and not just for my shows. switch to xfinity mobile for half the price of verizon. that's a savings of over $500 a year. switch today. this is cnn breaking news. >> hoello and welcome, everyone to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. we begin this hour with breaking news. a new strategy emerging in russia's war on ukraine. russian forces are largely stalled on the ground, so they are firing missiles at fuel depots across the country. one of the latest attacks struck the rivne region in western ukraine, along with strikes on

lutsk and right there in lviv, where our hala gorani is and will join us very soon. now, the attacks come as russia and ukraine battle for control of key cities. a senior-u.s. defense official says russia has fired more than 1,300 missiles since the invasion started late-last month. ukraine's deputy defense minister claims russian forces are trying to establish a corridor around the capital, kyiv, to block humanitarian supply routes. she says ukrainian soldiers and kyiv residents are defending the city, making it very difficult for the russians. the mayor of irpin, west of -- of kyiv says his city has been reclaimed. he says wounded russian soldiers are offering to surrender. well, they will be destroyed. new drone footage shows the utter deserve station in the southern port city of mariupol. the mayor is calling for a complete evacuation of remaining

civilians. an estimated 160,000 people. well, kharkiv, in the east, is another city that suffered brutal russian attacks. the u.n. and its partners say they were able to deliver food and med -- medical supplies to the area on monday. meanwhile, u.s. president joe biden says he is sticking by his comments over the weekend that russian president vladimir putin, quote, cannot remain in power. >> 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. with just -- just brutality. half the children in ukraine. i just come from being with those families. and -- and so -- but i want to make it clear, i wasn't then, nor am i now, articulating a policy change. i was expressing the moral outrage that i feel. nobody believes we are going to take down -- i was -- i was talking about taking down putin.

>> russia is intensifying its shelling of the suburbs around kyiv as a senior-u.s. defense official says troops have made no progress in moving towards the capital. to the north in a village hit by relentless attacks, new images show how the war has destroyed homes and shattered lives. cnn's frederik pleitgen gives us a firsthand look at the devastation and we do want to warn you, some images are graphic. >> 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 the village north of kyiv, only a few miles from the front line. even the streets here are pock marked 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 is some really thick brick walls that 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 try 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 of 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. and besides that, lots of other wounds were discovered after death. >> reporter: many other houses have also been hit here. the police tell me the russians shell the town every day. we bumped into 84-year-old halina 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. instead, laying waste to its suburbs. fred pleitgen, cnn, ukraine. and hala gorani joins us now from lviv in ukraine. hala? all right. thanks so much, rosemary, we will talk to you in little bit. now, against the backdrop of russia's widespread destruction in ukraine, a new round of peace

talks will begin in turkey in the coming hours. both delegations arrived in istanbul monday. russia's demands for recognition of crimea's annexation and independence for donbas are major sticking points. but ukraine's president zelenskyy says the obvious goals of these latest talks are peace and the restoration of normal life. with more on this, atika shubert joins us from lensia, spain. so, expectations are low, however, we are hearing at least from turkish authorities that there appear to be some positive developments, at least in phone calls preceding this round of talks, atika? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, there does seem to be at least some draft agreement in going around where they are trying to go through these points. i think there is still a lot of sticking points, certainly from the ukrainian side, they said nearly every point on it still has a lot to go through. however, um, the fact i think is

that there does seem to be common ground on this issue of neutrality. this is something that the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, um, told russian journalists in an interview. said that, you know, ukraine is willing to accept neutrality, meaning that it would not become a part of nato. but as long as it had security guarantees. now, this is one of russia's main conditions, as well. it does not want to see ukraine become a member of nato. so the question then is what kind of security guarantees does ukraine need? who would the countries be to guarantee that security? and what shape would that take? i think those are the kinds of details that they're hoping to work on and hammer out. and then, the next question becomes how to deal with it legally? because it's actually embedded in ukraine's constitution to become a member of nato. so, what zelenskyy has offered -- and again, this is something he said in that interview with independent russian journalists -- is that if there is some sort of a

