>> reporter: ultimately it was his decision to pull on a bit of the curtains that were visible to the outside that alerted someone he was alive. while he continues searching for his mother, he is nursing his foot injury while thanking god he has at least one person left to love. ahmet said that is my daughter and she is my hero. >> that video. for more on how you can support earthquake victims in both turkey and syria visit cnn.com. i am pamela brown. i will see you in the morning. erin burnett "outfront" starts now. new video of a brutal battle waged from entrenched. this is more russian officials past and

present are dying suspiciously back home. cnn takes us closer than anybody else can to a secret chinese lab to a blacklisted spy balloon maker. it is an investigation that completely blows china's cover. new details about what led john fetterman to check himself into the hospital for depression. a fellow stroke survivor opens up about strokes and depression. good friday evening. i am erin burnett. we have video of the brutal life and death on the front line. in this clip which is disturbing, we will go inside one of the countless makeshift trenches in ukraine. the ukrainian who is filming this, as you can see there is shooting. then runs to one end of the trench. you will see him turn and run. as that happens there is more shooting going on. then they look up.

you see the terrain and then you will see the russian soldier. advances in combat mode, look the wrong way. you saw his death. the flying caseins. you have to think about this. the ability to film a moment like this in close combat, the value of a life does make you pause. seeing a life and puts the mass numbers of dead and context. the u.s. government is giving bigger numbers. saying that putin's private militia has suffered more than 30,000 casualties including roughly 9000 to death. it is just a fraction of the russian deaths. the losses and death seem to be putting more pressure on putin tonight. this evening we are learning about russian defense officials died under mysterious circumstances. a senior russian defense

official, you see her there, found dead under a high-rise building in st. petersburg. officials told them that the official cause was suicide. a general was also allegedly death by suicide. that is according to the russian state news agency. those deaths, both military, coming after at least a dozen other high-profile russians have reportedly died by suicide or unexplained accidents since the beginning of the war. one fell out of the window of his hotel. that is a common one. another fell out of the hospital window. another fell down a flight of stairs and another fell off a boat. it makes well don't how to dire the consequences could be.

this man is on putin's most wanted list. he told me recently. >> it is a message to other journalists as well, don't come and meddle into investigations with russia. >> last night he was denied entry into the you cape after award ceremony on the recommendation of british police. the film he worked on about the attempted murder of the opposition leader had been nominated. he was turned away because he was told that he and his family represent a public security risk. they think it is so likely somebody would try to assassinate him at this public event for films that they banned him from attending. it is an incredible moment just to think about we are living in a moment where that is happening in london.

this comes as putin met with the president of the belarus. want to begin in moscow. that is where that meeting happened. >> reporter: it was a big lead for both of those leaders. they were telling us how important this meeting would be . some of the things we saw from that meeting was lukashenko telling putin how important that cooperation is and how important their bond is. both leaders are the closest they are to each other. they don't have any friends on the national stage aside from each other. one thing that lukashenko was not willing to do is commit troops to the war vladimir putin is waging in ukraine. that war is going very difficult for the russians, especially around the east. the russians thought they would capture it but they certainly seem to be making very little progress on the ground and it is very tough.

>> reporter: in the soggy trenches of eastern ukraine the fighting is not letting up. ukraine saying russian forces continue to viciously assault the donbas region. they want more weapons and military equipment to deal with the russian occupier. ukraine and the u.s. believe a major offensive may already be underway and as russia beefs up troops on the eastern front, ukraine not only needs more and better weapons, it needs them fast. president zelenskyy said this over videoconference. >> there is no alternative to speed. it is the speed that life depends on. >> reporter: as much as the ukrainians need weapons quickly, vladimir putin quickly needs a win. mercenaries for the private military company and their boss

were hoping to push ukraine's troops. they admit that is unlikely to happen. this extremely graphic video was posted. we cannot independently verify the authenticity. every day we lose hundreds of comrades in arms, he said. it could be half as many if we were supplied on time with weapons, ammunitions, and the things that we need. the belarusian president alexander lukashenko trying to show he is dealing with military supply issues. of course, we will discuss, as usual, the entire range of relationships including security issues and military cooperation. lukashenko then claiming belarus which served as one of putin's launch pads for the invasion will still will soon

