♪ hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," fierce battles over one city in eastern ukraine as president zelenskyy appeals for help but asia's premier defense conference. we're live in kyiv and singapore on ukraine's attempts to hold on to power. plus, a warning that next year's grain harvest could be cut in half because of the war. we'll look at the strategies for exporting this

desperately-needed crop. details how president biden is responding to this inflation and gas prices hitting a record high. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. we begin in the ukrainian city of severodonetsk which is being fought over street by street. ukrainian governor said most of the city is under russian control, but he says ukrainians are still putting up resistance. russian officials say negotiations are under way about hundreds of civilians believed to be sheltering at a local chemical plant. in mariupol, russia isn't trying to give proper burials to civilians killed during its bombardment of the city. russian forces have torn down 1,300 high-rise apartment buildings even though there were dozen of bodies buried

understood beneath. and ukraine is condemning what it calls a sham trial of three foreign fighters who fought in its military. they've been sentenced to death in a pro-russian separatist. in the past hour, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy took his message to a top security summit in asia. he virtually addressed the dialogue which is under way in singapore. zelenskyy said ukraine will definitely prevail against russia and the world must draw the line from moscow. here he is. >> we must stop russia. we must stop the war which this state has stated against my state trying to bring the world back in the old times when the freedom of peoples and people's lives were of no significance at all. we must break the ability of

russia and any other country in the world to block, cease and destroy the freedom of navigation. if it's about sanctions, then we need sanctions. it's it's about symmetrical measures, then we these need measures. russia must feel that its belligerent policies will have consequences for itself as well. >> cnn correspondents are covering the conflict from every angle. our salma abdelaziz is in kyiv with the latest from ukraine and oren lieberman is in singapore. so first, to you, salma in kyiv. we got word from ukraine's prosecutor's general office that it learned about the deaths of another 24 children in mariupol due to russian shelling, compounding the growing tragedy in that city and the country. >> reporter: absolutely. and these estimates, according to president zelenskyy, are absolutely not complete.

they're extremely low. take, for example, mariupol where these children were killed. this is a city we understand according to ukrainian officials that russian forces are clearing the rubble without even extracting the bodies, without even pulling the dead from under that rubble, giving them the dignity of burial and giving them the opportunity to be identified by their families. ukrainian officials estimate 22,000 people, 22,000 residents were killed in mariupol alone. so these are very early estimates, very early figures. but it's a reflection, kim, of what this war is. the type of war that it is. it is an artillery war. that means at times it is indiscriminate shelling that is striking at civilian neighborhoods. these are fights. these are battles. severodonetsk, the flash point city, these are battles happening in the heart of where people live with no regard for their safety or their well being. we know mariupol, for example, was a place that even as people

sheltered, as there are words children on roofs of building to try to protect themselves from russian war planes they were still struck. so the devastation caused by this conflict which continues to grind on is appalling, of course. and the worry and the fear here for ukrainian officials is that russia can continue this conflict at pace they say for another year. and ukrainian forces now are outmanned. they are outgunned. they're running out of artillery pieces in places like severodonetsk. one ukrainian official says everything now depends on western support, kim. >> yeah. and on that note, orin, staying with ukraine, president zelenskyy spoke at the summit where you are in singapore, virtually, obviously. tell us what he had to say and why he chose to speak to that audience in particular. >> reporter: kim, ukraine has hung over this conference. this might be asia's premier defense conference but ukraine is not only the largest story in the world and has been of course for the past 108 days or so, but

everyone here acknowledges that there is a parallel, either perceived or actual between ukraine and russia's invasion of its smaller neighbor and what might be a possibility in taiwan as the u.s. warns that china may be or is using rhetoric suggests it may be willing to change the status quo with taiwan with perhaps in the future an invasion of taiwan. for those reasons ukraine has been an issue that's come up over and over again. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy knows his audience here. it's not just a conference in singapore. this is also where many of the heads of the militaries and military officials have come to gather here. so he knew exactly who he was talking to. as we have seen him do so often, he at least to some extent tailored his message to this audience. quoting the first prime minister of singapore as he spoke. here is part of what he had to say just a short time ago. >> translator: russian prop began is insidious and disinformation campaign that russia's war against ukraine is

ostensibly something about nato, about the united states, about the intention of the west to somehow advance in europe. but in reality, russia's war against ukraine is not only about europe. it is about globally important things. russian leadership strives to disguard all the achievements of the historical development of human kind, particularly the system of international law, which we have today. and it wants to come back to life of the 19th century or even before that, when it was important -- >> reporter: when the head of the conference introduced zelenskyy, he said most -- all the other speakers here have to speak in person. they don't allow virtual speakers but because of the importance of the moment and of course the importance of the speaker, zelenskyy was, of course, allowed to address this conference virtually. >> yeah. and oren, pivoting from ukraine but staying at that conference, the u.s. defense secretary had strong words about china and taiwan. take us through that.

