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is amazing. cnn continues now. >> translator: a year ago on this day from the same place around 7:00 in the morning, i addressed to you with a brief statement, we are strong and we are ready for anything. we will defeat everyone. this is how it began february 24th, 2022. >> i think everyone will attest to this, it's surprising that we are still here in this war that ukraine is still hanging on and still fighting back. as we know vladimir putin thought, hey we go into ukraine and it will be done zip zip zip. that is not happening. that is what we are talking about as we mark this one year. good morning. ukraine stands defiant and

unconquered on this anniversary. it's now entering the second year. what is next for russia after a year of heavy losses. we will be joined live from moscow. and china is now stepping up and taking a more active role. can beijing help to broker a peace deal or will they get involved more on russia's behalf. and we know now that the engineer tried to stop the train after at large went off in ohio. >> we'll begin this hour in ukraine after a year of endless bloodshed and horrific atr atrocities. >> ukrainian president, zelensky delivering a special to his troops this morning as he marks one year since vladimir putin launched his invasion. ukraine's leader vowing to make 2023 the year of victory.

>> translator: it's you who decides if we will all exist. whether ukraine will exist. every day, every hour, it is you, ukrainian soldiers who will decide it. >> one year ago today ukraine's future was in doubt. russian tanks and troops stormed across the border from the north, south and east. but the out gunned and outnumbered ukrainians stunned the world and forced the russians to retreat from kyiv. >> and now it grinds on in its second year. china is stepping up trying to cast itself as a potential peace maker. but the u.s. officials and the broader west are skeptical. >> any peace, be it just peace and a durable peace it cannot just be a cynical cease fire that allows the russians time to

go home and rest and refit and return. if xi jinping can get his army out of ukraine we'd all give them a peace prize. >> the white house is announcing more sanctions against the crumbl crumbling russian economy. >> that is the backdrop here. when you look at this peace proposal that china put out earlier this morning, a lost points are not all that controversial. respecting sovereignties of all countries and facilitating grain exports. that is what everyone would support but it's coming from the chinese. and we have to consider the backdrop here.

number one, they are economically allowing russia to maintain this war and building up their economy. and the other thing is, they are providing russia with non-legion lethal support. that is the backdrop here. and it doesn't seem like the chinese proposal is going to be the one that will kick start negotiations. but as you spoke with the secretary of defense, he thinks that negotiations will bring an end to this. so people are still looking for an idea and time for that to come. >> good morning. as we watch the american polls, the polling here, support has been dwindling. not a ton, but it's dwindling. blinkin is heading to the u.n. later this morning. how does he plan to underscore american support on this one year anniversary. >> i view today as the closing

argument of the biden administration. we saw president biden visit kyiv and we saw him in poland and we saw some much in terms of a moving compelling case from the biden administration why it's so important to support ukraine. not just for ukraine to live through the conflict but democracy as a concept to live. and i think he will hit on that as we near the one year anniversary of the war. and in the american public there is a softening of continued support for ukraine and that is something that biden administration officials are keenly cognizant of. >> softening very good. we said dwindling but softening. >> what is next for vladimir putin. we are joined live in moscow again. good morning. it's one year. where does he see this going? >> reporter: that is a very good

question, poppy. i heard don say that the russians thought this would be over in a couple of days. they did. i was standing on the border at the russian side between ukraine and russia seeing them move into a ukrainian territory. and they thought it would be over quickly. the russians are having problems. we saw this the entire week. you can see it on the screen. vladimir putin really trying to rally this nation. but the fact is the last couple of months there is not much in the way of territorial gains in the part of the russian military. and that seems to be because they mobilized people but cannot get the weapons to people. it's unclear if it's because sanctions are taking a toll on that. you have a case that people are talking with about an offensive

that is about to happen, but so far little in the way of gains. if that offensive is already underway. in the last couple of days we heard vladimir putin speak pretty much every day, and there is little except we'll continue and russia will win in this war. and it's a just fight for r russia. little head way except sending more people to the frontline. >> let's talk, fred, about the china component of this. as kaitlan was talking about putting together this four point please plan. secretary antony blinken is worried about sending aid to russia and putin. now xi jinping, the chinese

president is meeting with putin in moscow. >> it's important for the viewers to know to not understate how important china is for russia in the last year. they are trying to offset it by improving their relationship with china. chinese cars are on the road and the products coming here. china is becoming a important player. as far as this peace plan is concerned, it's hailed by russian officials that it's essentially a pro russian peace plan. and something they can sign off to. it's getting so much criticism in ukraine and the west as well. but it's part of the way vladimir putin sees this going forward, keeping the country afloat financially and to an extent military as well. and the chinese play a huge role in that.

