welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause live in lviv, ukraine, where president zelenskyy says russia will be remembered as a source of evil as ukraine reports intercepts of steel works where the last fighters in mariupol have taken refuge. holding russia accountable. i'm speak to a human rights researcher in ukraine this hour who is gathering evidence on the ground for a possible war crimes trial.

about five hours from what russia's defense ministry calls a ceasefire offer in the port city of mariupol. but ukraine fightered holed up there say it's really just a demand for surrender and they will not give up. russian media released drone video of the steel factory. ukraine says hundreds of civilians are taking shelter there as well. marine commander says about 500 wounded service members are also there, left to rot without medical care. russia's assault on mariupol is a key part of its offensive in ukraine's industrial heartland known as the donbas. moscow says it wants to liberate the region from ukrainian nationalists. new video shows some of the damage of a shopping center and grocery store in luhansk. the camera pans across the street, another building destroyed by strikes. and farther to the north in kha kharkiv, graphic video which we also need to show you. russian shelling killed at least three people and wounded 16 others. ukraine's president says

incoming fire from vladimir putin's military has increased significantly. >> reporter: forever the russian army will be written in history as the most barbaric and inhumane army in the world. the targeted killing of civilians and destruction of residential buildings with all kinds of weapon, including those that are forbidden by international conventions, this is just a trademark of the russian army, and that will truly mark the russian federation as the source of evil. >> there is also an ominous warning from the russian military's plans with mariupol and it comes from communications intercepted by ukraine's government. details now with cnn's matt rivers. >> reporter: for the battered and desperate citizens of mariupol, a chilling new threat has emerged. the security service of ukraine, or sbu, released a purported communications intercept of a russian ground unit commander who said russian aircraft were

planning to, quote, level everything to the ground. >> reporter: cnn cannot vouch for the authenticity, but the sbu has previously released audio from intercepted radio traffic revealing russian soldiers discussing killing and raping civilians, bolstering allegations of war crimes by russian troops. military observers have also noted a tendency of russian troops to use unsecured communications in ukraine. for now a ukrainian commander says russian forces are, quote, willingly bombing and shelling the plant, a sprawling complex in mariupol southeast that once employed more than 10,000 people. it's unclear how many ukraine forces are at the site. but one commander says the russians are using free fall bombs, rockets, bunker buster

bombs, and other artillery at the facility. video posted on social media which cnn cannot verify shows dozens of women and children who say they have been staying under the facility for week, holding out against russian attacks. the surrender deadline russian forces issued to ukrainian troops has now expired. but the russian military official in charge of the operation says they will allow the civilians safe passage out of the area. >> translator: russian leadership will guarantee safe evacuation of each and every civilian as well as the safety of the humanitarian convoy's movement in any direction they choose. >> reporter: it's unclear if the ukrainians will take the word of the russian general, who has himself been accused of excesses during the mariupol campaign. not all mariupol civilians are in the steel factory. tens of thousands are trying to survive in other parts of the city. cnn is not in mariupol, but the reuters news agency found these people cooking outside a residential building on monday. they're chopping wood to make a

fire to boil water, some soup, and even cook some pancakes. this woman cutting a boy's hair says, quote, they need to quickly fix the water supply problem. how can we live without water? it's horrible. and this woman says of bombardment -- >> to be honest, we are not well. i have mental problems after air strikes. that's for sure. i'm really scared. when i hear a plane, i just run away. >> reporter: matt rivers, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> the u.s. is working to quickly get weapons into the hands of ukrainian fight. >> according to a senior u.s. defense official. sources at the white house say there will likely be another weapons package for ukraine. valued at $800 million, that will be approved soon, just one week after the last one for $800 million was approved. one defense official says they'll be unable to stop the shipments in their entirety.

