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united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm kristie lu stout. and just ahead, after years shrouded in secrecy, donald trump's tax documents set to be released just days from now. what the public may finally learn about the former u.s. president's personal finances, ahead. volodymyr zelenskyy heads to washington. the ukrainian president preparing for a day of high stakes meeting on his first foreign trip since the russia invasion began. and 70 million people are under winter alerts in the united states as a phenomenon known as a bomb cyclone develops. in the coming hours, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will be in washington for his first trip outside ukraine since the war began ten months ago. the white house says president joe biden invited mr. zelenskyy to underscore the united states'

enduring commitment to ukraine. the two leaders are set to meet at the white house. the visit will coincide with an announcement by mr. biden of another aid package for ukraine, totalling almost $2 billion, which will include the highly advanced patriot missile defense systems. in a tweet, mr. zelenskyy confirmed he is headed to the u.s., to quote, strengthen u.s. defense capabilities. the house speaker says it will be honor to have him on capitol hill. >> to have a complete total hero in the congress of the united states, fighting for democracy, leading people who are fighting for democracy would bring honor to the congress of the united states. >> cnn's clare sebastian joins us live from cllondon with more. clare, this will be the president's first trip abroad

since the invasion. what's at the top of the agenda? >> kristie, i think it's a dual message to send a message to russia, that the western alliance, particularly the u.s. are still behind ukraine and still willing to provide support. and of course, the second part of the mission is substantial. president zelenskyy wants more aid, more weapons and is set to get that. president biden, according to sources to cnn is set to provide a package of assistance worth almost $2 billion, including the much sought after patriot missiles that ukraine has spent months asking for. as for what's on the agenda, he is set to meet with president biden at the white house, hold bilateral meetings with other lawmakers, and then address a joint session of congress. now president zelenskyy clearly this is a major risk leaving the country. security concerns were very high on the agenda. he didn't actually confirm he was doing this until he said he was on his way in a tweet just about two hours ago. but he did drop a hint in a visit to the front line city of

bakhmut on tuesday, where he was presented with a flag by ukrainian soldiers to deliver to the u.s. congress. have a listen to what he had to say. >> translator: it is a complicated situation. the enemy increases the number of its troops. our boys are braver, and we need more sophisticated weapons. we will pass on gratitude from our boys to the u.s. congress and u.s. president for their support, but it is not enough. . that will be quite a visual, seeing him present that flag, if he does indeed do it to the u.s. congress. the timing of this, kristie, also significant. 300 days exactly since the start of the conflict. we're just a couple of weeks away from a new u.s. congress taking office, where clearly president zelenskyy wants to make the case to continue with the level of support that he's been seeing so far. >> and if zelenskyy returns home to ukraine with that support, with military assistance and defense weaponry from the u.s.,

including possibly u.s. patriot missiles, what would it mean for ukraine? >> so really, ukraine is in a position now where it is reliant on western support to continue this fight, taking the individual weapons, the patriot missiles would be crucial in ukraine's efforts to thwart russia's air assault that continues to bombard energy and civilian infrastructure in the country. and ukraine's added systems have been fairly effective in stopping a large majority of the missiles andro attacks that hav been coming in. it would provide another layer on top of that. another type of weapon the u.s. is said to be thinking of providing, precision bomb kits, a way to convert what are called dumb bomb, regular bombs into guided ones. and that would help attack russian positions which of course we know are entrenched in both the southern and the eastern front lines. >> clare sebastian reporting

live from london for us, thank you so much. and we will have more on ukraine later this hour, including an exclusive report from snake island, a symbol of resistance in the early days of russia's invasion when ukrainian troops, as you recall, refused to surrender the small outpost located on the black sea. a cnn team is the first international media to visit the island since it was recaptured. we have that report coming up in about 30 minutes from now. democrats in the u.s. house have been fighting for four years to get their hands on donald trump's tax returns, and now within just a few day, those documents will be made public. the ways and means committee has voted to release trump's 2015 through 2020 returns. and accompanying report shows the former president claimed huge operating losses to reduce his tax liabilities to zero, and it raises questions about millions of dollars in charitable contributions. the committee says the internal revenue service never properly

