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two americans kidnapped in mexico now back in the u.s. for treatment. other two are dead as the search for their killers ramps up. why ukrainian forces refuse to retreat from the bloody battles if bakhmut, president zelenskiy warning about consequences if russia seizes the city, new u.s. senate bill aims to give the biden administration the authority to ban tiktok. we'll discuss what data the ap collects and whether it should really be considered a threat to national security. ♪. ♪. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us, the two americans who survived a deadly kidnapping in mexico on friday are back in the united states. according to mexican officials la washington mcgee and eric

williams were found in a wooden house in mattingly on thursday, williams's wife tells cnn he was shot in both legs, mcgee was not injured, her mother told our affiliate she's spoken with her daughter and doing ok but struggling with fact she had to watch her friends die. the two other victims shaeed woodard and zindel brown were found dead inside that house. one man is in custody accused of doing surveillance on the victims. but officials have not said if he's tied to a criminal group. we get more now from cnn josh campbell. >> we extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. >> the search for four americans kidnapped in mexico end fog tragedy, all four had been located but only two of them alive. >> the two survivors have since been re-patrioted back to the united states occurred with the stands of our mexican partners with the assistance of our

officials presence in mexico, we are in the process of working to re-patriot the aims. >> they've been identified as latavia washington mcgee, zindel brown and shaeed woodard. >> washington and mcgee survived wildwood afterward and brown did not. washington mcgee was uninjured and the other shot in the leg. two sfoofshs are back in the u.s. receiving medical care. >> we condemn what happened and feel sorry for the loss. today, the mexican government speaking about the tragedy. >> the victims were found in a weaned house, three day after the crime. the four persons kidnapped were taken to different places. one of them to a clinic in an effort to make this more confusing and avoid rescue. >> the investigation is ongoing to find who is responsible. >> mexican authorities will process the bodies of the two dead victims before returning them to the united states. family members tell cnn the

group of friends traveled by car from south carolina so one of them a mother of six could undergo a medical procedure. investigators believe after they crossed the board from texas and entered the city of mattingly they came under gunfire and crashed their minivan. according to a u.s. official familiar with the vterrifying video appears to show an americaned shoved into the back of pickup truck in broad daylight and taken from scene >> one person has been detained >> seems to be there was a confusion and mistaken identity but the investigation is still ongoing. >> a source familiar tells me the two surviving american victims are now in the care of the fbi, they were taken back on to u.s. soil on tuesday for medical treatment as well as observation. although the recovery phase of this terrible episode is now over, the investigation continues and sources tell me that those surviving victims will likely be key witnesses for the group of fbi agents and mexican law enforcement officers that continue to search for the

cap fors responsible for this heinous attack, josh campbell, cnn los angeles >> hits keep coming embarrassing legislation in court filing tied to a massive lawsuit against the right wing network for promoting lies about the 2020 u.s. presidential election being stolen. in an e-mail released tuesday, fox corporation chairman rupert murdock admitted in january of 2021 that maybe top host shawn hannity and laura ingram quote went too far, this past january, murdock registered conspiracy theories about dominion systems, admitting he does not believe election was stolen from donald trump and newly released messages from host tuck carlton reveal him saying two years ago that he hates donald trump

passionately. fox defended protest communications between executives and hosts saying they were taken out of context. tucker carlton is facing criticism from republicans and democrats alike for cherry-picking video from january 6 and down playing the violence, carlton said it was neither an insurrection nor deadly, cnn jessica dean has our report. >> tucker carlton showing some 40,000 hours of video that house speaker kevin mccarthy granted him access to really trying to down play the truth of what happened here on capitol hill on january 6 during that violent insurrection. and on tuesday, after this had aired monday night, a number of republicans especially senate republicans pushing back very hard against what tucker carlton is trying to portray as truth. here's a few of them including house minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> it was a mistake, in my view,

