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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com russia's invasion forces making slow and uneven progress and trying to learn from two months of mistakes, but not with any success. that's the latest assessment from western defense officials. according to one figure, the attacks are somewhat better coordinated but with small formations. in nato, this would be basic stuff. that said, ukrainians are learning the sheer destruction even a less than competent army can inflict is considerable. cnn's nick paton walsh got very close to the front lines today. he joins us now. what is it like where you are? >> reporter: anderson, it seems the renewed southern offensive,
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up from kherson, where russia took and we are learning about plans for intensified russian control, that russian offensive is seeing some sort of progress. even the ukrainian military are saying they are seeing russians advance partially there and in the east as well. we saw ourselves what that looks like, particularly along the vital strategic dnipro river that splits this country in two. along the western banks of which it seems the russians are pushing hard to move north. >> reporter: if moscow had any surprises left in this war, it is along here. the other side of the river has been russia's for weeks. but here, the western side is caught in the fast-changing landscape of this week's push. that's the prize over there, the dnipro river, up past which on the left side bank here, the russians are trying to push, wanting control of both sides of that vital part of ukraine.
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here, we are told there are a handful of russian tanks just over a kilometer away on the outskirts, pushing, probing, but ultimately kept at baby ukrainian forces that still hold the town. brazilians here embodied under the threat of rocket fire, planting onions. i'm here until victory, she said. her children are gone. it's just her and her mother. her and her mother are staying here. her mother says she's not going anywhere, and she's not going to leave her alone. all her windows are blown out, she says. ukrainian forces who don't want their positions filmed are dotted around the town, as too, are the signs of innocent lives
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lost here. rockets p rockets peeking out from under the war. and this boat from which 14 civilians tried to flee russian occupation. four of them died when russian troops opened fire when it was 70 meters out. yet still the desperate keep fleeing. this morning, these women left behind their men to defend their homes. we ran, ran early in the morning, said luda. they didn't let us out. we're shields for them. they don't let us out by foot. by bicycle we go, in the fields we ran. our soldiers were two kilometers away, she adds, and we ran to them. they need the russian tanks, take cars. they draw zets on everything. as their new unwanted guests demanded milk and food at gun
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point, they had a glimpse of their warped mindset. they say they've come to liberate us, she says, these aggressors. that's what they told us. they say america is fighting here but using the hands of ukrainians to do it. that's what they say. another claim to be fuelled by the violence of the long war tof separatists in the east. in general the donetsk generals say you have been m booing us for eight years. now we bomb you. across the fields, loathing and artillery swallow whole once happy worlds. >> nick, at the start of the invasion, you were in kherson. what are you hearing from there now? >> reporter: certainly there is one bit of clarity about whether or not the first city taken by russia, whether there will be a referendum there or not. we're hearing from officials
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installed by the russian military there, a new wave in the past days, there will now not be a referendum, as so many locals feared there would be possibly yesterday. instead, the rhetoric being heard from those officials is that they want to never allow kherson to go back to, quote, its nazi past. that's reference to ludicrous proposition put forth by russia to justify its invasion. interestingly too, as well, they do want to introduce the russian currency, the ruble, possibly as soon as this weekend into that city of kherson. now, i should point out that while many were thinking it could have been a referendum yesterday, there were instead protests. and last night, as we discussed, anderson, explosions in that town. so, it's far from cleanly under russian control. but certainly the rhetoric now is they want to improve economic development there, despite of course the damage to the economy
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being as a result of the clumsy invasion of troops into that town. >> we've also seen tensions with moldova in this break away region that's backed by russia, this bizarre sliver of land. what's the latest there? >> yeah, i mean, there have been concerns certainly voiced, i think, after russia suggested its second phase of its operation might be to move south of where i'm standing all the way towards moldova, that there could be some military activation where there has been a contingent of russian troops in this break away part of moldova, a member of european union, for time since the 1990s. now, there have been explosions over the past few days or so near state security buildings. ukraine has said that's essentially a false flag operation by russia to try to provide a justification for increased presence there. and there have been suggestions maybe that there are possibly moves to mobilize some parts of
