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>> an atmosphere of fear, people don't want russia there. >> what people here fear in this city is that kharkiv could be the next mariupol. >> the coming weeks will be so crucial for ukraine. so we have to move at the speed of war. welcome to the show, everyone. it is wednesday, april 27th, 11:00 a.m. here in ukraine. and we begin with new developments in building the case to prove russia committed war crimes amid repeated denials from moscow. cnn has exclusively obtained drone video placing russian forces near the scene of civilian killings in the city of bucha. and in the middle of your screen is a russian military vehicle sitting at an intersection in bucha, right up the street are the bodies of several dead

civilians. it is the first evidence to emerge really showing russian forces operating there. and it was filmed on march 13th. and this video from march 12 shows russian soldiers around military vehicle parked outside a house down the street from the same killed civilians. cnn has geo located as well as confirmed the authenticity of these videos. meantime ukraine's top prosecutor has shared photos with anderen so c son cooper sh atrocities. and they are very graphic indeed. they were taken in early march and show bodies thrown on the street. the photos are further evidence in ukraine's investigation into war crimes. and cnn's anderson cooper will have the full report on this later today. so please stay tuned for that. despite evidence like this, russia continues to insist videos are being faked and that the bodies were staged.

and here is what international criminal court prosecutors had to say about that. have a listen. >> those boydies are not fake. i've seen them. i stood beside them. the issue is how did they die and who is responsible and in what circumstances. and this is why i think independent investigations are needed because the families of those that have perished deserve answers and the rest of the world is looking for how vigorous and effective the rule of law can be in these circumstances. >> and while on top of denials, vladimir putin now claims talks of bucha derailed peace talks with ukraine. have a listen. >> translator: unfortunately, after reaching agreements and after our clearly demonstrated intentions to create conditions for favorable conditions for the continuation of negotiations, we

encountered a provocation in the village of bucha to which the russian army has nothing to do. >> bucha of course is not the only ukrainian city where russian forces are accused of carrying out atrocities. these are new satellite images from just outside the city of mariupol in the country's south. the city's mayor says it shows a third mass grave they have discovered and he says russia is forcing civilians to dig them in exchange for food. vladimir putin claims it is actually ukraine putting civilians in harms way. here is how he described what is going on there. >> translator: the situation there is difficult and tragic, but, but, it is simple. there is no fighting there. it is over. there is no fighting inmariupol. it has stopped. >> meanwhile there are fears that pro-russian elements in the southern city of kherson will

stage a sham independence referendum and this would really a kherson's people republic similar to found in vattist regions in the east. as a result some kherson residents are fleeing to central ukraine including president zelenskyy's hometown. and nick paton walsh is there. >> reporter: the southern fields conjure a peace long past, a world away from ukraine's hell. it is quickly ruptured by russia's new offensive sending waves of evacuees fleeing the growing unthinkable world of russian occupation. families for whom the shelling over the last two hours was finally too much. one of the villages down here were hit. russians are not close to him yet, but it is impossible to stay. a woman was injured. and she was three when the last war ended but doesn't know when

this one will. hour by hour, everything changes. things are moving fast enough here that just 24 hours ago, a village about four kilometers in that direction was the meeting point from which people would get evacuated. now it seems to be under fire and you just see panicked locals rushing into collect their relatives. distant tree lines are packed with troops. the blue horizon sometimes pot marked by smoke. there is a number of rockets here and you can see the damage of what they have done before. but somewhere like this has felt to 134 degree that it survived the worst of the war. but now in this second phase, brutality of the forces is essentially coming straight their way. the flag flies still in the spot here where lenin used to stand and it needs an army to hold it in place. people don't want and cannot live under occupation, he says.