audited trump, as required by the mandatory presidential audit program. cnn's manu raju has more. >> reporter: now it's been years since house democrats, after they came to power in 2019, demanded donald trump's tax returns. went through a court fight that donald trump took all the way to the supreme court to try to shield those tax returns from becoming public. he lost that fight. ultimately, those returns turned over to democrats, just a matter of weeks ago, but in a party line vote, the house democrats in their final days in power, the ways and means committee voted to release those tax returns from six years. six recent years, as well as not just his individual returns, but his business returns as well. that vote 24-16 along party lines to release both a report from the committee investigating this, as well as all of those returns. now a first on the report, there were two that were released late on tuesday night, one of which

is the committee's investigation that found that the mandatory presidential audit system that the irs employs for all sitting president, they said it was dormant during the trump years. they said it is an essential program because they need to ensure that a president is not compromised in any way in signing legislation into law. but they say it was not essentially in use until april of 2019. and that is when richard neal, the chairman of the ways and means committee, a democrat, started to inquire about donald trump's tax returns. they say at that point that's when the irs audit program kicked into gear, and they say it never was completed over the six years' returns that they ultimately obtained. now there is a separate report by the joint committee on taxation analyzing those returns. it raises some questions about some of the deductions that donald trump took, suggested that perhaps more investigation might be warranted. it did not make a judgment one way or the other, but it got into the numbers of his deductions, his losses and the income that he reported.

but we expect a lot more, including all details of those tax returns in the days ahead. right now the committee is trying to redact some of the sensitive security information, some of the confidential information, like social security numbers and the like. once that is done. that will be released and it will come out before democrats are no longer in power in the house. january 3rd is when republicans take over. republicans attacking democrats for misusing their power and releasing donald trump's returns. donald trump's spokesperson also attacking committee democrats, but nevertheless, they are moving forward and also moving forward on legislation to mandate, mandate how presidents are audited by the irs. that is something nancy pelosi in her final days as speaker plans to bring to the floor. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >> let's discuss with norman eisen. he is a cnn legal analyst and the former house judiciary special counsel in trump's first impeachment trial.

he joins us from washington, d.c. sir, thank you very much for joining us. first, we have to address that revelation of the irs failure to audit. after the vote, house democrats revealed that the material that they obtained showed that the irs failed to audit donald trump's tax filings during his first two years in office. this is something that is mandatory for sitting presidents. so what happened here? >> that's right, kristie. there was a major breakdown of the presidential audit program when it comes to donald trump. and i think that's one of the reasons that these returns are being released. the house ways and means committee is putting out a report detailing that there were failures to do the required oversight that the irs is supposed to do over every president to make sure that they don't have financial conflicts and that they're following the tax law. and didn't happen with donald trump. we're going to need to ask some

very serious questions about why. did he get special treatment once he was in control of the government? that's one of the reasons that we need to get these tax returns out in the public to back up this very important revelation and very important report that the committee put out. >> let's talk about the decision to release, because republicans had been rallying against it hard, saying it would set a dangerous precedent, saying it could be used to target political enemies. let's put this debate to rest. were the returns for political reasons or is there a legislative purpose and what is that? >> i worked up on the hill. i know chairman neal and the majority members of this committee, and the chairman and his membership have been extraordinary and careful in how they have handled this with patience and with discretion. the only precedent that we

should be worried about is the precedent of an american president takes over the government and then not getting audited as required by law. or kristie, the precedent of a presidential candidate and a president not releasing their tax returns. a break by donald trump with all modern presidents. when i worked in the white house as lawyer, my job included releasing president obama's tax returns. those are the kind of precedents that we should worry about. i think the committee is doing the right thing by backing up their very important report with the evidence. that's what we do up on the hill. that's what they're doing here. it is not partisan. >> so years of donald trump's tax returns will soon be released to the public. we do have to wait because redactions are being carried out. so his social security number won't be revealed, et cetera. but it will soon be released to the public. trump on truth social claimed

