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us in the united states and right around the world. i'm isa soares from london. we are following breaking news coverage of the war in london right here just ahead on "cnn newsroom." it has drastically pulled back its attack on kyiv. >> they don't drown out the russian bombs. >> there seems to be a wild artillery battle. >> we think this is more of a repositioning, probably to use troops elsewhere. >> nothing has changed. the ultimate goal of russia is to take over ukraine. putin wants to take as much as he can. this is cnn breaking news. thanks for your company, everyone. it is wednesday, 30th of march. 9 a.m. here in london 167891 a.m. in ukraine. we'll begin this hour with what u.s. intelligence officials say is a major strategy shift. russian forces are pulling back by some areas in the north to focus on the south and the east

gains. the latest figure from kyiv tells a rather different story. cnn crew reports major rockets and intense fighting in the northern suburbs as you can hear there. ukraine's president said he believes the russians are scaling back military operations when he sees it. >> translator: the signals we hear from the negotiating platform can be called positive but these signals don't drown out the explosions of russian bombs. >> while the u.s. and the u.k. are echoing that same skepticism. the british military says some have returned to russia and belarus after receiving heavy hits. they have moved away from kyiv in the past day or so but russians have in place massive brutality on the city. >> we'll see. i don't read anything into it

until i see what their actions are. >> there is what russia says and there is what russia does. we're focused on the latter. and what russia's doing is they continue brutalization of ukraine. >> we're not prepared to call this a retreat or even a withdrawal. we think what they probably have in mind is to prioritize elsewhere. >> i have to warn you, the next video is graphic. it shows the absolute destruction in the key suburb of irpin. you can see dead bodies in cars, on the streets. it's too dangerous for residents to go out and collect neighbors and loved ones and give them a proper burial. ukraine military says it pushed the russians out of the city. by the looks of the video there's not much left you can see there of irpin. this map shows the places near kyiv where russian troops are operating mostly to the northwest as you can see there and the northeast of the city. cnn's fred pleitgen spoke with

residents and ukrainian troops in kyiv to find out what they make of russia's promise to scale back assaults on the capitol. >> reporter: even after russia announced it plans to withdraw most forces from around kyiv, the fighting continues. residents we spoke to told us they don't believe moscow's words are for real. on the one hand they retreat and on the other they will transfer their efforts to other positions so it's difficult to talk about a withdrawal. i do not believe it. it's probably just a rotation says yuri. it's a regrouping of the troops. despite the forces being stalled, russia claims it will withdraw because it has achieved its military objectives, now wants to make a positive gesture to ukraine, moscow's negotiating team said, after talks in istanbul. a decision was to radically stop military in the kyiv and cherniv

areas. this is not a cease-fire and the sounds of heavy fire reverberate around the capitol. the territorial authorities say make no mistake, if the russians do withdraw, it's because they lost. >> it was obvious russians are losing on the battlefield and diplomatic field and international field. >> reporter: the toll of blood and infrastructure is massive and a parliamentarian says he's not sure ukrainians will ever be able to trust russia again. how long do you think it will take before trust can be obtained. >> i don't trust. it would be hundreds of years.

every people in ukraine lost all their house, their relatives, their friends in this war and our children, they have night in shelters, bombs, it's for ages. >> reporter: while both ukrainian and russian negotiators say talks to end this war are progressing, few in the capitol trust that peace could be coming soon. fred pleitgen, kyiv, ukraine. let's get more on all the latest developments. fred sebastian is here with me and nic robertson joins us in brussels and i want to go to phil black who joins us from lviv, ukraine. there is big skepticism from ukraine and to the allies to russian's pledge to reduce hostility. give us a sense of what the reality is on the ground if kyiv as well as cherniv. >> reporter: they are seeing some equipment being moved north

