>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers around the world and in the united states this hour. i'm hala gorani reporting live from lviv, ukraine. we begin with u.s. president joe biden's comments on the russian president that have stunned the world. mr. biden is now trying to explain what he meant and why he said that vladimir putin, quote, cannot remain in power. he took questions on monday about his off-the-cuff remark during a major speech in poland. u.s. officials have been trying to walk back that comment from a few days ago. however, mr. biden clarified the meaning of his words but said that he makes, quote, no apologies. listen.

>> i'm not walking anything back. the fact of the matter is i was expressing the moral outrage i felt toward the way putin is dealing and the actions of this man just -- just brutality, half the children in ukraine. i just come from being with those families. but i want to make it clear i wasn't then nor am i now articulating a policy change. i was expressing moral outrage that i felt. nobody believes we're going to take down -- i was talking about taking down putin. >> it is just past 8:00 in the morning in ukraine, and right now on the battlefield, the shelling is only getting more intense in the suburbs around kyiv, the capital. ukraine's deputy defense minister says russian forces are trying to establish a corridor around the capital to block supply routes. authorities in the nearby city of irpin claim they've recaptured territory from russian troops. and ukrainian forces are still fighting to hold on to the

southern city of mariupol despite heavy russian bombardment. the mayor is calling for a complete evacuation of all remaining civilians. an estimated 160,000 people are trapped there without heat, water, or electricity. ukraine's president says russian forces control all of the evacuation routes in and out of mariupol. >> translator: mariupol remains blocked. russian troops did not allow any humanitarian corridor to be organized today. they did not allow silence. this is a ruthless war against our nation, against our people, against our children. as of today, 143 children are known to have died. >> well, in western ukraine, crews are battling a huge fire from a russian missile strike on a fuel depot. attacks like this have become more frequent in the past few days, including one here in lviv

over the weekend. a senior u.s. defense official says russia has launched more than 1,300 missiles in ukraine since its invasion began late last month. but russian grand forces are largely stalled in several parts of the country. even as russian shelling intensifies around kyiv's suburbs, we've been able to get a firsthand look at some of the devastation caused by those relentless attacks. cnn's fred pleitgen traveled to one village to the north of the capital. >> reporter: kyiv remains under full-on attack by vladimir putin's army. ukrainian officials saying russian forces are trying to storm the capital but failing, unleashing artillery barrages on civilian areas in the process. we drove to a village north of kyiv, only a few miles from the front line. even the streets here are pockmarked with shrapnel and massive impact craters. whole buildings laid to waste. i mean just look at the utter

destruction caused by this massive explosion. there's some really thick brick walls, and even they were annihilated by the force of whatever landed here. the people here tell us they only felt one really large explosion, and it wounded several people and killed a small child. that child was 2-year-old stepan, killed while in his bed when the house came under fire. these videos given to us by local authorities show the chaos in the aftermath as the wounded appear in shock. residents and rescuers tried to save those who were inside. stepan pronounced dead on the scene. stepan was oleg's second youngest child. we found oleg sifting through the rubble of his house days later. inside, he shows me the damage caused by the explosion. he was at work when his home was hit. his wife, the other children, and his mother-in-law had already been brought to the

hospital when he arrived at the house. stepan couldn't be saved, and because of staff shortages at the morgue, oleg had to prepare his son's body for burial himself. >> translator: i had to wash him, to dress him. his head from his right ear to his left ear, one large hematoma. his arms, his legs, a total hematoma not compatible with life. besides that, lots of other wounds were discovered after death. >> reporter: many other houses have also been hit here. the police tell me the russian shell the town every day. we bumped into 84-year-old halyna in the town center. she was a child when the nazis invaded this area and says now things are worse. >> translator: worse than fascists. when the germans were here and entered our homes, they would shoot at the ceiling, but they would not touch us. they moved us into the woods, but they did not shoot us like the russian soldiers are shooting now, killing children.