should this second weapons package be approved, the u.s. will have provided a total of $3 billion in assistance since this war began. joining me now from warsaw, poland, a member of the ukrainian parliament. thank you for taking the time to speak with us. i guess in terms of military aid, it seems for the most part everything that ukraine says it needs eventually arrive. but only after this debate. there is hand-ringing, there is naval-gazing and a realization after time yes, they do need tankses. yes, they need warplanes and long-range artillery. that lag, the timeline between asking and getting, it's costing lives. it must be beyond frustrating. >> it is. i mean, you know, we are quite used to the war at this point, being more than 50 days in it. we are not used to the fact that a lot of the country reacts quite late. the u.s. is actually doing a lot

already. but yet it comes with this delay. every time we ask for welcomes to defend ourselves, mariupol, as we talked about, every time we ask for sanctions and to switch off all of the russian banks from swift, which can make a huge difference, there will be delays. and obviously those delays cost tens of thousands of people's lives in kharkiv region, in mariupol, and especially the occupied territories. as we've seen in bucha, the villages on the north of kyiv, which were liberated recently. >> has asked for 200,000 gas masks in fears of chemical weapons attack by russia. how serious is that attack? and should residents start to leaf for their own safety? >> i can tell you honestly that we are expecting another wave of violence and weapons that are not to be used by the 9th of may. the 9th of may is a holiday in

the ussr and in russia, as a holiday of victory, right? and it's a symbolic holiday for putin. so we are expecting towards kyiv, even the liberated areas, and we do intercept together with your intelligence actually a lot, a lot of communications that putin is able the do anything and has already ordered to use some kind of women in mariupol, and some kind of chemical weapons. so yes, unfortunately, unfortunately putin has done already so many war crimes and so much damage, and so much violence towards children and women that i don't think he will stop if the world will not stop him, even towards some kind of chemical weapons attacks, even though it is another war crime. i think it is quite serious and we need to be prepared for that. we explained already to the population what to do in terms of just wear the masks. if something happen, use certain

medicine that you have at home. but obviously, the gas masks might be needed. even after the 50 days of war, it's horrifying for me that i'm telling you this right now. but yes, we do need to be prepared unfortunately, because putin has lost his mind completely. >> yeah. and this is clearly on that timetable. you're expecting this kind of mass or some kind of wmd to be deployed, because essentially, he is losing, and he needs to have a victory by may 9. and that is why you're expecting this chemical weapons or something similar to be deployed? >> he needs some kind of victory. so for sure he has to explain to his populations the damages, the losses, the losses of his warship. and that will -- no propaganda will cover that. so obviously by the 9th of may was a time of the holiday we will need some kind of enf

enforcement and some kind of victory. obviously another attack in mariupol which still standing hand has enormous amount of civilians dead and enormous amount of people forcibly deported. or it could be kyiv region or it could be kharkiv or another occupied territories in the east and in the south. but, yeah, i think by the 9th of may, he will do some other moves, maybe towards odesa, maybe towards other cities, because he needs some kind of symbolic gesture at least to explain it to the russian people. >> he also, putin, honored members of the 64 separate guards motorcycle brigade. he gave them this honorary title of guards and presented them with a signed letter that read "the high distinction recognizes your special merits, great heroism and courage in defending your fatherland and in protecting russia's sovereignty and national interests." for the record, this is the same unit identified by ukrainian

intelligence, and i think u.s. intelligence as well as the one responsible for war crimes and other atrocities in bucha. how could this case against putin, in fact, the war crimes case against putin in terms of overall responsibility for crimes against humanity. he is rewarding the very soldiers who raped women and young girls and murdered civilians execution-style. >> yeah, i'm not surprised to hear that. but yeah, it is shocking. and obviously, obviously he's not going to stop right now. when we think and you node to do negotiations, that show that he will not stop, and that he is -- he is still pushing and trying. maybe he is isolated from information, but he will still push and try for at least a number of other weeks. i've been to bucha a number of times over the past week. i've been to bucha and another

village on the north of kyiv. and the stories you hear, the things you see, the things we show to our european colleagues from european parliaments all over the world, they're terrifying. when you see -- when you see the medias, it does show when you talk to the people in bucha. when you see the parade of 260 people that have been -- and there is not one civilian which died out of some kind of crash or out of some kind of hole. all of them were shot in their heads after being tortured. women often being raped, often being raped repeatedly in the shelters or in some kind of basement by the russian soldiers for days. and then just shot them and throw them into a mass grave. and we cannot even identify them right now until we do the dna test because some of them cannot be identifiable after being in the mass grave for months.

