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prayers in kabul leads to a deadly attack on mosques. and tennis star boris becker convicted, headed to jail. we'll have the full story coming up. ukraine touting its progress in efforts to hold official advancing russian forces in the east. the ukrainian military says it has driven back 14 enemy attacks in the donetsk region over the past 24 hours. ukraine also says it's repelled russia's latest efforts to make a break through elsewhere. they have not been able to stop them from doing extensive damage to key supply lines. this is the aftermath of the attack on a railway hub in the donetsk region. meanwhile, another mass grave discovered friday in the kyiv suburb of bucha. 900 civilians have within found

dead in the wake of russian forces pulling out. now russia's focus is now on the eastern donbas region. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy says moscow's aim is to kill everyone living there. >> translator: only if ukraine would stand will they live. if the russian invaders succeed in realizing their plan at least in part, they will still have enough artillery and aircraft to destroy donbas, just as they destroyed mariupol. it is essential lay concentration camp in the middle of ruins. >> good morning to you, isa. >> reporter: good morning to yyou michael. friday, president zelenskyy's office told us an operation was planned to evacuate civilians

inside the steel plant in the besieged city of mariupol. there are about 1,000 or so civilians holed up upside, and they are desperately running out of food and water, having not seen daylight for some 50-plus days of the they face relentless attacks from russian forces. we have the story for you. >> reporter: these are russian troops making a break for cover in the streets near the azov steel plant in mariupol. one is shot along the way. one ukrainian deputy commander says russia is not only bombarding the plant from the sky but now also attacking from the ground. >> translator: as of today, there have been attempts to storm the territory. this is infantry. this is enemy military equipment. but those attempts have been beaten off as of this hour.

>> reporter: palomar says that recent bombing left some cellars and bunkers cut off by rubble. he's not sure if there are survivors trapped inside. bombing also hit a field hospital, moving the number of wounded soldiers to more than 500. the city puts the number of injured at more than 600. how many do you think will survive the next day or two? >> translator: i'm not going to say how long we could be here, but i'm saying we are doing everything we can to stabilize them. >> reporter: with the soldiers in the plant are hundreds of civilians, mostly elderly women and children they say as young as 4 months old. ukrainian officials say they are also running low on food and water. the u.n. secretary-general arrived in kyiv determined to broker a deal after securing an agreement in principle from

vladimir putin in moscow. friday morning, zelenskyy's office announced an operation to evacuate civilians with plans for friday, but no other details. palomar said a convoy wass en route but had yet to arrive. would you rather die fighting than surrender yourself to the russians? >> translator: we are not considering the terms of surrender. we are waiting only for guarantees for exit of the territory of the plants. that is, if there is no choice but captivity, we will not surrender. >> reporter: an adviser to the mayor of mariupol says getting soldiers evacuated safely would take an international intervention or a divine one. >> everyone wants something, something, like miracle.

>> reporter: you don't think that it makes sense for the soldiers at the steel plant just to surrender themselves to the russians? that might be the best thing to do. >> yeah. >> reporter: scott mcclain, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> reporter: incredibly hard to hear that of the some civilians who managed to make it out of mariupol have a nightclub owner to thank. he repeatedly returned to the city to bring supplies and helped evacuate 200 people. he told cnn's erin burnett how he witnessed scenes of desperation. >> translator: it was a shock. after giving out humanitarian aid, i really didn't know what to do. you know, when you see an elderly woman fighting for food,

it is a shock. i tried to organize them. i tried to do something about this, because i understand there was just not enough food for all of them, and no matter how hard i tried to distribute properly the porridge or food formula. milk formula goes for children, there's still not enough. it was an absolutely horrible picture, and frankly, a couple of times i actually caught myself thinking that i do not want to come back. i do not want to see this again, and yet i till kept coming back, because i understood there wouldn't be anyone else to do this. all i thought was my children. i was worried i wouldn't see them. i was worried i wouldn't see them again.