>> reporter: the kremlin claims its forces don't target civilian areas, but the u.s., nato, and the ukrainians say the russians are frustrated by their lack of progress and are firing longer-range weapons because they can't make headway on the ground. >> translator: they understand that sooner or later, our troops will push them out of our territory. now the russians are doing dirty tricks. they shoot more at civilian areas than at the positions of the ukrainian army. >> reporter: ukraine's army says it's pressing its own counteroffensive, trying to dislodge russian troops from the outskirts of kyiv. the kremlin's forces meanwhile so far unable to take the ukrainian capital are instead laying waste to its suburbs. fred pleitgen, cnn, ukraine. >> i spoke last hour with cnn military analyst, retired u.s. army general mark hertling. i asked him what is behind russia's strategy of using

precision weapons to attack targets like fuel depots and aircraft repair facilities. >> they're looking specifically to try and take away the logistics flow from the ukrainian army. on the other hand, firing of missiles, rockets, artillery, imprecise, dropping of dumb bombs from airplanes when they can get into the area beyond the ability of the ukrainian air defense to attack those planes, they don't care, hala. it's just a matter of terrorism, destruction, catastrophic effects. they want to strike this kind of terror. as we've seen already, several mayors of ukrainian towns have reported civilian deaths in the hundreds and in some cases like mariupol, 5,000 or so, including about 200 children. so this is intentional on the part of the russians. it is to cause that refugee flow, more confusion, more terror while the ukrainian army

is forced to decide, should we continue to fight the russians, or should we help our civilian population? so they're put on the horns of a dilemma in terms of what the military and the territorial forces can do to not only fight the enemy but also contribute to the safety of their citizens. >> and big picture, where does this war stand for the russians because they've certainly not taken any big cities. mariupol seems to have all but fallen to their forces but that's after having flattened the place really into submission and into a pile of rubble. so what about the overall picture for russia now? >> well, what i've said repeatedly, hala, is they had four objectives coming in here. they wanted to seize the capital in order to displace the ukrainian government, mr. zelenskyy. they wanted to subjugate the nation of ukraine by defeating its army, either encircling it or destroying it.

number three, they wanted to further divide nato. and number four, their fourth strategic objective was to try and further divide the united states while at the same time increasing their economic capabilities in europe through oil. they have failed in all of those five strategic objectives because they have not been able to execute the tactical and operational plan in the different areas. >> mark hertling there. officials from ukraine and russia will meet for face-to-face talks in turkey in the next few hours, and the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, says peace and the restoration of normal life are the obvious goals for this latest rounds of talks. cnn's arwa damon has those details. >> reporter: the bigger hope, although it may be unrealistic, is this round of talks would at least lead to some sort of a cease-fire, if not longer-lasting peace talks. to that effect, we did hear from ukrainian president zelenskyy

that they are willing to talk about ukraine becoming a non-nuclear, neutral state provided there are, of course, certain security guarantees. but what does that actually mean for ukraine to be a neutral state? that would mean that ukraine would not be able to be a third party to any sort of conflict, which effectively would mean that ukraine would not be looking towards joining nato in the foreseeable future. and zelenskyy himself did say this is one of russia's main demands. in fact, it was one of the justifications for russia's invasion of ukraine. russia, as we now know, saying that nato was encroaching on its borders and also talking about the demilitarization, the need to denaziify ukraine. those last two terms are things, however, that are red lines for the ukrainians. they do not want to hear any more talk using that sort of

terminology. the ukrainian president did also say that should this end up really centering around ukraine becoming a neutral state, that he would want to put that to a referendum to the ukrainian people. and then there is what many are actually hoping at the very least is a result from these talks, and that is the opening of more humanitarian corcorrido. it's not just about opening more humanitarian corridors, it's about opening ones whose security can actually be guaranteed. arwa damon, cnn. istanbul. and the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, said last week that ukraine and russia appear to be making progress in some areas, including ukraine backing off of nato membership, which we heard from arwa there. selective security, and the use of russian language in ukraine. the chief adviser to president erdogan is involved in the talks and spoke with becky anderson about the sticking points.