across the border into belarus but there is not any noticeable reduction in aggression across all battle fronts in ukraine but notably around the capitol of kyiv and chernihiv. these are the two areas where russia will reduce russian activity as a gesture of goodwill as a gesture of peace talks. the over bhwhelming analysis is this goodwill gesture is these are where it's performing poorly and taking the cities quickly or in the case of kyiv encircling the capitol. the ukrainian response is to assume that this with zraul about resupplying and redeployment. the question is where it is possibly to the east where russia is focusing the efforts. the ukrainian government is not assuming russia has given up the

efforts on the capitol. >> thank you very much, phil black at the capitol. you heard phil black there. they say this is a world gesture. what's their strategy here? is it a retreat? is it a redeployment? >> certainly the pentagon says it's more like repositioning. ukraine says it means that the russian enemies did not meet the goal of the defensive operations. this is not so much strategy as necessity. they are saying this is a war gesture, we want to progress the talks, support the talks, but actually they have to do this. they have to move these units out from kyiv and chernihiv in order to resupply. they have been forced to return to belarus to reorganize,

resupply. it's a reply. this can make this a more dangerous moment. they will continue to compensate for the reduced ground capability and mass ground artillery. the teams on the ground are still there. >> nick, to you, it's clear from what claire is outlining that there's a lack of trust here. there was a genuine feeling of optimism yesterday following the peace talks in istanbul. both sides starting to make concessions. are european leaders seeing signs of real seriousness by russia? >> reporter: they're not. they're still waiting to see actions on the ground. there's a huge degree of actions on the ground. the credibility rating is about

zero. russia has persistently lied about its intentions, about what it's going to do, about what it's not going to do. the demands it's putting on the table, president putin had a phone call with president macron of france. he's had the most direct contact with president putin. the crepe lynn's readout of that was that if president macron who's trying to organize humanitarian corridors for 170,000 people from the pulverized city of mariupol, tell the ukrainian forces they're to put down their weapons and surrender. russia from the very top is telling the european leader stship that it will continue to prosecute the fight and not just from donbas region but also in that southern corridor area in which mariupol is an important

part that would help if russia secures it to link russia with the crimean peninsula. it's keep the sanctions tight, fill the holes in the sanctions where russia is getting work arounds. not a lot of trust yet. optimism out of the talks. that is always the way peace negotiations. there is always a sense of optimism when you can see the lay of the land ahead and see the potential path to peace yet that there are so many pitfalls along the road and that part and that's the reality of how peace talks go. russia is really not committed at the moment. >> yeah. we don't know where they stand on the proposals following that meeting. stay with us. want to go back to claire. the german government is triggering an early warning level from gas supply. do they believe they'll be cut

off? >> this is an early warning. it means that they're going to convenient a gas crisis team. they're going to be monitoring the situation on the gas network and it's been triggered by russia's demand over the past week or so that gas should be paid for in rubles. they are saying no to that. germany is saying right now gas supplies for consumers are guaranteed. there's been a lack of gas in the network. they are saying to people that they should start to reduce their use of gas. we know it relies on russia for about half that any reduction in russian gas would be serious. >> indeed, not just for germany but for the whole of europe. before we go, have a look at how the european stock markets are doing, especially the xetra dax. red arrows across the board. yesterday was a very different situation following the meeting.

claire sebastian and nic robertson, thank you to you both. we are getting a better look at the destruction caused by russian attacks in the city of mariupol. these are some of the first images we're getting from the center of the city. not released through russian satellite. this is what used to be a neighborhood housing unit and you can see the residential streets filled with debris. these images show the exact same spot of the center of the city before and after the russian siege. dozens of homes you can see there completely ravaged by explosions. while a survival of the mariupol theater terror attacks speaks. 300 people killed according to ukrainian officials. the theater was being used as a

civilian shelter. this is a heartbreaking story. >> reporter: this was the theater before vladimir putin invaded ukraine. a cultural and architectural symbol of the city and when the russian military laid the deadly siege of mariupol, the theater became a safe haven. >> six people with a cat, we are on the street and they started shooting us. we run and craziness and then we go to the theater. in the theater there was a lot of people. it was like, we okay. we have food. they give us tea. they said you should find a place where you could -- like a bed. >> reporter: this woman and her family recently escaped from mariupol. >> i'm maria from mariupol. >> reporter: on the morning of march 16th, maria, her mother, her sister and cat joined