cease-fire agreement which guarantees ukraine's neutrality, it would require a referendum by the ukrainian people and then ultimately a change in the constitution but that is a process that would take months and at least a year if not more. so, we are beginning to see something take shape. we will see whether or not we get any more details as the talks continue in turkey. but that is a glimmer of hope now, hala. >> all right. atika, thanks very much. atika shubert reporting. the british prime minister, boris johnson, is promising ukraine he will turn up the economic pressure on russia. the comments came in a phone call with the ukrainian president zelenskyy. meanwhile, the top british diplomat has a warning for ukraine ahead of those talks with russia in turkey. >> we need to ensure that any future talks don't end up selling ukraine out or repeating the mistakes of the past. we remember the uneasy

settlement in 2014, which failed to give ukraine lasting security. putin just came back for more. that is why we cannot allow him to win from this appalling aggression and why this government is determined putin's regime should be held to account at the international criminal court. >> liz truss, the british foreign secretary, the head of the ukraine foreign chatham house and joins us from london. how much pressure is it putting on these oligarchs? all of these sanctions that have been put -- put in place against some of these mega billionaires in cities like london? are they making any difference strategically on putting pressure on the kremlin in your view? >> well, the sanctions -- they have two tracks. one is actually to target and cripple russian economy and to dry out putin war chest to ensure he basically struggles to finance and rearm and shoot at

ukraine ballistic missiles. another one is of course this private individuals with the hope that there will be a crack within the support for putin and some dissent and possible removal from power. i mean, honestly, these individuals have limited power. we do know that they've got rich because of putin, because of the state and they are, to a certain degree, at the service of the state. some of them may be courageous enough to try to express some of their dissent. but look, it's been a one months of war and only one or two individuals said they do not support this war. abramovich did it. but overall, i think they are very much repressed by putin's regime themselves. >> and what about the sector-wide and economic sanctions against the state itself? how much is that starving putin of his ability to finance this war four or five weeks in now? >> well, of course, this is the most important thing and if we

remember what president biden said, he said these sanctions have to cripple russian economy. boris johnson says putin must fail. this is the strategic objective. of course, they have caused substantial damage. we see that russian stock market here in london collapsed. russian ruble is falling. there's inflation. the shelves are being emptied. but what further has to be done is of course oil and gas embargo. this is what president zelenskyy calls for. this is what u.s. has already done. but europe is slow. so, there could be a -- a first step to remove russian oil from the european market but eventually this has to happen faster. >> right. and it's the -- the progressive approach, rather than an entire sector-wide embargo. um, what about these talks in -- in turkey? there is some sort of outline of at least the points that can and should be discussed? do you have any level of optimism at this stage?

>> well, my level of optimist comes from the fact that putin is not achieving his object i haves that he set up at the onset of the war and exactly those sanctions are very serious. so, he's thinking hard how to maneuver out of this situation. clearly, he's ready for some concessions. but it's also important that whichever cease-fire there is, russian troops must withdraw to their positions. this is what, you know, actually ukrainian society demands. 90% of ukrainians believe they can repel aggression, and they do not want cease-fire if russians don't pull back. so, president zelenskyy must act upon that consensus in the society. look, i think it's important these talks take place. but as i said, there will be still a lot of push and pull before anything substantial emerges out of these negotiations. >> but that being said, as you mentioned, the russians have not at all achieved their objectives.