>> sometimes positions seem to be converging on some kind of an understanding. sometimes they seem to be diverging a little bit. so there are still important differences over these four issues, but in our assessment, the most difficult one, of course, is territorial integrity of ukraine, which must be protected of course. the ukrainian side cannot compromise on that, and that concerns donbas and crimea. crimea was annexed back in 2014. the situation hasn't rised, but no one has recognized the annexation of crimea since then. now the russian side wants the international community to recognize it. i don't think that's going to fly. that's a very maximalist demand from the russian side. it's not realistic. same goes for donbas. other four issues, there could be a few more here and there. you know, maybe they will find a way to reach some kind of an agreement. but leadership level meeting will require a serious discussion of donbas and crimea

because they go straight to the heart of the matter, which is ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty. >> the ukrainian foreign minister has actually denied there is agreement even on the fourth sticking point. there does seem to be a disconnect between what the president was saying and what the ukrainians are saying. >> our president was simply describing the situation, and it was actually a message to moscow also. look, if you can agree -- negotiating teams can agree on this three, four, five, whatever points that they're discussing, you know, then let's have this leadership-level meeting because we believe it's only through that meeting that this war will come to an end. president zelenskyy is ready to meet president putin. it's president putin who has said no so far. and our president has said, okay, i'm ready to facilitate, bring two of you together, in turkey or somewhere else. what we are concerned about is to bring an end to this war a day earlier than it is

necessary. >> the future of crimea and donbas is still outstanding, and at this point do you believe that president putin really wants to make peace? >> if he wants to make peace, he has enough in his plate, in fact, to call this off and call a humanitarian cease-fire right now so that the negotiations can continue, you know, at the technical level, political level, and at the strategic level. we have not recognized the annexation of crimea like the rest of the world. in fact, even china has not recognized, as you know, the annexation of crimea. that's why i said russian demand on that is very maximalist. they should really come up with some other ideas. >> that was the adviser to recep tayyip erdogan, the turkish president. turkey hosting the next round of talks between ukraine and russia due to start in a few hours. the eu is trying to manage the influx of refugees from ukraine and avoid some of the pitfalls of years past. we'll explain what plans are

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well, the number of people escaping ukraine appears to be shrinking. the european union's home affairs commissioner says 200,000 people were once arriving in the eu every day, but now that number is closer to 40,000 a day. she says that out of the nearly 4 million people who have fled, 800,000 have already applied for temporary eu protection.

meanwhile, there are concerns that europe could see a repeat of the disagreements surrounding the 2015 migrant crisis that caused a lot of bickering between member states. however, eu interior ministers have apparently agreed on a bloc wide plan for registering refugees as well as coordinating transportation, and their plan this time does not involve quotas. >> we are not working on any quotas or any distribution of migrants towards some specific quotas. this is voluntarily where member states step in and say, we can do more. and they are doing that right now. >> she went on to say that children make up half of all refugees from ukraine. that's nearly 2 million kids. many more children are still trapped in this country, including orphans waiting for adoption overseas. don lemon went to an orphanage

to find out how the children and their prospective parents are coping. >> reporter: it was after midnight when the children from battle scarred donetsk arrived in lviv. >> translator: they were very tired and seemed to be lost. some of their friends were separated. they were scared arriving in a new city. >> reporter: a train full of children fleeing the war. >> translator: it took two days. they were stopped by shelling alerts at several stations. >> reporter: now they are relatively safe in this orphanage outside of lviv, but their journey to find permanent homes has been halted by the war. is the process slower now because of the war? >> translator: definitely yes because all their files and court decisions are still in donetsk, and all the documents have to be prepared by regional authorities. and it's impossible now. >> reporter: one of those children in limbo is mari, who american colleen holt thompson

