hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm michael holmes. coming up, russia's latest threat. ukrainian troops make more gains. we'll take you to the front lines. an unprecedented move. the january 6th committee takes aim at the top house republican, kevin mccarthy. they are the first images of their kind. the closest we have been to a black hole far, far away . welcome. nato is on the eve of a historic expansion with the members of finland pushing for rapid

membership. the foreign ministry said this was a rads cal change in policy by finland as well as a treaty violation. >> there step will not be such a major one and maybe the change is not as big as people might think. it is the result of the very drastic change in our security environment after russian aggression against ukraine.

this from fighting along a key river. you croon yan forces have destroyed a russian helicopter on nsnake island. three people killed and 12 could understanded by russian attacks on two schools. they were fargting military command posts and am knew in addition depots. another of villages are under attack by russian forces.

nick payton walsh begins our coverage. >> reporter: the quiet pines are slowly revealing their fratraum. the kremlin is being pushed back so fast, we're only nine miles to their border. being closer to the mother land that russia claims it is, offered no mercy to these civilians. the troops tell us the intensity of the fire no match for those on board. a 13-year-old girl killed by

russian troops. >> are you saying the concentration of bullets are on the driver soidide and the passenger door behind showing gunmen who knew what they were doing. >> reporter: yujust up the road two russian corpses lay here. for days they sat with their prayer books and sleeping bags in the spring sun. derailed by a single rocket grenade, we're told. this fresh convoy fleeing the village up the river further evidence you crane is pushing towards russia's fragile supply lines from across the border.

i on the hill, rare sight. a modern tank. these drone images show the destruction. one of russia's newest tanks kind of the pride of this invading force. this is what's left of it. the big concern is hearing a drone above us. we don't know if that ukrainian or russian, we're going to keep moving. >> reporter: you could not be much closer to russia here but these tiny pine idles feel brutalized trapped in an endless fight. some of those who remain seem unaware of the details of their occupation and liberation. that does not mean they are unshaken .

russian savagery from across the border now eclipsed to how far it's treated back towards it. >> next hour, g7 foreign ministers will gather in germany for a three-day meeting on the cry issues in ukraine. the top diplomats will discuss ways of ending of blockade of ukrainian grain that millions around the world rely on. what are we expecting? what is at stake here? >> this meeting will focus significantly on the war in ukraine. the ukrainian foreign minister has been invited to this

session. there will be key discussion around the issue of food security in terpsms of exports coming out of yukraine. there's some serious concerns we heard from the german foreign ministry in the last few days warning there's some 25 million tons of grain currently being blocked at the port of odesa and other ports in ukraine. that is a serious concern because countries across the middle east and africa where there are already suffering some food shortages are really depen dent on those grain exports from ukraine. serious concerns there. the g7 ministers have committed to tackling those concerns around the blockade of the port and also around reports of russian theft of grain exports. there are some challenges ahead. these ports are blocked by mines, battle shifts. they are also concerns from the

forces that in unblocking the forces that could strengthen russia's position in terms of furthering its invasion. there are some significant challenges there. we are expecting to hear from the european foreign affairs chief in the coming hour. takes are expected to focus as well on oil and gas. that has been a key topic. we know the european union states are attempting to phase the dependence on russian oil out. there are concerns around gas too. michael. >> all right. good to see you. early morning there in london. thanks so much. now, russia's war on ukraine having real world consequences far from the war zone. food, energy, global security

all being hit hard. let's have a look at some graphics that explain this. ukraine a major wheat grower globally but now it can't export that grain because of the russian naval blockade. prices for wheat and flour are soaring. the same can be said for sunflower oil, a staple in many part of the world. y ukraine a huge producer of the cooking oil. now there's not enough to meet demand and it's becoming very expensive. then there's the enormous strain of millions of refugees pouring into europe in a very short period of time. many host countries struggling to provide basic food, clothing and shelter. as we have been reporting, the war has been wake up call to countries like sweden and finland who have been not aligned for decades.