you can't learn much from tax returns. but, norm, what will we be able to learn? and what will you be looking out for? >> kristie, the house of representatives has released just tonight a detailed analysis almost 40 pages long of these tax returns, and associated papers. it's not just the tax returns. it's other materials that the irs has turned over under u.s. law. so those -- that analysis raises questions about what were donald trump's actual assets, what was his income, what were his deductions. did he take more deductions than he was entitled to? did he understate his income? and these kinds of questions about whether his deductions were properly documented, did he follow the law? with donald trump, it always comes down to that question, our

principle that no one is above the law. in this case, it's tax law, and i will be looking to see whether the law was broken here. his company was already found guilty in a new york court of tax fraud charges. and now we're going to ask that question, does that apply to donald trump or not? we need to study the actual returns to determine the answer to that question. >> donald trump looking legally vulnerable right now. norman eisen, we thank you so much for joining us. >> always a pleasure. >> you're watching "cnn newsroom." and still to come, the u.s. supreme court could soon decide the fate of trump era border policy title 42. the biden administration wants it to end, but it's asking for an exception. we'll explain, coming up. plus, a major winter storm is growing over the u.s. tens of millions of people are under threat. we are tracking the dangerous bomb cyclone with our

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asking the supreme court to end a trump era pandemic policy restricting migrants from entering the u.s., but not for at least a week. it's requesting the top court to reject an emergency bid by republican-led states to keep title 42. but wants the policy to stay in place until next tuesday to have time to wind down the program. meanwhile, cities and states on the southern border are preparing for a massive influx of migrants once the restrictions are lifted. the department of homeland security says officials have already moved more than 9,000 migrants out of el paso, texas in the last week. meanwhile, the texas national guard has blocked access to parts of the border. now cnn's ed lavandera has more from el paso. >> reporter: just hours before sunrise, texas national guard soldiers and texas state troopers constructed a nearly mile-long fence covered in razor wire along the rio grande in the very spot where federal border patrol agents started processing

thousands of migrants in the last week. the texas military department says the national guard did not alert the border patrol or local officials that this fence would be constructed. on monday, el paso officials said national guard soldiers would primarily focus on humanitarian efforts and with security of migrants who were already in the city, not with deterrent efforts. >> the state is preparing resources. they are relocating them to el paso. they're not activated anything other than security. so at this time it's for the what ifs. >> reporter: an el paso county judge said the newly installed fence is razor wire is a political stunt and a misuse of resources at a critical time. >> standing on the border and putting barbed wire and fences is not what we need. we're at the epicenter right now of migration. and you've got the governor not calling the mayor and myself?

>> reporter: but this is the kind of optics and strategy that texas governor greg abbott has long supported. the republican governor has repeatedly criticized the biden administration for not doing enough to secure the border. but the newly installed fence isn't stopping migrants. cnn captured these images just a few hours after the fence went up of a group of four migrants crawling through the razor wire despite warnings from border agents. they were taken into custody. >> who's got the keys to that? >> reporter: as the uncertainty of what will happen with title 42 looms over this border city, local officials and migrant advocates say they will continue preparing as if the public health rule that was used during the pandemic to block migrants from entering the u.s. some 2.5 million times will be lifted. but those leading the humidity humanitarian efforts like ruben garcia are frustrated. garcia runs the migrant shelter annunciation house. aged and has served migrants for over 40 years in el paso. >> the federal and the state

government are fighting with each other. they're not working together. one of the reasons we face moments like this is because our political leadership does not sit down to work out comprehensive reform. that takes into account the phenomena of refugees. >> the el paso mayor tells cnn that the texas governor's office told him that the efforts to build this chain-link fence with the razor wire was supposed to be a three-hour training mission for the texas national guard. those three hours have long passed, and the fence and razor wire remain in place. now the mayor says he wants to speak with the texas governor's office and the texas department of public safety to see why it's still standing. ed lavandera, cnn, el paso. >> for more on the situation at the border, i want to bring in texas congressman vicente gonzalez. he joins me from brownsville, texas. and congressman, thank you so much for joining us. before we talk about your plan, your bill to address the pressure on the southern border, i want to get your reaction to