is trying to adopt. >> we had the paperwork to have the court in donetsk region to adopt, and a day and a half after we had everything to submit, putin invaded, and all the kids in the orphanage had to evacuate donetsk. >> what has this been like for new five weeks, right? >> yes. >> she and other prospective adoptive parents are pushing the biden administration to allow 300 ukrainian children whose adoptions are pending to come to the u.s. 73 u.s. lawmakers have signed on to a letter asking the state department and president biden to make it happen. until then, thompson remains in lviv, bringing supplies to the orphanage, visiting mari when she can and worrying about her when she can't. >> i'm messaging her, and yesterday she spent almost six hours in the bomb shelter, and we had missile strikes near both of us. and so it's scary enough to have

that happen, but when you can't physically be there to know your child is okay and to help protect them, and all the other parents who are some in poland, a lot back in the u.s., they're getting the same phone calls i'm getting. so it's scary. >> reporter: mari, meanwhile, waits for the chance at a new start. are you ready for a new life in america? >> yes. >> tell me why . >> with her new mom. >> reporter: don lemon, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> if you'd like to help people in ukraine who may be in need of

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well, the war here in ukraine has been going on for more than a month with no end in sight unfortunately. according to numbers announced by president zelenskyy from march 12th, at least 1,300 ukrainian troops have lost their lives defending their homeland from this russian invasion.

and sadly like wars before it, this conflict is creating work for priests and grave diggers. ben wedeman went to one soldier's funeral in odesa. ♪ >> reporter: "lord have mercy" goes the hymn's refrain. another family drinks of war's bitter dredges. 47-year-old yuri solemka died on the 18th of march from wounds sustained in the frontline city of mykolaiv. his mother, ludmila, struggles through the ceremony. every day there's another funeral during this time of death, destruction, and displacement. these are indeed the times that try a people's soul. ♪

yuri was a volunteer, not a regular soldier. he was given full military honors. beyond the customs of respect for a man who died in battle for a nation at war lies the trauma of the woman who brought him into this world. there can be nothing more painful for a mother than to attend the funeral of her child. a son killed in a war not of his choosing. he decided on his own to join the army, citsays ludmila. he hadn't told me. he was a good father and a good son. said his sister elena, he was always a man of his word. yuri's lies with other freshly

dug graves. after a month of this conflict, no one really knows how many soldiers and civilians have been killed. the only thing of which anyone can be certain is that only the dead have seen the end of war. before this funeral ends, preparations begin for the next. ashes to ashes, dust to dust. ben wedeman, cnn, odesa. well, three baltic countries once a part of the soviet union are now watching this unfolding crisis in ukraine with great concern. latvia, estonia, and lithuania all border russia, and ukraine's president has warned that he believes vladimir putin will eventually push his aggression into those baltic states. but unlike ukraine, those three countries are part of nato. they joined the alliance in 2004. now nato has increased its forces on its eastern flank in response to russia's invasion.

joining me now live from estonia is the country's foreign minister. thank you very much for joining us. i want first your reaction to what the u.s. president, joe biden, said during his address in poland, that this man cannot stay in power. he tried to walk back those remarks in washington yesterday, but what was your initial reaction when you heard the u.s. president pronounce those words in warsaw? >> thank you very much first for having me. it is very important issue for us, seeing every day how people are killed in ukraine by aggressive russia, and we very much welcome the high-level visit of the u.s. president to poland. he really brought international attention of this issue, and of course as we see that russia has not ended the war. ther therefore, all these activities

must be taken accountable. therefore, of course, it was very good to see very strong speech from the united states president. >> and when you heard him call -- when you heard him pronounce those words, were you surprised? >> i was not exactly surprised. i think that this is the feeling that many people have at the moment, and of course it is very important that all war criminals are taken accountable to the international court. and then, of course, it is up to the court to decide what exactly guilt or one or another person. but from our perspective, of course, we would like to see our neighbor not being aggressor towards its neighbors. >> so you believe vladimir putin has acted as a war criminal in this conflict? >> i would say that it is up to