>> reporter: so, right when he began speaking defense secretary lloyd austin talked about the international order which we heard zelenskyy mention. he talked about the importance of sovereignty and the importance of following an international rules-based order, such that larger countries, more powerful countries can't simply dictate the fate, the destiny or the future of a smaller neighbor here. that wasn't just a reference to russia/ukraine. it was of course a reference to china and taiwan. just a short time later in his speech, austin directly referenced china, saying the u.s. stands by the one china policy. it is not in favor of taiwanese independence but it also has the right and the ability to arm taiwan with defensive weapons and to give them training to use those weapons in case someone, of course, china in this case, tries to change the status quo of taiwan by the use of force. and he said that there's sort of increasing evidence of growing body of circumstances and situations where china has become more aggressive in the region. we have seen some of that

regionally with chinese fighter jets intercepting canadian surveillance aircraft operating in the region. he expressed concern this is china's showing there might be a willingness there to change the status quo when it comes to taiwan, something is u.s. made clear not only through austin but through president joe biden would be unacceptable to the u.s. and its allies. >> thanks. going back to salma, looking more broadly at the conflict in ukraine, most of the momentum, as you alluded to earlier, really seems to be on russia's side right now. >> reporter: absolutely, kim. again, this is a superior military power. ukraine's defense of its territory, of its land, resistance, of course, has been applauded by the international community, by its allies and by its western world, but that was bolstered by support, by the shipment of weapons from the west, by help from the country's that stand with ukraine. that help has to continue to

flow. that's president zelenskyy's message. without it ukraine stands to be outmanned and outgunned. you have an estimate here from ukrainian officials that to every one artillery piece that ukraine has, russia has 10 to 15 artillery pieces. they are losing up to 100 soldiers a day on the ground. that's again according to president zelenskyy. many more wounded. all of this country's resources now are stretched along that very long eastern front. meanwhile, russia, again has the ability to continue at pace for a year, that's according to ukrainian officials themselves and what russian forces are doing now are already solidifying the gains they made in the donbas, they made in the south of the country mariupol and harsin. they're using and accessing those ports in mariupol after they demined them. they're pushing flow of water through a canal, an important canal here into crimea.

so for ukraine to be able to claw back or even just defend what's left in these regions, that's going to require a lot of help, kim. >> yeah, absolutely. salma abdelaziz in kyiv, oren lieberman in singapore. thank you to you both. germany's agriculture minister joined other european leaders in accusing russia as using food as a weapon of war in ukraine. russia's blockade of the port in odesa seen here in better times left ukraine unable to ship some 22 million tons of grain. that's raised global food prices and could cause a catastrophic foot shortage. turkey is working with russia and ukraine on a plan to restart grain exports but no deal has been reached. u.n. backed plan was open a safe shipping corridor but among the key issues how to safeguard it and clear russian mines placed off ukraine's coast. ukrainian agricultural official says next year's grain harvest could be reduced by as much as

40% because of the war. ukraine lost about a quarter of its arable land. ukraine produces nearly 10% of the world's wheat and barley, 16% of the world's corn around more than 40% of the world's sunflower oil. a former ukrainian defense minister and currently chairman of the center for defense strategies and distinguished fellow at the atlantic council and joins us live from kyiv via skype. thank you so much for being here with us. >> thank you. >> as we just heard there the implications for ukraine and for the world if russia continues to block ukrainian grain can't be overstated, so i want to go through the options. so first of all, negotiating with moscow, it hasn't worked so far. is it at all realistic given how effective using food as a weapon has been for putin? >> i don't think it's realistic to be honest. i think that russia, of course, will be saying that they're all for negotiations. they will be delaying time as

they did before. and taking their time. and then essentially demanding removal of the sanctions. but, it will still be blocking the ports of the black sea. so, it seems like it's working for them, so they don't have any indications of -- that they are ready to unload. >> so if diplomacy won't work, what about military means? most of the focus during this war has been on the land battle. are there weapons that might help bolster ukraine's naval defense or naval offense i guess in this sense, more anti-ship missile systems? mine sweeping equipment and so on that could help turn the tide here? >> yeah, absolutely. so, first of all, we can use the anti-shipment to clear the sea from presence of russian boats or at least to deter. the problem is that they can do also with the ships from the other countries. they can attack using missiles

