in order to stop it, we have to ask -- we ask all the civilized countries to provide us with all the tools necessary in order not only to defend us, to defend europe, but also toe stop it and stop this war. >> the president, president biden said that vladimir putin cannot remain in power. the white house walked it back, as you saw, saying the u.s. does not support regime change. what's your reaction to this? >> it was a great speech of president biden. he clearly said that u.s. is and will be with ukraine in this fight. and we really appreciate it, and we would like everyone to be with us in the most possible ways. now we all understand and we see it and say would like to thank all journalists for spreading the truth and showing for what

it is. it's a brutal aggression of a neighboring country of a peaceful neighbor that never posed any threat unless being democratic is a threat. russia attacked us in 2014. they started full-fledged war 33 years ago. they killing civilians, killing children, destroying our hospitals, you know, civilian infrastructure, residential homes, everywhere. it's an act of war criminal. that's why we have opened investigation in ukraine. that's why ukraine submitted all the application to all international courts. and yes, vladimir putin together with everyone, every russian that is responsible for it will have to end up in yale for these war crimes. yes, he has nothing to do to lead a state if russia would like to be a democratic or even a civilized state. >> so you're saying that there should be regime change? >> well, you know, it's clear to us that russia is a terrorist

state led by a war criminal. and we are working day and night and fighting fiercely to defend our land and defend our democracy and everyone should be brought to justice. so i think it will be difficult to run a state from the hague. >> thousands of people have fled the terror of finding peace and security in an unlikely place. salma abdelaziz spoke with some of them in the mountain sanctuary they now call home. >> reporter: nestled deep in the carpathian mountains, far from the bombs and bullets lies the idyllic ski resort of slavsko. with plenty of room for those fleeing violence to find solace in the slopes. many hotels have opened their doors to displaced families. some at no cost or discounted rates. guests stacey and ramir found safety here after russian forces

invaded their hometown of kharkiv. >> usually had childs blowing up, lots of bombardment. >> how did you feel when you arrived? >> when you look at these mountains and the news, it seems like not real. >> and you're here. you're safe. you feel kind of guilty because in the beginning i left all my family there. >> reporter: after a terrifying week, mom and daughter finally squeezed on the a train out of embattled kyiv. but where to go? then they remembered a special family trip. >> yes, we love this place because our summer time, we provide here. >> reporter: so you had good memories here. >> good memory. we had good memory in this place. >> i feel safe here. but i hope that soon we will go home because living at home is much better because it's my home. >> reporter: this tiny mountain community of slavsko has taken

in 3400 displaced people, nearly doubling their population. but they say it's not a burden. they want to share the sanctuary. some have chosen less traditional accommodations. osa found peace for her two children in this glamping pod. >> my daughter wakes up every morning, opens the curtains, wipes the dew from the windows and looks out at the view. yes, she loves it here. it's calming. i feel lighter, and i start to believe everything is going to be okay. >> reporter: for these families, this feels like the safest place in a country where it seems everywhere is a front line. salma del abdulazeez, slavsko, ukraine. the war in ukraine is having an effect far beyond the country's borders. prices for commodities like wheat are soaring and driving

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm lynda kinkade. good to have you with us. well, more details now in our top story this hour. ukraine's president says his country is ready to accept a

newt crawl nonnuclear status as part of a piece deal with russia. it comes as both sides are expected to meet this week for another round of negotiations in turkey. on the ground ukrainian officials russia is launching more and more missile strikes across ukraine, especially in mariupol. the city has been the target of russian attacks for weeks, and the near constant fighting has trapped thousands of civilians inside. well, meanwhile, ukrainian troops have gained some ground launching counter-offensives to take back territory from russian forces. the country's military intelligence chiefs suggested sunday that russia was now changing its focus to the south and east, attempting to carve ukraine in two. after failing to take the capital, kyiv. well, ripple effects from russia's invasion of ukraine are hitting world markets and driving fears of a possible global recession. prices of commodities like wheat are rising sharply. humanitarian groups say that's contributing to food insecurity. since price changes hit developing nations hard.