title 42. why are you relieved to see title 42 stay in place? >> well, first of all, we got to begin with the idea that we're still in a pandemic, right? we still haven't completely cleared covid and other illnesses that are being transmitted from person to person. also, we have an overwhelming amount of people who have accumulated themselves across our southern border, and we are small communities, from brownsville, texas to harlingen, they're all small towns having to use their personal city resources to address a federal problem that the federal government has responsibility to address. and until we do it with a real plan, for the last six years that i've been in congress, and both democratic and congress administration, if you a republican in office, democrats come down here and point fingers at them and talk about how horrible of a job they're doing on the border. and when a democrat is in office, republicans come down for the same photo op to point

fingers a the president. but i haven't seen any real proposals coming out of congress, or even the administration for that matter that can really address this massive influx of migrants in a meaningful way that will be impactful for not only this moment, but for decades to come. and my proposal does just that. >> i think it's important to point out that title 42 is a public health measure. it was invoked by the trump administration years ago. >> that's right. >> to fight the spread of covid-19. but how do you judge it? how do you judge title 42 as a border management tool? >> well, i think that we should continue implementing title 42 until certainly covid cases go down and things change, and that we have a real policy solution to the mass of migration that's accumulating on our border. but certainly president biden has all the cover in the world right now to continue with title 42. obviously, that's why the supreme court did it. but, you know, i understand the

administration's under a lot of pressure from some of the migrant activist groups around the country, and we are compassionate people on the border, and we welcome immigration, but we want to do it in an orderly way. and with my safe zone act does is just that. it creates a safe zone on the border of mexico with guatemala and creates a new law of how we deal with asylum seeker, and it creates place where there is an american operation in conjunction with local governments where they process an asylum claim. and at that time, if we're going to let them in here on our southern border, the exact operation that is happening here should happen there, 1500 miles away. and if ultimately we're going let them in under the credible fear standard, which is a standard used at the border, and then we let them in and eventually they go and have their court hearing which sometimes years away, why don't we do it from that juncture and let them fly to their final destinations. it does two things. it takes the pressure off the southern border and allows law enforcement and border patrol to

do their job and what they've been trained to do. and it takes the cartel element out of the equation. right now cartels are charging migrants $6,000 tole,000 a head to get to the southern border. just last year i calculated they had made around $5 billion enriching themselves on human smuggling. and we need to out-of-the-box solution. this could be a pilot program. if it works there, we can do it in other countries around the world. >> you're calling for a real policy solution to the border crisis. you've put forward your bill, the safe zones act to help relieve the pressure on the southern border while getting the cartels out of the equation and ensuring the humane treatment of migrants. be you also need the buy-in of foreign governments. are you already having conversations with them? >> very good question. i've spoken to the president of guatemala who is willing to partner with us on a program like this. i did the same thing four years ago prior to covid with

president morales from guatemala at the time. another president when president trump was in office. and i brought that proposal back to the white house, back to president trump at the time, and they were interested. it's a good idea, whether you're a democrat or republican. what happened, though, is we went into global covid, and they triggered title 42. and it really put a band-aid on the problem, and here we are, three, four years later, and we're dealing with the same thing. and i believe that until we have a long-term immigration infrastructure in place further away from our southern border, we will always deal with -- and we don't change the law, we will always be dealing with this massive influx of asylum seekers and migration on our southern border. >> here's hoping that your fellow lawmakers recognize the urgency of the issue here. we're going to have to leave it at that. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. a storm known as a bomb cyclone is developing right now