for fox news to depict this in a way that's completely advair yens with our chief law enforcement here at the capitol thinks. >> i was there january 6. i saw what happened. i saw the aftermath. look, there was violence january 6 i think the footage available should be made available to all networks and everybody should be able to see themselves what happened on that day. >> i think it's bull, i was here, i was down there and i saw maybe a few tourists, few people caught up in things, but when you see police barricades breached, police officers assaulted >> i just don't think it's helpful. >> again, carlton using various parts of the video and doing what that capitol police chief said really cherry-picking video to prove his point, even showing some video of the well-known shaman walking through at a quiet moment and to that point,

the capitol police chief putting out a statement very much aggressively pushing back on the betrayal of what happened january 6. i'll read you what he wrote. last night an opinion program aired commentary that was filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the january 6 attack. the program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video. the commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during last tense moments again, that is from the capitol police chief and again, we expect to hear more push back as more video released, jessica dean, cnn capitol hill. the chairman of the u.s. federal reserve will be back on capitol hill today, testifying before the house financial services committee, jerome powell said the economy is strong and that likely means a higher than expected interest rate hike, he told senators on tuesday, there are signs u.s.

inflation is easing somewhat, but the core service sector is stubbornly high. >> the latest economic data come in stronger than expected, suggests that the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated. if the totality of the data were to indicate that faster tightening is warranted, we'd be prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes. >> according to cme fed watch, there's a 35% chance of a quarter point rate hike when the fed meets later this month. much more likely a 65% chance of a half point increase. and powell's testimony sent u.s. financial markets plunging. the dow fell 575 points tuesday, the s and p 5 hen lost one and a half and the nasdaq dropped one and a third, investors are

hoping to recoup some losses let's take a look at the too muches and the dow is up slightly positive territory but only just we'll keep a close eye on that. let's cross over to the asia pacific region, you can see a mixed back there, japan is up nearly half a percent. everything else there in asia in the negative territory, hong kong sank down more than 2%, trading just got underway in europe, all in negative territory, and you can see zurich smi down nearly half a percent. carefully core graphed event is underway in beijing where journalists are supposed to be able to openly operate, and yet, it's still full of state controls. we'll have a look inside. ♪. ♪. ♪. love can get a little messy... good thing there's resolve. love the love. resolvlve the mess.

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. two sessions it's the first since china abandoned its 0 covid policy. but reporters covering the event are still stuck in a covid bubble. required to stay overnight at a quarantine hotel and get an on-site pcr test. >> just left the quarantine hotel, we're headed to the venue, everything is highly controlled. >> the four media bus gets dropped off at ten man square. >> it's rare for journalists to get access to think you can see there's heavy security and guards everywhere. >> normally the two sessions is rare chance for the media to get up close to china top leadership, right here at the

steps on the great hall. this where you will see media trying to door stop the top. as you can see this year were completely separate from the rest of the leaders. the two sessions is a carefully choreographed event, the new government shake-ups that the rubber stamp parliament will vote on have a union fiing goal to strength xi jinping and the covid restrictions are the perfect tool for beijing to control the message >> the media has to apply to get access to specific events, we're not granted approval to all of them and this is the media area inside the great hall of the people. as you can see it's pretty empty. so it's clearly not an issue of capacity. >> some of the events during the week long meeting allow select reporter questions, including ching gong first press conference at china's new minister, he said conflict with the u.s. is inevitable if

washington does not change course, cheung gong called washington's approach a reckless gamble accusing the u.s. of creating a crisis over taiwan, defended china's partnership with russia as imperative, and said it has not supplied weapons to russia or ukraine. >> meanwhile, chinese state media is portraying the legislative meeting as an open event where journalists can freely operate. >> it's an amazing country. >> for journalists the opportunity to put questions to the chinese premier and minister >> what's it like. >> under the controls spontaneous run ins with top leaders like premier and ministers are out of reach. after today's meeting ended we had a few minutes to approach some delegates which are a cure rated group of local representatives, this is part of the ethnic minority if the southwestern province, this is her first time attending the congress and she feels happy to