>> reporter: and just incredible acts, michael, of bravery we are seeing. i know you witnessed them, too, when you were here in ukraine, but you're seeing them avenue d every day, and it's taking a toll on those inside mariupol. 100,000 people inside mariupol, 1,000 in that steel plant. it's a very dire situation. ki i can tell you, michael, when i spoke to the ceo of that steel plant he told me they only had abou enough food and water for about five weeks. >> so many civilians deaths that we know about, let alone what's going to be found out when this is all over, incredible. isa, thank you. we'll see you next hour. appreciate it, isa soares there.

now more than two months of fighting has obviously taken a heavy toll on ukraine's infrastructure. hospitals, depots, water systems have all been targets of russian bombs and missiles. you can see some of that in the video there from kharkiv. one ukrainian soldier says he's still stunned bit sheer amount of instruction. >> translator: i couldn't even imagine that something like this could happen. everything is destroyed. not one house will remain in tact after this. no windows, craters everywhere. i understood the situation here, but not at this level. >> but president zelenskyy says the infrastructure is not just a collateral damage, he says the russian attacks are all part of a plan. >> translator: in donbas, the occupiers are doing everything to destroy any life in this area. constant brutal bombings,

constant strikes at residential areas, so that russia wants to make this area uninhabited. >> i'm joined by a former ukrainian infrastructure ministry, speaking with us from kyiv. and thanks for doing so, sir. first of all, i wanted to ask you this. president biden has asked congress for $33 billion aid package for ukraine, where is that aid most needed? the military aid most specifically. >> michael, is't's my honor to with you today. we are most grateful to president biden. and i'm 100% sure we are win in this war. there is no matter of price. we should get the results. ammunition. ps especially artillery and

aircraft. we need more any kind of sophisticated weapon to stop russians and start counter measures. this is the issue what are be with russia and kremlin. because they are ready to come back in a year or at ten years time. infrastructure definitely. we are working desperately to rebuild ukraine, but my wish is to build new ukraine, not only for our nation but for the whole europe. >> yeah, i wanted to move on to that, because you are of course the former infrastructure minister. when this is eventually over and you look at the utter destruction around your country, do you have any sense of just how massive the task will be of rebuilding not just buildings but the coeconomy as well?

? t >> this is a great question to talk about. because we should find our place in the world and also become part of european union and nato. there is no other way to resolve the issue, and if you talk about the economy, i think that ukraine can now present a lot of new developments in military field. definitely we are still good with grain production, but we should hlook into artificial intelligence and i.t. here, especially when we talk about drones and other things to develop. >> how concerned are you that russia are again to hit weapons con convoys. do you worry that some of these armed shipments themselves will be hit, and if so, what can the west do about it?

>> you know, when the united states joined world war ii, it was the final thing for hitler. right now, this is for ukraine, because soviet union is not germany right now and putin isn't hitler. they are very much worried about supplies from the west. because they do understand with new ammunition, new artillery, it's impossible to fight ukrainians. they would like to hit, but i do not briefelieve that it's possi. it could have been done many we weeks prior. >> i can't tell, but it almost looks behind you that there is wheat there, and it occurs to me that ukraine has accused russia of literally stealing ukrainian wheat on an industrial scale and shipping it back to russia. what do you think is going to be the food situation for ukraine,

and in fact the world, with the wheat harvest being stolen or not happening at all because of the fighting? >> >> ukraine still feels secure about the wheat and agriculture, but this is an issue for the world. because we are one of the biggest suppliers to the world market. russia is do agoing a very prec thing. flooding the west not only gas supply but with wheat supply. still he's looking in that direction to control also agriculture and food supply to the world and to the west in particular. i believe that it will be stopped regardless. right now, they are robbing our

terminals and grain facilities and taking grain away to make people satarving from the hunge, but there is no chance this policy will go on for long. >> ukraine of course, a major global supplier of wheat and sunflower products as well. oils and so on. a major impact there. thank you so much. it's good to see you again. >> thank you. coming up on the program, another deadly attack in afghanistan. a live report after the break. also incredible pictures out of china of a building collapse. we'll have the latest oen that when we come back. which makes waking up at 5 a.m. to milk the cows a little easier. (moo) mabel says for you, it's more like 5:15. man:n: mom, really?