start producing warplanes. he said we were ready to do that with minor assistance. russia is gearing up for a protracted and bloody war which ukraine's president warns could expand beyond ukraine. it is obvious that ukraine will not be his last stop, zelenskyy says. if we break he will consume other countries including all the other states that at some point in time or part of the soviet bloc. >> the other really important thing that zelenskyy said as well, he said ukraine really needs the war to end as fast as possible. he said they want to bring it to an end before the end of the year. is of the key thing to that is that those weapons deliveries keep going and, in fact, accelerate. >> thank you. now to an independent russian journalist who was threatened with imprisonment

for his work and forced to leave russia. he is the founder and editor-in- chief of an investigative outlet which the kremlin deems to be undesirable. we also have james spider, retired general. i want to play the video from the trench again just sort of bringing this home that somebody is actually filming this, this close combat. the russian walks up and is killed and you see the flying casings from the killing. what do you take away from watching this one moment, one death, one trench where there are countless happening every single day in ukraine. >> warfare is a human endeavor. it is personal on multiple levels. you certainly cannot extract from this -- you cannot be agnostic or objective about this type of footage. what you have to realize is that this is the nature of warfare. within this you have to

accomplish objectives. ukrainians have an incredible fight on their hand and they have been doing immensely, immensely well. they have galvanize the world behind them and the russians have made significant mistakes from the strategic level on down and have revealed that they are incompetent at all measures of military application force. we look at this as a personal face. there's a family associated with it irrespective of the side the soldier is on but we also realize there is more to come. i do not think we are at the end of this. we are at the end of the beginning. we will see this moving forward. >> soldiers from the notoriously private army the wagner group, we are hearing the casualty and death toll number saying 30,000 casualties there at least. now we are learning that soldiers that are in the wagner group are complaining that they do not have ammo. they are complaining publicly.

the wagner chief has been cleared to blame that on putin's generals and everything on putin's generals. he called it a monstrous military bureaucracy every time he gets the chance. you call him an important clown. how come? >> of course they are mostly ex- inmates drafted to the wagner group. they play a really significant role on the front line. you are completely right. we, russian journalists, who are familiar with the activity inside russia. we called him the important clown. in the sense that, of course, he is an important and rich person and close to putin to some extent but his influence is greatly exaggerated mostly by the western media.

other people are much more influential. this is a rule in russia. the more a person is busy with his own pr, the less influential he is. people who are really, truly close to putin like oligarchs for example, they have appeared on television only once in their entire lives. what i see is he is trying to stay inside the system and survive, actually. he has a lot of enormously influential enemies inside russia. >> as he pointed out, he has his own pr unit in the wagner group. spider, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in congress -- i just want to say that bipartisan on anything is significant. it is especially significant in this.

they want writing to send f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. biden has been very resistant to that. he said it would cause putin to go nuclear and cause world war iii. is it time to send the jets to ukraine? >> it is. what we have seen with this administration is no, no, no, yes. the ukrainians have been way down the administration and it's only a matter of time before f-16s will be engaged. there is a training time associated with that, et cetera. it was snow on patriots and then patriots. it was no on abrams and now we have abrams. we have more precision capabilities. what the ukrainians are doing quite effectively it is a marketing campaign. they are putting in a lot of kidney blows on the administration. i think we will see that. in order to steal a march

against the russians, they need three-dimensional warfare. it is airpower coordinated with ground, great logistics and intelligence. that has to happen if you want to remove russians from ukraine. >> obviously the missing piece of that is the air portion. roman, your news outlet had that fascinating report we were talking about. the army to train that is a prime that you say putin is using for travel because he's afraid to travel by plane. you go into great detail about the rail lines and the stations. if you are on a train everybody knows where the route is but you have done all this reporting about lines and stations that were built specifically near his residence is. what iv learned about them? >> what we have learned is that he has been using a secret

armored train and network of railroads and stations to travel, as you said, mostly between his residences. we found the train itself which is based in central moscow on a secret rail station and we found at least three secret stations. one is halfway between moscow and st. petersburg. the second is in southern russia and the third one is in moscow. all three stations are highly guarded, and antimissile systems are installed next to at least one of them. based on the fact that we found, we cannot say this is directly related to the war because according to the satellite images we have, secret railway stations for putin began to be boot in 2017.