see her mother land becoming stronger. the rest of the delegates quickly rush out before we have a chance to approach them. the can we go is how much of these covid controls will remain in post pandemic china? it limits access even more to china's already extremely owe make political machine this is clear, the communist leadership only wants the world to see one narrative from china, that is the image of unity, strength and victory. salida wang cnn beijing >> the biden administration has been leaning heavily on staunched alley japan to help tackle the growing number of challenges in asia. during an exclusive interview with cnn, the u.s. ambassador to japan and former white house chief of staff ron emmanuel spoke about president biden's diplomatic strategy in the

region >> he brought a level of energy and to alliances and to allies that was absent. that has given allies confidence like japan to increase the defense budget, to be more active on the diplomatic arena and state. you know, when it came to the vote in march 3rd condemning russia, japan got on the phone and produced eight out of ten countries they've been active diplomatically. >> the white house is applauding a new u.s. senate bill that will give the biden administration new authority to ban the chinese owned video ap tiktok used by 10s of millions of americans. the so-called restrict act does not target tiktok specifically. but aims to reign in foreign technologies that could pose national security risks. the bipartisan legislation would also cover ai, quantum computing and e commerce, but the fear is

that china could force tiktok's parent company to hand over america's user data. >> shelly palmer is the ceo of the palmer group and professor of advance media in residence at syracuse university. joining me now from new york. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure how are you >> very well, thank you. so the white house is urging congress to quickly pass a new bipartisan senate bill that would give the biden administration the power to ban tiktok nationwide calling the ap a threat to national security, what threat does tiktok pose do you think? >> well, it's very addictive, probably the most addictive gor rhythm at all. if you're afraid of your children social media, that's not what the biden administration is concerned about, they're fully politicizing this, china and the united states, have let's just

say a complicated relationship and a lot of politics are involved, but if the biden administration is really concerned about what tiktok is doing with data, they have to be equally concerned about facebook and google and snapchat and twitter and every other social media site because realistically, the data that is taken from us every day far and from other sites far squeezed what tiktok is take. >> interesting. of course, the goal of the bill once becomes legislation is to prevent companies with ties to china as you mentioned from being pressured into handing over the informational communications records of american users, what information does tiktok actually have access to and what data is it collecting from these users >> your phone collects immense amount of data and tiktok gets a fair amount. what tiktok is a single news feed or single feed. so it understands precisely what you like, you teach it in a very

well reenforced environment what it is you like the most. it kind of knows your preferences. if you logged into tiktok it's got your log in information. that's about it and it will have your tiktok password, so it knows what you like, your preferences and understands who you are. that's pretty much it. your phone knows your location, what time of day, and everything else there is that a phone can possibly collect. phone itself knows an awful lot. tiktok may have access to some of that information. again, so does every other social media site and every other site that you go to in the united states. almost everybody drop as cookie and follows you around everywhere, so this can't be about the data. this has to be about the politics. >> and tiktok ceo says the company has never received a request from china for information about american users, and would never comply even if it were asked.

do you believe that? >> you know what? it's not for me to say. whether that's true or not, that's between the chinese government and the local tiktok guys, and again, this has been highly politicized i want everybody to understand, so much data is collected from each and every one of us every day we have absolutely no visibility into if the government is really concerned about protecting us, we need to protect us from all data gathering, not just data gathering that might end up in the hands of foreign government. s, really most of the data that people are present politicizing now is simply there to put the right message in front of the right person at the right time. this is like the kind of know that you like to watch woodworking and baseball, that's what they will know. are they going to use that? if people want to mount a campaign of propaganda there are many, many other ways than tiktok for the chinese government. to come in here without any restrictions whatsoever and really have their way with us. we're in an active cyber war and