russia and ukraine together export nearly 30% of the world's wheat supply. european central bank president christine legarde explains. >> the war that is going on at the moment, particularly at the time of, you know, the planting of seeds is going to create a massive disruption on markets. it has begun already. if you look at the price of wheat, it's gone up by about 40%. >> another factor impacting the global economic outlook, crushing economic sanctions on russia imposed by the west. to explore these issues further, we're joined by catherine rampell. she is a cnn economics and political comment caind comment. she joins us from new york. good to have you. >> victorious for having me. >> what are the factors playing

into that possibility? >> i should say first of all, a global recession is not inevitable, but the chances of a global recession have certainly risen in recent weeks. and that's partly as you point out because of the sanctions against russia, which have disrupted energy markets and have disrupted a number of other commodity markets. but energy markets are the most important of those in terms of the immediate economic impact. and then of course we'll see hunger deprivation and other economic costs coming from the disruption in the wheat market. but the war itself of course is a cause as well, or a higher risk factor because it will be more difficult to get these core food items to much of the world. it will be more difficult for energy for various kinds of metals to get around the world, even if there aren't sanctions against them, and not every country, of course, has decided to bar imports of russian oil or

russian natural gas at this point. so those are the two big risks, the war itself and the sanctions. and then of course there is another issue, which is how policy responds. >> and catherine, i want to ask you more about the food supply issues in just a moment. but if we just focus on energy, the u.s. of course has stopped importing energy from russia. the uk will cut it by the end of the year. and europe is trying to wean off it in the coming years. but while energy of course hasn't been sanctioned at this stage, energy prices are soaring. just explain that further. >> well, there are a few things going on. one of course is that it's just more difficult to get various kinds of energy products, natural gas and oil out of russia right now. no one wants to touch russian ships. no one wants to ensure russian ships that may be carrying these products. so even if there isn't a formal government policy that says such and such a country or companies that are located in that country cannot import that oil, it's

just logistically very difficult. and then a lot of companies have voluntarily said we don't want to deal with russia, whether for moral reasons, for logistical reasons or bad pr for that matter. you may recall that a couple of weeks ago, shell decided to buy a bunch of russian oil at a discount. and as far as anyone can tell, that was in compliance with all laws that they have to abide by. but there was such severe blowback for that purchase that shell said we're going to donate the profits. we're going to stop buying oil, et cetera. so there are a number of private companies that are voluntarily deciding we don't want to deal with russia. as a result, that has restricted the availability of oil on the global market, even though demand is quite strong. so all of those factors together are pushing up energy prices and are quite painful for the consumers and businesses that depend on energy. >> earlier this week, the world

food program's executive director said get ready for hell. that was his warning if we don't address this food crisis right now. i don't think a lot of people realize going into this war how much the world relies on russia and ukraine for so many products. sunflower oil, wheat, barley, maize. we've got a graphic here. you can see sunflower oil accounts for 42% coming from ukraine. 21% from russia. and maize obviously 16% from ukraine, a lot less from russia, and wheat significantly. that was from 2019. those figures have since risen. what is going to happen with this disruption when it comes to food prices? >> well, we've already seen food prices go way up in recent weeks and months. partly in anticipation, of course, of the potential conflict that has already

happened. we have this wheat growing season in russia and ukraine obviously severely disrupted. and the consequence of all this is prices are going to go. the countries that are most reliant on food from that part of the world, which is primarily developing countries and the world food program sources a lot of its wheat from russia and ukraine traditionally. those places are going to suffer a lot of hardship. you're going to see prices go up. you're going to see hunger go up and economic slowdown as a result of that deprivation. it's going to be very, very painful. and these were foreseeable consequences of course of this unprovoked invasion, and we are now seeing them. >> and catherine, let's just look at what's happening to russia. the impact of the sanctions already being felt. major global firms pulling out of the country, and certainly plenty of russians leaving. there is certainly a brain drain

even if this war were to end in the coming weeks or the coming months. the ramifications would be felt long-term, right? >> yes. certainly in the very near term, this is going to be extremely painful for russia. we've seen huge contractions already. because it's difficult to have day to day economic activities, you know, happen as normal. if your financial system no longer is operating normally, if businesses are pulling out, if people can't do their jobs because websites are blocked, et cetera. so in the very near term, there is going to be a lot of economic pain. in russia we've already seen that. and the real question is what's the longer term consequence. even if this war were to end today, and obviously, we all hope that it would. what kind of effect does this have on investment in the country? if you are a skilled russian worker, what future do you see for yourself in this country in terms of your livelihood, in terms of your freedoms?