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forces there, although minor, i should say, they are. what we're hearing today, though, is response from ukraine. the odesa military spokesperson talking about how they are moving some sort of troops in the direction of the border area to be sure they can respond to anything that may come their way. i have to say, anderson, it's hard to see how russia can genuinely envision it has the energy to stretch all the way across from where they are here in ukraine south to over there on the border with moldova. this may just be another distraction essentially tying up parts of ukraine's military on tasks to protect things and get threatened in the end, enabling russia's genuine motives here and possibly in the east from being pursued. >> nick paton walsh, appreciate it, thank you. you'll recall last night nick brought us the really horrifying story of a 16-year-old girl who says she was raped by a russian soldier in her village. when we first told you about it
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last night, bethman jacques had just spoken at the u.n. on the subject of war crimes, including rape and summary executions. the u.s., she said, now has credible information that a russian military unit operating near donetsk had murdered ukrainians trying to surrender. this was not an isolated incident. i spoke to the ambassador shortly before air time. ambassador, we hear this horrific reporting from my colleague nick paton walsh about a 16-year-old girl in the kherson region who says she was raped by a russian soldier at her family home. how does that align with the evidence u.s. government has been gathering about the situation in ukraine when it comes to sexual violence? >> thank you for that question. it's really disturbing the reports we're hearing coming out of ukraine once we've had a chance to get journalists, human rights defenders, and others on the ground to speak with individuals who are living this
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war first hand. and that report is one of many we've heard of women and girls being submitted to sexual violence at the hands of russia's forces. >> you told me the u.s. government has credible information that the russians executed ukrainians attempting to surrender. do you have any more details with that? >> unfortunately i can't share any additional details about that. but know we are at any given moment looking at a fusion of information at open sources, satellite, et cetera. that information came in. it was deeply disturbing and if true would be a very serious violations of the laws of war, that individuals who are incapacitated for whatever reason, surrender, injury, et cetera, are supposed to be treated humanely, brought into custody, and dealt with that way, rather than executed outright. >> i want to read something else you told the u.n. regarding the intelligence reports of sexual violence and individuals killed execution style. you said these images and reports suggest atrocities are not the acts of rogue
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individuals, they reveal a pattern of systemic abuse across all areas where russia's forces are engaged. does that mean that this is part of russia's strategy, the mistreatment of civilians, the violations of international norms, of rules of engagement, rules of war, is part of a strategy or just part of ill-discipline across the country by russian forces? >> well, at a minimum, we have very undisciplined troops for sure. but as additional areas become liberated, as russia's forces retreat, we are seeing this disturbing pattern of civilians being treated in extremely horrific ways. so, that does start to suggest that this is not just random acts by individual units or persons but rather certainly a lack of command and control coming from higher up the chain of command. >> it doesn't seem like -- and maybe i'm wrong -- that the russian military has many
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mechanisms internally to try to address or investigate themselves. they clearly -- vladimir putin gave an award to one of the biggest units that was in bucha at the time when atrocities were taking place. it doesn't seem like there's a real desire on the part of russian forces to investigate themselves. >> i think that's right. the only gbligations of respons command are to supervise troops under your command, subordinates. and if you see or learn of or have wind that abuses are being committed t duty of the commander is to do everything that can be done to prevent those abuses and respond with disciplinary action. and we have not seen that yet. we have not seen that. and it's an upsetting reality of the laws of war here and the breaches that we're seeing. >> so, what do you do with all the information that you gather,
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that you get? obviously war crimes investigations. there are a number of them going on. there are ones by ukrainian officials. there's the international criminal court which traditionally in the united states is not recognized or taken part in. what kind of accountability can there actually be internationally? >> well, at this moment in time is real imperative is to preserve this information, to authenticate it, and to have it ready for when there are accountability exercises moving forward. the prosecutor general of ukraine is going to really have to carry the lion's share of this. these are crimes that are happening on their territory, and their courts are open and available to bring to hear these cases. i know that she's building case files with respect to particular incidents and acts that have happened on ukrainian territory. but there are third states that might also be in a position to assert jurisdiction in individual perpetrators travel, if survivors and victims end up in those jurisdictions. as you mentioned, you have the international criminal court, which has also opened an investigation into the situation