enduring cyber war with china now, that is something of concern, tiktok not so much. >> and tiktok is apparently negotiating a possible agreement with the biden administration that could allow the ap to continue operating in the u.s. how likely is it that this will happen and is this a better option than this blanket ban? >> tiktok is an incredibly popular ap, probably the one of the most popular social media aps. and to be fair and frank, this should reach an agreement. again, this is a real problem that is being politicized and i would really like it if the biden administration would take data privacy and cybersecurity as seriously as they're taking this supposed threat, i'm not saying that if tiktok were to give all this data to the chinese government that would be good, bad or indifferent, i'm not trying to be political or apolitical about it. as someone really deeply into data science, there are very, very dangerous aspects of this

that are not being addressed, so i'd like to see tiktok reach an beverage. if they don't, they don't, it's a business, they will have to just deal with it however the government deals with it. but everybody listening should be thinking very seriously about what data is valuable and that you know, should be private, and what information and knowledge you have about it. if you're concerned contact your elected officials and make your feelings known. >> shelly palmer good advice there, appreciate you talking with us. >> you have a good night. and still to come, ukraine said its forces are repelling nonstop russian attacks on bakhmut. later a fierce battle and a live report after the break. ♪. ♪.

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massive losses on the russian side. but in recent day, russian forces have made some critical gains there. why have you decided not to withdrawal from bakhmut? >> understand what russia wants to achieve there. russia needs at least some victory, a small victory even, even by ruining everything in bakhmut, just killing every civilian there. they need to put their little flag on top of that to show that society. it's not a victory for them. it's more like you know, to support -- to mobilize their society in order to create this idea of such a powerful army. for us it's different. this is tactical for us. we understand after bakhmut they

could go further. they could go to other areas it would be open to bakhmut for other towns in ukraine in the donetsk direction in the east of ukraine, that's why our guys are standing there. >> and cnn selma is following all the developments for us, joins us live from london, good morning to you, selma. what is the latest on the fierce fight for bakhmut. >> absolutely epic and devastating battle, as you heard there, president zelenskyy is not particularly strategically that important for russia, he explains to our wolf blitzer it's really about the symbolic victory for president putin who has for nearly eight months now seen nothing but losses on the ground. but when you really think about the extraordinary cost of this

one battle for bakhmut, it's truly mind boggling, thousands of soldiers killed on both sides according to nato officials for every one ukrainian soldier killed, there's been five russian troops killed in this fight, the city of bakhmut, itself, largely destroyed boy some estimates 90% leveled, that means homes, businesses life itself absolutely disseminated by the near constant artillery and and shelling the people of bakhmut, the city has only 10% of its prewar population, just a few thousand left behind, little lightest there in that city of bakhmut. when you look at the military cost of this, the weapons depleted the ammunition used up again in this fight for a very small city, one that again hold it's very little strategic value. what we're hearing about battle seems to be on the before you

know, of going russia's way we heard this audio message the head of the wagner mercenary group released this morning, that wagner mercenary is leading the fight on the ground, he said that the group has been able to take control of the eastern part of bakhmut east of river, we're reaching out to ukrainian officials to find out their status on the ground, they say they continue to hold the line of resistance on the other side of the river repelling russian attacks they say they're not going to back down president zelenskyy recently sent reenforcements to the fight. >> selma abdelaz iz joining us from alone. be sure to tune in for wolf blitzer's interview of president zelenskyy here on cnn. still to come protesting for pensions how workers across france are pushing back against

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unions in france are calling for at least two more doctor days of protests over the coming week this following nationwide demonstration tuesday over the government's propose the pension reforms and raising of retirement age, cnn was at the protest in paris. >> the six in the series of demonstrations against the government planned to reform the pension program basically raising the retirement often

from 62 to 64 and we've seen a lot of people really young people out here in the crowd today protesting because this is what the french like to call, an acquired right, and once you acquire a right you don't have to give it back up. a lot of people have been turning out at these demonstrations. the real question is what happens after this? are these demonstrations going to continue? are the strikes behind these demonstrations are they going to continue? today about a quarter of public sector workers, government employees stayed off the job, quarter of school teachers four out of five of high speed trains are cancelled. there's a lot of support for what's going on, almost certainly, the government is going to get its way with this because they're going to present the bill that enables the pension program will present it to the parliament in about eight or ten days. after that, if it doesn't pass,