over the u.s. about 70 million people are under winter weather alerts. and that number is expected to grow over the coming days. our cnn meteorologist derek van dam is tracking the storm for us. >> that's right. all the ingredients coming together for a blockbuster winter storm. this is a multifaceted winter storm with the potential for blizzard conditions, flash freezes, and an arctic outbreak like i've never seen before. this storm means business. we have 70 million americans under some sort of winter alert. note the blizzard washes across south central minnesota, likely to see those expand in coverage as we go forward. stretching from the border of canada all the way to the gulf of mexico. 75 million americans under windchill alerts as we speak. here is a look at a term known as a bomb cyclone. and we will certainly meet this criteria with this strengthening and deepening low-pressure

system associated with our storm. here it is with its infancy. it's going gather steam throughout the course of the day today. by the time it reaches the northern sections of colorado, denver, you'll see your temperature drop roughly 50 degrees fahrenheit in a matter of few hours from thursday into friday. incredible. cold front moves east. we'll see our first flakes of snow fly in chicago by thursday midday. and then we start to see when this storm means business. it wraps up, intensifies, goes through that bomb cyclogenesis that we're talking about. it is really the wind that is concerning here and the cold arctic air behind it. both of those are going to factor together, reduce our visibility in zero. we'll likely see more flight cancellations if not complete closures of airport. this is where we anticipate the heaviest snow. from lake superior and huron. still a considerable amount of snow for places like minneapolis, st. louis, as well as chicago. now check out these forecast

wind gusts. you can spot the cold front right there as it races eastward. we're going to see the wind pick up thursday afternoon for chicago o'hare. but then really start to howl overnight into friday morning. and that is when we anticipate the worst of the storm as it sets up shop across the great lakes. temperatures are going to be very, very cold. and this storm means business. in fact, national weather service using terminology like life-threatening windchills where you could be outside on any exposed skin and receive frostbite in less than five minutes. 80% of the country, every single state in the lower 48 will feel the arctic air, and temperatures below freezing, about 50 million americans will actually feel temperatures below 50 degrees. that's not a typo. negative 50, that is the windchill factor thursday morning for billings, montana. more of the same for minneapolis, des moines, chicago. look at that, negative 29. that's what it will feel like on your exposed skin friday morning. do take care if you're traveling.

maybe you want to cancel your plans and rearrange those travel dates if at all possible. back to you. >> wow. negative 50. derek van dam there. you're watching "cnn newsroom." still ahead, another significant move by the january 6th committee, which is turning over troves of evidence to the u.s. department.

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the panel is recommending criminal charges against the former president and others. cnn's sara murray reports. >> reporter: as the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol prepares to release its final report wednesday and begin to release its transcript, we're learning from sources familiar with the mart they've already begun sharing transcripts with the department of justice. this is significant because doj has asked for the transcripts repeatedly from the committee. we learned that special counsel jack smith sent another letter to the committee just this month reiterating that ask. one source familiar with the matter say they've started handing over materials related to mark meadows, who is the former white house chief of staff, including text messages that the select committee obtained. that i also started handing over information related to john eastman. he is an attorney who worked on these various election schemes with the former president, and they have begun handing over information to the fake slates of electors. this is important. the committee is now sort of handing the ball over to doj.

dojs that had this robust investigation, but is wanting to make sure to get as much evidence as possible from the house committee. sara murray, cnn, washington. ukraine's troops captured the world's attention when they made a defiant stand against the russian navy at snake island. the defense of the outpost rallied a nation in the early months of the war with russia. and besides a huge boost to morale, its recapture in the months that followed had a strategic purpose. in this cnn exclusive, will ripley and his team are the first international tv reporters to visit snake island since it was seized back by ukraine. >> reporter: as the saying goes, whoever controls snake island controls the black see.