hundreds of thousands of others sheltering in the theater. it shows families huddled in the dark feeling protected by the signs children in russian posted outside the building. shortly after arriving maria went to kwlek an uncle who lived nearby was still alive. >> i hear the noise of the plane, like bombs plane. we know this noise because it is bombed every day. >> she returned to the theater to find it destroyed. so i understand that my family in the theater and everyone screaming the names, you know, like mama, papa, i started calling like mam, fw ala. >> reporter: footage of the immediate aftermath shows dazed civilians covered in dust while the roof over the main auditorium had completely

collapsed. >> when the theater was bombed my sister was standing with the win tow and the window was like blow up and she's fallen down and my mom was in another part of the theater and wall fall into her. >> reporter: maria's mother and sister were wounded but survived. your sister, is she doing all right? >> no. >> really? >> she's concussion. >> she's got a concussion? >> yeah. yeah. yeah. >> reporter: shortly after the initial strike of the theater what was left came under a fresh artillery attack. >> everyone start screaming that theater is on fire so we should run. and we run but russians bombed it. so we running from the theater and bombs was -- >> reporter: it eventually took nine days for maria and her family to get through russian checkpoints and reach relative

safety. >> you seem very positive and up beat. >> i'm very lucky. you understand thousands and hundreds still in mariupol and they bombed. no food, no water, they have no medicine, nothing. i'm very lucky. i have my arms, i have my legs, whatever you need anymore. >> reporter: and your family? >> yeah, my family, my cat. >> this is like mushka, a 2-year-old cat. she survived the bombing of the mariupol theater with your family and now they're headed to western ukraine in this bus. >> reporter: no one knows how many people may have died in the rubble. russia has denied that its forces bombed the theater and russian state tv recently showed what was left of it after russian troops moved into this part of the city. judging by the damage the russian reporter claims it was bombed from the inside.

he alleges there is information that ukrainian nationalists organized a terrorist attack here, a claim people inside the theater strongly reject. >> are you angry right now? >> no, russia, just go away. this is ukrainian territory. i don't understand why they come in and tell me it's not my land. they are fighting with every citizen, you know? they bombed hospitals. they bombed gardens, they bombed houses of peaceful people. they not fighting with the army. >> reporter: maria and her family rushed to a waiting van. the driver will take them for free to western ukraine where maria hopes her sister can safely recover from her injuries. ivan watson, cnn, zaporizhzhia, ukraine. ukrainians who fled the country are talking about the life they left behind and what they lost and it's a lot.

we'll get some of their stories just ahead.

the latest round of talks from russia and ukraine are

over. negotiators will keep discussing a humanitarian cease-fire because said corridors are desperately needed. in the last few minutes a ukrainian official announced three humanitarian corridors will operate today including one in mariupol. more than 10 million people have been forced from their homes. 6.5 million are displaced and 4 million have fled the country. most leaving the country are crossing into poland and they're living in lines and living in limbo. some are trying to get to europe. >> reporter: they fled from russian missiles, now wait for polish papers.

all they want is to be in ukraine. we've been waiting for four hours. i have a special needs child but every refugee here, almost all of them women and mothers, has needs. the more than 2 million ukrainian refugees in poland will have to show documents if they want a polish national identification number for services. >> you can work. >> you want to work? >> yeah. >> reporter: julia and her two children waited since 3 in the morning. six hours later they got that national number so she can work. i wish i could continue my old life, she says. there she had a job, family. her husband now fights in the war. it was taken away, she says of her life. i have to live here by force. while she's grateful to build a safe life in poland for her children, i want to go to ukraine, she says. you hear the story repeated

again and again from the women pulled from their lives, stuck in a purgatory of passing time while a war rages at home. >> reporter: this is where you live? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: this could the is her life now. >> i work in ukraine. >> reporter: you're a police officer? >> yes. >> reporter: she was. she now grabs a neon vest instead. she's a volunteer at a warsaw refugee center where she herself arrived in early march fleeing bombing in kyiv. most refugees leave here in days for temporary housing but it's been a month and she refuses to unless it's to go home to her life in kyiv where her brothers are on the front lines. >> reporter: do you think you'll see them again? >> no.