the court to decide, but from my perspective, it is very important that at the moment, all the war crimes are documented and the criminals are taken to the court and so that the court can decide how those people are taken accountable. i really believe that all ukrainians, family members of ukrainians, they need justice in this unfortunate conflict. >> do you believe that russia, after ukraine and the way that volodymyr zelenskyy has laid out could have its sights on your country and the other two baltic nations? do you have real concerns that they might move on your territory? >> in estonia, we don't see direct military threat to our territory, and i think that it's the same for all nato nations at

the moment. but as the security situation is changed in europe, then of course we must strengthen our defense, and we really appreciate recent decisions of all nato allies in this regard and also very much welcome nato allies have increased their presence here in estonia as well. >> what do you think is the strategically best way to try to get vladimir putin to back down now from this horrendous, senseless war? what is the strategic approach that you would support? >> since the beginning of this unjustified and unprovoked war started by russia, we have allocated. we must continue to support ukraine politically and economically. also we must continue to have political and economic pressure towards russia so that they feel

the high cost of this aggression and so that they would end this war as soon as possible. and at the moment, we must continue with political and economic isolation of russia until this end is war. and also people who started this war have taken accountable in the front of the court. >> so you're saying political and economic pressure, but you didn't say anything about more military assistance, for instance. would you support a no-fly zone over ukraine? >> estonia is among the countries who have provided ukraine with military assistance even before this unfortunate war started. and at the moment, more than 20 nato countries have done the same. it's been very important to support for ukraine so that they

have been able to defend their country and push back russia's troops in their soil. at the moment, of course it would be good that united nations would accept a resolution with regard to a no-fly zone, but unfortunately we see that russia is member of the united nations security council. the council is not able to make this kind of important political decisions at the moment. but it was very good to see that more than 140 countries agreed that russia is aggressor in this conflict, and i truly hope that international community can help to end this war. >> eva-maria liimets, the estonian foreign minister, thank you very much. let's bring in lynda kinkade in atlanta. >> you and the team are doing such a fantastic job in ukraine.

please stay safe. well, estonia women are preparing themselves in case the conflict with russia reaches the baltics, not taking any chances. hundreds of women are now learning about weapons, first aid, and survival tactics with training provided by the government. it's to ensure that they are ready for any possible threat. in rural northern estonia, these women are learning how to prepare for the worst. >> if i'm needed, if i need to actually fight, i will fight. >> reporter: aged 20 to 60, these are the new recruits of the women's voluntary defense organization, part of estonia's state-run paramilitary defense. since the start of the russian invasion into ukraine, membership has soared. >> already over 500 out of the 2,000 have sent in their application to join the organization. >> reporter: estonia is among the baltic states once controlled by russia.

but since 2004, they've been members of nato and the european union. estonia's prime minister says her country feels no direct military threat from the current russia/ukraine conflict, but these women are not convinced. >> i think most of us in politics are living right now in frightening situation because it's just not normal what's going on, and we have to prepare, i think. i just can't sit and wait to see if something happens. >> after a freezing night spent in self-built tents, these new recruits learn about rifles and bullets, how to apply camouflage, navigate in the woods and communicate over walkie-talkie, readying to defend themselves and their country against violence they hope never comes. still ahead, details on the tech start-up that describes itself as an uber for trucks. how the company is hoping to improve global supply chain issues by making trucking more

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welcome back. the holy month of ramadan begins this weekend but the usual buzz at the markets in southeast asia is a bit quieter this year. with food prices and energy prices on the rise. many shoppers in indonesia's capital are hesitant to buy essentials like beef, chili, and oil because of the soaring prices. it's typical for food prices to go up before ramadan, but this year they're even higher due to a shortage of products like palm oil, which is used for cooking. in bangladesh, crowds were seen chasing a truck full of food and other necessities, trying to get whatever they could. the government there is reportedly offering goods at reduced rates for low-income families to help those struggling to buy what they need for ramadan. geopolitical instability,