in order to secure the majority russian-speaking city of mariupol, which they alleged they were going into liberate, they have to turn it basically into a pile of rubble for these russian-backed separatists to then grotesquely almost plant their flag on a mountain of destroyed building. um, what -- they are not achieving what they want to achieve without massive, massive damage to civilian infrastructure. >> absolutely. i think it's -- it's a real debacle for putin. he underestimated ukraine's resolve, ukraine's armed forces, and also assistance from the west. clearly, this is also a propaganda war. he needs these images of russian victories, even if it's over the rubble, to show russian citizens they are progressing in their -- in this special operation. but he knows it deep down that he can, at best, keep some territories in the southeast that he has captured that are

completely destroyed. but that doesn't give him this political victory he wanted over kyiv. but we see pressure on kyiv, so he's not giving up completely the battle for kyiv. and we've seen horrific images of -- of these villages around kyiv. so, you know, this war is reaching a new stage, a new phase. but we'll see how it evolves. >> absolutely. thank you, as always, for joining us. appreciate your analysis. a packed convention hall in the polish capital has transformed into the largest hub for ukrainian refugees in all of europe. we'll take you inside after the break. ♪ (thank you, have a nice day.) ♪ (trumpet solo) ♪ (bell dings) (pages slipping) ♪ ♪ ♪ (trumpet solo) ♪ ♪ ♪ (typing) (bell dings) ♪ ♪

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well, the european union's home affairs commissioner says children make up half of the refugees from ukraine who have arrived in the eu. and that some 800,000 people have already applied for temporary eu protection. that's out of nearly 4 million who fled ukraine since the invasion. meanwhile, european leaders say this refugee crisis must not mirror the migrant crisis of

2015 that exposed infighting and the shortcomings of europe's asylum system. eu interior ministers have now apparently agreed on a bloc-wide plan for registering refugees as well as coordinating transportation. this one 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. >> well, the constant bombardment by russian forces has forced millions of ukrainians over the border to poland, where resources and workers are being pushed to their limits. kyung lah takes us inside one refugee center in warsaw that is overwhelmed. >> reporter: nothing can help 5-year-old yan understand how he and his mother ended up here, a

packed convention hall in warsaw, poland, filled with thousands of ukrainians. >> constantly afraid. always afraid? >> reporter: he is afraid to sleep alone says his mother katya, after nights in this basement after russian missiles leveled his neighborhood two hours north of kyiv. everything is fine, she tells him. are you sure there's nothing flying here, he asks? >> don't know why they are here. they think maybe they come for some kind of vacation or it's -- >> reporter: they don't comprehend? >> no. >> reporter: because they're too young? >> yes, too young. >> reporter: multiply yan by thousands of people a day, and that's who thomas is trying to help at what's now the largest ukrainian refugee hub in all of europe with up to 7,000 refugees here a day. >> i must work, you know, and i -- i don't have to think about

such a things too much because it's -- it's -- it's really difficult and it's -- it's a tragedy you'll see that's -- that's -- it's better not to think about that. >> reporter: the 1.5 million square foot expo is now a gateway to the rest of the world where, after crossing into poland, refugees begin the real process. finding a temporary life beyond war. they are waiting to go somewhere? >> yeah. >> estonia? >> yeah, they -- they -- they getting to estonia. >> reporter: those with no destination yet wait. how long has this been going on? >> it's less than a month. >> reporter: less than a month? that becomes more challenging as the war stretches on. thank you, warsaw, says this woman in ukrainian. one of the more than 2 million ukrainian refugees who have arrived in poland. more than 300,000 in warsaw

alone. >> the polish people will welcome ukrainians, whatever happens, because they are fighting for our freedom and we do understand that. but of course, there is a certain limit, human limit, what we can -- what we can do. >> reporter: when you say you are at capacity, what do you mean? >> we've offered as a country free education, free healthcare to all of our guests which of course means that, you know, our schools are going to be filled within weeks, that our hospitals are going to jam. >> reporter: warsaw's mayor says no one will be turned away but he needs help to help yan, his mother, and the people of ukraine. the polish people accepted us well, she says. >> good people? >> yeah, good people. >> reporter: the mayor says that what he would really like to see is some sort of official system between the polish national government and international and european allies to streamline this entire process. and he left us with this astonishing statistic. he says that there are now 30% more school-aged children in

warsaw than there was just one month ago. kyung lah, cnn, warsaw, poland. >> well, if you would like to safely help people in ukraine who need basic things, like shelter and water, go to cnn.com/impact. there are several ways listed there for you to help. still ahead on cnn. russian forces appear closer than ever to taking a key city in southern ukraine. or at least what's left of it. we'll look inside the besieged city of mare iupol after this.