with me now from kyiv to discuss is a ukrainian philosopher, writer and journalist. he's host of the podcast, explain ukraine. good to see you. i have not spoken to you since i was in lviv. it's good to see you. ukraine suffering enormously in a humanitarian sense. what do you see is the main, global economic impact of this war? the ripple effects. >> good morning. thanks for inviting me and talk about ukraine. for your audience to understand the ports are the key instrument, the key means of exporting ukrainian grain and ukrainian food.

ukraine was second largest exporter of grain after the united states last year. you can imagine if the exports are blocked how many countries in the world will suffer from this. we have already seen prognosis forecast that many countries that were dependent on ukrainian grain especially in africa or asia will suffer a lot and maybe can have real problems with hunger. >> yeah. it's a lot of concern there will be deaths in parts of africa and elsewhere around the world because of the shortage of grain. you mention this too, ukraine a major supplier of wheat by also sunflower products. i think they are the biggest exporter of sunflower oil in the world. there's already shortages of that oil as well as wheat, fertilizer, oil and so on. what does the future look like if that's already happening?

>> sunflower is one of the symbols of ukraine. sunflower oil is one of the symbols of ukrainian economy. ukraine is the top exporter in the world. many people are cooking their food with sunflower oil. it can be found everywhere in the world. fp even if it's not marked as a ukrainian product. ukrainian exports were the raw material experts in the past years. you can imagine the impact. one important issue, as well, it's not only ukraine is exporting much less because of the blockade of the ports but because the agriculture regions of ukraine, the southern regions are now occupied by the russians. russians are stealing, their robbing the ukrainian farmers. there were reports they just confiscating the grain.

one week ago, there was even an official statement of the parliament of up with of the russian regions ordering shortages of harvest from ukrainian presence. we have seen that in the '30s, the 1930s of food by regime that led to artificial famine in ukraine which four million people have died. >> really important points. the impacts are just economic either .

>> in any aspect russia is reaching the opposite to its goals. russia wanted to reconquer ukraine but it's now having ukrainian citizens are ma you -- majority of them, opposed to considered as an enemy state. russia wanted to cut ukraine's perspective of joining nato. we have about 80%. it has a stronger nato, stronger ukraine and unified west. >> test it's good to see you ag.

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>> reporter: this is an unprecedented step. issuing subpoenas for five members of congress asking them to sit for depositions and comply. included, big name, kevin mccarthy. each up with of these individuals has been asked by the committee to participate voluntarily and they all turned down that request. kevin mccarthy spoke to donald trump on that day. could have spoke to him multi. times. representative pete aguilar

wants to know what was part of that conversation. >> we feel the substance the important to our overall conversation. we're not sure which version of the story to believe. >> these republican members have yet to say how they plan to comply, if they plan to comply at all. they have attacked the committee. they believe it's not part season despite the fact there's two republican member who is are part of it. all of them said they need to read the subpoena to see what the committee was asking for the mo brooks of alabama suggested he may be willing to comply if it involved a public hearing. the committee is not asking for that right now. they want the interview to be behind closed doors. the chairman said that could lead to a potential public hearing as part of the marathon hearings that will take place in

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two years and a little more than three months, that's how long it's opinion since the u.s. saw its first death from the coronavirus. on thursday the nation reached a number difficult to believe. one million deaths. fathers, daughters, mothers, sons and grandparents. president biden honored the victims by ordering flags to be flown at half staff. he spoke about the death toll during a virtual covid summit with other world leaders. saying each victim was an irreplaceable loss for their families and communities and pushing lawmakers to approve a new covid funding bill that's been stranded in congress. dpl >> now is the time for us to act, all of us together. we must honor those we have lost by doing everything we can to prevent as many deaths as possible. >> the white house says the u.s. could see a hundred million new

covid indicates later this year if funding is not approved. some experts are questioning that projection. denial offense a covid lockdown hasn't stopped ped pan buying in beijing. residents relinquished to stock up on supplies. daily cases have remained in the dozens in the chinese capital. officials are encouraging residents to stay home and said they've had launched a new round of mass testing. however, china will be limiting travel abroad for non-essential activities. the government says it will tighten its review process in the issuing of travel document after 50 days in lockdown, david culliver, one of the few lucky ones able to get out. >> reporter: boarding the near empty plane, it finally starts to feel real. the disorder, despair, chaos,