we've managed to get 7,000 out across our 100 miles of frontline. some by bicycle, some in wheelbarrows or by foot. here is where they are welcomed, in president zelenskyy's hometown. talk of a sham referendum on wednesday trying to jen friday guy jen friday guy oig the russian occupation and cars are backed up for miles. this father and son lost a wife and mother to a bomb and do not want their faces shown. if they see us, they will shoot everyone left there, he says. we left on foot over the water and the river. for this family, it was about saving the eldest, fearing that their 18-year-old son would be conscripted after the sham vote. the first time we tried to

leave, they shot at us. the second time, we got out, she says. we are completely occupied, she says. there is no food, no money. we have nothing. they will do a referendum and take our children. my son is 18 and they will take him. we ran as fast as we could. it is jarring among the generosity of donations and offers of new homes to hear of the casual brutality of the occupiers. this man tortured for days in a basement after russian troops mistook his rough builder's hands as a sign he'd been a soldier. one got out a gun, a real one he says, i saw it was cocked. two shots, they hit the concrete wall. i think it was a starting pistol. two other men then came in and talk less, they are drunk. one must have been a boxer as he beat me in the same place on my ribs, breaking six of them, ,

rupturing the lung. even as russia closes in, still breathing. nick paton walsh, cnn, ukraine. >> russia is this morning aiming a different sort of weapon at european economies. russian energy guide now says it has completely stopped natural gas deliveries to poland and bulgaria this after both countries refused to pay in rubles. the kremlin issued those demands last month and for now poland and bulgaria say they are not putting any restrictions on gas consu consumptions, but there are concerns that moscow could throttle supplies to other eu countries. and claire and i have spoken on this

this\many times. i suspect at this point that neet neither country will agree to pay it in rubles? >> that does seem to be the case. they have said in the past that they are not willing to do this. eu has in fact warned that doing so could be in violation of sanctions. and we have a response from the eu commission chairperson today, she said the announcement that it is unilaterally stopping delivery of gas to customers in europe is yet another attempt by russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail. it is unjust night aified and unacceptable. and so she is clearly very concerned about this. she said that meeting of the gas coordination group in europe is taking place right now. she says that they have been sourcing other alternative suppliers, but for europe, gas is the hardest one. they get about 40% of that will gas from russia and it is the

area in terms of all the fossil fuels where it is the hardest to source. there aren't that many places that have spare capacity and europe doesn't really have the infrastructure to import lng. so this is a critical situation. but the other thing to point out here, in terms of russia, russia doesn't earn as much gas as it does from oil. oil it makes about two to three times what it makes in terms of export revenues from gas. so this is a way for russia to use its leverage really on europe without shooting itself in the foot so much in terms of revenues. >> which is what we saw when russia annexed crimea in 2014. so here we are once again. let's stay in europe though. how worried is europe given what is happening in odesa and trance niche i can't? what is moldova saying about the latest attacks? >> this is a tricky situation.we

latest attacks? >> this is a tricky situation. russia has stated that its goal is not just a land/water from crimea to donbas up the sort of eastern border. but all along the south as well. and a russian general was quoted last week saying that you can see that the red there that borders the western border of ukraine, the general said that gaining the sort of control over the southern border of the black sea would give them access there. so we have that and also reports from earlier this week of explosions on monday near a government building. and then in the early hours of tuesday morning, two radio towers were reportedly hit by explosions. the ukrainian defense ministry has described what happened monday as a provocation by russia saying that the russian-backed authorities were given warning of this. russia though blaming the other side, deputy foreign minister

was quoted as saying that what happened there was done by those forces who do not want stability in the region. so it is concerning because of course russia has done this in the past, has gone into breakaway republics to try on the face of to protect pro-russian citizens there. so concerning for sure. >> yeah, worrying that this could be a new front of course in europe, a new front in this war. clare sebastian, thanks very much. the u.n. secretary-general guterres traveling there to monday. and the u.n. says that they met about an hour. during the meeting, mr. putin reportedly agreed in principle to involve the u.n. and the red cross in evacuations there the besieged city of mariupol. guterres who will meet with president zelenskyy in kyiv on thursday says his main goal is improving the humanitarian situation on the ground. have a listen.