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welcome back, everybody. it is almost 9:30 a.m. here in lviv, western ukraine, where it is an overcast day and it has just started drizzling. russian and ukrainian force -- officials have arrived in turkey for another round of negotiations to end this war in this country. but on the ground, the devastation continues. russian forces are hitting fuel depots across ukraine, including this one in the western city of lutsk. we are also getting a new look at the destruction left behind in ukraine's second-largest city, kharkiv. on monday, the united nations said that it had been able to bring food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies into this

city. look at this devastated landscape. in the capital, kyiv, though, ukraine's deputy defense minister says russian forces are now attempting to block supply routes around the city, and fierce fighting has continued in kyiv's suburbs for days. as ukrainian forces attempt to retake areas near the capital. and on monday, ukrainian officials said troops had successfully reclaimed the suburb of irpin. to the south, however, the besieged city of mariupol appears closer than ever to falling under complete russian control. ukraine says its forces are maintaining a defense inside the city but the mayor says evacuation corridors out of mariupol are now largely controlled by russian troops. meanwhile, the kremlin still is not ruling out deploying nuclear weapons if russia faces an existential threat. listen. >> any outcome of course is not a reason for usage of a nuclear

weapon. we have a security concept that very clearly states that only when -- when -- there was a threat for existence of -- of the state in our country, we can use and we will actually use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat for the existence of our country. >> well, as i mentioned before, the southern port city of mariupol has been the scene of intense fighting for weeks now. thousands of civilians are still trapped there, even as russian forces inch closer to taking control. cnn's phil black has more. >> reporter: russia is so close to taking the prize of mariupol, these soldiers are already celebrating. the flag going up on this local government building is from one of the russian-backed separatist regions in ukraine's east.

the ukrainians peeled off praise the almighty, this soldier says. the guys are in a good mood and we are working according to the order of putin. we get rare glimpses of russia's efforts to take the city, street by street. these soldiers are from the russian republic of chechnya. its propaganda video from their leader, which cnn has geolocated to mariupol. mariupol's mayor tells me the fight isn't over. what happened or what has happened to the ukrainian soldiers defending mariupol? are there any left? they hold the line and they stand to the end, he says. to the last drop of blood. it's not only ukrainian soldiers trapped here. the city council estimates there are still around 170,000 civilians in this devastated city. and 90% of homes have been damaged or destroyed. valentina enters what's left of

the only home she's ever known. the place where she raised her family. she wasn't here when the shell hit. she's been hiding in the basement. she doesn't want to leave. she knows she can't stay. but many will never leave. the council says almost 5,000 people have been killed during the four-week siege, including more than 200 children. russia is so close to taking its prize. but it will be a blackened shell of a city and it's unlikely the people they're conquering will ever forgive them. phil black, cnn, lviv, western ukraine. well, i will have more from lviv at the top of the hour. for now, though, i will turn it over to rosemary church at the cnn center. rosemary. >> thank you so much, hala. appreciate it. well, still to come. amid the outpouring of social media posts from ukraine, one group is trying to use that information to turn the tide of war against russia.

>> putin's whole strategy of war and his way of thinking are analog and we hope a thing of the past and here is what the future looks like. it's happening now. the world is watching. and documenting what he's doing. after the break, more on the online army using video, like this, to help ukraine.

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welcome back, everyone. well, while ukraine's president zelenskyy may be winning the information war in his country, vladimir putin has built a digital-iron curtain around his. this prevents ordinary russians from getting information or opinions the kremlin doesn't want them to have access to. the latest item added to the information blacklist? president zelenskyy's interview with independent russian journalists. cnn's matthew chance has that story.

