by autumn. that makes me happy. >> reporter: nick payton walsh, cnn. >> thank you for joining us, can always find the latest episode on podcast, go to cnn/audio or your favorite podcast app and perk erin burnett "outfront." ac 360 starts now is. >> good evening, battle on the ground in ukraine in mariupol that vladimir putin is trying to deny ahead of a russian holiday, ahead of a steel plant in mariupol his spokesman says today isn't happening and vladimir putin himself said would not need to happen but it is happening, this video shows some of the on going conflict, it's something we found today it's harrowing and just some of what soi what civilians have been suffering from for weeks now, the video is of the asovstal

steel plantd in mariupol, the resistance to the war that vladimir putin will not call a war, official inside the plant tells the washington post the situation is, quote, critical. >> translator: the shelling and storming of asovstal is not stopping but civilians still need to be taken out. women, many children remain there. >> president says, quote, if there is hell in the wuorld it s in asovstal. the hell is intense, growing darker by the hour by all accounts yet an official said russian troops entered the territory of the steel plant but, were, quote, repelled by defenders. again, that is the reality, one vladimir putin is trying to deny so he can secure, we assume, something that resembles a win four days ahead of a holiday special to the russian people that commemorates their victory in world war ii. and a war, vladimir putin's closest ally, dictator of

belarus, said today, dragged on, russian troops weren't repelled because they never tried to enter the steel plant in the first place. fake news they call it. after vladimir putin made a big show telling the defense minister there was no need to storm the grounds of the plants days ahead of that major holiday doesn't appear to be the case, and following in the east, yet to produce any major results. here are the medal ceremonies for russian soldiers in mariupol for what they deem its, quote, liberation. also this odd statue of an old woman waving a soviet flag, an attempt to absorb the city into the russian fold and to project victory but all of it ignoring the fact after 71 days of war, victory is being defined down so a lot to cover tonight, and in just a moment a look inside to what's happening to the soldiers and civilians in that steel plant but first breaking news about the level of u.s.

involvement in what's become one of the most infamous russian failures, the sinking of the russian flagship, katie bell lewis is with us for that. katie? >> reporter: hi anderson, yeah, so what we're learning tonight is u.s. intelligence played a key role in the ukrainian sinking of the moskava, the flagship of the russian naval fleet in the black sea. spotted the moskava operating and called american counterparts for information, the american were able to tell them yes it was indeed the moskava and able to provide more precise detailed location on the ships, ukrainians then able to fire two cruise missiles and sink the ship which was as you know a large military defeat for the russians but also a huge embarrassment for the russian military, this was their flagship and for the rag tag

band of ukrainians the russians at home are trying to indicate are a special military operation and not a serious war, that's a big embarrassment. >> so was the u.s. involved in the actual decision to strike the ship? >> reporter: anderson, no, u.s. officials tell us not only were they not involved in the decision to strike the ship, they also didn't know whether or not ukraine intended to take the shot once they were aware it was in fact the moskava but the hints at how forward-leaning the biden administration is being in terms of the intelligence it is providing the ukrainians to allow them to take offensive action on russian targets in particular as we've seen this policy shift from not just helping the ukrainians to i to expel or repel this invasion but actively trying to weaken the russian military over time, perhaps generationally. >> just in terms of intelligence sharing between the u.s. and ukraine, are there limits to what the u.s. will share?

>> reporter: yeah there's been pretty clear limits in terms of what they're giving the ukrainians, for one thing, certainly not willing to provide intelligence on russian targets inside russia. limiting assistance to inside ukraine and even inside ukraine some limitations, press secretary john kirby and other sources which spoke to us said the u.s. is willing to provide intelligence about russian troop movements, information that comes from intercepted communications, willing to provide information about command posts moving from point a to point b, what they're not doing is providing intelligence on the mucovements of specific senior russian military leader so for example, not saying general so and so is moving from point a to point b. they are simply saying look, there's a command post we have seen observed over here and now we're observing it over here. so that's a pretty clear limitation of the biden administration's mind from trying to prevent this being seen in moscow as too

escalatory. >> thank you, appreciate it. now the civilians and soldiers inside that steel plant, i isa sorez has their story. >> reporter: ukrainian soldiers trapped in asovstal plant sing the battle hymns. it is sweeter for us to die in battle than die in chains as dumb slaves they sing in the darkness. a few of the dozens of ukrainian fighters defending the last patch of mariupol not in russian hands. above them, the bombardment continues, relentlessly. later, one of the commanders with a message for the world. it's been the third day to the enemy has broken through the territory of asovstal. fierce, bloody combat is ongoing, he says. accusing the russians of violating the promise of a truce and preventing the evacuation of civilians who continue to hide