anger, exhaustion, all of it feels so distant now. with a sigh of relief and a bit of survivors guilt. leaving behind a country of almost unprecedented changes. i wondering if tightening zero covid restrictions coupled with rising tensions from the west will keep its shudsder doors frm ever reopening. >> glad to say david is safely back in the united states. he joins me now from new york. just going over what we saw in your piece, it was enormously complicated even getting to where you are sitting right now. >> it's not as simple as booking a ticket and getting to the airport and getting on a plane. the logistical hurdles in getting out are continuing the mount even at this hour. for one, you have to get permission from your community. i think a will the of folks struggle with that when they

think my neighborhood association or folks who run my building have to give me permission to leave my own home. that's the reality right now in shanghai. in order to get that permission, as you saw in that piece, they're requiring for many of us expats to have letters. they want officials to write on behalf that i have an urgent need to leave and get out via the flight booked and in order to do so i need permission to get out of my community. once you leave, you don't go back into that community. i made an agreement i would not return until the lockdown is lifted. date yet to be determined. >> it's extraordinary. we're talking about the l lockdown, you've done some amazing reporting on it. one positive case means the entire floor goes into isolation. is that right? we have seen doors literally being kicked in. >> pretty shocking images that

we're seeing coming out, 60 plus days of those being confined to their home. having police do something like that if they test positive. the close contact policy, it's not written and a lot of folks are always questioning the clarity of what's been implemented. they are questioning what exact exactly are the specifics here and where is this coming from. a will the of the folks are saying we are being told this is what we need to do. this is why we're having to go this route. to think not only now is it if you get covid or if somebody in your household is getting covid and you're deemed close contact. now it could be your neighbors who are several doors down. i've heard in some cases, it's entire buildings. somebody ten floors up have it. they've been able toll move a

lot of folks through the facilities. why not to keep folks from potentially transmitting it to other people. also i guess a loneliness in a way. >> there is loneliness. there's also guilt. i think about my neighbors. a lot of those folks have been there for generations. they are enduring something that they didn't sign up for. these are folks who are confined to very small spaces .

it hurts when i think about their situation. >> i can totally understand. i'm glad you're out and done some extraordinary reporting there over the years. it's great to have you back, at least for now. thank you. >> good to be home. i'm joined now by professor ben cowling. china continues to persist with this zero covid policy. is it working and what are the impacts of persevering despite the economic and societal impacts? >> i think it worked pretty well for the first two years of the pandemic. there were not too many out yn breaks, not too many infections but it's changed. omicron is much more transmissable. that means it's much more difficult to stop. into the future, there's going to be more outbreaks, more

disruption caused by outbreaks of omicron. at the same time we have vaccines available. >> you make a couple of great points. the latest variants are more contagious but less deadly if you are vaccinated. how does that play living where covid as other countries have done? >> the experience in singapore, australia, new zealand. if you can get vakccination covr up to a high level, then you can mine miez the impact of covid once it does start spreading in the community.

that matches with our experience in hong kong. it can prevented with high vaccination rate and the elderly. >> you made a good point there talking about vaccination. that's one of the big issues for china. low vakccination rates, i think about 50% of the over 80s. what progress is being made on that front and why are those numbers higher? >> it's not easy to persuade older people to get vaccinated. one of my concerns is when the government in china, on one hand, the promising people they will prevent covid from spreading in the community, they will maintain zero covid but trying to encourage people to get vaccinated just in case. it doesn't seem like that message matches. how can you have zero risk on one hand but rel important for you to get vaccinated is

important. in hong kong et should have changed some time ago with acknowledgement we do not vaccva vaccination either as back up if zero covid fails or as a longer term plan to transition away from zero covid when that time comes. >> when the early trials came out, it have clear can pfizer vaccine was much more effective. i think it was 95% for pfizer. that's the effectiveness against infection. when we look at the protection against disease, all the vaccines do well.

i don't think there's a reason for china to wait until the vaccines are available in china. >> fascinating. great information. really appreciate you taking the time. thank you. a reporter for chinese state media revealed the troubling circumstances surrounding the north korean government's handling of the covid outbreak. he reported that not many people had been vaccinated as well as medical and epidemic prevention facilities being in short supply. he added that since the capital was in lockdown, he only had enough food to last him week.