we already see a lot of i.t. workers in russia for example rushing for exits. i think you'll see a lot of other creative technical types who may have opportunities abroad try and do the same thing. in addition to preliminary dissidents, protesters, journalists, others who may be fearing for their lives. those who are less politically inclined may also want to leave as well because they just don't see a future for themselves there. at least under this leadership. so in the long run, yeah, that's going to be very hard on the russian economy. and other countries may be able to benefit from that if we see a lot of skilled russian workers deciding that they want to leave the country and take their talents elsewhere, which we saw this during the cold war. we saw this immediately after the fall of the soviet union. we saw a huge brain drain from russia. a lot of mathematicians and scientists left for the west when they were finally able to

do. so and i think you'll see another wave of immigration happening in the immediate future too. >> no doubt. good to have you on the program. we did have technical issues trying to get you corrected, but glad to get you on the show. catherine rampel, thank you so much. >> thank you. china's financial hub is going into lockdown with covid cases surging. we'll have a live report when we come back. our liveves and thi, "i wish i'd bought anan even thinner tv, found a lighter light beer, or had an even smarter smartphone." do you think any of us will look back on our lives and regret the things we didn't buy? or the places we didn't go? ♪ i'd go the whole wide world ♪ ♪ i'd go the whole wide world ♪

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welcome back. china's financial hub is going into lockdown for mass covid-19 testing. half the city begins four days of lockdown on monday and the other half will follow on friday. all residents, more than 25 million in all must be tested to maintain a green health code status just so they can go to grocery stores and other public areas. well, cnn's beijing bureau chief steven jiang is following the story and joins us now. good to see you, steven. while many countries around the world are dropping restrictions and opening up, you've got shanghai, a city home to some 26 million people going into a two-stage lockdown. >> that's right, lynda. this really follows days of confusion or even chaos, both on the streets but also on line in terms of what authorities would do to shanghai, which is experiencing its biggest surge of covid cases since the pandemic begin. for days authorities denied they

would impose a citywide lockdown. police in shanghai actually has launched investigations against so-called rumor mongerers about this imminent lockdown. now when you look at the numbers, 16,000 cases since march, but this is a city of 25 million people, use mentioned, it's still a very small fraction. and also, the overwhelming majority of these cases, 97%, asymptomatic. so all of this matching what we have seen elsewhere with the omicron variant. very contagious, but resulting in milder or cases with no symptoms that do not require much hospital care or even medical attention. but, you know, and also remember for long time, the city really had prided itself on its less disruptive approach to containment. so for a long time, a lot of people pointed to shanghai as this shining beacon of hope that could eventually inspire other cities in china to adopt this more lenient and targeted approach to eventually leading to the country being reopened.

but instead, of course, we are seeing the exact opposite is happening right now with the shanghai authorities adopting some of the more -- the harsher measures we've seen elsewhere, including as you mention even though it's a two-step approach, this is sealing off millions of residents at their homes and also of course shutting down most of the city's transportation, public transportation, including the world's biggest metro system. really leading to a lot of panic buying at stores or even takeout restaurants as well as problems at hospitals because people, again, trying to seek medical attention for other illnesses being turned away or even dying as a result. so all of this of course is now leading to the question of what the beijing authorities are going to do. because ultimately they are the ones who are calling the shots. >> exactly. steven, the impact of a shutdown, especially if it's prolonged could have global ramifications, right?