sea we are really getting tossed around, but we need to take a small boat because we need to stay out of the sights of russian reconnaissance aircraft. safer that are a helicopter, but no protection from the black sea's big waves, bitter cold and whipping winds, not to mention the mines. by the end of our stomach-turning journey, snake island's craggy cliffs are a welcome sight. up close appear in pieces, previews the destruction we're about to see. we enter by climbing up a pile of half sunken slippery sea blocks. we're the first journalists aloud here since recaptured five months ago. russia blanketed the island with booby traps before bailing outside. we need to be very careful where we step. this whole island is littered with land mine, unexploded

ordinance, basically a powder keg. a powder keg with plenty of cats. not a snake in sight. on february 24th, the mox ca aimed its arsenal at snake island, demanding dozens surrender or die . what happened next is how legends are made. five words, seen at the time as a final act of defiance. everyone on snake island presumed dead. russian bombs raining down. the island's radio went silent. those five words, telling the russian warship where to go instantly iconic, inspiring t-shirts, postage stamps, pop songs.

ukraine later learned snake island's defenders were alive, prisoners of war. some released in a p.o.w. swap earlier this year. others remain in russian captivity. is it intimidating to look out and see a giant russian warship and know you guys are a small group here? >> translator: if anybody tells you it's not intimidating, he is a liar, says fortuna, a volunteer soldier. "it was chaos. the garrison here was small. russia captured the island quickly, taking the island back took a long time." on snake island, we find a graveyard of russian weapons, the result of relentless ukrainian attacks for several months earlier this year. this is one of russia's most expensive anti-aircraft weapon systems. as you can see, not much use anymore. in april, ukraine says its missiles sank the moskva. where did it go? the bottom of the black sea, a

humiliated kremlin says their flagship caught fire, sinking in stormy weather. in may, a ukrainian drone strike on snake island turned this helicopter into a fireball. this is what's left of that russian helicopter, pulverized along with its crew of about eight people. a twisted relic of russia's ill-fated plan to transform this remote black sea outpost into a permanent aircraft carrier. what's it like to live out here? "we need to be on guard 24/7," fortuna says. "so we never get bored." we notice his russian accent. it turns out, fortuna was born in russia. he moved to ukraine and got married before the war. now part of a russian volunteer core, protecting snake island for ukraine. how do you feel about russia now? "for us, they're enemies, no matter what." most of the russia volunteer corps lived in ukraine before the invasion, he says.

we were living life, had families, good jobs, and here comes russia attacking us. if some other country attacked us, we would fight too. life on snake island means almost total isolation. soldiers tell me the simple act of switching on a cell phone brings russian rockets within 40 minutes. they say russia attacked the island just last month. we are now out of time. we have been on the island for about an hour. it's important we get off before the waves get too big and before the russians know we're here. >> reporter: the ukrainians say russia blew up the island's historic lighthouse on the site of an ancient greek temple. evil spirits are said to roam these 46 acres of rock and sand, bearing witness to centuries of bloodshed. ukraine is not the first nation to control snake island, but vows it will be the last. will ripley, cnn on snake island, ukraine. >> you're watching "cnn newsroom." and still ahead,

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in yet another crackdown on women's rights, the taliban have suspended university education for all female students in afghanistan effective immediately. the u.n. secretary general says he is deeply alarmed. the u.s. also strongly condemned the move. the taliban had promised a more moderate government after seizing power last year, but ever since they have gone backwards, looking more like the hard-line rulers of the 1990s. they closed secondary schools for girls back in march, and women can no longer work in most sectors and have to cover their faces in public. let's go to cnn's nada bashir.

she joins us from london. this new taliban edict is coming out in the middle of an academic year. what does this mean for female students in afghanistan? >> kristie, this is a huge blow to women and girls hoping to return to university, but also of course a huge blow in general to the rights of women and girls in afghanistan. as you laid out there, we have already seen the taliban rolling back the rights of women and girls' freedoms that have been so hardly fought for over the last two decades. they were banned from returning to school in march, just as the schools were due to reopen after months of closure. we've seen tougher restrictions in universities as well over the last few months, segregated classrooms, different entrances for women and boys, as well of course university. there have been restricts in place. it may not have come as a total prize, but the taliban would then take this step to further roll back the rights of women and girls in education, but of course a huge shock nonetheless for those hoping to be at