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in ukraine with ukraine's consent. >> it is difficult. i mean, these are hard cases to make. it's not just a question of an individual committing an act. it's also what orders were given, what is the chain of command. >> indeed. they are very difficult cases. there's no question about it. and you do have a chain of command. and there may be individuals who are liable all the way up that chain of command from the individual on the ground, who's the direct perpetrator, to the person at the top, who's the architect of violence, and who's either issuing orders or who's failing to properly supervise subordinates under her control. finding liability under that chain of command is the job, of course, and i'm sure the prosecutor general is looking at the various case files she has, individuals in her custody, individuals up the chain of command whom she can identify and start opening files on. >> ambassador beth van scott. i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. next, more on my conversation with the mom of
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in the day time, i'm outside. we go to the playground. we go home. but at night i still come back to the shelter because i do not feel safe. maybe if my husband comes back home, i will allow myself to close my eyes and relax because i think that we will share sensibility. but for now i'm responsible for three kids, and i cannot close my eyes in my apartment. so, it's like more for me to go to the shelter where i can close my eyes. maybe i will need a psychotherapist at some point to deal with my personal trauma. >> when you started making videos, when you started sending videos out into the world, what was the thought behind it? >> well, i just had a youtube channel before where i was
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talking about ukraine, showing the people how beautiful is my country, inviting the foreign tourists to come because i was a tour guide, showing chernobyl, showing kyiv and some other parts of ukraine. and before the war, more and more questions were about, is it safe to visit ukraine? what do you think? and then people were asking questions like, what's going on? and i had to give the response to the audience. so, when finally at night and early in the morning we heard explosions and we rushed to the underground tunnel to hide from the possible, you know, bombs, i decided it's my responsibility to let the guys know that it's not safe to come to ukraine because the war has started. and then i had another thought that if i die, at least the video will be left behind and
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people will see here. >> it helped you to do it? >> it helped me, yeah. it helped me a lot. >> to view your life slightly from a distance in a way. >> yes, exactly, exactly. when i was working in chernobyl and describing people, people who were evacuated from the chernobyl when the accident happened, what they were feeling. and many of them were saying that they were feeling themselves like inside of a surreal movie. and i felt the same. and i wanted to show this movie to the others. >> do you have the sense of how it might end? >> not really. not really. it would be great if it -- if it stops very soon. when we were talking to you in the very beginning, yes, i was, like, crying and saying, like, you should intervene, close the sky, let's stand together
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immediately. why are lives to be taken from ukraine because for me, it is obvious this crocodile, this bear, will not be satisfied with this piece of meat. he will go forward and forward and forward until he stops. so, why not stopping him immediately? why waiting for him to commit the crimes first and then to say, oh, we regret that this happened, condolences. why should we allow the criminal to commit crimes before stopping him? okay. what happened later? we already had bucha. we had borodyanka. now we have mariupol. and now it really needs to be stopped right now. we shouldn't allow him to commit another bucha and another mariupol, right, because this is -- whenever they come, they will do the same. they will do another bucha. so, he needs to be stopped. how to stop him? only by force. only by arms.
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>> if there is some sort of negotiation to end it and ukraine has to give something, and the situation remains essentially the same with parts of ukraine still in russian hands in the south, is acceptable? >> for me, it's not acceptable. not anymore. it was acceptable before bucha. but not anymore. >> too much has happened to have it go back to just the way it was. >> so much. no peaceful agreements anymore with this criminal. you cannot sit at one table with a criminal. he just needs to be prosecuted. he needs to be punished. and all of the other russians who did the crimes, who were raping children, who were torturing people, who were killing civilians, they have to be prosecuted. all of this propaganda in the russian cities who were dehumanizing people in russia and in ukraine, all of them have to be punished.
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there should be no compromises. for putin i don't know how anyone, any politician, can shake hands with him. >> what will you tell doriena about this time? >> well, i will tell her that she was such a powerful warrior of life. we didn't expect her with my husband. >> she was a surprise. >> we discovered her when i was already two months pregnant. now i'm not only a mother of three kids, which is already difficult, but i'm a mother of three children at war. but i feel she was gifted to me from heaven, the god, or something powerful, to help me to go through all of this. >> coming up, the war's toll, as captured by a pulitzer prize winning photo journalist. he joins me with scenes of heartache. her own images from the front lines, next.