deep in bunkers of asovstal. the u.n. and red cross organized the evacuation of one group of about 100 civilians at the weekend. since then, none has left. now, there is hope of another convoy reaching mariupol. >> as we speak, the convoy is proceeding to get to asovstal by tomorrow morning. hopefully, to receive those civ civilians remaining in the bleak hell they've inhabited so many weeks and months and take them back to safety. >> reporter: speaking with me earlier, the military governor of donetsk much more conscious. with respect to the u.n. and their assistance and international committee to red cross, the conditions that are such that the occupier keeps changing them. >> reporter: the russians and

their allies, separatists of the donetsk peoples' republic showing off their newly won territory or at least the ruins they thought to sees. this commander points to a massive crater just outside the asovstal plant, says the bodies of ukrainian soldiers are everywhere, we find more everywhere he adds. amid the ruins of mariupol, once a thriving city of 400,000 people, authorities are changing the road signs to russian. expecting to organize a parade on may 9th when russia celebrates its victory in the second world war. whether asovstal is kquiet then or still being pull vsh, pulverized, no one knows. >> so i understand you have news regarding ukrainian fighter inside that steel plant? >> reporter: yeah, good evening, anderson, very tragic news of a female fighter who has, for the

last 60 plus days been inside that steel complex that's really been in many ways pulverized as you saw there. her name, natalya, joined the fight in her late 40s following her sons death, he was 28 when he died in the front lines and she has been until at least this morning when we were told of her death, had been fighting this russian invasion and russian aggression and exchanging text messages with her until about two days or so ago. the last messages she sent us and sent my team was basically toous to say that the soldiers are hanging in there, they're strong, they will win, victory will be theirs. i was able to speak to her mother before finding out, of course, that she had died and i asked her mother, anderson, you know, how did she feel seeing so much, really so much disaster in her country and having seen her

own grandson die too? this is what she said in relation to russia and president putin. have a listen. >> translator: i want people like putin to not exist on earth. i think he is an evil power. i'm a religious person and i think he is not a normal human being. even the germans didn't do as many atrocities as he does. what can i say? poor are those mothers that brought up sons that are now killing innocent people. >> reporter: when i spoke to pereskyva today, gave the news, she was absolutely distraught anderson. she has lost in a very short period, three members of her family because of this war. and you know what she said to me? she said look, heaven also needs angels. just absolutely heartbreaking.

>> thank you, now to retired general mark hertling. so hertling, according to the commander of all the asov battalion in mariupol, now breached the steel mill and engaged in close fighting with ukrainian forces inside. can you talk a battle like that, how difficult to storm an industrial complex, heavily fortified with a lot of underground bunkers and tunnels? >> yeah, this is going to be really tough, anderson. if they think they've seen fighting there already it's knowing to get much worse. this is a lot like fighting in a cave and that's something the u.s. army found very difficult in preparing for missions in afghanistan and to a lesser degree, eastern iraq. we built cave complexes at our training centers and we quickly found out how challenging it was for any attacker going into a cave and how very few armed men, defending in a cave, could hold off, sometimes hundreds even thousands of attackers going into a cave. now the asovstal plant is

equivalent to a cave on steroids. multiple levels, long passageways, steel and concrete constructions. all those things will hinder the russians communications, their maneuvering, their ability to get past obstacles that i'm sure the ukrainians have placed in there already. now if the ukrainian fighters can sustain themselves with ammo, food, and water, they'll be in pretty good position as the russians come into the cave and it will literally take, i'm betting hundreds or more russians to dislodge them from that underground complex that goes down six different levels. >> the steel plant i mean has been under constant bombardment for weeks now. we know there are civilians still inside the plant. russia has said that the humanitarian corridors are open, but only a few have actually been able to get out. what is the value, i mean vladimir putin said very publicly, we don't need to storm this plant. we'll just surround it, make sure nobody can get out and just

wait them out. why go in and storm this plant? >> it's a physiological factor, anderson, and i'll explain it this way. i'm your analyst, cnn's analyst and i'm trying to look at the whole theater of ukraine, but truthfully, every morning i wake up with a primary focus on mariupol and this plant, because those soldiers have been fighting in there for 70 days under constant bombardment. no sleep, sleep interrupted, little food, ammunition running low. the desire to protect the citizens, the women and children, so it is not only a physical fight, but it's a physiological and psychological fight as well. and there's, there are some studies on human beings in terms of the effects of both fatigue and fear have some of the same kind of hormonal effects. when you combine fatigue and fear, the kind of fear that comes in combat, it just