>> that is fascinating in the context of the buildup and where we are. as you started talking about it, we know where his mind was and what he was thinking even then. thank you so much. i appreciate you sharing that with us. thank you both. next, what china does not want you to see. cnn getting the first look at a chinese lab that makes spy balloons and the military vehicle parked on the premises is pretty much the proof. these are not weather balloons. documents show one fox news host privately said sidney powell was lying and called rudy giuliani a complete nut. why is the network still dealing out election lies? we have more on john federman who had checked himself into the hospital for depression .

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tonight, it's a secret laboratory that china does not want anybody to see. cnn is the first media outlet to get up close to where china actually builds its spy balloons. a militarily held helicopter is seen inside the gates dispelling any notions that the balloon is not used for military purposes. >> reporter: hundreds of miles from beijing, a place china

does not want you to see. cnn the first international media to come here. behind barbed wire and security checkpoints, the base of a blacklisted balloon manufacturer, one of six chinese entities the u.s. government sanctioned after the suspected spy balloon. shot down, pulled up, and sent to an fbi lab. each piece providing more proof, the u.s. says, this was no weather balloon. deflating denial after denial by beijing. china's foreign ministry calls the whole thing an accident. the balloon, and unmanned civilian airship. our search for the truth behind the balloon took our team from the chinese capital to a province about 300 miles southwest. days of digging and geolocation technology took us down this road to a place few outsiders have seen. no international media has ever

come this close. what did we find, and active industrial complex with ties to the chinese militaries fast and highly secretive aerospace program. it is blacklisted by the u.s. commerce department. we searched corporate records suggesting that they have permits to develop and manufacture products for the chinese military. the first thing that we noticed was a giant white dome. a closer look shows the company logo. inside the dome, a lab. we dug up a 2017 chinese state media report that says this is where workers test high altitude balloons like the one that flew over the u.s. our team spotted two more massive structures. they look like giant tents. a search of state media archives

reveals their true purpose. huge stealth hangers helping military choppers evade detection by prying eyes. our cameras also captured what seems to be an assault helicopter on display. listen to this. that same state media report never once does it mention meteorology. it boasts the balloons can carry multiple detectors, communications equipment used for civilian and military surveillance and reconnaissance. cnn tried to get answer from all six companies on the u.s. blacklist. no response from any of them. they are not talking about the balloon, but president joe biden is. >> i make no apologies for taking down the balloon. >> reporter: a suspected spy balloon. we may never know for sure who made it. china is sticking to the weather balloon claim dismissed by the pentagon as nothing but

hot air. this facility is located in the city of changzhi and is relatively small. what makes the location highly significant is that the factory is very close to a very large chinese military base. in fact, when our team is flying into the city they were instructed by the aircrew to close the window shades on the plane because they did not want the passengers looking out the window or taking pictures of a sensitive military site right next to the balloon factory. >> the anecdote itself that they would make them shut the windows says a lot. thank you for that incredible reporting. next, tucker carlson is still questioning the election result as a new filing reveals that he and other fox news stars trashed the people pushing election lies.