from crimea or their ships. they can attack the grain vessels and obviously discourage them from moving to ukraine and particularly the insurance companies from insuring these vessels. so we need to establish a safe corridor. in order to establish that safe corridor, in addition to the anti-ship vessels, we need to have some patrol boats protecting those vessels. but in this case, we have so-called international law convention which was signed in 1935 which provides turkey unlimited power of allowing or not allowing or blocking the non-black sea nations navy ship's access. so turkey essentially controls which non-black sea country's ships there are there. so, for example, u.s. or uk or some other country wants to help and send some ships, they can be there for the very short period of time. so, we need turkey's involvement in this in any case or we need

to establish patrolling from air policing. so the protection from this sky because obviously the protection could also be provided by the air force which they don't need anybody's permissions. they can just station somewhere in europe and eastern europe on the nato countries. so these options are on the table right now, but each of them is obviously difficult. >> yeah. well, the difficulty let's go with the last option there is who exactly would be enforcing this? if it's talking about nato doing this, then what happens if it might lead to a serious escalation with moscow? >> and that's the question. is moscow really capable for the escalation? because right now moscow is applying all their efforts, as was said in the previous program

to the donbas . risk is overestimated already. they don't have much forces more to invest, but more importantly they have absolutely no strategic interest in fighting with the nato. because nato has absolutely incredibly more fire power and combat power than russia as we can see right now. so to be honest, i don't think that fear of escalation, fear of russia is something which could stop global community from actually stop the global food crisis. >> considering that president biden doesn't want to sell or give ukraine weapons that might possibly hit russia, getting involved in actually patrolling having troops out in the seas that might actually come into fire fights with russians, i don't know whether there would be the appetite for that. >> and to be honest, i think that international military intelligence community have to

reassess the actual threats of russia that much. >> finally, we have a little bit of time left but i did want to get your sort of big picture opinion here about the conflict. i mean, we heard from ukraine's military intelligence that russia can keep the war going for another year. meanwhile, ukrainian troops reportedly running out of ammunition. the momentum seems to be shifting towards russia. how much longer can ukraine hold out? >> ukraine can hold out for months, of course. the problem is that -- question is that russia is focussing all their might -- we need to understand what's happening. so the ukrainian army was always much smaller than russian army particularly with equipment and funding and generally with capabilities. so the fact that most of the

international assistance is still being waited. for example, those multi-launch rocket systems from u.s. and uk, they haven't arrived yet. and also they were announced on very small quantities so far. so, yeah. some equipment already is arriving but not to the extent that had been expected. so of course now we have this gap when ukraine ammunition is expiring, exhausting. and the international is still not yet arriving in the full scale and russians using that moment but also they made lessons learned and put all their might in one direction. so all which russia is for military perspective is put right now in one specific place is luhansk area of ukraine particularly severodonetsk of course we'll see very serious assault and fighting from russians. but we shouldn't overestimate generally the ability to fight against russians.

we can win. ukraine -- and actually ukraine will win, however, we need to complete those plans from -- with our ally countries and actually get the equipment which we have been promised. >> yeah. ukraine can win. that was the message from president zelenskyy again today. >> absolutely. >> really appreciate your expertise on this. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. and if you would like to safely and securely help people in ukraine who may need shelter, food and water please go to cnn.com/impact and you can find several ways you can help. congressional investigators have begun making the case that january 6th was a failed coup by donald trump. monday's hearing promises more details about what was happening at the white house that day. we'll have the latest from washington. plus, we'll hear how the new details of trump's central role in the riot are being viewed overseas. stay with us. to be clear, we have never been accused of being flashy, sexy or lit.

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♪ pthere's plenty anticipatio about monday's hearing on the january 6th riot and what new revelations might come out of it. thursday's opening hearing produced a trove of details that hadn't been made public before. the narrative presented a damning indictment of donald trump as the riot instigator. the select committee investigating the riot planned six more hearings this month to lay out the evidenced of trump's central role. the latest now from cnn's ryan nobles. >> reporter: the january 6th select committee ge gun to make its case that donald trump is to blame for what happened on january 6th. using the words of trump's closest allies like attorney general bill barr. >> i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bull shit. >> reporter: and family members. >> i respect attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. >> reporter: to lay the ground work that trump knew he lost the election but told his supporters

