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cnn's clare sebastian joins us now. o, clare, can you just tell us more about the investigation and what seems to be the diplomatic fallout here? >> yeah, omar, the investigation seems to be in its early stages. now. it's involving four countries. so azerbaijan, russia, kazakhstan, where, of course, the plane came down, and brazil, which is where the headquarters of embraer, the planemaker, is based. we understand the black boxes have now been sent to brazil for analysis. so there is cooperation happening there. but on the other side we have this very unwelcome diplomatic spat for moscow with a key ally, azerbaijan, so key that in fact, azerbaijan's president was en route to russia for an informal summit of post-soviet states when the plane came down and he had to turn back to azerbaijan. so look, as you say, putin is clearly in damage control mode. he did apologize in a way, in a phone call that he initiated on saturday. he said that he was sorry for this tragic incident happening in russian airspace. according to a kre

cnn's clare sebastian joins us with more on her reporting. so, clare, tell us more about what cnn has learned about this multinational effort. >> yeah, absolutely, pamela. now, as you know, the war in ukraine has always been an air war as well as a ground war. but over the last sort of half year, we've really seen a significant increase in drone attacks around the time of may or between may and july. the average monthly number of attack drones that were hitting ukraine or being fired at ukraine was around the 400 mark. now, by november, that had increased almost six fold, up to around 2400. so the increasexponential. now, even before this, we had begun looking at a facility in the southern russian region of tatarstan. it had already been sanctioned by the u.s. and the eu and the uk as the site where russia was building shahed drones, iranian designed drones under contract with iran. but we started to look into this and we could see very clearly over the last nine months or so on satellite images. that significant expansion was taking place. tw

let's get right to cnn's clare sebastian. this was part of his end of the year news conference. had a lot to say. clare. >> yeah, he's still going. >> john, we're coming up to the four hour mark, which is, by the way, pretty typical for putin when he carries out these events on an almost annual basis. i think in terms of what we learned about his attitude towards the incoming us administration. he kept his cards pretty close to his chest, but he did make it pretty clear that he would be more than willing to engage once trump takes office. take a listen. this was an answer, by the way, to a question from nbc journalist keir simmons during this event. >> you asked me what we can offer or what i can offer to the newly elected president trump when we meet. first of all, i don't know when we will meet because he hasn't said anything about it. i haven't spoken to him at all in over four years. of course i am ready for this at any time and i will be ready for a meeting if he wants it. >> so on that more than four years comment i think. look, we have to note that the kremlin continues t

clare sebastian cnn, london. >> thanks for joining us. the source starts now. >> straight from the source. tonight it's the maga versus musk war that is

for more, let's bring in cnn's clare sebastian.re's absolutely a theme, isn't there, in all of these comments, wherever they're coming from in the world. >> absolutely. max. commitment to peace, elevating the role of human rights in u.s. foreign policy. sort of the key elements of a lot of the tributes that we're seeing in terms of european leaders, we are seeing a focus in particular on the camp david accords, his his role in the middle east. german chancellor schulz called him a great mediator for peace in the middle east. this is a portion of what keir starmer, the british prime minister, said. he said his presidency will be remembered for the historic camp david accords between israel and egypt. and it was that lifelong dedication to peace that saw him received the nobel peace prize, which, of course he did in 2002. he goes on to talk about how he redefined the post-presidency with his remarkable commitment to social justice and human rights at home and abroad. but i think for europe, there's some reflection as well, given that

. >> nato told cnn it is, quote, well aware of alabuga and expects it to ramp clare sebastian cnn, london. >> wow. thanks so much for joining us. ac360 starts now. >> tonight on 360 breaking news. the president elect tells the supreme court that only he has what it takes to make a deal to head off a tiktok ban before it goes into effect. the day before he's sworn into office. also tonight, what cnn is learning about the possibility that russian anti-aircraft fire brought down a passenger airliner and what may have triggered the deadly chain of events. later, with a massive lottery prize up for grabs tonight. why winning big all too often comes at a mega dollar price. good evening to you, jim sciutto here sitting in for anderson tonight. we begin tonight with the breaking news and what appears to be another flex of sorts by president elect trump. just days after pushing for the purchase of greenland. you heard it right. the repossession of the panama canal and by his own suggestion, annexing the country, canada. he inserted himself into the supreme court case over tiktok, which is used by

. >> cnn's clare sebastian is here with more. clare, what are you learning about this?> yeah, so i think there's two key concerns here. one is that although of course, nothing is proven yet and accidents are possible in this area, but one is that russia may be stepping up sabotage. we've seen all kinds of different elements of alleged russian sabotage across europe. everything from arson to, you know, cyber attacks and things like that, all part of the hybrid war that has gone alongside the war in ukraine. so that's one concern. the second, now that we have this allegation, both from the finnish customs service and the eu's top diplomat, that this ship may be part of this so-called shadow fleet, this grouping of hundreds, potentially, of vessels that have mysteriously changed ownership, many of them aging vessels, by the way, that have this sort of murky ownership and are used allegedly to transport russian oil in circumvention of sanctions, that this may now be another risk associated with that, that they could potentially be involved in this kind of sabotage. so that

clare sebastian, thank you very much. we got a lot of developing stories. we're watching a new hour of cnn news central starts now just moments ago. >> luigi mangione arrived at a pennsylvania courthouse where he has back to back hearings this morning. new york prosecutors eager for the judge to clear the way to extradite him back to new york to face first-degree murder charges in the killing of the unitedhealthcare ceo. we will take you there live. plus, tis the season of giving and trump just handed republicans a slap, handing them back their government funding deal will have the latest on where negotiations stand before friday's midnight deadline, and officials are all abuzz after announcing the dreaded murder. hornets are wiped out of the u.s. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate baldwin. this is cnn news central. >> all right. happening now. we've got our eyes on pennsylvania because just a few minutes ago, accused killer luigi mangione arrived in court there. he's got back to back hearings. interesting. he walked in there without incident. very d

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clare sebastian is out front with the caption, my mom's reaction when she found out i earned more than her cat videos, tiktok memes, all part of a recruitment effort funneling workers into russia's ever expanding drone program. >> the videos are made by elabuga polytechnic, a elabuga polytechnic, a technical college based at the alabuga special economic zone in southern russia. the same site identified by the white house last year as russia's domestic shahed factory producing iranian designed drones. in february, the u.s. slapped sanctions on alabuga, noting it, quote, exploited underage students from an affiliated polytechnic university as laborers to assemble these attack uavs. david albright, a former nuclear weapons inspector, has been tracking alabuga since 2022. >> the only benefit is is the high salary. but the males get exemption from military service. and so that that's a drawing card. >> a ukrainian intelligence officer only authorized to speak to cnn anonymously told us those perks come at a cost. >> to all students involved in the production of these uavs live at a separate

clare sebastian cnn, london. >> thanks for joining us. the source starts now. >> straight from the source. tonight it's the maga versus musk war that is escalating tonight, as elon musk says, that parts of that movement are contemptible fools. while his far right critics claim he is censoring them on his own platform. whose side is donald trump on? and we'll speak with the house republican on that critical election for mike johnson that is now just days away. by this time next week, we could know if he remains as the house speaker. and with the clock ticking for tiktok, i have new reporting that trump just spoke with the company's ceo. the president elect tonight is calling on the supreme court to pause the nationwide ban, set to go into effect the day before he takes office. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source. and tonight, that internal battle that's underway in trump world that we laid out for you here last night is only escalating even further today in his clash with the far right over immigration. elon musk is now going after