>> thank you, fred for the reporting in moscow. cnn has been on the ground covering the assault on ukraine since this moment on air, one year ago. watch -- >> oh, i just heard a big bang right here behind me. i told them we should not have done the live shot here. there are big explosions taking place in kyiv right now. i can hear rumblings right now. >> matthew, is it safe where you are? >> yes, i think it's relatively safe at the moment. oh -- i have a flak jacket here. let me get it on. since we last spoke it has gone quiet again. but we did hear that flurry of explosions maybe seven or eight distinct explosions. >> that was exactly when the first missiles pierced the night sky in kyiv. the invasion forcing millions of

ukrainians to flee. desperate ukrainians forces to leave their lives and homes behind. and they had just destroy aid bridge and hoped to stop russians from moving in on the city. in the middle of the story clarrisa stopped to help elderly ukrainians make their way. and then this happened -- >> down here john, keep on rolling. you see it over there? [ bleep ]. >> a year later ukraine is

bracing for more war. but the ukrainians and their neighbors are still not backing down. just days ago our kaitlan collins was in warsaw, poland and met these civilians joining the polish version of the national guard. >> so we slowly turn civilians into soldiers and teach them the structures and how to wear the uniform and how to behave and when to salute and not to salute. and through a short period of time you see civilians turning into really amazing soldiers. >> again, here we are one year later. it's easier to get access, not the easiest thing, but easier than in the beginning. it's interesting in the beginning of this war, we were doing a live shot and you were at the white house. and matthew was in kyiv on balcony. and there was no warning and then the bombs just started

going off and we heard it in the back ground and the war started real time here on cnn. >> it is remarkable. you talk to white house how they felt that night and it was chaos but they had prepared for it and prepared a checklist, this is what we do when and if this happens. >> and there was also a time when i was on the ground and you were in poland. and i think just days before i was at a field depot -- >> everyone thought if you were in this safe space, as it turns out it was a false sense of security because they bombed a fuel depot and i think that was the furthest into ukraine that they had gone. and this happened i think just before the president had took his trip and you were following here. and he made that thing about vladimir putin should not be in

power. and we discussed that on the air as well. >> it was not in the scheduled remarks but said that at the end of the last speech he gave in poland. and people say that putin was wrong but the human toll has just been so hard to see. >> the continued striking of civilian targets. >> you cover the human toll and you are interested in the children and families. >> because remember when the maternity ward was bombed and women were brought out on stretchers. and the theater, 3600 people were killed. remember the theater was in russian, large letters you could see in the sky painted children across. and the toll now is about 500 ukrainian children have been killed in this war. and about 1,000 have been injured. i remember vividly "the new york

times" reporting a lost generation. there is not one of the 1.5 million children in ukraine that is not psychologically impacted by this. >> and what happens in the next 90 days. that is what u.s. officials are watching. and does this change? or become more of a stalemate. you talk with about the f-16s i am told that is not happening unless something drastically changes. maybe long-term. >> you'll have more of your interview with the defense secretary, and i interviewed him there, and some of what he said to me has changed in the year since you have spoken to him. that he said this would be a negotiated end. this was on the tarmac in the training area. >> 100% preventible.

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that bearing was 253 degrees above the temperature outside when the train derailed. it did trigger an alarm to alert the crew but the bearing likely failed by then. >> and fingers are being pointed. listen to this plea from the chair of the ntsb. >> enough with the politics on this. enough with the politics. i don't understand why this has gotten so political. this is a community that is suffering. >> so with me now is jennifer, the chair of the ntsb. thank you for your time. you had a great conversation with my colleague jake tappert and taught us a lot last night. let's carry on from there. is your big question this morning, what causes the wheel bearing to get so hot? >> we have a lot of questions and thank you for having me on the show. we have a lot of questions we

know for a fact what caused the derailment it was the failure of the bearing. now, we look at how we got there. what conditions were present to allow that to happen. and we look at what would prevent it from occurring in the future. >> one thing i find striking that people need to understand, is that this railroad operator has the hot box detectors along the track, right. they detected this wheel bearing getting hotter but not until the third time did any alarm go off to notify anyone. so even when the first one registered 100 degrees above air temperature it did not alert anyone. and the rule by norfolk southern says it doesn't have to alert the crew until 137 degrees farenheit.