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and that fraud did not impact the outcome of the election went out publicly and fueled the fire. >> there are so many unanswered questions. some of them lingering. how, for example, did senile hermit joe biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss barack obama? results like that would seem to defy the laws of known physics and qualify as a miracle. was the 2020 election a miracle? we honestly don't know. >> reporter: it is a damning indictment of fox news. >> the outcome of the presidential election was seized from the hands of voters. >> reporter: a network publicly and repeatedly promoted election fraud claims to millions of their viewers. >> every american should be angry. you should be outraged. you should be worried and concerned at what has happened in the election and the lead up

to the election. >> reporter: privately the top bankers and executives mocked the lies calling them ludicrous and totally off the rails. the revelations coming from hundreds of pages of newly released evidence in the legal filing as part of the dominion voting systems lawsuit against fox news. in this text exchanged two weeks after the election, tucker carlson texting other fox news costs. sidney powell is lying. i caught her it's insane. he said about sidney powell and rudy giuliani's unfounded claims. sidney is a complete nut nobody will work with her. lauren trager him response. tucker said our viewers are good people and they believe it. the same hosts went on the air arguing completely otherwise. >> election challenges are still going on and disturbing irregularities have been found and must be investigated to the fullest. >> reporter: on election night

the network first to call arizona for biden. >> the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the campaign. >> reporter: as trump's baseless conspiracy theories started to take hold. >> this is a fraud on the american public so we will be going to the supreme court. >> reporter: carlson wrote his producer warning that trump could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. court documents show a scramble behind the scenes has viewers rebelled against fox for calling the contest and by the's favor and course collection internally to prioritize profitability over the truth. after reporter jacqui heinrich fact checked a tweet about boats being destroyed, tucker carlson texting his colleagues please get her fired, seriously. it is miserably hurting the company. the stock prices down. fox news argues the court filing contains cherry picked quotes

like in context. as fox news host continue this week to sow doubt. >> was the 2020 election a miracle? we don't know when we don't expect to get an answer tonight. >> reporter: in this narrative extended all the way up to the highest levels of fox. chairman rupert murdoch did not believe the election lies and not only did he say in an email weeks after the election that the trump team's claims were really crazy and damaging, but he even floated the idea of having tucker carlson, sean hannity, and laura ingram appear together in prime time to declare joe biden as the rightful winner of the election and that of course never happened. >> we wonder what the world would have been like if it had happened. i want to go to rusty bowers who testified before the january six committee about how he fought back against trump efforts to overturn the election and has talked about the threats to his life and the

safety that his family has faced because of it. rusty, it turns out, the top bankers and executives at fox news new all along that what you were saying about the election was true. they called the lies ludicrous and said their viewers were good people and might believe the lies. when they went out publicly they gave it oxygen and pumped the lies that the election was stolen. what do you say to all this? >> it sure would have helped many in the field as we attempted to stand up to all of this tsunami of the demand for lies. it is interesting that fox news would say we need to give the news that the viewers want. it's not what they need or the truth that they might not like

but this is what they want. had they followed murdoch's lead and his thoughts when it got down to fighting it out in the trenches we could have at least said rupert murdoch has even said this is highly questionable. even that would have been helpful. water over an old bridge as it were but it hurts. >> it is interesting. i remember watching one day neil cavuto. a highly respected foxbusiness anchor. he cut away from a press conference with the then press conference because she was pushing baseless fraud allegations. he said, and i remember because i was wondering what would happen. he said i can't in good conscience continue to show you this. because of the filing it says that the brand team at fox news notified senior leadership of the brand threat as they called

it that was posed by what he did. we find that he was called a threat to the fox brand because he cut away from a press conference where somebody was lying about the election. that is pretty incredible. does fox suffer any consequences from these revelations? >> i don't know what they will but they certainly should. it is false advertising to even call them fox news. this is not news. this is not how a news organization functions. you tell the truth without fear or favor. that is literally our ethics. if you make a mistake you apologize. none of that is happening. families have been torn apart and the country has been torn apart because of this false advertising. this is more like professional wrestling than it is news. >> you heard tucker carlson last night. even after the texts come out

of him saying the truth, he went out last night and pumped the falsehood and the lies about the election again calling it a miracle. you are from arizona. you have gubernatorial candidate kari lake saying she won the election. how much damage has fox news done on this? >> there's all kinds of levels of damages. there's literal damage to dominion and smart tech and others who put together hundreds of contracts across the country with counties and states to provide the machinery and technology and confidence to do the job right. those were all called into question. many contracts lost et cetera. there is physical -- i should say monetary damages.