university. this comes just months, of course, after thousand of women and girls took their entrance exam, hoping to go to university. of course, this is a real moment of distress for women and girls in afghanistan. human rights watch has described this as a shameful decision, and it has drawn widespread condemnation from the international community. >> yeah, and this is the latest right that has been taken away from women in afghanistan. the taliban had earlier promised to be more tolerant. that is evidently not the case here. western countries have said they won't give aid until the taliban give morse equal rights. does the taliban not want aid or international recognition? >> look, this could certainly leave the taliban more isolated from the international community. as you said there, they have since the takeover attempted to present themselves as a slightly more moderate entity, perhaps a more modernized entity than we remember from the late 1990s. but that simply hasn't been the

case. at every turn, we see the taliban rolling back on fundamental human rights, not only of women and girls, but of the afghan population in general. there are more restrictions in place. we heard yesterday from a u.n. spokesperson describing this latest move as another broken promise from the taliban. take a listen. >> it's clearly another broken promise from the taliban. we have seen since their takeover, also in the past months just a lessening of the space for women. not only in education, but access to public areas. their nonparticipation in the public debate. it's difficult to imagine how a country can develop, can deal with all of the challenges that it has without the active participation of women. and the education of women. >> and kristie, the real concern now is what steps taliban will take next to roll back on those

rights of women and girls. of course, we've seen that condemnation from the international community, from the united nations. we heard yesterday from the united states condemning this decision. the state department spokesperson ned price saying in the taliban's recent decision will further alienate the taliban from the international community and deny them the legitimacy they desire. kristie? >> this is a terrible new development for women and girls in afghanistan. nada bashir, we thank you for your reporting. that ban, it came on the same day the taliban released two americans who had been detained in afghanistan since august. one of them is a filmmaker, who was arrested along with his producer while filming in kabul. it's still not clear what led to their release, but the u.s. state department welcomed the move. >> we are in a position to welcome the release of two americans, two u.s. nationals from detention in afghanistan. we are providing these two u.s.

nationals with all appropriate assistance. they will soon be reunited with their loved ones. and we are absolutely gratified to see that. >> and sources tell cnn that both men were headed to qatar after their release. a german court has found a 97-year-old woman guilty of nazi war crimes. she was bought into the court in a wheelchair on tuesday as she heard the verdict. she worked as a stenographer and typist at the commandant's office at a concentration camp in nazi-occupied poland. she was found guilty of assisting in the murder of 10,000 people. she was a teenager when she began work at the camp, and she was tried in juvenile court. she received a two-year suspended sentence, and apologized. it's believed she could be the last person in germany tried for crimes in the holocaust. you're watching "cnn newsroom."

and just ahead, parade pandemonium. millions turned out in argentina to greet the world cup champs, but the celebration kind of got out of hand.

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buenos aires threw the party of the year to celebrate argentina's world cup champion, and everyone was invited. the government declared a national holiday for tuesday's victory parade, and as a result, an estimated four million people flooded the streets to celebrate the country's first title since 1986. but the street parade did get out of hand when two men jumped from an overpass bridge on to the team's open airbus. yikes. now the parade was later halted, and lionel messi and his teammates were forced to move the party to the air. the details from buenos aires. >> reporter: lionel messi and his teammates of the national football team of argentina were not able to complete their

parade as they were planning to do on an open bus, cruising through the streets of buenos aires with the war comp trophy. that goes simply because there were too many people on to the streets. after spending more than three hours just to share 25 kilometers from the international airport, the team decided to jump on helicopters and instead did a flyover over the ocean of people that gathered around the buenos aires set to celebrate the victory in the qatar 2022 war camp. late on tuesday, they parked it here in buenos aires. it's still going, and perhaps a sign of how much this victory is felt in a nation that really braves through, but is also finding some elation, some relief and pride at a deep

travel economy easing dire straits. but for the past three days, this country really put on a party like no other before. for cnn, this is stefano poz pozzebon, buenos aires. >> wild scenes there. thank you so much for your country. i'm kristie lu stout. do have a wonderful day. "cnn newsroom" continues now with max foster, next.

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