does that indicate it's inadvocate. >> the 107 increased over a couple of days. now it's 200 that they consider as critical. you know, what the crew gets when it's the first way side detecter detected it at 30 degrees over. and they get a non-critical alarm and then one at the 103 and then at the 200 or 253 they got an urgent alarm to slow and stop the train. they are not set by regulation or guidance and they vary by railroad and it's their decision. >> they are set by the company. is that a mistake? >> we'll be looking at that. could be. we have a lot of questions about the thresholds and why they vary so much between railroads. why aren't they more

conservative. should they be lower? all of these questions we'll ask repeatedly in in our investigation to get to the bottom of how this occurred and what led to this. >> there was only three employees on the train of 150 cars is that safe? >> it's pretty typical of a freight train. there are proposals now to go from two to one crew. in this one there was two crew members and one trainee, that is pretty typical. the crew did not do anything wrong. they were already slowing the train when they got the alert. and they further slowed the train to stop the train and the derailment happened and the emergency brake was applied and they dislocated the locomotive from the train and moved a mile up, that is standard procedure. they did not do anything wrong. >> was surprised by

transportation secretary pete buttigieg on the ground asked the question we all are asking. how is a train carrying a carcinogen linked to liver cancer not be classified? should that change? >> the ntsb in 2014 when the original was considered by the department of transportation we weighed in and said this should cover a broad array of hazardous materials not just class 3 flammable materials. we continue to have that position. that was then locked in by congress in 2015, that definition. so it's something that should be reconsidered and we'll be evaluating that as well as part of our investigation. >> listen to this on another issue from secretary buttigieg yesterday. here he was. >> when you see the twisted

metal there you realize the difference between a fortified tank car and some of the tank cars that don't have that level of fortfication. >> a lot of action that congress can take and could have taken for years on these trains, that it hasn't. there is significant lobbying by the railroads. you guyses as the ntsb find findings of fact and findings of fault. would you say that congress bears some of the blame for delays on some of your recommendations? >> well, that is considered when we discuss the final board product by the board. we'll have a public meeting and a lot of those issues do come up. with this specific issue both

the department of transportation at the time and congress focused on fortifying rail cars that transported class 3 flammable material and specifically crude oil from the bachan region. this train only had a few of those cars. but there are other cars similar cars that also need to be fortified that don't carry those hazardous materials and won't be covered under that rule that we really need to look at. >> i want to end on what you said at the top. you are really upset about the politics getting so nasty in all of this. are you also worried that the politics will actually get in the way of results and solutions? >> i am. i am concerned. this is not a time for politics. there is a time for politics, it is not this. this is a tragedy that communities are suffering. not just physically, not just

damage, but also mentally. we never talk about that. that is significant. now is the time to talk about potential solutions that would really address this tragedy and folks need to allow the ntsb to lead this investigation and highlight the right solutions and not go after the ones that will not help this from re recurring. >> thank you. >> thank you so much poppy. also, this morning we are tracking a orlando tv news photo journalist that was wounded in a shooting rampage that left another reporter, a woman and child dead. he is sharing his story from his hospital bed. >> i have been blessed.

you know, just people care. >> jessie waldon the photo journalist was covering the scene with dillon lions. lions was killed and waldon says the two were closed and his colleague loved her job. >> he had a strong sense of justice and would want everyone to follow the rules when it came to people with power. >> a 9-year-old girl you see here and a 38-year-old woman were also both killed in the shooting spree on wednesday that the two reporters were covering. 19-year-old keith moses is charged with the murders. >> we are still not sure what his motive was and why he did this but we want to find out. i know the community wants to know. at this point we are trying to figure out if he was at that

house before or after he shot the journalist. and we are still trying to see what the connection was to that house. >> waldon who is still in the hospital, he plans to get back to work after his recovery. and our thoughts are with jessie and with the friends and family of dillon. >> just awful all the way around. tanks and banks. our next guest has ideas how the west could stop putin's brutal assault on ukraine. what he can tell us about sanctions and putin. that is next.