>> i came to moscow as a messenger of peace. my objective and my agenda is strictly linked to save lives and to reduce suffering. >> while the u.n. chief brought that message to moscow, military leaders from dozens of nations allied with kyiv marie newed pledges to ship more weapons to ukraine. american's stop general spoke with jim sciutto and warned what he said would be the consequences if russia isn't held accountable. >> if this is left to stand, if there is no answer to this aggression, if russia gets away with this cost-free, then so goes the so-called international order. and if that happens, then we're heading into an era of seriously increased instability. what we want to see, what i think the policy of all of the governments together is a free and independent ukraine with their territory intact and their

government standing, and the russian aggression has been halted and stopped. and at the end of the day, i think that that will involve a weakened russia and strengthened nato. >> and joining me is a seennior fellow at the atlantic council. good morning, michael. let's pick up what we heard from the u.s. side now. three u.s. -- two sergeants, really two leaders, and ealso earlier this week we heard from the visitors here in ukraine. give me a sense of what you made of what you hear. because to me, it is the clearestclear est position we have heard so far from the u.s. on this war. >> yeah, sure. the u.s. has made it clear that there is almost no limit to the amount of weaponry that it will be giving to ukraine. a lot of it is a lot more

sophisticated and the other thing we're learning is very, very valuable intelligence has been shared with ukrainians as well. allowing them the ability to move their missile batteries so they are not targeted by the russians. but the big fear, it is good that the west is finally developing the spine to really give ukraine the ability to push the russians back, but the russians are striking back, targeting key supply lines, the railway line as well as trying to cut ukraine off from its water access to the black sea. so these are -- it seems like the russians are acting in a much more surgical strategic way. >> why do you think that the russians have changed tactics somewhat here? we've heard that ukraine is acknowledging that they are losing towns in the east. >> i think russians have realized that they have had terrible losses of personnel and tanks, so they are using more long range missiles to target

areas. and so i've argued the opinion that until the west gives ukraine that really great ability, advanced ability, to close its skies to these types of missiles, then things will make a big turn in favor for ukrainians. >> and i'm guessing the terrain we're seeing in the offensive is very different elsewhere. >> absolutely. a lot of open areas, very different from areas for example north of kyiv where you have swamp and forest. and then of course don't forget the russian-backed rebels have been occupying a third of that part of ukraine since 2014. they have a lot of advanced weaponry, gps blocking ability, that sort of thing. >> on the u.s. front, what we've heard fromm u.s. diplomats, the say they want russia to be

weakened. does it make it more of a approximateproxy war? >> no question. and it puts ukraine in a difficult position. of course it will do its best to defend itself, but i think the west is now not talking much about peace talks anymore but encouraging ukraine to destroy their armed forces as much as possible. but i'm hearing drebtly from so sources that the new calloffs on the frontline, not very well prepared, and so it takes i heard on ukrainian television yesterday, it takes about a week to train someone to use the arms properly. that is if you have instructors available. so there are a lot of those little logistics that could add up increasing losses on the ukrainian side. >> and how worried are you about odesa? >> very worried. of course very strategically important and the russians have shown that they have the ability to target it at their will from

long range bases in russia. >> michael, always great to have you on the show. and of course we've got much more ahead on the show. we'll take a short break. actually, we won't. no, we'll go to max foster who will have much more. >> you'll get me and a break. still ahead, a stark warning from deutsche bank about a major recession coming. why the federal reserve could be making things worse. y burn a cae when you can switch to air wick essential mist? it's the modern way to transform fragrance infused with natural essential oils into a mist. air wick essential mist. connect to nature.

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deutsche bank predicts a major u.s. recession is coming and inflation will likely stay high longer than expected. the bank says aggressive rate hikes by the federal reserve meant to keep rising prices in check could actually make things worse. and recession fears are taking a toll on wall street. the dow fell more than 800 points on tuesday and the nasdaq sank to a 52 week low. but futures show that it could rebound in the next coming hours. the u.s. housing market keeps

getting more expensive. average home prices in february were up almost 20% compared to a year ago. phoenix, tampa and miami reported the sharpest increases. buyers with a 30 year loan on a medium priced house are paying about $550 more a month on their mortgages than they did last year. and demand should cool off as interest rates rise and more houses come on to the market. what isn't expected to cool off is the cost of energy and that means that consumers will likely continue to see the price of their utility bills soar. gaby cohen has the details. >> reporter: this man lays out six months of baffling power bills for his house in beacon, new york, the price rising from $190 to more than $400. >> that is the day i told my roommates that we have to buckle down. >> reporter: and this month a bill for $2,000.