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thousands of mourners gather in the west bank to remember exp slain journalist. they hold israeli soldiers responsible and have rejected calls from israel's government for a joint investigation. the washington post reports that israel's mill tear has confiscated guns from some of is soldiers as part of a probe into the shootings the day she was killed.

his victory would hardly be out controversy. ivan watson joins me now live from hong kong. the sins of the father not affecting the son in the mind of philippine voters. >> no. you could argue the philippines has come full circle, some 36 years after a popular uprising over threw the long time dictator. 36 years later, his son sweeping to power acrossing to preliminary results with historic electoral margins. perhaps assisted because his running mate is the daughter of the out going philippines president that controversial politician rod ri grkodrigo. his daughter is the vice presidential running mate and he's still quite popular

according to public opinion polls. we're seeing some small protests in manila today. there's expected to be a rally of the presumptive sec pond pla candidate in the election. there's some questions about malfunctioning vote counting machines. the scale of the victory, according to preliminary results, looks like a land slide victory. >> reporter: the winner of the presidential election in the philippines mobbed by supporters. preliminary and unofficial results show marcos winning by a land slide. he said, quote, judge me not by my ancestors but by my actions.

his campaign released photos. the legacy of the deck ta tor looms large over this country. he ruled the philippines for 21 years. nearly half of that under marshal law until a movement set the family into exile in 1996. meanwhile, a presidential commission is still i vest gaiting the allege d theft o some 10 billion dollar worth of assets. marco down plays his parents successes. >> of course it was a comfortable life. of course we were very privileged because very clear to us also that this is not something that we were entitled to. it's something that you had to

work for. >> reporter: critics accuse him of using social media to help rewrite history. >> all of those promise to bring back the past even though it's whitew whitewashed. >> reporter: already there's been some street protests against marcos. >> they have raised so much expectations before but failed to deliver. this is the very reason why the marcos name was popular again. >> reporter: he pledged on a campaign to unite this country. he emphasizes it's a top

priority. >> it's the price of energy, lack of jobs, educational, infrastructure. all of these area will be critical. >> reporter: the philippines has long been plagued by poverty, corruption. a a majority are praying his sons can help fix the country's problem. >> the u.s. president has called him to congratulate him on his vic victory. know who else is also sent a congratulatory statement to marcos junior. it shows the competition when it comes to the nation of the philippines.

it's a much closer neighbor of the u.s. it's also interesting that biden has been hosting the ten nations of the association of southeast asian nations in washington this week. pledged some 150 million dollar to these companies. that's a sum dwarfed by beijing that pledged ten times more than that. keep watching this area. michael. >> crucial geo politics at play. appreciate it. good to see you. mpbl mpblt now we get to see a massive black hole in middle of our galaxy. how astronomers were able to capture this incredible image. that's after the break.

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evacuation orders remain in place for the wildfire consuming some expensive real estate in southern california. the coastal fire remains at 200 acres with about 15% of it contained. dozens of homes have been impacted. hundreds of firefighters battling the flames, trying to get the fire under control. although no official cause has been reported, power companies, southern california edison, says circuit activity was happening. 100 degrees throughout the weekend. before we go, we finally have visual insight of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. astronomers call it sagittarius star. >> reporter: this is huge news. scientists say they've captured for the very first time an image of the beating heart of the

middle of our galaxy. the milky way galaxy. take a look. this is a super massive black hole in the middle of the galaxy. all that light around it? the black hole is the dark part in the middle. all around it is light bent by the gravitational pull. it is off the charts. how did they get this image? they used eight telescopes around the world. hundreds of scientists working for a long time gathering a bit at a time. imagine trying to take a picture of a mountain with a lot of clouds passing by where you could only get a little here, a little there. then you piece it all together and suddenly you say, that's what the mountain looks like. they did it here over a tremendous image to get this. why does it matter? it will give them some idea of how it affects the operation of our galaxy. this has roughly 4 million times the mass of the sun.

that gives you an idea of how big it is. it is also about 27,000 light years away. so if you want to go visit, you'd better pack a lunch. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. you can follow me online. my friend picks it up after the my friend picks it up after the break. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.c.com

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