>> reporter: yes, she says. they talk twice a week at most. i think everything will be fine, she says, at least i hope for it. not just my brothers but everyone. but life outside the war doesn't stop even though julia wishes it would. if i have to, she says, i'll do it. we'll start. the extraordinary thing talking to the refugees here in warsaw, they believe this life in poland is temporary. they are seeing the same news. they are seeing the same images. they're having to explain this to their children, yet they all tell us they believe they are going to be able to return to ukraine and pick up life where it stopped. p warsaw, poland. if you would like to safely

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welcome barck, everyone. russia's claims to scale back are being met with skepticism. artillery fire can be heard in

the distance around kyiv. the pentagon warns russian troops appear to be repositioning rather than withdrawing. we have to warn you, the next video is graphic. the areas largely deserted after you can see ukrainian officials claimed they pushed russian troops out. bodies can be seen lying on the streets and inside that car there. robin english is from the university of southern california. he joins me live from los angeles. robert, thank you very much for staying up late to speak with us. western officials who been here in the last 24 hours sounding skeptical and weary of russia's pledge to scale back. how do you see their move? >> i see this as a normal confusing situation.

i have no doubt we are entering the end game because the middle game, the attempt to take ground to make major advances has deteriorated into a stalemate. russia cannot win. cannot achieve its objectives and it's looking now for a way to scale back to more moderate positions while still maximizing its leverage at the bargaining table. they are at the negotiating table. russia will keep killing people. the ukrainians will fight back viciously so, yeah, the russians will pull back, retreat, give a space but they'll keep fighting and so will the ukrainians. neither one can win. there will have to be compromise in the coming weeks. >> russia won't admit this is a defeat but the reality is, you hinted there, their forces have

been suffering heavy losses and very low morale. is this not just focusing on the areas to the east and southern parts of the country or do you see something different? >> i think putin later than the rest of us because of the bubble he's been in, the pride and the delusions he's been under has been slow to accept that his major offensive, his broad strategic goals have failed. he will not conquer ukraine, he will not take the capitol. he has now understood that because of the reality of a collapsing army that cannot even replace equipment. they're scraping the barrel for spare parts. they're scraping the barrel for spare people. they cannot win. they have to retreat and scale back their goals. as many of us watching on the military side have expected, they will retreat to something like a strip of territory connecting crimea with the donbas eventually but in the

meantime they will inflict a ton of damage, missile strikes will continue pressuring the ukrainians to make more concessions. this is how bloody and nasty wars get. >> what we hear from the u.k. ministry of defense about their strategy and tactics going forward. you saw yesterday, robert, ukraine presenting negotiators with a framework for peace under which they'll remain neutral with a security guarantee by third party countries. do you think this would be something putin would accept at this snaj. >> it's an important concession to russia. and it's probably a sensible compromise. neutrality, formal neutrality so putin can claim a win and save face but at the same time ukraine says it has to come with

security from the west. it's halfway being in the west. that allows putin to claim victory and give up on the big role of conquest which he'll claim he never wanted anyway. i think the sticking point, the hardest thing to negotiate anyhow will be sanctions. the russians will want sanctions relieved. the united states say no to that. the british say no to that. some of the central allies on the european continent are desperate to get ordinary trade and commerce back because they're hurting a lot from the sanctions too. so i think it's going to be a negotiating game between russia and ukraine and america and nato allies to keep the unified position of how many sanctions if any can be relieved. >> we had president zelenskyy

want more sanctions and pressure. the last 30 minutes or so we heard from the ukrainian side there will be military corridors put in place. how much do you trust these will go ahead. mariupol has more than 100,000 people trapped inside the country. can we take russia at their word here? >> i'm afraid not. they've broken their word so many times. no, we can't accept anything they say verbally. it has to be demonstrated in actions. that's how they've behaved before so i'm afraid, no, not on this, not on humanitarian corridors, not on a cessation of bombardment of kyiv, on missile strikes towards lviv. none of these do we take their word.