this is something we should not happen in our time and in our history in the center of europe. and i was so sure that this in the history books after hitler, but putin is doing pretty much all that hitler has done, and it seems even worse right now for the ukrainian people, when they hear the stories of kids being raped in front of their mothers or little boys being raped in front of their mothers and then thrown into mass graves. this sounds like something completely surreal, but unfortunately, this is the reality. this is the russian empire that putin is trying to make. and i think for ukrainians, it's been super clear. like right now why are we fighting, why are we protecting our land? again, this complete evil and complete new kind of nazis into russian empires that putin has built. and we do need to stop that in the territory. >> it does seem to be a new kind

of evil, as you say. when you describe it as the way you've outlined there, it is truly disturbing. thank you so much. we appreciate your time today. thank you, ma'am. >> thank you. well, the heads of the world bank and the international monetary fund are calling for more help to rebuild ukraine and help this country's economy to keep going. they're scheduled to meet thursday with to discuss additional report. the imf warns that the ripple effects from russia's war on ukraine are like the earthquake rattling the global economy. >> reporter: the economic effects of the war in ukraine are spreading far and wide, and that's the main reason the imf slashed its forecast for economic growth to 3.6% for this year and next. it reflects a 0.8 downgrade this year from their last forecast, which was only made in january. now unsurprisingly, the greatest impact will be felt in ukraine. the imf warns of a double-digit

contraction of 35% this year. and for russia's economy to shrink by over 8%. however, all of this is the baseline scenario. if sanctions in russia were to escalate, with russian energy being targeted as well, the imf sees a much greater economic shock. it would be punishing for russia, with an additional 15% drop in gdp by 2027, but it would also drag global gdp down by about 2% just this year, with energy, metal, and food prices continuing to climb. and for europe, hugely reliant on russian energy, they say the impact would be sizable with a 3% drop in gdp, which is why sanctions on russian energy remains a hotly debated issue for eu member states. anna stewart, cnn, london. we'll take a short break here on cnn. but when we come back, my colleague and friend rosemary church will have a lot more on

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well, the u.s. justice department says if the centers for disease control determines masks are necessary for public health, it will appeal to revive the mask mandate. a u.s. judge struck down the mask mandate for public transportation monday. u.s. president joe biden appeared to accept that masks are now optional. take a listen. >> mr. president, should people continue to wear masks on planes? >> that's up to them. >> many major airlines, public transportation systems, and ride sharing companies quickly adjusted their policies to allow passengers to make their own decision. while some travelers celebrated, public health officials are cautious. >> when i was asked by members of the white house what i thought, i said look, eventually they have to come up. don't do it now when ba.2 is accelerating because that's consuming all over the northeast, and eventually it could spread nationally.

so just hang on. just hang on a few more weeks. i can't tell you whether it's going to be two weeks or whether we have to wait an extra month. it will start going down. it won't be as bad as omicron, but it's still substantial. >> my reaction is that the biden administration has to do everything they can to preserve public health authority in the future. right now i think it's a bit up in the air as to whether the mask mandate really is needed to control the ba.2 variant. but there may be a variant in the future that causes more deadly disease or that may evade the protection from our vaccines. we want the cdc to be able to respond at this time. and so everything the federal government can do to preserve public health authority for future crisis is important. >> the u.s. centers for disease control is weighing whether its transportation mask mandate is necessary, but it's advising people to wear masks in indoor public transportation settings for now. well, the covid death toll in china is rising. chinese health officials say at