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focus -- go that way. let's move down this way against the wall -- back it up. it's okay. it's okay. >> so that was our matthew chance and his team caught if an intense fire fight on the out skirts of kyiv. that was one year ago today as a

matter of fact. since the year since missile strikes and bombings and ground combat has killed 14,000 people and 14 million were driven from their homes. they call it the worst refugee crisis since world war ii. as this war enters the second year. one of putin's fiercest critics says there is another way to help the ukrainians win. bill says this, we have to fight russia with banks as well as tanks. western allies froze well over 300 billion of the central bank reserves in the first week of the war. this money should not just be frozen but seizes for the defense and the reconstruction of ukraine. bill broader is with us now. he was the largest foreign investor in russia until 2015.

he was denied entry to the country. welcome, thank you for joining. >> great to be here. >> this morning the biden administration is announcing more sanctions on russia. but you want them to seize the money you discussed. how would that work sir? is that actually possible, bill? >> as far as the numbers go, there is about $350 billion of frozen russian money being held at the u.s. federal reserve and the bank of english and the central reserve and various other banks. that money currently belongs to russia, but if we look at the whole situation the amount of damage that is done by russia to ukraine is estimateded to be well north of a trillion dollars. 1.2 to be exact. before we start to dig into our own pockets it makes total moral

and political sense. is it legally possible? it would be if we adjusted the laws. right now putin is hiding behind a law called sovereign immunity. that says that any assets that belong to the sovereignty cannot we touched but he has violated the law by bombing and killing ukrainians. we require some change to the law in the united states and other countrys and i would not think of a better reason to do it. >> you said we should do it with tanks and banks. you don't believe that we are giving them, the united states and western allies, enough to win the war, you give them enough to fight the war but not enough to win the war. do you think by giving them money putin will see this as an act of aggression and will

ratchet things up more? >> everyone always says on the western side and the european union we don't want to provoke him more or escalate. but putin is the guy escalating. he is bombing the electricity grid and bombing children that were hiding out. and he is the one whose soldiers are raping ukrainian women. there is no escalation. what we are trying to do is help ukraine defend themselves both with military hardware and with financial resources so they can carry on. so they don't just capitulate because they are bankrupted or destroyed. i don't see it as an escalation i see it as [indiscernible] >> i want to get you on what was happening. you predicted we would be here a year from now.

con correct? and there is recent polling. we discussed a softening in support for u.s. intervention in this war. are you concerned that international support for ukraine will dry out the longer the war goes on even though you believe we'll be here a year interest now if we don't use that 3 billion or so you talked about? >> well, i do see a softening of support. it's human nature that people grow tired of the conflicts and there is less front page news and we start to hear people on the far right of the republican party. marjorie taylor green saying no money for ukraine. this is a real problem and as time goes on, it could become more of a problem. and this is what putin is banking on. in my estimation neither side has a decisive military advantage to win the war. so it will drag out. and putin's only hope is that

some how america stops funding the war. and it that is the case ukraine would lose. than is the big risk now. >> bill, one more question before you go. were you surprised, my colleague kaitlan collins interviewed lloyd austin, he believes there will be a negotiated end to this war do you agree with that assessment? >> i do not agree. putin cannot negotiate. for him it's a sign of weakness. after fighting with putin myself for 13 years, he never compromised or negotiates in any shape or form. and some ukrainians have been raped and tortured and killed. and they were not negotiating. >> raises a good point. if the ukrainians want to negotiate after everything. how do you trust the russians?

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defense yesterday and attorneys note it's risky. he admitted to lying several times. randy breaks down the stunning testimony. >> i alex murdaugh. >> alex murdaugh sharing his story from the witness stand telling the jury he did not kill his wife and son. >> just to be clear, were you anywhere in the vicinity when paul and maggie got shot? >> no, i was not in the vicinity. >> and this key piece of evidence against him. >> mr. murdaugh is that you in the kennel video at 8:44 p.m. on the night paul and maggie were murdered? >> it is. >> all along he said he did not see his family since dinner and

was not around the dog kennels. but that video extracted from his son's phone prosecutors believe it was just before the murders happened. he said he left after the recording and drove his car to the golf course to take a nap. >> there is no way i had high velocity blood platter on me. >> he clashed with the lead prosecutor. >> just to get through this quicker. >> i know you want to get through it quicker but we are not. just answer the question. >> and evidence shows he drove to his mother's house at 9:06 p.m. and paused briefly in her driveway and he explains he was trying to locate his phone in his car. >> during that minute or however long that was were you disposing of murder weapons, alex? >> no. >> were you disposing of bloody