ukrainians fight back and take as many russian losses as they can inflict until we finally see the russians act on those words. they haven't yet. >> like president zelenskyy said overnight, there was a size of optimism but we are ukrainian people and not naive. robert english, great to have your perspective. appreciate it. thank you, robert. >> you're well welcome. the vessel is docked in london worth an estimated $50 million. the first seized since russian sanctions were enacted. this is deliberately well hidden. next, the january 6th investigation hit a stumbling block. coming up, details on the gap in the white house phone records

just ahead. plus, a deadly shooting in tell a reef. several people including a police officer dead. we'll take you to the very latest. stay right here. you're watching cnn.

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lawmakers are facing a substantial gap on the january 6th records on what donald trump was doing that day. trump returned to the white house and for several hours during the riot they show no calls to or from trump but it's known he reached out to a number of republican lawmakers to press them to reject the certification. >> i was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on. >> i know i talked to him.

they want me to get off the phone, i've got to go. >> according to reports, u.s. house investigators are looking whether trump communicated through back channels, burner phones. >> more severe weather can be on the way. in the southern u.s. tornado watch is in effect. the biggest threat is expected later today. meteorologist pedram javaheri has a look at the forecast. good morning, pedram. >> good morning, isa. portions of the mississippi valley, tennessee valley, ohio valley where the severe threat extends for quite a bit of activity in the afternoon. even in the early morning hours, tornado watches in effect until 7 a.m. in tulsa, arkansas, south into dallas.

severe weather could spawn a few tornadoes. as the energy shifts east we expect the severe threat to go east. it's a multi-day setup. the threat level, that's a level 4 and the largest concern is straight line winds maybe 70, 75 miles per hour into the afternoon. ef-2 or 3. this is in line with the same exact spot that we saw severe weather and deadly tornadoes. it's a 50% chance across the landscape. timing on this, between late morning and early afternoon hours. nashville, jackson, new orleans. 40, close to 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the energy shifts off of alabama, georgia. just a little bit. excessive rainfall includes the city of memphis. still plenty of potential this afternoon.

notice by thursday afternoon the threat level diminishes quite a bit and some of the larger cities with the strong wind gusts. on the back side of it, much colder air temperature into atlanta. >> thanks very much, pedram. now at least five people including a police officer shot and killed on tuesday. that's a third attack in israel in the past eight days. authorities say at least one shooter using an assault rifle against civilians before police killed the suspect. elliott, what more do we know about this deadly attack? is there a claim of admission here? >> reporter: yeah, isa, there has been a claim of admission from a military brigade. we have been hearing more details around the specifics from last night. the israeli police tell us the

gunman came from the main road, came down and tried to shoot at a teenager on a bicycle. missed the teenager. then came here to the corner shop where you can see there's an israeli flag handle and he shot dead two men, ukrainian men sitting outside with one another on a tuesday evening. shot dead at point blank range. he then shot a man driving home in his car, shot him while he was driving and then around the corner here on another residential street shot dead a 30-year-old father who was playing with his toddler. he then came across two israeli police officers. he shot the driver of the motorcycle they were on in the chest. the partner shot the gunman dead. the driver who was shot in the

chest was taken to the hospital and died later of his wounds. he was israeli arab. he's due to be buried this afternoon. he's being haled as a hero by the israeli police. isa. >> very worrying indeed as we head into the holidays of easter, ramadan and passover. thank you very much, elliott. still to come right here on the show, another round of covid boosters may be on the way for some americans. we'll have the details after a short t break.