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series of deadly blasts. joining us, arwa dayman. this has been happening almost daily, if not weekly. >> reporter: it has, michael, and it is quite tragic for the afghan population, and these attacks have not been isolated in just one city. they have been taking place throughout the county. the vast majority of the targets are mosques, generally visited by afghanistanis. and about ten days ago or so, there were horrendous attacks that took place at a high school and learning center. this most recent attack, many are saying the death toll could potentially be much higher here how one eyewitness described it. >> translator: around 300 to 400 people were there performing rituals when the blast went off. i helped carry ten to 15 wounded

people and three who were killed to vehicles. many of the injured and martyred are still being evacuated from the area. there are many casualties. >> reporter: also worth reminding all of our viewers, michael, that we are in the last days of ramadan. many will go to the mosques more frequently. >> arwa damon in turkey. we appreciate the report. american parents hoping to vaccinate their young children may soon get their wish. a covid vaccine for kids under 5 could come as soon as june. the agency's vaccine advisory committee will review data from moderna and pfizer and discuss

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new infections. a fall of over 5,000 from the day of about. shanghai has been one of the hardest-hit cities during the latest outbreak, on friday, china crediting its zero-covid . still in china, stunning video coming in following a building collapse. this is in southern china. state media reporting five people have been rescued. it's unknown how many others might still be trapped in the rubble. the structures described as a residence self-built house t had a restaurant, cinema and hotel in addition to private living quarters. no word yet on the cause. when we come back here on the program, rail cars on fire, bridges destroyed, troops on the move. the latest on russia's march in eastern ukraine. also a u.s. citizen was killed

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ukraine says it is holding off the russian offensive on several fronts and that it has repelled 14 attacks over the past 24 hours alone. that includes russia's latest effort to break through in the izium area. this video shows a flurry attack

against russian armored unit in that area. this comes as another mass grave is found in bucha. details on this latest discovery are scarce, but since russia with drew, more than 900 bodies have been discovered. and in mariupol, the bombardment of that steel plant has not been letting up. troen drone video you're watching showing smoke rising from the steel plant. no word on what's causing that smoke. a ukrainian commander inside the plant told cnn earlier russian attempts to storm the area have been, in his words, deflected. hundreds of ukrainian troops and civilians have been holed up there for weeks. russia's advances in eastern ukraine are slow, incremental and uneven. even so, extensive shelling of

railway and supply line infrastructure. >> reporter: russia continues to put pressure on this eastern front as part of what the russians are calling their second phase, having re-de-fined the entire campaign effort from trying to topple the government, they're now suggesting that this effort is to seize the donbas, the east of the country and potentially a large swath of the southern coastline. they have been drive southeast from the town of izium. there have been reports that they've been attack ago railway close to a town just effectively on the outskirts of where i am. this is the ultimate prize, and part of that, the ukrainians know well, is going to be the russians trying to get across the donetsk river. they've done that in the izium

area but not due north of here. a bridge across the river has been blown. we don't fknow whether it was blown by the ukrainians or the russians. ukrainians have blown bridges throughout the region to slow the russians. but the main russian effort is likely to again next week, perhaps approaching may 9th. there's been significant troop movements on the ukrainian side. >> now sam there mentioned the date of may 9th, known as "victory day" in russia, marking the end of world war ii. we near the date, and we'll ask

where they see the biggest risks of the. >> i don't think the russians have sufficient combat power to cut off the region, nor do i think they have sufficient combat power to take odesa. so they've got to salvage something before may the 9th. and it would seem to me that if they're able to, for example, completely capture mariupol, that would be sufficient for putin to be able to claim a victory in teamime for the may parade. however, the ukrainian defenders are proving very resilient, and i don't know if the russians are actually going to be able to achieve that in time. >> samuel stewart crawford there. u.s. officials once again are warning americans not to travel to ukraine, while

expressing condolences for the death of a u.s. citizen there. the family of willy joseph cancel tells cnn, the 22-year-old died fighting alongside ukrainian forces. brian todd with more on that. >> reporter: he's a 22-year-old american and heleaves behind a wife and 7 month old baby. willy cancel. his mother spoke to cnn. >> even before he left to go to ukraine he was proud, because he wanted to do the right thing, and, you know, fight alongside the underdogs and help them with things that he thought was important. >> reporter: neither cancel's mother nor u.s. officials could provide information on how or where cancel was killed. >> wei know a family is mournin, a wife is mourning, and our hearts are with them. >> reporter: cancel's mother tells cnn he was working a