destroys the human body. i cannot understand how those heros of ukraine are continuing to fight in that cave. the will of those soldiers must be incredible. >> but from the russian perspective, why try to -- why not just surround the plant? >> that's what i don't understand and we may see them doing that yet. seeing a lot of pictures and film of russian tanks going into the areas, the continued bombardment by the artillery, bmps, infantry carriers going in there. i think they may just surround the upper level and not go into the cave complex. that's a technique for dealing with, i say cave complex, sorry, go into the asovstal plant because they know they're going to die if they go in there. i would not want to lead a group of soldiers down the stairs into those hall ways to fight against

determined ukrainian soldiers. it's a death cave, truthfully. >> retired general mark hertling, thank you, in one liberated town in ukraine tonight, families left to wonder what's happened to their fathers, husbands and sons as the russians left. >> reporter: every single day, valentina waits for the moment her husband and son return home. on march 11th, i called them and just said hold on, wait a minute, and that's all. what do you think happened to your husband and son? >> translator: i don't know, i have no idea, my husband and son wouldn't hurt a fly. they're very kind. >> reporter: days before, russian soldiers a had occupied the town, when she returned home that day, neighbors told her her husband and son were taken by russian soldiers. i want them to return my husband

and son or at least tell me where they are now, i can't find my place in life. where are they? how am i supposed to live now? tell me. how? she is not the only one suffering through this. across the street and just around the corner, other families are longing for the day their husbands and fathers return. watched as russians forcibly took their papa away. leaving them with just pictures for now. the main thing is they took him and we don't know where he is. we hope we find him and they, the russians will be punished. relieved the village is no

longer crawling with russian tanks but means no one left to ask where the men were taken. in the rubble of war, also searching for his brother, saying he was picked up by russian soldiers at the same time as the others. from the story we heard the guy was beaten with a club. we met the guy he was talking about who says he too was detained and held by russian soldiers who said it was their job to beat them each day. my hands were tied with this rope. here it is, he says, and another two guys were hand cuffed, one of the men didn't make it out alive, he says. in the morning, the russians said his body was already cold. he reported it to police and it was determined that the man killed was his brother, though no body has ever been found. they took the body away. who knows where. we still don't know where he is. after hearing all this, how do you survive this? how do you live with this?

it's very hard. very hard. we happen to be with nihoko when he got permission with the homeowner to go on the property where he says his brother was killed. we go down the set of steep stairs, at the bottom, stayed nearly seconds, the memory of his brother's last moments too much for him to bare. joining us now from kyiv, not knowing where your loved one is. any evidence to indicate what happened to them? we heard stories like this in other towns as well where people disappear. >> reporter: yeah, we have, and the only evidence that exists are what people saw and what some of these people saw, some of these mothers, some of these

wives were watching their husbands being taken away by russian troops and i know we have asked the kremlin about this. they have been asked before about these disappearances, about alleged kidnappings and said that look, we don't know about any disappearances but we will definitely look into that. all of these families are saying look, just do the right thing. send these men back. these were civilians. they were people who had lives and children and now, they're just sitting and waiting and they have no idea if they will ever see their loved one again and no idea if their loved one has survived or if that person has died if they'll ever be able to give them a proper burial and say a proper goodbye, anderson. >> appreciate it, thanks sara. more on vladimir putin as he seeks to celebrate russian

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there's reports today of them inside the plant itself. >> well, there's the reality and the illusion. the reality is that this is a fiasco. we're now in day 70 or something like that and this is expected to go a week, you know, russian soldiers packed their dress parade uniform expecting to be ranching down the streets of kyiv after a few days. obviously, that hasn't transpired and it's one humiliation after another, whether it's hope telling the russian orthodox church saying he should stop being the altar boy for putin or putin having to apologize, never heard of putin having to apologize, but what sergei lavrov is so outrageous about hitler and jews had to crank that back and it's a military humiliation every step of the way so that's the reality. the illusion being created in mariupol is very important to note. needless to say, russian people are not seeing on their