he won any way. the former president already pushing back, taking to his new social media platform to claim his daughter had, quote, long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to bill barr. meanwhile the committee is forging ahead. the committee planning for seven public hearings in all. the second scheduled for monday, 13th and the third on wednesday with a fourth to be held on thursday the 16th. vice chair cheney teasing out the themes each hear willing hit on. she says hearing two will show trump's massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information about the election. and the third will focus on how the former president, quote, corruptly planned to replace the attorney general. trump's idea to get then vice president pence to refuse to count electoral votes for biden. >> hang mike pence. hang mike pence. >> reporter: trump claiming he never endorsed his supporters chanting hang mike pence, calling it a, quote, made up

story. after that testimony that cheney says describes how trump corruptly pressured state legislatures to hand him the presidency. and finally, hearing six and seven, zeroing in on how trump summoned a violent mob to the capitol that led to a deadly riot. all with the aim of convincing the american people of a conspiracy to overturn the election directed by trump. >> it's a pretty simple story of a president who lost, who couldn't stand losing. >> reporter: republicans like congressman jim jordan a focus of the investigation, attempting to down play the committee's work. >> this was a partisan production put on by the former head of abc news. i don't think we learned anything new. >> reporter: and committee chair benny thompson telling cnn the committee has a lot more to share. >> we have a number of witnesses who have come forward that people have not talked to before that will document a lot of what was going on in the trump orbit while all of this was occurring.

>> usa, usa. >> reporter: and the impact of the violence on january 6th still being felt today. >> that day, it was just hours of hand to hand combat, hours of dealing with things that were way beyond any law enforcement officer has ever trained for. >> reporter: and as the committee continues to make its case, president biden is endorsing their work and encouraging americans to pay attention. >> it's important the american people understand what truly happened. i tell you what, there's a lot going on. >> that was ryan just mentioned, donald trump was quick to disavow his daughter's testimony, saying she had, quote, checked out and hadn't studied the election. but committee chairman benny thompson wasn't buying it. here he is. >> we have proof about ivanka's

participation with her daddy on a regular basis about what was going on on january 6th. she was there in the white house. and so what or who better could have access to what was going on than one's own daughter. and for him to somehow insinuate that his daughter had checked out is disingenuous on his part as a father. daughters normally know what their fathers are doing, especially when there's a close relationship. >> it's estimated more than 20 million people watched live coverage of the hearing here in the u.s., but what about the rest of the world? and what did they make of it? to get a sense of the global response, i checked in earlier with thomas gift, director of the center on u.s. politics at university college london. here he is.

>> i do think that this feels somewhat like a replay of prior events. you know, individuals abroad, including here in the uk, have seen this before. they've seen a lot of the footage before. and i think to some extent maybe if they're looking for a bomb shell and they're not getting it, they're going to be disappointed. but at the same time, i do think that the hearings are giving a more high resolution details about certain aspects of january 6th, about how trump truly seemed intent on doing nothing to stop the riot, about the pivotal role of the far right militant groups in executing a premeditated plan, members of trump's inner circle ultimately appeared to reject his false election claims, all is garnering. what they thought about the u.s. rather than change perception of america and the country's standing in the world? >> i think that's fair, kim. i think the notion that other western countries look to the u.s. as a model before january

6th was somewhat overstated and tinted by a lens of self-styled american exceptionalism but there's no doubt that the capitol insurrection exposed an underside to the country's political system that hadn't been fully understood especially abroad. i think it's disabused a lot of other western states of the idea that they're immune from these problems. if it can happen in the u.s., a country with a long standing reputation for competitive elections, for the peaceful transfer of power, that it can essentially happen anywhere. so, it is certainly one thing to hear about the dangers of unbridled populism and strong-man type leaders wreaking havoc across authoritarian states but it's another thing to happen in the u.s. and i think that was shocking for audiences abroad and the fact that it happened so viscerally and with such force has to be a wakeup call, particularly for parts of europe that have already witnessed rise of far right extremism. >> and if you would like to tune in to future hearings, here is

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i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." u.s. gas prices have just hit a national average of more than $5 a gallon for the first time. a record high. now comes a day after the government reported the highest inflation rate in decades. and that sent stocks plummeting. the dow closed down 880 points on friday while the nasdaq tumbled more than 400 points. the s&p was down nearly 3%. now the dismal inflation report shows that with midterm elections approaching, prices are rising the fastest rate since 1981, 8.6%. since last may the cost of groceries has jumped nearly 12%. air fares up almost 38% and fuel prices have skyrocketed more than 106%. as those prices go up, so does the pain for everyday consumers. president joe biden is ensuring americans he's doing everything he can to tame inflation. cnn's kaitlan collins reports.