full-time job as a corrections officer in tennessee when he signed town work for a private military contracting company shortly before the ukraine war broke out. when the conflict began, cancel agreed to go. he flew to ploind on march 12th. he was being paid while he was fighting there. >> that's a horse of a different color than being directly in some kind of ukrainian foreign legion, and that begs the question, who's the client for the contracting company, is it for the government of ukraine? >> reporter: no immediate answers to those questions, and u.s. officials don't have an exact count of how many americans are fighting in ukraine. an official told cnn in early martha at march, that at that time, more than 20,000 people had express a

addtheed the desire to fight. >> it is a youunified force. >> reporter: james vasquez told cnn he was moving around loosely. >> right now, me and a british soldier have been going from unit to unit where we're needed the most. >> reporter: but u.s. officials are again warning americans don't go to ukraine to fight. >> this is an active war zone, this is not the place to be traveling to. >> reporter: state department officials say russian forces could single out americans fighting in ukraine, one official warning that captured americans could be subject to heightened risk of mistreatment. >> it is not hard to imagine a situation in way american soldier is tortured, executed on the battlefield or tent back to moscow to be some type of pawn

for political, change. >> reporter: at the time she spoke to cnn, willy cancel's mother said the people who notified her of his death said his body had not been found. russia not making it easy for ukraine to replenish its fuel supplies. that's word from the u.s. which says russia wants to disrupt the ukrainian military's ability to replenish supply cores. case in point, this attack on a fuel storage depot in donetsk. kyiv's officials want residents to wait to return. y and if they do to use public transportation. the czech republic says they will not be blackmailed by russia. russia has cut off gas supplies

to poland and bulgaria after demanding they pay for it in rubles. the czech prime minister said his country isn't paying in rubles. he adds it's a mistake for anyone to play along with what he calls russian blackmail. hungary which gets a big portion of its natural gas from russia has agreed to the russian demand. russia says it's not blackmail. a potential diplomatic showdown may be brewing over this year's g-20 summit. russian president vladimir putin has accepted a invitation. but others are considering options after president biden has called for russia's ejection from the graoup over the invasin of ukraine. >> president biden made clear several weeks ago that it cannot be business as usual with russia

and that vladimir putin should not be allowed to attend the g-20 and that if he were, that president zelenskyy should have the opportunity to attend as well. >> this year's g-20 summit will take place in bali on november 15 and 16 of the and we want to show you some video we just got in, slowing a group of ukrainian soldiers in mariupol displaying their patriotism. ♪ ♪ >> some of the soldiers with their hands over their hearts there, another even holding a soldier's best trfriend. saying today we celebrate the day of the border guard of ukraine. border guards singing the anthem. take care of your seyou are our

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. the one-time tennis sensation, boris becker has been sentenced to two and half years in jail. the former number one player failed to report hundreds of,000 of dollars in assets after his bank bankruptcy in 2017. >> one of the most famous names in the sport was sentenced to jail. the judge on friday added one exceptional humiliation. becker wearing a gray suit,

white shirt and striped tie in the famed wimbledon colors of green and purple. he was legally obliged to kiss close when it suited him, he disclosed them, when it didn't, he didn't, that according to one. and depriving creditors of more than $2.5 million in assets. the 54-year-old's lawyer telling the court, these proceedings have destroyed his career entirely and ruined any further prospect of earning an income. his reputation is in tatters and will not be able to find work and will have to rely on the

charity of others if he is to survive. when he won wimbledon, putting his hometown on the map. he won wimbledon the next year. a huge rise to overnight global stardom, the first unseeded male player to win the wimbledon crown and rising to the number one ranking. massive interest in him ever since his private life, the british tabloids, too. he would go upon to win a total of six grand slam titles over the course of more than a decade. he never won the french open but did win two australian opens. he has remained active in the tennis world, most notably as the coach of novak jdjokovic an a pundit over the years as well. >> our thanks to patrick snell.

here to discuss further, ben rothenberg. good to see you. it seems incredible that such a big name, six-time grand slam champion is going to be going to jail. i think you're at a tournament in spain right now. what's been the reaction in the tennis world? >> here in madrid, there's been a great deal of shock and certainly sadness. people who have been on the media side and following the case and becker's ordeal over the years probably saw this coming, but for a lot of the players, there's a lot of surprise, he remains a very well-liked figure, if even maybe a nae'er do well. he's maintained connection to the sport, captain of the app cup in germany, a lot of sadness at this real downfall for him and this consequence he faces.