televisions what you've been showing quite brilliantly in the last 20 minutes. what you're seeing is one of the main prop grandists for russian television, somebody who makes tucker carlsen look like walter kronkite was sent to mariupol and act like this is the salvation area that russia was saving mariupol and i think what you'll see by may 9th which is monday, victory day, is a kind of pseudo-world war ii narrative in which russia is saving the ukrainian brothers. even though they're destroying them and killing them and flattening them and just one city after another, the best they can. they're trying to create an image of salvation and so that's what you're seeing on russian tv and that's being drilled into the consciousness of the russian

people. >> you know, it's remarkable, the video the russian tv was showing of soldiers getting medals in mariupol for the liberation, quote-unquote, of mariupol. when you juxtaposed that celebration, that ceremony, with the images we're seeing of mariupol i mean this -- russian forces once liberated concentration camps. now their definition of liberation is destroying mariupol. when you look now at images of mariupol. it is a ghost town, just like it's been firebombed, block after block after block. >> yeah, and, you know, just before we came on, i was reading the news site medusa which is a very fine independent news site in russian, operating now out of latvia and showing photographs of mariupol of soviet imagery brought in by the russians, you know, soviet flags, it's all to

reinforce this notion of the great national narrative that the second world war. which, in the second world war of course had a great deal of truth to it so i mean it was instrumental in the defeat of nazi germany. this is an entirely different narrative, but they know they can't sell it for what it is which is russia invading a peaceful aspiring democratic sovereign state and trying to either flatten it or occupy it and it can't be explained. so when our correspondent josh yaho was in a southern city in ukraine just recently, a young russian soldier came up to ukraine and said we're here to liberate you. guy said liberate us from what? from whom? and the young russian soldier had no answer to this, only had the first line of propaganda,

that was it. this salvation narrative exists in the mind of, unfortunately, the most powerful and singular figure in russia and that's vladimir putin and until that's altered, until the politics and dynamics of russia are severely altered, this is going to go on quite a while and that includes the cratering over the russian economy and stifling of russian society in many regards as well as an outflow of many of the best and brightest from russia. apparently, half a million people have left russia and, you know, computer programmers, professors, writers, people who were part of the creative class. that doesn't help the future of russia. >> no, david, thank you very much as always. appreciate it. ahead, breaking news, joining me with word of an extraordinary new accusation against the former president by his former secretary of defense mark esper claims then-president trump proposed launching

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been in office for a while and he is aware of the fact that, you know, you start to exhibit yourself differently when in your late 70s and so far we have seen him do a bunch of rallies in the last couple of months, obviously not the kind of campaign schedule he would be keeping if he ran himself. he has an ability to sort of determine the terms himself on which he is going to run, how he is going to run, always done it that way but i do think health is a real thing, i just don't think he would ever admit that was why but who knows. >> do you think it's personal in some way between the former president and president biden? oh absolutely, no question about that. i mean joe biden has made very clear part of why he ran and i think biden obviously, thinking of running a very long time as had donald trump before he ran so not the sole reason but certainly biden, you know, had issues with how he saw trump running the country, the direction he saw the country taking and that was part of the

reason he ran. now, we're at a point where, you know, trump has very aggressively gone after biden's family, we've seen it over and over, you know, asking about biden's son, you know, became a staple of rallies, issues that are legitimate to talk about, the way the former president has gone after biden has, i think, been very personal and i do think that would raise an issue. >> if former president does decide to run, certainly no shortage of issues from his previous administration that he would have to answer for or avoid answering for. you got new reporting out tonight, new details from former sense of secretary about time in the trump administration, esper referred to former president as i'm quoting, an unprincipled person who given his self interest should not be in the position of public service. that's stunning, also possible military action, what does esper

write about that? >> reporter: it's a pretty astonishing account, anderson, i've read a lot of these books as have you of people who worked for trump. this was particularly jarring and the state about trump, in the book, he writes that trump at least twice in the summer of 2020 very frustrated about the flow of drugs over the southern border asked about the possibility of firing missiles into mexico to wipe out the drug cartels and i'm paraphrasing, you know, and to wipe out the drug labs. and esper sort of stunned said we can't do that, that won't work. trump merns it again, suggests patriot missiles which i don't think even work in that capacity and say we could do it and say it wasn't us and esper writes he would have thought it was a joke had he not been looking trump in the eye or the face and seen what he was saying and what his mood and disposition was. i had never heard this story before. i was pretty gobsmacked by it, a