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>> whether you call the judges inferior court judges or special court judges it's the same thing, it's additional judicial resources in our capitol city. i'm not married to any terminology or anything like that. goal truly mean this is to help jackson save a capitol city. >> legal experts in jackson, say there are better ways to address the concerns, and democrats oppose the bill calling it an attempt to overrule the elected leadership in the city. >> the reason it's wrong is because the constitution of the state of mississippi article 6, section 153 expressing says that judges shall be appointed. furthermore, we have a provision a way if you want to have more judges to handle this backlog, we do it every year, we have people come and request additional judge, this county, this district has a requested additional judges to be elected, and they've been turned down denied at every turn.

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patients who would benefit from being able to juice the medication for miscarriage where it's perfectly legal back in texas, she mourns of loss of her daughter, her ashes in this necklace >> i needed an abortion to protect my life and the lives of my future babies that i dream and hope i can still have some day >> because of the scarring in her uterus from the infection, she may not be able to have more children, she's starting fertility treatments in the hope of one day having a baby she and her husband have dreamed of. >> cnn reached out to all defendants in this texas case a spokesperson attorney jim paxton said he's quote doing everything he can in his power to protect mothers, families and unborn children and continue to defend the laws duly enacted from the texas legislature. we have not heard back from the other defendants, the medical board and the executive director in addition cnn has also reached

out to the texas governor greg abbott and not yet heard back. cnn, washington. new u.s. congress woman jeffrey mcclelland is making history, sworn in to become first black woman to represent the state of virginia. last month, she won the special election to replace the late donald mckitchen while campaigning, mcclellan told cnn the opportunity was a tremendous honor but a big responsibility. virginia was once the capitol of the confederacy and a former slave trading center. today is international women's day, and annual event to celebrate the achievements of women while addressing inequalities all around the world, people are participating in acts of solidarity. >> tuesday dozens of people form

a human chain ahead of a world women's forum for peace upseted by the united nations this year's theme is digital innovation and technology for gender equality. and in cuba this women's day is special for female boxers they were recently allowed to compete in tournaments after decades of restrictions many are making history by getting in the ring. reporting from havana. >> reporter: for year this is how women in cuba boxed sparring in rudimentary gyms with whatever equipment they could screen. . while men's boxing is a sport the island do know dominated, women's boxing did not bear the government's stamp of approval. meaning women had to train on their own and unable to compete in tournaments at home or

abroad. it was a missed opportunity to show how formidable cuban women can be in the ring. says the trainer. >> from the time we were in our mother's wombs, we're fighters, she see, always fighting for something, raise our kids, help our families, to be independent. >> whether it was sexism or the slow pace of progress we were up against, long last. cuba female boxers are getting their title shot. in december, cuban boxing officials said a new league for women would be created and that they hoped female boxers would represent the island in the 2024 summer olympics in paris. we took this step when we were sure really convinced he says, that it was the moment and we didn't have any concerns because our women would be protected. weeks later, 12 with my made history as they competed for a spot on the team.

cuba long produced some of the best male boxers but women were prevented from taking part in the sport. now that glass ceiling has finally been broken thereafter the moment for cuba women boxers arrived for them to shine. any doubts about the women's fighting abilities were quickly put to rest as they came out swinging. these athletes know they will still need to change the minds about whether they belong in the ring but say long last attitudes are shifting. >> in my case, all the comments i received have been positive she says if i make an effort i can achieve it cuban women can achieve this it took years and while cuba women boxers are just beginning to fight, simply being in the ring means they've already won the first round.

patrick, cnn. >> thanks for spending part of your day with me i'm rosemary church, cnn newsroom continues with max foster and bianca nobila next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when you find your reason to go on, let it pull you past the doubt. past the pain, and past your limits. no matter what, we go on. biofreeze

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