>> it had to have been a mistake. >> reporter: it wasn't. >> they said that it was a reconciliation over the last six months. according to this, it should have been between $700 and $800 per month. >> reporter: millions of americans are seeing surging utility bills with huge hikes on fuel oil, propane, pipe gas and electricity. how did the company explain the price hike? >> first thing they said, their costs have tripled. >> reporter: the natural gas market is largely driving that and the war in ukraine is adding fuel to the fire. because of of the war in ukrain which is continuing to get worse, those prices will stay high for the remainder of the year and maybe longer. ro lower income families spend on average 38% of their income on energy, up from 27% just two years ago. and the timing is terrible with rising inflation on food, rent, clothing and much more. a survey found half of americans are now worried about affording power. >> i'm very conscience of it and

a little paranoid. >> reporter: reverend thomas johnson and his wife have been keeping the lights off at their home in queens. their rate keeps rising and they owe the power company $13,000 after they were hit with a massive reconciliation bill. >> i'm saying to myself him a i going to have to take out a second mortgage just to pay an energy bill? doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: 18% of american households are in debt on their power company, owing roughly $23 billion. now many families like reverend johnson's are facing a shutoff notice. >> so we have our back up against the wall. >> reporter: most states ban shutoffs during the cold of winter, but those are ending. >> and we expect to see an explosion of shutdownoffs. >> reporter: the biden administration has more than doubled funding for the low income assistance program, which before that was only reaching 17% of eligible households.

>> it is simply not enough. what we're asking for is just for greater reform and a stop to all shutoffs across the country. >> reporter: this crisis has put energy companies under the microscope. in washington, the house energy and commerce committee is investigating six of the nation's largest power companies after they took covid bailout money and still shut power to millions of homes. in new york, the state has launched several investigations into potential price gouging by both the oil industry and utility companies. >> it is a crisis for my constituents. >> reporter: this state senator is leading one of them. >> they are being ripped off. so-to-have a modest home be hit with a $1400, $1500 bill is patently insane. and people are making money off of it and they should be ashamed of themselves and have to be held accountable. >> reporter: power companies say they are just passing along their own increased costs. we'll see if the investigations turn up anything else. and the two customers in that story both say that they are now

disputing those massive bills, but they are preparing to pay them off if need be. because that is the price of keeping the lights on. gabe cohen, cnn, washington. new restrictions on the export of palm oil could drive grocery prices everyone higher. it is a common ingredient in almost half of all packaged pods including snacks and even cosmetics. producers close to 60% of the palm oil is in indonesia and they are making the move to make sure his country has enough affordable cooking oil. and after a quick break, the coverage of the war continues. >> and you can see this is what is left of the bedroom here. just astonishing. >> heartbreaking images out of kharkiv, yooukraine's second largest city as russia

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and just across ukraine's border, a local russian official says a fire is blazing through an ammunition depot. and this comes as several blasts were reported overnight in three russian regions bordering eastern ukraine. mean while, an adviser to president zelenskyy says russia remains focused on encircling ukrainian forces. now more on where the fighting may be headed next. >> you see russians in this town, this will be a major issue for them, for the rans, because once the russians go through here, they could potentially move on this way to dnipro or they could also move their forces from kherson over to odesa. so there are possible things that the russians could do. but the key thing to remember is that they are stretched fairly thin. they have not been able to

completely reconstitute the forces that were damaged and destroyed in some cases in the kyiv area, so there are some significant areas where they really might have some difficulties. but the key thing to remember is the ukrainians have to be careful not to get encircled in this region. that is the key area that they need to really watch out for. >> colonel leighton there. and clarissa ward has a close-up look at the damage. >> reporter: and there is no rest at night for the people of kharkiv. flares light up the sky as artillery thunders through the air. for nearly nine weeks, ukraine's second largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day do you see the full-scale of the destruction.