>> he has had a bit of a slade o over the years in his personal life. you've spoken about him not being dissimilar to other athletes, mismanaging sudden wealth and so on. >> many of these athlete whose get the big wind falls of cash don't have the skills to manage it. and there are people in their lives who are asking for handouts and maintaining a certain lifestyle. in tennis, there's the added wrinkle of players responsible for their own expenses. unlike an athlete for a professional football team would have the team pay for their expenses. becker was shelling out the money for that. can you take about half of his money away for taxes.

and a couple costly divorces and poor decisions along the way i'm sure, and dishonesty that the court convicted him of, in terms of hiding those asset when is it came to paying. >> i remember him at wimbledon at that age, 17. he's been such a big figure in tennis. how do you think that will affect his reputation? >> it is not related at actual what people were attracted to in boris becker, an incredibly dynamic player diving at wimbledon. and he has remained someone who is well liked. i do think there will be space for him to come back and be rehabilitated so to speak once he's paid his debts literally and figuratively from this ordeal. >> how might this be affecting

becker the man, for him personally. it's such a downfall. it must be intensely distressing for him. >> sprabsolutely. being celebrated constantly. i think one of the things the judge said in there is that they are didn't seem to be an acceptance of responsibility, a recognition of mistakes and consequences. this had be in the form of a jail door slammed behind him, a very stark wakeup call. he still has many years of his life left to forge a clear path and get back on the right track with things. >> it's incredibly sad. good to see you, ben. >> thank you, michael the. > still on the sports, hope solo is seeking treatment for alcohol issues. the former united states women's

national goalkeeper says she is voluntarily entering a in-patient alcohol treatment program to address her challenges with calcohol. in 2014, she was arrested on domestic assault charges. and she was arrested on child abuse, resisting arrest and impaired driving. a disaster in kansas after a swarm of tornados tore through that state and nebraska. we'll go to the cnn weather center for the latest

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meteorologist karen mcginnis. tell us more p about this syste. >> this is a very dynamic system and comes in the month of april, very dynamic for tornados. they really erupted with quite a bit of ferocity. and now we're getting a clearer picture as to what happened in andover. andover is about a 20, 25 minute drive to the northeast of wichita. and there's that corridor along interstate 35. they were just raked by these severe storms, high winds the some of the winds were over hurricane force. 80-mile-plus wind gusts with some of these severe storms, now we've got localized flooding, high winds as well as hail. i want to show you this video. this from elaina adkins. she lived in andover. he took this video of this

incredible tornado. now they're going to send out survey crews by daylight. take a hook at the damage. you see just how significant this was. but the police chief here said that about a thousand homes were lying in the path of this tornado. power is out. they're saying just about all the roads in and out of andover are shut down. there's a lot of debris on the roads, still a very dangerous situation. so they had evaluate, and it comes on the heels of the 31st adversary of an f-5 tornado in 1991. people in this portion of kansas are very acutely aware that during the spring months, they are in line for the potential for severe weather. what will happen as we go into the next 24 hours or so, this very dynamic system is going to

make its way toward the great lakes region. drifts to the south. so still the potential for severe weather, but it looks like mostly what we're anticipating, can't rule out an isolated tornado, will be heavy rain, high winds and the potential for hail. these are the number of reports that we did see from the storms that erupted on friday evening, and early saturday morning, michael, and they're still going to assess the damage here, but it is very, a very fluid situation. one other thing very quickly, ymca, people in the building in andover, they took cover. they also survived. yes, there were some jainjuries but they took cover when they knew this tornado was going to touchdown. >> good move and glad nobody seems to have died so far. karen, appreciate the reporting. want to tell you about a beekeeper who went the extra mile to save thousands of bees

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