>> that's right. the authorities are putting on a very brave face publicly, saying all the essential workers in the financial sector, for example, have been working inside a so-called closed loop system, which is what we saw during the beijing olympics. but how sustainable that is remains to be a big question. and also, remember, since the pandemic began, shanghai has been the gateway in terms of international flights into china. 50% of all arriving passengers and 70% of all imported cargos. so now of course as a result of this latest wave of cases, the authorities have been diverting flights operated by chinese carriers to other cities. but international carriers who are still have to fly to shanghai now start to cancel flights. and then of course cargo is a huge problem as well. this is really, as you say, is going to cause a lot of headache and even heartaches as that's why we're starting to a lot of public fatigue, frustration, or even anger bubbling just beneath

the surface, at least online that may burst out. lynda? >> steven jiang, we'll leave it there for now in beijing. good to have you with us. well, a former nba star is trying to boost africa's economy through his coffee company and investment in a basketball league called nba africa. we spoke with dikembe mutombo about his business endeavors at the expo 2020. >> as you know, coffee is the number two commodity with more than $385 billion a year. but there is not many african representative on the table. and to get on this business knowing that the majority of the coffee comes from the beautiful continent of africa. >> and talk to us a bit more about how this coffee company, your coffee company is putting women to work specifically on the continent.

>> it was really important when i realized that almost like 40 to 50% of worker especially from working in the field mostly women. and their voices are not represent, and nobody talk about them. i felt it was very important as a company to address that issue, to try to figure out how can we help women? because most of those women are mother, sister, cousin, auntie, and grandma. and more than we talk about than we get a chance to address the issue that so many women are facing together in the workforces. >> i want to talk to you about nba africa. i'm sure this is obviously dear to your heart. >> yes. >> tell us about your investment in nba africa, and what you hope the league will achieve on the continent. >> nba african investment was the great things to operate by some of us african players. we were playing in the nba

including all the investor from the continent and the nba in particular to invest more than a billion dollar in the continent to start a new league to give those young men and young girls a hope. because we don't think that every young man growing up in africa would speaking of the game would ever change to go and excel in america or in europe. maybe 1%, maybe 001 will make to it the u.s. maybe to college, but not all of them would make to the nba. so that's why the nba commissioner decided the moment have come to start a new league in the continent and give those young men a prospect for them to stay home, to stay in home country and home continent, to be the star of their own people and to take care of their family and their loved one. and i'm so happy with the direction that we're going.

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muratov. welcome back. the biggest night in hollywood, the academy awards had an unscripted fight that stunned the audience. it started when chris rock made a joke on stage about jada pinkett smith's shaved head. will smith, jada's husband then took to the staining and punched rock. >> uh-oh. oh, wow. wow. >> wow indeed. although it appeared to be a joke at first, smith returned to his seat and yelled at rock using some pretty foul language. viewers at home didn't hear the exchange as censors muted it. will smith did win the best actor award for his leading role in his performance of king richard. he apologized for his role in the fight and ended it by saying that he hopes the academy will welcome him back. well, the best picture award went to "coda" droving out films

like belfast, drive my car and power of the dog. in other awards, arianna dubois became the first openly woman of color to win for best supporting artist. she won for anita in steven spielberg's remate of "west side story." the first deaf male actor has won an academy award. he is taking home the best male actor for his performance in coda. it's not being ignored by the stars of the oscar. chloe millas reports. >> reporter: hollywood paid tribute to ukraine at the academy awards. celebrities such as jamie lee curtis, tyler perry and samuel l. jackson wore blue and yellow ribbons to show their support. mila kunis, who was born in ukraine, took a moment while introducing a best song of the year nominee in performance to address the war. she said, quote, recent global events have left many of us

feeling gutted. yet when you witness the strength and dignity of those facing such devastation, it's impossible to not be moved by their resilience. one cannot help but be in awe of those who find strength to keep fighting through unimaginable darkness. the academy also posted a message of support on the screen that read in part, quote, we'd like to have a moment of silence to show our support for the people of ukraine currently facing invasion, conflict and prejudice within their own borders. it also added, quote, we ask that you support ukraine in any way you're able, #stand with ukraine. >> thank you so much for spending part of your day with me. i'm lynda kinkade. stay with us. our coverage from lviv, ukraine begins after a short break.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome, everyone, to our viewers around the world and also in the united states this hour. i'm hala gorani live in lviv, ukraine. it is just past 7:00 in the morning across this country. now let's start with the very latest on what is happening on the ground here, and we're following breaking news developments. just hours ago, cnn teams on the ground in kyiv heard a loud explosion followed by sirens as an adviser to president szolkowy says volodymyr zelenskyy says russia is stepping up. he named several cities that are targeted, including