least 17 people have now died from covid-19 in shanghai since the current outbreak started. seven new deaths were reported on tuesday alone. most of the city has been under lockdown for weeks as china doubles down on its zero covid policy. the lockdown has sparked widespread anger, crippled supply chains, and resulted in shortages of food and essential supplies. cnn's kristie lu stout is following this story for us. she joins us now live from hong kong. always good to see you, kristie. more covid deaths reported in shanghai, though the numbers do remain curiously low, don't they? what is the latest on all this? >> the lockdown chinese mega city is reporting more deaths. the city's municipal government reported an additional seven deaths caused by the virus. so the total official death toll is around 17 in this mega city of 25 million, who was on monday

earlier this week on monday when shanghai reported this ongoing and massive outbreak that has infected nearly half a million people. so that very low official death toll has been raising a lot of questions among denizens across china and also among health experts, especially here in hong kong. look at the height of the fifth wave of infection which is still under way in hong kong. the city here reported more deaths than any other country or territory around the world. why is it that shanghai has such a low official death toll? well, according to one expert at the university of hong kong, he tells cnn, this quote. on the mainland, if the deceased had underlying ailments, most of them would have been categorized of having decide of other diseases than covid. shanghai is home to quite a number of very vulnerable people. in fact, according to the

people's daily, it said that 15%, only 15% of the people over the age of 80 are fully vaccinated. back to you. >> that is interesting. and meanwhile, of course, in hong kong, where you are, cases may be falling. but still is still trying to keep the virus out by suspending more flights. what is the latest on that? >> you know, it's interesting. cases are falling here in hong kong. schools finally back up and running on campus that started yesterday, starting tomorrow. very strict social distancing rules will be relaxed. air travel in and out of this city remains very, very difficult as the hong kong government is banning flights, banning flights for carrying infected passengers. let's bring up this graphic for you so you can see the airlines have been affected. we know at least a dozen flights involving ten airlines have been banned, including london, tokyo, singapore. the affected airlines include cathay pacific, all nippon

airway, singapore airlines, on tuesday, only a single flight came from outside the asia-pacific region. so these are very testing times for hong kong, for its residents who really yearn to fly, but also for its status as an international aviation and business hub. back to you. >> yeah, absolutely. kristie lu stout joining us live from hong kong. many thanks. >> you're welcome. coming up, cnn returns to bucha where the local coroner's office has a seemingly endless task recovering the victims of russia's invasion. [lazer beam and sizzling sounds] ♪

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welcome back, everyone. i'm john vause live in lviv, ukraine. a russian military unit accuse of war crimes in bucha is being honored by vladimir putin. the russian president signed the decree monday, giving the 64th motor brigade the title guards, praising the unit for showing great heroism and courage. but what called valor, ukraine calls murder. a warning, some parts of phil's story is disturbing.

this is one of seven sites in and around kyiv, working to cope with the tide of death, left behind by russia's retreating forces. are there still more bodies coming? yes, every morning. >> reporter: this man normally teaches forensiced me. now he is a full-time volunteer, performing endless autopsies. >> up to 50%. >> reporter: by his definition, that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witness a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy, to storage and ultimately preparation for burial. usually it will be their second.

most have been exhumed from temporary graves. families buy new clothes for those they've lost as a gesture of love and respect. but they often go unworn. they can only be laid inside the coffin. the condition of the bodies means dressing them is impossible. among those lying here waiting to be collected is roman leeper. his family says he was killed when munitions struck his home in a small remote village. his wife viktoria survive only to endure a form of hell. intense fighting meant she couldn't escape the house. viktoria's brother says "my sister had the step over her husband's body for two weeks. she had to go through it to get to food or water. the room is still covered in blood. she is very bad now, very bad. i don't know how she will live with this loss."