there's physical damages to people. there's damages to the confidence of the people at large in all the officials they have elected to support them all these years. the damage is pervasive. even down to the little mom and pop newsgroups that put out their little blogs and push this stuff over and over, it just keeps right on going. it usually starts at the top and cascades down towards them. >> thank you both very much. i appreciate it. it is pretty sobering to read. new information on john federman's treatment for depression after his stroke last year. we have learned she was not eating or drinking enough water and was losing a lot of weight. we will get the latest on the situation. a fellow stroke survivor and former director of the cia will talk to us about his own struggles as he recovers.

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tonight, new details about what led senator john federman to check himself in a hospital for clinical depression. cnn learning that he was not

eating and was losing weight. president biden sends a message of support today saying, getting the care that you need is brave and important. we are grateful to you for leading by example. >> reporter: john federman in the public spotlight, battling an illness that millions struggle with in private, clinical depression. it is not uncommon for strophic dems like federman who nearly died like may suffering a major stroke at the height of his high-profile senate rate in pennsylvania. >> one and three patient who have a stroke will have depression at some point over the year. >> reporter: he remains at the hospital after checking himself in wednesday night. the symptoms had grown severe and he had lost a significant amount of weight not eating properly or drinking enough fluids contributing to lightheadedness that forced him to be admitted last week after

being discharged he met with physician brian monahan who suggested treatment for clinical depression. the source says his day could last weeks or more than a month as doctors search for the right mix of medication. >> we know that senator fetterman pushed himself so hard in the weeks after the stroke when and and and child world he would have been recovering. >> reporter: a few weeks earlier cnn caught up with fetterman in rural pennsylvania . >> hello, everybody. if we legalized it it would create tens of thousands of jobs in pennsylvania. >> how much weight is on your shoulders knowing that the senate majority could come down to you? >> i don't look at it that way. i come back to what i have always said. if you trust me with your vote, i'm always going to try to deliver. >> reporter: after the stroke he had difficulty communicating having to rely on closed captioning in a high-profile

debate. >> let's talk about the elephant in the room. i had a stroke. >> reporter: his struggles were apparent. >> i do support fracking. i support fracking and i stand and i do support fracking. >> reporter: in the senate he walks the halls with aids that carry a tablet that helps them understand what people are saying. just hours before checking himself in at walter reed briefly questioning a witness at a hearing. >> were there any specific kinds of special barriers for workers in the fossil fuel sector to learn skills in renewable fuel production? >> reporter: last week when he was in the hospital his colleagues noting his absence. >> we should take a moment and pray for his health. >> thank you. out front now general michael hayden the former director of the cia. he suffered a massive

stroke in november of 2018 and also has aphasia which affects his ability to communicate. anyone watching, you know he is a longtime member of the cnn family. general, i am very grateful to you for speaking about this. i do want to ask you about your experience because i think you give inspiration and hope to so many. first, speaking about senator fetterman that he's not eating and is losing weight. doctors say about a third of people who suffer from strokes have some form of depression in the year afterwards. did you experience anything like that? >> no, not exactly. even today, even this week i am thinking about my head. i'm looking at it and saying, that does not work. it does not work ever again. i am feeling bad, that i have

to say no. let's go and do something more. that's what i was doing. it is a problem, but i think i can do it. the senator has the same problem. it is hard, but i think it will be okay. >> how do you get through those moments, as you say when you look at your hand even today and you feel that grief or sadness? how do you manage that? >> well, for me it is my wife and kids. that is very important. they come and talk with me and so on. grandchildren as well so that is very good. it is very good. we have things to do on the weekend and that is also very good as well. >> so it has been for you a