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before this hour is over, the war will enter its tenth week. more than two months of relentless, undeserved brutality. but for all the video we and others capture, it's sometimes a single image that often reminds us more than anything of the human toll. this is a 70-year-old woman crying while hiding in a basement shelter in southeastern
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ukraine. she told "the new york times" about the constant shelling in her town where she is among the few who stay. this photo of the "new york times" is just one of the remarkable pictures taken in the war by lindsey o-dario. she has been on the ground at every major hot spot around the globe. we're fortunate to welcome her back on the program tonight. lindsey, i know you're in zaporizhzhia right now. as the war has moved east, from your perspective, what's the difference in terms of photographing, of covering? >> i mean, what i'm seeing down here is a real steady flow of civilians that are fleeing villages and cities all from the south and the east, as russian troops push toward zaporizhzhia. and it's incredible because it's happening daily and the flow is constant. >> you were able to go to the front lines, ukrainian soldiers
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in the zaporizhzhia region positioned only two miles from where russian forces were attempting to overrun more territory. what was that like? >> so, again, very difficult to get access with the ukrainian military. what you're looking at are soldiers sort of positioned along treelines, wherever they can, digging foxholes and kind of living in holes in the ground, essentially, waiting for artillery and firing back. they're holding these villages. i mean, the goal is to not let the russians overrun a lot of this territory. so, you have ukrainian soldiers throughout. at one point, when we first arrived, there was a russian drone flying overhead, which was, of course, terrifying. that's a whole new element to this conflict that, you know, everyone has to contend with. so, we had to hide inside a house and wait for the drone to disappear because what the drone
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does is it spots soldiers and then calls in artillery strikes. and so the drone that was flying overhead ended up calling in a strike very close to our position and we could hear it and we waited and then we went and continued on. >> you've also been seeing people in zaporizhzhia coming -- a lot of people are coming from mariupol and other parts of ukraine. a photograph in the "new york times" of some of the people who are coming. what are the -- what is that like documenting that? what are you hearing from them? >> i mean, it's just heartbreaking. the first day i got here there were four buses that had arrived. but of course the humanitarian corridor we've all been waiting for has not transpired. so, for those buses have not arrived. so, what we're seeing are individual cars that have been able to get through. people are showing a range of emotions from just sheer elation to kids that are so traumatized they just sort of stare vacantly. and you can only imagine what
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they've witnessed. one family said they didn't see the sky for six weeks. they didn't have soap or water for six weeks to even wash their hands. so, if you can imagine, you know, wearing the same clothes, not being able to wash your hands, not seeing daylight, that's a long time for families and for crowds with people to be living in a basement. >> i also want to show one of your photos. it's a moment of silence after some firefighter from the united states and elsewhere alongside with ukrainian firefighters had been digging through rubble and finally found a man who had died, trapped underneath that rubble when his home was hit by a russian strike last month. can you talk a little bit about what you witnessed there? >> yeah, i mean, this was interesting because i was in kyiv for the first month of the war, and a lot of these places like hostomel, these were places
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that were almost inaccessible. there was so much heavy fight, we couldn't go near them. and we could only imagine what was going on, much like what we saw in bucha and irpin. this group of american firefighters, they were so motivated to come help ukrainian firefighters. erik hill is one of the firefighters from facebook, ended up getting requests from all over the world, from australia, germany, the united states, to go help ukrainian firefighters. and so they came to help unearth bodies, help the ukrainian firefighters to unearth bodies and rubble they just hadn't had the time to do. >> do you worry that as it's -- as the war is moved to the east -- and as you said, it's harder and harder to get access to the front -- that if people back in the u.s. and elsewhere around the world don't see the images of what is happening here, the images of the violence that is taking place, the horror of what is happening, that they will start to kind of forget
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about it or not pay attention to what is happening here? >> yeah. of course. i mean, part of my job as a photographer is to try to capture the emotion and the drama and the heartbreak that's going on. and if i can't access that, if i can't present that to the american public, it's very difficult to inspire people to care, you know? i think we were very lucky to have the world's attention for the first month, first six weeks, of this war because people just couldn't turn away. now it's harder and harder across the east, in ukraine, the distances are very far. a lot of the places are inaccessible or we can't spend the night because they're just too dangerous. so, it is very difficult to cover. but of course we keep trying because it's very important to cover what's happening. >> yeah. lindsey adarr row, i so appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thanks, anderson.