t this neighborhood was hit repeatedly last month as russian forces tried to push into the city. no site was spared. not even the local nursery school. so it looks like this was some kind of a dormitory. you can see children's beds here all around. and then in the next room over there was their classroom. their shoes still litter the locker room. mercifully the school had been evacuated, so no children were killed in the strikes. the mayor of kharkiv says that 67 schools and 54 kindergartens have been hit here since the war began. and what is so striking when you look around is that it is so clearly not a military target. this is a residential neighborhood. just a few blocks away, the bare

skeleton of an apartment building. authorities say more than 2,000 houses have been hit here. sounds of war are never far away. you can see this is what is left of the bedroom here. just astonishing. two doors down, we see a figure peeking out. this 73-year-old is still living there alone. she's saying that she does have a sister who she could stay with, but she also lives in an area that is being heavily hit and she's living in a shelter at the moment. it is from all sides, she says. from there, and there, they can shell. with her fresh lipstick, she is a picture of pride and resilience. much like the city, still standing tall in the face of a ruthless enemy.

clarissa ward, cnn, kharkiv. tuesday was the 36th anniversary of the chernobyl disaster. and rafael rossi, director general of the national atomic energy agency visited the infamous plant. remember only a few weeks ago it was occupied by russian forces. he praised the plant operators who kept working amid the invasion possibly averting a new disaster. and he also met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in kyiv where the two men held a joint press conference. and the end that they would work to restore capacity. and we'll have much more ahead on our breaking news coverage over the war in ukraine at the top of the hour on "early start." but for now, max foster has our other top stories. and up next, text messages obtained by cnn are shining new

light on the republican congressman and his efforts to overturn the 2020 u.s. election. we'll have those for you just ahead. plus crews are battling about a dozen major wildfires in the u.s. here is pedram javaheri. >> dire drought situation around the western united states, widespread coverage of this and of course the biggest concerns are the four corners region with the active fires in place. we'll break it down coming up. slap thehe label on ito the box and it's ready to go our cost foror shipping, were cut in half just like that go to shipstation/tv and d get 2 months free

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stolen. >> it is all going to come down to the keystone state. >> reporter: but a new batch of text messages obtained by cnn illuminate how active he was behind the scenes as well. new messages showing that he had a role at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay the certification of the 2020 election. on november 12, five days after the election was called for joe biden, perry texted chief of staff mark meadows. from an intel friend, dni needs to task nsa to immediately seize and begin looking for international cohs related to dominion. was china malware involved? this text has never been revealed before. and it shows perry encouraging meadows to get john radcliff, then director of national intel against, to look into false conspiracies about dominion voting machines being hacked by the chinese.

perry also claimed the, quote, brits were behind the plot and that cia director was covering for them. he texted meadows dni needs to be tasked to audit their overseas accounts at cia and their national endowment for democracy. despite the push from perry, a source tells cnn meadows did not approach radcliff about those requests. perry was also insistent that he put jeffrey clark in a position to investigate voter fraud claims. perry was the one who introduced clark to trump. on december 26th, perry texted, mark, you should call jeff. i just got off the phone with him and he explained to me why the principle deputy won't work. especially with the fbi. they have view it as not having the authority to enforce what needs to be done. meadows responded, i got it. i think that i understand. let me work on the deputy position. and perry replaireplied, ronger

sent you something on signal. and he was recently elected as the chair of the house freedom caucus, the most conservative sect of republican members of the house and should the republicans take the majority in the fall, their power would only increase. perry did not respond to multiple requests from cnn to respond to our report. i did catch up with him outside the capitol on tuesday to ask if he had any explanation for his communication with mark meadows. he only responded "heck no." ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. funeral services will begin in a few hours for former u.s. secretary of state madeleine albright. she died last month at 84. president biden will deliver a eulogy at the service with more than 1400 people expected to attend. former president bill clinton and his wife hillary, who was also secretary of state, will speak as well. albright was a central figure in the clinton administration and he remembered her as, quote, a passionate force for freedom,

democracy and human rights. there are major wildfires causing widespread destruction across the u.s. southwest. new mexico is amongst the hardest hit states. and pedram javaheri explains what is fueling the flames and challenging efforts to put them out. >> good morning, max. the southwestern united states really in desperate need of some rainfall. you see the situation here, it has been very rough. 11 active fires across the western u.s. spanning some six states and parts of new mexico and arizona seeing some of the larger fires. we've tauk talked about the tunnel fire, that is only 30% containment. and the canyon fire, 60,000 acres consumed and about 12% containment. winds have been generally calm. and maybe 25, 30-mile-per-hour gusts each of the next couple of afternoons. and then late this week, say friday even into saturday, we do