>> i understand americans are anxious, they're anxious for good reason. >> reporter: president biden staring down a massive political liability. >> make no mistake about it. i understand inflation is a real challenge to american families. >> reporter: new data shows consumer prices soared last month, sending inflation climbing 8.6% from last year, the highest since 1981. biden delivering the bad news today after predicting six months ago that the inflation crisis had hit its peak. >> i think you'll see it change sooner than -- quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. >> reporter: prices are now higher for everything from food, fuel, rent to used cars. biden officials say taming inflation is their highest priority. >> we are open to ideas. again, some of them require working with congress. the president is focussed on lowering costs for families. >> reporter: but those same officials say that the bulk of the response will fall to the federal reserve. as friday's numbers only offer

more reason for the central bank to continue raising interest rates. >> as part of his plan, i know this doesn't sound like a plan, but first and foremost, he respects the independence of the federal reserve. >> reporter: the troubling figures could spell doom for democrats in the upcoming midterm elections this november as biden lashed out at republicans, shipping conglomerates, russian president putin and oil companies today. >> common made more money than god this year. >> reporter: a new poll shows 28% of u.s. adults approve of biden's handling of the economy. now obviously when you have a concern about higher gas prices, it raises questions about whether or not people are going to try to limit their summer travel plans. one move that the travel industry is welcoming is the cdc's decision to lift that negative test requirement for travelers coming into the united states by plane. they are lifting that for the first time since january, 2021. they say they'll make sure there's no troublesome new variants that have emerged but they believe right now is the time to lift that restriction. they say it will go into effect

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texas elementary school. in his first extensive interview, peter arradondo, the school district police chief is now saying he didn't take his police radios with him into the school. wasn't aware of the 911 calls coming from inside the classroom and never considered himself the incident commander. he told the texas tribune, quote, i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. meanwhile, those affected by the mass shooting are doing their best to cope with the scars left by the tragedy. cnn's omar jimenez talked to the parents of a student who survived but say he's just not the same. >> reporter: in the chaotic moments after the shooting, they grabbed their injured 10-year-old son through a bus window as students were being evacuated. >> me and my brother and i were telling him get out of the window because he came to the back of the window. get out of the window.

and he just hopped out. >> reporter: he was then rushed to the hospital. a bullet had ricocheted into his leg. not long beforehand, he was in class when, according to his fbi interview transcript summarized by his attorney, the gunman walked in with what mata described as creepy music blaring from his phone and said it's time to die. you guys are mine. his two teachers irma garcia and eva mireles were killed, many of his classmates, too including his best friend. according to his family, he would always tell his mom, he would protect her. >> i'll protect her. and that day he told her, i'm sorry i couldn't. i couldn't protect her. >> reporter: did he see her get killed? his best friend, he watched his best friend get killed right in

front of him? >> among the 21 faces now living on in memorials and in the hearts of this community. they say their son has visited the memorial sites. a different person than who he was before the shooting. >> he don't like big crowds no more. he used to be like let's go do this. go do this. >> makes me so mad. makes me sad, too. >> why is that? >> because it's not him. just miss him dancing around, picking on his little brother, you know. >> it's part of why they're now exploring legal action, potential civil suits against law enforcement, the school district or even daniel defense the manufacturer of the gun used in the attack. >> right to bear arms but we also live in a society pattern and practice of 18-year-olds doing mass shootings.

i believe i can make a products liability argument that you make a dangerous product and put it into the wrong hands, just like anything else. >> reporter: martinez and camacho face a difficult question with their son. how is he ever going to be able to walk into a school again? >> i don't know. i don't know if -- >> honestly don't know what we're going to do. >> he's going to have to face his fears. he's never going to put it behind him. men that go to war that have ptsd can't handle it. a little mind like that a young mind, what he has to go through. i'm never going to know. she's never going to know. you're never going to know what he's really going through. >> reporter: and it's going to be a long journey for gilberta who embodies what so many in

this community are dealing with, it's not what happened about two weeks, about the feelings that persisted day in and day out. should also mention we reached out to daniel defense multiple times but haven't heard back. they did, though, post a statement to their website calling the shooting itself an evil act. omar jimenez, cnn, uvalde, texas. and the u.s. senate has wrapped up its week without reaching a deal on gun legislation. lawmakers have been racing to reach some sort of agreement but have yet to come to a consensus on this highly divisive issues. sources tell cnn goeshlgters are working to finalize the details the progress they made. senator chris murphy is optimistic a deal will be announced soon. here he is. >> that is the work that we're doing right now, trying to find if the art of compromise is possible. my hope is that we'll be able to deliver good news to you,

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