others who grieve are living through a different form of hell. they can't find the body of the person they love. volodymyr is searching for his brother leonid. he shows us where he was shot and killed. where he was buried in a shallow, makeshift grave before officials exhumed the bed and took it away. so volodymyr has taken leave from active duty to travel through devastated communities, going from morgue to morgue. but no one can help. eventually, he is directed to a police office with essential list of the dead. he's told his brother probably hasn't been processed yet. volodymyr must return to the war. he doesn't know when he'll be able to come back, even if leonid's body is found. "it hurts a lot," he says. "it hurts a lot, but we don't

give up." russia has let so much death behind in areas near kyiv. some people must wait their turn to grieve. phil black, cnn, bucha, ukraine. >> and some day after the war in ukraine is over, there will likely be war crimes trials. before that can happen, though, investigators have to document and collect the evidence, and that process is already happening in places like bucha, where russian forces seemingly left behind evidence of their crimes waiting to be found. but this a place like mariupol, which is cut off from the outside world and still being bombed, that process of documentation can't even begin yet. joining me live from chernihiv, ukraine is a senior crisis and conflict researcher with human rights watch. thank you so much for talking

with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so for everyone witnessing this brutal war, there appears to be an abundance of tragic proof of war crimes being committed in varsities across ukraine, and yet the process of gathering that evidence is much more complex than that. so how confident are you that the evidence you have been documenting will result in holding russia accountable and perhaps ultimately the conviction of the perpetrators? >> well, you know, in the context of this conflict, we're in a very rare and unique situation. we've never seen this in history before where you have so many potential avenues for justice in a courtroom. we have the ongoing investigation into the international criminal court. we have of course the ukrainian chief prosecutor's team. but we have over ten other country wall street prosecutorial units that are looking into potential war

crimes being committed in the context of the russian invasion. in this kind of a context, documentation work like the work that we are doing is absolutely essential. we're trying to get to the sites where alleged violations have occurred, and we're trying to document these incidents in as detailed a fashion as possible in order to, as you said, see whether one day we can see those in command control and those who actually committed these violations held accountable. >> and now that russian forces have pulled out of many areas, you and your teams are able to access some destroyed cities where civilians were murdered. how extensive is your documentation of what happened and how do you good about gathering that evidence? what's the process there? >> well, it's a long and detailed process, as you said. finally, we are able to get to some areas that were held by russian forces for a listening period of time where there is a

serious evidence of abuse. colleagues and i have spent days in areas in and around kyiv, for example, in the area of bucha, which has been on the news a lot. we are about to publish our new findings. we've been able to document 16 unlawful killings, and those include nine summary executions. and when we talk about documentation of this kind, it means that we as an organization have identified witnesses to each of these events. we have identified the bodies of those who were killed. we have been able to speak to people working at the morgues and the hospitals to understand what kind of injuries these bodies came in with. and we've been able to determine the extent to which the individuals killed were civilian or military, whether there were any military targets in the area at the time. and really using the full basket of evidence which can also include things like photo and video content, both shared with

us by witnesses and posted online, and even in some cases satellite imagery that allows us to really have a full picture of what it is that happened a the time. that's just bucha. we will be publishing new findings that we've been gathering in the last days on many other areas around kyiv and the town of chernihiv, where i am now. areas that were under occupation for weeks. and we found numerous cases of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, and a range of other abuses. >> so what happens when police and military, for instance, have cleaned up an area, or if russian forces have buried those that they've tortured and killed? because even though you will find a lot of evidence, you won't find all the evidence, will you? >> absolutely. our understanding is that the chief prosecutor's office is working in very close coordination with the police and with the military. and when bodies are found, and a

lot of these bodies are actually buried by locals at the time when russians were still in control of the area. so what's required then is exhumations of these bodies and forensic medical examinations that would alu for the determination of the cause of death before these bodies are buried by their families. so that process is ongoing. if we arrive at a site where that process has already occurred and the body is now properly buried that the information that we get is from, as i said, staff working at the morgues, at the hospitals, photographs of the body. and numerous interviews with witnesses who can describe to us the types of wounds. but i will say only two days ago, i was in a schoolhouse and saw a body of man we had heard had been shot and killed by russian forces. we spoke to numerous witnesses about the incident, and then we actually found the body. there was a gunshot wound in his temple. so he had indeed been executed. so there are still bodies and other pieces of evidence that

we're gathering as we move through these areas. >> that is such difficult but such important work that you do. thank you so much for talking with us. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. britain's partygate scandal is not dying down. just ahead, apologies from boris johnson calls for a new investigation and demands for the prime minister's resignation. we'll take a look at all of that, when we come back.