expect the conditions to worsen here. so that is the concerning elements in the fire weather forecast. but notice that the fire weather concerns of red flag warnings that are widespread across the region of eastern arizona, western areas of new mexico, really going to keep the area for firefighters very challenging. and you will notice of course it is not just in region. 90% of the western u.s. dealing with a drought situation, upwards of almost 40% in that extreme even worse category of the drought concerns. so any rainfall at this point has been official. there is a couple disturbances trying to bring rainfall and we'll see that across parts of the northwest even into northern california, but the outlook here for next week does show that the temperature trend to stay above average. and unfortunately, the rainfall outlook to remain below average and that is the concern here at least over the next week around the southwest. max. two, one, zero.

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schedules. in chooifina a million peop are in lockdown after just one person tested positive. residents can only leave their homes to get a covid test. and panic is growing in beijing as the city conducts mass covid tests there. residents fear a city wide lockdown may be imminent as cases rise. selina wang is joining me now. so what are the conditions, what is the thinking in terms of deciding whether to put that major city into lockdown? >> reporter: well, this is the reality of zero covid china. you mentioned the city of one million people being put into strict lockdown after just one case was reported. and it is of special concern because this city is just 50 kilometers from beijing and a lot of people commute between

these two cities, and this is as beijing is dealing with the nascent outbreak. and they are desperate to avoid it from spiraling into the chaos of what we saw in shanghai. so right now whether or not beijing goes from the partial lockdown it is in now to a full lockdown really depends on what we see from the results of this mass testing. right now they are in rounds of testing of 20 million residents. so far they have reported 114 covid-19 cases since friday. and officials in beijing are trying to reassure residents that they have enough supplies of food and daily essentials, but still, max, people are concerned. they saw the horrors of what happened in shanghai, the lack of food, lack of medical care and the unsanitary conditions at those quarantine facilities. so there has been some panic buying in beijing. and the anger in shanghai continues to grow as people have been confined to their homes many for a month or more now.

there have been protests, clashes with police. and take a listen to this video where you can hear the residents banging pots and pans in frustration to protest the lockdown. take a listen. [ banging ] adding to the outrage are the steel fences and barricades that have started coming up around the city to cordon off the covid-hit areas and to prevent people from traveling to other districts. in this video you can see a resident kicking down the steel fence in frustration. but while shanghai and beijing have gotten the most attention for their lockdowns, there are millions of people confined to their homes, dozens of cities are under some sort of covid-19 lockdown restrictions. and in year three of the

pandemic, max, so many people in china are just getting fatigued after years of these on and off lockdowns. >> yeah, you've got to feel for them. really tough thank you very much. taking a daily aspirin may be doing more harm than good according to experts. it is no longer recommended to prevent heart seizes as it may put already healthy people at a higher risk for bleeding in the stomach or the brain. correcting that behavior won't be easy with at least 29 million americans with no signs of heart disease using aspirin daily. the miami heat are moving on to the next round of the nba playoffs. they survived a late charge by the atlanta hawks to win game five last night in south florida. the hawks drs deandre was in a

losing effort. and ja more rant scored 30 points to lead grizzlies to a game five win over the timberwolves. the victory comes just one day after morant was named most improved player. the series moves back to minneapolis on friday night. and phoenix got it done without their star guard booker. michael bridges led the suns with 31 points in a game five win over the pelicans. game six is thursday. thanks for joining us. our breaking news coverage of the war on ukraine continues on "early start" with laura jarrett.

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good morning, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm laura jarrett. christine romans has the morning off. we begin of course in ukraine with russian attacks intensifying in the east. ukraine's armed forces admitted a short time ago they have now lost several towns and villages as heavy fighting rages on. three fronts in the region. ukraine says russian troops are being reinforced from bases inside russia. something putin's forces could not do during their failed