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performed abortions when the law passed speaks with us tonight. if roe v. wade is overturned, what would that mean for women like you and voters in your state? >> well, our governor signed a bill signing into law just a couple years ago that alabama would have a complete ban on abortion with no restrictions for rape or for incest. what that would mean is that people here in alabama and in the surrounding states who utilize this area for care will no longer have access to very essential healthcare. >> and you would, i assume you would have to stop performing abortions if a ban was enforced. it's my understanding the alabama abortion ban as it was passed said a person who performed an abortion in violation of the law could be sentenced up to 99 years in prison. is that correct? >> absolutely.

that means that i would have to stop performing abortion care here in the state of alabama, because there would be the threat for criminal prosecution and spending 99 years in jail. so that means that physicians like me would have to travel to other areas or jepopardize our patient's opportunity for care their own communities with providers they know and trust because we would face prosecution. >> could you talk a little bit about the clients you have? the patients who come to see you, what situations they're in, what has brought them to you, and what this would mean for them? if they didn't have this option? >> yes. i take care of patients from all walks of life. professional women, i take care of young people looking forward to very bright futures, i take care of people who are struggling to make ends meet. i take care of people who are

pregnant that already have families, already have children at home, that they are trying to do the very best they can to provide for. i take care of people from all walks of life and it really is important to keep in mind that this ban is going to affect many people here, not just in the state of alabama but across the nation, millions of people who need this care, who are accessing this care. >> do you believe some people in your state, obviously, some people may be able to afford to go to another state, but there's, i assume, a number of your clients who wouldn't be able to, perhaps, get off from work long enough to do something like that? >> absolutely right, there will be people who have access to the care they need, people with adequate resources that will be able to travel. the people harmed the most are

those already marginalized and having difficulty accessing healthcare as it is, that means people of color, young people, people who are not citizens, people who are already struggling to make ends meet. they're going to experience greater disparities with this legislation that is passing because people who are not able to, that don't have access to those resources, are going to have to make the decisions that they will have to continue pregnancies that are not, that is not the appropriate time for, pregnancies that may threaten their life, and even if there is funding for them to be able to travel, we have to think of all the other needs and all the other things that go into them being able to travel to access care when we go outside these communities. we're not thinking about the lost wages, not thinking about the children they already have at home that they will have to make arrangements for someone

else to care for while they leave their own community to go and access necessary healthcare. >> dr. robinson, really appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> thank you. 15 years ago, 3-year-old madeline mccann went missing on vacation with her family in portugal, never found but investigators say they found new evidence that could help solve the mystery of what happened. we have the new developments, next. i feel kinder, when natature is so kind to me. find more ways to grow with miracle-gro. ♪

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child sex abuser. >> is it true you found something belonging to madeleine mccann in the van? >> to the details of the investigation, i cannot give you a command. >> but you can't deny it, can you? >> i don't want to deny it. >> reporter: the prosecutor told cmtv he's sure brooklyn is the murderer. sleeping alone in the apartment while they had dinner nearby with friends. they were on property just yards away and said they checked on the kids every half hour. when madeleine was discovered missing, a search began, but the crime scene was never properly secured. >> windows were closed. doors were open and shut. they were searching for a child. they weren't worrying about preserving evidence. >> we met private investigators in portugal back in 2017 while shooting a documentary on this

case. he says the location of the mccann's vacation flat put the family at risk. >> what made this apartment more vulnerable than some of the others in the complex? >> it's vulnerable because it's in the corner and there's a lot of places you can watch the apartment without being noticed. >> reporter: madeleine's face was broadcast around the world. >> please give our little girl back. >> reporter: but even as tips poured in, invest igators zeroe in on the parents. four months after their daughter disappeared, the mccann mccann named suspects. a few years after that, scotland yard announced they would re-examine the case. turns out between 2004 and 2010, a string of sexual assaults were reported in the area where madeleine disappeared. >> almost always, houses or apartments that were rented or

owned by british people with young children. >> reporter: prosecutors first announced the suspect, christian brookner's, alleged involvement in 2020. he lived in the town from 1995 until 2007. he has not been officially charged in madeleine's case and has denied any wrong doing. he told investigators he'd been with his then girlfriend the night madeleine vanished. but the prosecutor told cmtv that brookner has no alibi. he is currently in jail in germany for raping a woman in the same area madeleine disappeared. 15 years later, and still no sign of madeleine or her remains. randi kaye, cnn. coming up we have more breaking news out of ukraine on the shelling and storming of the steal plant in mariupol. also a survivor story from fighting in another steel factory in the same city. he talks about his ordeal when he was held as a prisoner by rurussia. between his color-coordinated sticky note cocollection

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