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he then doubled down on his defense. >> let me also say, not by way of mitigation or excuse, but purely, purely because it explains my previous words in this house, that it did not occur to me then or subsequently that a gathering in cabinet room just before a vital meeting on covid strategy could amount to a breach of the rules. >> some lawmakers accused johnson of misleading parliament when he said no rules had been broken. on thursday mps will vote on whether an investigation should be launched. cnn's nada bashir is following all of this from london. good to see you, nada. this isn't going away for the prime minister of britain, is it? so what is the latest on the partygate scandal, and how is it impacting boris johnson's

leadership? >> rosemary, this certainly has been going on for months now. we've seen the prime minister go from denying that any parties took place in parliament to then of course last week being issued that fine for taking part in a social gathering at downing street back in june 2020 when the country under strict covid regulations, his own regulations. we heard from the prime minister yesterday. he apologized to parliament, maintaining that he didn't know at the time that his actions would amount to a breach of those rules. but that hasn't proven sufficient to many members telephone opposition party, particularly labor party leader keir. he described him as man without shame. he said his apology was a joke. and as he mentioned, the labour party wants to investigate whether he knowingly misled parliament in breech of ministerial code. now they do hold a majority.

they are expected to vote against this motion. but it is important to note that there is a small portion of the prime minister's own party who have already called on him to step down to resign or to go through with a vote of confidence. we heard yesterday from conservative mp elwood, a former defense minister. he said if the conservatives performed poorly in the may local elections, he wants to see the prime minister put forward a vote of confidence. rosemary? >> all right. nada bashir, many thanks joining us live from london. this just in. ukraine said it's agreed to a humanitarian corridor with russia for women, children, and the elderly to be evacuated from mariupol in the coming hours. the city, of course, is under siege from russian forces with most remaining ukrainian fighters and many civilians it seems holed up inside a sprawling steel plant there. ukraine's deputy prime minister says a convoy would take those

civilians from mariupol through the russian-held city of berdyansk and then north to a town still under ukrainian control. and this is all set to take place about four hours from now. with the presidential runoff just days away, france's presidential candidates are preparing to debate each other in the coming hours. the issues they will address, that's just ahead. we'll take a look.

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employment. there are companies that are in trouble and may go bust. >> the far right candidate is hoping to tap into some of the rage that exploded onto the streets of france early on in macron's first term. the yellow vest protest sparked by a fuel tax hike. but focussed on his reforming presidency. >> he seen with real hatred. he's done a lot of damage. he hurt very badly a section of the french population. >> the proposed reform of frances pension system including pushing back the retirement age also led to angry protests. which forced him to put it on hold. the pandemic quieted the streets of france. but only momentarily. with protests picking up again over covid-19 lock downs. and restrictions. the presidential campaign kicked

off without the president who was focus td on global issues. specifically the war in ukraine. adding to the sense that macron can seem out of touch with the concerns of ordinary french people. >> he doesn't look like your friend next door. you basically never met a guy like him. before you meet him. so it's an asset but also a liability for him. >> after the first round of voting on april 11, saw more than 50% of vote es go either to the extreme right or extreme left, ahead of the second round, macrons now campaigning not so much on his record as on the changes that he plans to make. >> i have no desire to five more years. no, i don't want to redo them. it to competely revamp something. five years of complete renewal. >> the question is whether that promise of renewal will enough

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