clothes? >> no. >> and what about the blue rain jacket he recovered from his mother's house and they said it had gun powder residue on the inside. they suggested it was used to clean up. >> have you seen this blue rain jacket before? >> i never seen it before and never touched and don't know anything about it. >> several times the prosecutor accused murdaugh of being too rehearsed. >> how many times have you rehearsed your answer to the testimony today? >> i never practiced that answer. >> and in between murdaugh found openings to say how much he loved his wife and son and in gruesome detail he described for the jury how he found maggie and paul at the kennels after returning from his mother's home. >> i called 911 and i was trying to tend to paw paw and trying to

tend to maggie. and i went back and forth between them. i know i tried to check him for a pulse. i know i tried to turn him over. my boy is laying facedown and he is done the way he is done. his head was the way his head was. i can see his brain laying on the sidewalk. >> randy kay, cnn walterboro, south carolina. >> for more on what we saw yesterday. i want to bring in laura cotes, a former federal prosecutor. laura, i am not a former federal prosecutor but i wonder what you make of the idea that he actually took the stand? is that often advised by one's attorneys. >> it's only guises if you are

scared there is a hole that could only be clarified by your client. they look at what the prosecution has done and the prosecution will rest and then they say there is no need to come here and talk because did not meet your burden of proof. and that could mean the defense is signalling something but that he himself took the stand is extraordinary. he had to answer the questions multiple witnesses raised for the jury. why is it he lied about being at the kennels that night seemingly moments before the murders took place. and why was he consistently lying to the stole money from his law firm, from his clients. today, and with the bottom half of yesterday, was the cross-examination, prosecutors getting a chance.

what codo you think they need t get at further today when he is b on the stand. >> when the witness is only answering yes or no, you want the attorney's voice to lead, to create that their tough. to talk about what you want the injury jury to know. the fact that he ailinged in broader terms is indicative of the fact that he was rehearsed and coached to know you don't let the momentum in that train keep going. as for the questions, there is an achilles heel for the prosecution here. while murdaugh is saying akin to i shot the sheriff but i did not shoot the deputy, i'm a liar, i am somebody addicted to opioids but i never committed murder, certainly not my wife and children, the prosecution has to try to bridge a gap for the jury, which is the why. now, motive does not have to be proven by prosecutors, kaitlin. it's a 10,000 pound gorilla for every juror as to why,

especially because the videos beforehand showed some sort of, obviously, close relationship. there was some laughter about a bird in a dog's mouth and beyond, a tree arcing if you remember that video with the son, papa and his father. so why did it happen at that time? that's what the prosecution has got to bridge. they said because he was trying to distract from financial crimes. but finally, kaitlin, if that's the case, i wonder if jurors are asking themselves, hold on. he needed to distract from financial crimes that he openly has now admitted under oath in court with a trial ahead. does that make sense to the jury? only they will know. >> fascinating. fascinating to watch him address the jury. i know you will be watching it today. watch cnn for the continued cross-examination coverage of alex murdaugh. the court is going to resume at 9:30 this morning. >> make sure you turn into laura coats every night on cnn 10 and

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japan, with more. what did you learn on this surveillance flight? >> reporter: don, we flew past taiwan and into the south china sea. these are both regions that china claims basically for itself. and washington argues this is international airway and waterways and that's why the navy operates in these areas. and as we approached the pair sell islands, which china occupies, chinese officials over the radio warned this plane away and moments later a chinese fighter jet, a j-11, a two-seater armed with air-to-air missiles flew along the western, the left side of the wing here for more than a quarter hour. so close you could see the pilots moving around in the cockpit. and repeated warnings for the u.s. plane to leave. the plane made an eventual turn and went to other parts of the south china sea. we overheard the philippines

navy warning chinese ships out of philippines water. philippines is an anally of the. we saw this plane descend to 1,000 feet over very stormy seas to look at two chinese guided-missile destroyers that repeatedly warned the plane's crew to move away, saying they felt threatened and the plane crew responded saying they were operating the safe distance and they were not threatening those warships. it's part of a cat-and-mouse game between the militaries of the world's two richest economies again in a very hotly contested part of the world. >> the size of their forces because china now has the world's largest navy. how can the u.s. keep up, ivan? >> reporter: that's a tough questions. in fact, the navy secretary, carlos del toro, says china has

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