>> reporter: this was a groundbreaking interview with what the kremlin sees as an enemy head of state and a first for russian journalists covering this war. but for many russians, the words of president zelenskyy, including his offers of compromise for peace, will never be heard. russian authorities banning the interview before it was even broadcast, and now vowing to investigate the journalists who carried it out. journalists, like the editor in chief of tv rain. an independent-russian channel, forced off the air earlier this month. his editorial staff said as they walked off their moscow set. >> there is a digital-iron curtain on the ukrainian topic in russia. and we see that military sensorship in russia and all the

information which is not going from russian minister of defense or from the kremlin is forbidden. so, it is really important to tell the people the truth or at least to tell them what the other side of the conflict of the war thinks. >> reporter: why do you think it is so important for the kremlin to keep such a tight grip on that -- on that flow of information and on the message they want russian people to hear? >> the whole story of russian war in ukraine is a big lie. just from -- from the beginning. even the word "war" is not being used by the russian government. we understand that this is not true. we understand that there is a war. we understand that a lot of civilians die there every day, and we understand that a lot of russian soldiers, as well, die there every day. and president zelenskyy, he is the person who has a lot of information on what is going on there and, of course, he gave us this information during this

interview, and of course russian government doesn't want this information to be spread in russia. >> reporter: this is what the kremlin does want russians to see. blanket coverage on state media of its special military operation with russian forces cast as liberators and heroes. there have been displays of dissent, like this one of a journalist holding up an antiwar placard during russia's main daily newscast. the program was quickly cut away. but for millions of russians, the idea their country is a force for good, fighting neo-nazis in ukraine, welcomed by the people there is much more appealing than the hard truth. why is it such a successful strategy? why are people so ready to believe that propaganda? >> there is a huge part of the russia society of people who are in denial. people just do not want to admit

that their country -- our country -- my country is bombing civilian objects and schools and -- and hospitals, et cetera, et cetera. it's hard to admit it that maybe there is something very wrong with your -- with your homeland. and that somehow, me, as a -- as a -- as a citizen of russia is somehow responsible for it. >> reporter: hard to admit perhaps but with tough new information laws increasingly illegal, too. russia's criminalizing of the truth is this war's latest casualty. matthew chance, cnn. and as much as russia wants to control the narrative around its invasion of ukraine, a volunteer group of analysts is working to make sure information about the war is truthfully shared. the community calls itself open source intelligence. these everyday people have made

a hobby out of tracking russian and ukrainian forces in real-time by geo-locating pictures from the battlefield. and it's making a difference. now, the ukraine government's mobile app allows users to submit geo-tag media, tracking the movement of russian troops. john scott whaleton is a senior researcher at the citizen lab at the university of toronto. he joins me now. good to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> so, russia's war in ukraine is turning ordinary twitter users into twitter spies apparently. taking the time to verify video of bombed-out civilian targets by geolocating it and analyzing social media chatter of witnesses then sharing that analysis to help determine who is responsible. how helpful do you think this is? >> well, i like to think of it not in terms of twitter spies but in terms of a giant

ecosystem of accountability that hap happens around every big conflict these days. the world is filled with people who care and who have some kind of esoteric expertise. and now, using twitter and social media, they can actually contribute their hobby. they say that war moves quickly, so service that lends a hand to determining the truth and fights against propaganda. do you agree with all of that? >> i do but i think the characterization of spies is a little bit risky and i will tell you why. i think a lot of people engage in this not in order to be spies but because they truly see there's something wrong is happening and they care about accountability and consequences. and in many cases, they care about the plight of ukrainian people. and so what i see this conflict