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including president biden's announcement of a $33 billion aid package to the ukrainians was the proposal to also send assets seized from russian oligarchs. quoting the president, we're going to seize their yachts, luxury homes and other ill begotten gains. alexei navalny, subject of a fascinating documentary you can watch tomorrow. we also spoke about how navalny is dog in prison and what impact russian disinformation is having on the russian people. m the united states is looking into not only seizing the assets of oligarchs but actually selling off some assets or
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reappropriating financial assets and giving them to ukraine to help fight this war. is that something you support? and it's obviously a big step for the u.s. it would be a major change in policy. >> it's not a step that should be taken lightly. it's one thing to freeze assets of people who got under sanctions, but it's another thing to confiscate private property without a proper judicial procedure. there has been legislation put in place in the u.s. that would allow the u.s. executive to take these steps, but the procedure is still going to be worked out. and i think as in any procedure, where private property is taken from somebody, there should be, you know, a court procedure, defense, prosecution, and people should be able to defend
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themselves. >> it could have ripple effects. i mean, it may be satisfying emotionally for the u.s. initially, but you're saying it could have ripple effects in unintended ways. >> well, the u.s. and western system as a whole has always prided itself on being, you know, subject to the rule of law. there is of course the issue of the funds needed for reconstruction of ukraine and for humanitarian relief. and on the other hand, there is -- which calls for expediency in getting these funds from sanctioned people and from, for instance, the reserves of russian central bank. >> when you hear vladimir putin vow what he calls a lightning fast response to any type of foreign intervention in ukraine, how do you think that's meant to be interpreted? >> what is this lightning fast response?
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nobody knows. but this is -- these are -- this is the person who deems the whole country of ukraine a nazi state. so, mr. putin, lying is really -- is second nature. so, i wouldn't read too much into this rhetoric. >> what's the effectiveness thus far or ineffectiveness of vladimir putin's propaganda and disinformation inside russia itself? >> it has been very effective, which is to be expected when the last independent media outlets were shut down over the last two months, access to international social media like twitter and facebook is prohibited. you can only access them through a vpn network. and the state controlled tvs,
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newspapers, they all pump out pro-war propaganda. it's -- it's difficult for an average russian to get access to truthful information about what's going on in ukraine. >> as the world knows, alexei navalny was sentenced last month to another nine years in a russian prison. he's certainly been at the forefront of cnn recently because of the cnn film "navalny." what are you able to tell us about how he's doing? is he able to communicate with people outside the prison? >> indeed he got additional nine years in prison, a little over a month. but when he was incarcerated after he returned to russia in january 2021, unfortunately we didn't have doubt that putin intends to keep him behind bars for the time he's in power.
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we communicate with him through a lawyer that visits him on weekdays for about an hour, during which time he scribbles his handwritten notes to his family, to our team, and reads whatever materials we send them. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. by the way, if you want to see that award winning documentary on alexei navalny, it's really good. it airs tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. we want to present you another side of the war about the ukrainian children who have been forced to leave their schools and their country, many now in poland, which is trying to accommodate the large influx of refugees. cnn cnn's erica hill has more. >> reporter: new school, new language, new country. >> translator: we follow the names whchlt we open these classes, we did not know what would be in a week, what would be in a month.
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>> reporter: there are now 50 ukrainian refugees enrolled at this warsaw high school, bringing the student population up to 700. it's alaina's first day. liesha is a few weeks in and happy to be back in class. >> it's given me some space or given me the feeling of safety that i'm safe here. i'm in my normal life. >> reporter: in warsaw alone, the mayor's office estimates the city has taken in more than 100,000 children with 17,000 already enrolled in public sc school. the question now is how many more will come? >> it's a big problem for us because we don't know how many students go to warsaw and go to our schools. >> reporter: warsaw was already short 2,000 teachers before russia invaded ukraine. the city needs more staff and money.