driver shortages, higher freight delivery costs, they are all issues that have hit the trucking industry over the past few months. now one tech start-up is hoping to help companies better navigate some of those problems. egypt based trella describes itself as the uber for trucks. cnn's eleni giokos sat down with the company's ceo in dubai. >> it's actually an industry that's very much antiquated and very paper heavy, very documedocument heavy. versus the traditional offering of having to speak with someone on the phone and chasing where the driver is and where the truck is, it is all about the experience as well. this creates efficiencies as well because it's time-saving. >> absolutely and cost saving as well. >> what does the experience during the pandemic, and how did you deal with, you know, everything changing and being

upended? >> sure. it was stressful at first. everyone was trying to figure out what they were going to do, how this is going to impact the margins, the sales, the business, the volumes. one thing we realized is trucking never stops, especially during the first, you know, waves of lockdown and all that, there was pressure on essential goods being transported like food and all that. even during the lockdowns, you were seeing some concessions on these goods, and trella trucks were moving. of course it was tough time from a revenue perspective and from cash collection perspective and all that, which is normal. but i think in hindsight, there was a lot of learnings, and on a digital adoption front as well, we found a significant spike in how our buyers and shippers interact with the application much better now because covid actually -- one positive thing that came out of it is made everything digital. so the digital adoption is

accelerated and this definitely played in our favor. >> to what extent are you concerned as a logistics company in africa about the crisis in eastern europe where you've got oil prices spiking? we don't know where the oil price is going. you know, grain from both ukraine and russia are very important imports, specifically for egypt and even more many parts of africa. is this worrying you in terms of what it's going to mean for your business? >> it's a global worry. i think the main theme out of this is inflation. soft commodities and food staples and all that, inflation has been an issue in 2021, and it will continue to be an issue in 2022. and this also impacted into the shipping -- the cost of shipping, you know, globally. shipping container nowadays cost a lot more. so it is definitely a concern. but i think a collective dialogue between all the parties, us as a technology platform talking with our shippers and also educating our carriers about what this means to them, i think this needs to happen more often, and

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smith slapped chris rock. but what is clear is that will smith is showing remorse for the incident. in a post on instagram, he called his behavior unacceptable and inexcusable. he also wrote that i would like to publicly apologize to you, chris, i was out of line and i was wrong. i'm embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of what -- of the man i want to be. there is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness. but this apology is not the end of the saga for smith. the motion-picture academy says it's launching a formal review into his conduct. cnn's stephanie elam reports. >> reporter: a slap to the jaw that had jaws dropping all around the world. and the academy condemning will smith today, announcing a formal review to explore a further action and consequences. this, after will smith confronted chris rock onstage for a joke about smith's wife. >> jada, i love ya.

gi jane 2, can't wait to see you. >> at first, smith appeared to laugh but watch jada pinkett smith's face. their mood changes as the joke sinks in. >> oh, wow. wow. will smith just smacked me. >> get my name out your mouth! >> wow, dude. >> yes. >> it was a gi-jane joke. >> reporter: the dolby theater crowd, stunned. denzel washington and others stepped in to counsel smith as shaun combs called for calm. >> okay, will and chris, we're going to solve that like family at the gold party. >> reporter: rock's words, a reference to the head-shaving character from 1997's "gi jane." over the years, though, pinkett smith has spoken publicly about her struggles with alopecia. an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. it's unclear if rock knew this

when he made the comment onstage. >> will smith! >> reporter: when smith won best actor later in the night, the world waited to hear what he would say. >> i want to apologize to the academy. i want to apologize to my -- all my fellow nominees. art imitates life. i look like the crazy father. looks like they said. >> reporter: obviously, missing from his apologies? chris rock. the actors date back to at least the mid-'90s. >> which one of you handsome men -- >> when rock appeared on the fresh prince of bel-air. but it was in 2016, when rock hosted the oscars that he took aim at the smiths for boycotting the show during the oscar so white campaign. joking that pinkett smith wasn't invited anyway. and poking fun at the size of smith's paycheck for "wild, wild west." it's unclear if any of that fed into the oscars feiasco. smith later joining the party circuit with with oscar in hand, dancing to one of his own songs.

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