select group of people can get an additional covid booster in the united states. the fda has expanded emergency use authorization of the pfizer as well as moderna vaccine allowing adults age 50 and older to get a second booster which is four shots overall. those eligible are able to get the shot four months after their first booster. the move comes as the omicron variant ba. 2 has become the dominant strain. you can see that there.

u.s. cases have stayed relatively stable so far and the key indicator of hospitalizations continue to slow down. that's very good news, indeed. shanghai, the engine of china's $18 trillion economy is tightening covid restrictions with a city of 25 million people in day three of covid lockdown. this is happening as the country's fighting the worst covid surge in wuhan nearly two years ago. shanghai has an increase. cnn's kristie lu stout joins me from hong kong with more. kristie, what does this look like? >> reporter: this has been described as a two-stage lockdown so the 25 million residents of shanghai would be tested for covid-19 and so far we have learned 9 million residents have been tested since monday. on monday the first half of the

city went to lockdown for four days. on friday the other half will go under lockdown. during this testing period we know 6 million residents at least, they will be staying at home, not allowed to leave until they get tested. during this time, transport will be suspended. work will be suspended at some offices and factories as well. what's hemming in shanghai is huge. it's a huge test of the covid strategy. it's a strategy that has curbed outbreaks and saved lives but it has come at a steep cost especially to the nation's economy. i want to bring up a statement. china should be able to contain the virus as the lockdown is effective but covid does pose substantial growth risk in the next year but lockdown is possible. >> in hong kong where you are,

thousands of covid foster children have been separated from their parents. is the government now saying they'll prevent separation. how so? >> reporter: this is a story we've been mon forge closely at cnn because of the strict isolation rules here zero covid hong kong. families have been separated by this policy. we know positive covid patients, even infants, have been separated from covid negative parents because of the policy. it prompted one charity to issue a statement. they estimate some 2,000 children under the age of 10 have been separated from their policy because of the policy. they accuse the government of child abuse. the hospital authority and hong kong says this, quote, even parents and careers who are negative, we will seek agreement so covid hospitals can

accommodate their requests to accompany the pediatric patient. it appears the policy has been reversed. isa, the damage has been done. as we've been reporting in the last few weeks, thousands of people have left hong kong due to family separation as a reason why. the families who have been victimized, i've spoken with parents who share heartbreaking stories including a father who say he and his wife were separated from seven days from their 1 1/2-year-old toddler son being treated for covid-19 in the hospital. since coming out of the hospital he is showing signs of ptsd. he is very clingy to the mother, won't let her go. you hear stories and you hear the pain the policy has caused to so many people here in hong kong, isa.

>> not a healthy policy. like you pointed out, kristie, the impact that has on children's mental health. >>y. >> thank you very much. kristie lu stout in hong kong. >> thank you. will smith may soon find out if he'll face consequences for slapping chris rock at the oscars. sources say the film academy's board of governors will meet later today to discuss whether any action will be taken against smith. board member whoopie goldberg, host of "the view" says he's not getting off scott free. >> let me say this. there are consequences. there are big consequences. >> there has to be. >> well, yeah. nobody -- nobody is okay with what happened, nobody. nobody. what's happening are people are now starting to calm down and say, wait a minute, what could have triggered this? >> now we've also been hearing from jada. she didn't directly address the

joke. she wrote this is a season for healing and i'm here for it. before we go, a moment of unity in space. hand shakes and hugs exchanged between russians and americans aboard the international space station. one of the russian cosmonauts had this to say. >> people have problem on earth. on orbit we are not alike. we are one crew and i think this is a symbol of the friendship. like my space brothers and space sisters. they will arrive on earth and it's safe to say that is very different from earth. i'm isa soares in london. breaking news coverage from ukraine is up next. i shall see you tomorrow. bye-bye. - [narrator] as you get ready for what's next,

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this is cnn breaking news. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans here in new york. let's begin with john berman reporting for us in lviv, ukraine. hi, john. >> good morning to both of you. overnight here in ukraine a senior government official says there were no areas without sirens. yes, here in lviv we heard them