little over four years since you suffered a stroke. i know that happened suddenly as they do. in your home you are getting ready one morning and your wife called 911. for you, general, you spent two months in the hospital. i know the stroke affected the entire right side of her body. you're talking about, just even hearing this conversation, going to the stroke center still going through the therapy. it seems as if a recovery is sort of a permanent thing. how are you doing now day to day ? >> better and better. for example, about a year and a half ago i got -- i'm sorry. what i want to say is i can drive now. that is very good. i go to pittsburgh for football games and i do it all the time. my wife or my son helps me, but

we do many times so that is very good. >> earlier this month, i know you made your first onstage appearance during -- since your stroke. i can only imagine the courage that takes. at the event you are talking about what keeps you awake at night and you said china. obviously we are in a moment where tensions feel higher than they have been in decades after president biden ordered the u.s. military to shoot down the chinese spy balloon. today, beijing slammed biden saying he was escalade in the crisis, disregarding international laws. where do you think this is headed? >> well, i don't know and that is a problem. i think it will be the next hundred years the united states and china to do something about it that is good or not. i am

really worried about it. i spoke to the dni two years ago and i said it is china. the second one is china. the third is china. it is very important. what is going on now in ukraine, that is pretty important also. al qaeda is important, but china is the most important. >> general hayden, i very much appreciate your time and i thank you for doing this. i can only imagine the courage that it takes and i just want to thank you because i think for so many you give inspiration and hope. >> that is very nice of you. thank you. next, the ukrainian soldier who may never walk again because of vladimir putin's war . see how an american is

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tonight a ukrainian soldier severely wounded is on the brink of having to have both his legs amputated. got much needed help from a stranger in the united states, and omar jimenez is out front with his story. >> it's completely nice now, it's like food, oh my god. >> reporter: just this feels like a miracle for wladyslaw orlov, an officer in ukraine's national guard, and being treated in the united states. >> sometimes i really don't understand what has happened with me. i'm still somewhere on another planet. like normal, obviously. because when this happened with me i don't realize, i'm just smoking and waiting and. >> reporter: october 2022, the aftermath of what may have been artillery fire hitting his vehicle. >> something you shot on my car in front of me and the car.

>> reporter: he was told he may have to his leg amputated, or may never walk again, so it began their pursuit of another option, any option. >> started talking to him and started making calls in the united states. >> reporter: and gary watterson had already been helping coordinate resources in the region on a volunteer basis. >> that was my biggest concern, was making sure that i could successfully get clearance for him to come here. >> reporter: eventually watterson was able to sponsor vlad coming to the u.s., from one complicated occasion to the next, the hospital for special surgery in new york city had been assessing how they might be able to save or lon's legs. >> he had both soft tissue wounds as well as bone defects or missing bone from the blast injuries. multiple fractures in each of the feet. he's also undergone two very lengthy procedures to begin a major step for reconstruction of both his right and his left

foot. >> reporter: reconstruction is one thing. walking is something else entirely. his recovery isn't guaranteed, with more surgeries to go. >> all bones in foot is broken and same for my right foot, too. >> reporter: but doctors are optimistic. meanwhile -- back home for orlov, it's been nearly a year since the russian war in ukraine began. hope is has become a currency. >> when you get better, you want to go back. >> i want to try, of course, but i still have options to help my country. everything i can do i will do. arena he hopes he may walk again, but he hopes his country does so much more and that the world hopes it, too. >> one military men destroy another military man, it's war, okay. but when military men destroy women's and children's it's not

okay, absolutely it's war crimes. it's every day. a big part of the people don't understand, this war, what is going on. it's just like not about war in ukraine and russia. it's about human rights. >> reporter: omar jimenez, cnn, new york. on outfront next, the x cops charged in the deadly beating of tyre nichols go before a judge. the da taking a much deeper look at the elite and now disbanded special unit that they work for.

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all five former memphis police officers charged in connection with the death of tyre nichols pleading not guilty at their arraignment today. this is the first time they've been seen together since the release of the video of nichols violent death. one defendant's attorney says his client, quote, was doing his job. meanwhile the da says his office is reviewing as many as 100 cases related to that scorpion unit, the tactical force that all five officers were a part of. it was designed to