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>> this is a huge challenge for us. a good heart, willingness to help, and volunteering are not enough. >> reporter: and yet they're finding ways to make it work. polish students are paired with their new ukrainian classmates. >> we use a lot of google translate. >> reporter: local families have donated supplies. the school provides breakfast and lunch. in lviv, she taught german. officially she's now a tutor. now it's clear this mom of three, who also fled the war, is so much more. >> translator: we don't just speak ukrainian. we speak the language of emotions and the language of what we've gone through. >> reporter: comfort amidst the uncertainty. is it good to meet other ukrainian kids? >> yes because you -- you're not
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alone. >> reporter: while there are more smiles every day, the principal says he can't forget what lies beneath. >> translator: we have some who escaped in the middle of the night in their pajamas from the basement where they were. >> reporter: while school is a welcome distraction, it's also a reminder of how much their lives have changed. >> translator: in our hearts, we want to start the new school year in september in at home. and we really hope for that. >> anderson, as you can imagine, each day is a little different for these kids. they're not supposed to look at their phone during school. there was one day one of the kids picked up his phone and looked at it and he realized he was getting a notice that his school had just been hit. at that point all the other kids are picking up their phones trying to help him find information about his town, his
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home, his family. and they're checking to see if their families are okay. as you can imagine, that then became the lesson for the day, anderson. >> wow, erica hill, appreciate it you being there, warsaw. we'll take a look at shanghai where some residents are taking to the streets trying to break down barriers and pushing back against authorities with no end in sight to the covid lockdown. steven culver gives us a look at how he has gotten through the last 45 days in lockdown next. do you experience feelings of dread when you pass by youour cable box? if the answer is yes... who you u gonna call? directv stream. now get $30 off over 3 months.
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china is still grappling with an outbreak of covid cases. spanning across 261 cities in all 31 provinces. the capital, beijing, reported 56 new days since yesterday afternoon and some schools and several major hospital were closed today. in shanghai, more than 15,000 cases and 52 deaths were reported today as frustrations
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run high with video showing people banging on pots from their windows for more daily supplies as residents are still banned from leaving homes. some resorted to fighting authorities to break down barriers around the city. he's stuck in his apartment as the city nears one month on the l lockdown. >> this is a look at the live set up in my apartment. the camera equipment sent in from my photographer in beijing. he was able to get it in before the lock doin took effect. my dog, making himself comfortable on the couch. this is where he does his business. can't go outside for walks for him. my door i have taped up because they have been disinfecting buildings and socme of the fumigation has been coming in. this is my go bag in case i test positive or i'm a close contact
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and they send me off to an isolation center. i have to find somewhere separate to send my dog. i have document and foods. i call this covid corner. i have face masks, the antigen test we need to take each and every day and submit our results to the government. this is the most recent vegetable delivery. the government hand out. keep that there. sufficient supplies in my fridge. got to keep close watch of how much you're eating and parcel it out. out here i'm lucky enough to have outdoor space. this is also where i've piled up a lot of my trash and recycling. you can only have a community volunteer come to receive it and take it away. it sits out here until then. some disinfect tant. a will the of folks don't have there type of face so their trash piles up inside their own homes. >> back here live inside my
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apartment, i stress i'm quite fortunate. i live in a traditional shanghai neighborhood. all of my neighbors, locals, i can hear through the thin calls their frustrations. i have a space that is convenient for me but you've got three generations that are stuffed in a very confined, one room and this is now for our community, 45 days. well over that month mark and there's still no clear end to this. >> extraordinary. david, i appreciate that. thanks very much. we'll be right back. this dad ar were driving when they got a crack in their windshield. [smash] >> dad: it's okay. pulull over. >> tech: he wouldn't takee his car just anywhere... ♪ pop r rock music ♪ >> tech: ...so he brouought it to safelite. we replaced the windshield and recalibrated their car's advanced safety system, so features like automatic emergency braking will work properly. >> tech: alright, all finished. >> dad: wow, that's great. thanks. >> tech: stay safe with safelite. schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪
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we'll have more from kyiv tomorrow. the news continues. i want to hand it over to don. >> things seem pretty quiet there in kyiv until hours ago. what is the feeling on the ground after the russian strike? >> i think i