is having done is really enlisted so many people who care and who want to do something about what's happened. and maybe, the skill set they can bring is attention to detail or a willingness to watch hundreds of hours of videos to try to figure out whether a particular film or piece of clip was filmed in a certain location. >> and presumably, some of these users, these twitter users, are better than others. and all of this information is checked and verified. but do you have any concerns that sharing geolocation data, for instance, could put lives at risk as some critics have suggested? and should there be specific protocols put in place for what some people are calling twitter spies? you prefer not to. >> the world of open source investigations is vast and what's remarkable is in the last decade, we have really seen it go from being something that was, in many ways, i think extremely amateurish and experimental to something where there are norms and best

practices. we see large accounts and even organizations, like bellingcat really developing a sophisticated, and i would argue ethical way of doing this. and modeling good behavior for others to follow. obviously, there are lots of risks around this kind of activity. whether it's the risk of inadvertently outing somebody who's filmed a video. or perhaps, even giving russia clues about just how accurate their artillery is. that said, i think we're watching very much learning happening in real-time as volunteers from around the world figure out what some of these risks are. of course, there are real concerns. but this kind of activity is going to happen in any conflict and around any conflict these days. and what's so important is that people watch and learn how to do it better, and more carefully. >> right. and of course, this group -- they refer to themselves as open source intelligence community. tracking the movements of both the russian and ukrainian troops online. their findings have been impacting strategy on the

ground. ukraine finding their work particularly crucial for locating russian troops. is this the changing face of war do you think? where ordinary people play this critical role in holding accountable some of these countries for the war crimes they're committing. in this instance, russia. >> well, in this case, the fact that there's this massive global ad hoc community of people who are surfacing information about potential war crimes, documenting what's going on and even revealing information about russian troop movements i think is tremendously helpful both to what ukraine perhaps is doing militarily, but also to the information war and to the role that ukraine is playing in it. and to the global understanding of what's happening in ukraine. clearly, putin, if he had his way, would be cutting off the world from knowing what he was doing. he certainly tries to do it in russia and he has tried to do it

in other conflicts around the world. in this case, he can't and the work of this community really highlights just the horrors of what he is inflicting on the ukrainian people. >> yeah. well put. john scott railton, thank you so much for talking with us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> fascinating story there. well, still to come. the fallout from the slap seen around the world. um, she's eating the rocket. ♪ lunchables! built to be eaten.

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jokes at my expense are a part of the job but a joke about jada's medical condition was too much for me to bear and i reacted emotionally. i would like to publicly apollo guides to you, chris. i was out of line and i was wrong. i am embarrassed and my actions are not indicative of the man i want to be. there is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness. meantime, the motion picture academy is launching a formal review into smith's conduct. cnn's brian todd has our report. >> i'm out here. >> uh-oh. >> wow. wow. >> the academy of motion picture arts and sciences is launching a formal review to see whether will smith will be disciplined

for the slap seen around the world. the incident was touched off when rock, while presenting an award, made a joke about smith's wife, actress jada pinkensmith. jada, i love you, gi jade. she suffers from alopecia. >> i'm out here. uh-oh. oh, wow. wow. >> just after the slap sensors muted the telecast but an uncensored japanese feed -- >> will smith just smacked the hit shit out of me. >> wow, dude. it was a gi jane joke.

>> keep my wife -- >> after the ceremony the academy tweeted a short statement saying it does not condone violence of any form but smith was allowed to go on stage and speak after winning the oscar for the best actor where he cheerfully apologized but not to chris rock. >> i want to apologize to the academy, i want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. >> art imitates life. i look like the crazy father. i learned like crazy father, just like they said about richard williams. but love will make you do crazy things. >> a source close to the situation now tells cnn the academy leadership strongly considered removing smith from the telecast after the incident but that the decision makers were seated in different places and couldn't mobilize to make a decision before smith received the award. later on that evening an editor

from "variety" shows smith dancing at an after party. we have reached out to will smith's publicist for comment and chris rock for comments. rock declined to press charges. thanks for joining us. i'm rosemary church. more of our breaking news coverage in just a moment. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com

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