investigations into the war in ukraine, but russia doesn't recognize the court kremlin spokesman dmitri prescott said the decision was null and void while ukraine has not signed up either. it accepts the i, c. c has jurisdiction for crimes committed in its territory since 2014. what president putin's unlikely to appear in court any time soon. but the one means he could be arrested if he travels to one of the $123.00. i. c. c. member states are dramatic editor james bass has more from the united nations. as soon as the way she vladimir putin, president of russia, a superpower leader, and now a wanted man for the alleged war. crabs of deputation of children from ukrainian occupied territories entered the russia physician. the president of the international criminal court announcing that arrest warrants had been issued for 2 russian officials. one of them, mister putin, human rights activists were quick to welcome the news. this is an amazing day for the many victims of rushes war crimes against ukrainians since 2014 because this war has been going on. since then, almost a decade. vladimir putin is

the president biden says, there are no plans to do so the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri prescott, after dismissed the request, as quote absurd and ron, the biden administration will have to consider diplomatic and political escalation expelling russia's ambassador to the us, as well as all russian journalists working here would be the minimum to expect. foreign journalists don't face any restrictions here and work without any issues. but in this case, we're talking about activities carried out under the cover of journalism. in essence, espionage in this regard, there is simply no reason to demand the expulsion of all russian journalists. in this case, restricting the rights of conscientious journalists would be absurd and wrong. earlier washington warned all americans and russia to immediately leave the country that's after russia's federal security service arrested. a wall street journal correspondent on charge of spying for the us government. us citizens residing are travelling in russia, should depart right away. any us citizen, reciting or traveling in russia should depart immediate

, depending on how the investigation on false, what we've heard from the kremlin spokesperson dmitri prescott, who said that his office is aware of the arrest and that this journalist was detained, red handed for espionage. we also understand that the foreign ministry spokesperson has issued comments on this case saying that what he was doing in acton berg has nothing to do with journalism. and that it's not the 1st time a well known western western or has been grabbed by the hand. the feeling here is that this is an open chuck case for the official so far. that is not what we heard from at least one person who had worked with this journalists in that region in central russia saying that the fixer, who arrange interviews for him last week about the involvement of the wagner group in their, their role in the conflict and ukraine was what he was gathering information about, that's what the story he was working on. but also the same fixer also said that this journalist made an unannounced trip to that region on wednesday. and how does it hasn't? hadn't been heard from since until news of his arr

intelligence has found, a pro ukrainian group was responsible for the sabotage criminal spokesman dmitri prescott has dismissed the report saying the conclusions were reached quote, without investigation, the natural gas pipelines link, russia to western europe, germany, sweden and denmark are carrying out investigations at the investigation by german media outlets. reports that a group of saboteurs set sail in a yacht from the northern german town of rostock 3 weeks before the explosions. it says the vessel was rented out by a ukrainian owned company. it stopped at another german port before being traced to the tiny danish island of christian, so close to the location of the explosions and the leeks. a russian mercenaries say they have taken control of the eastern part of bahamas. as the battle for the ukrainian city grinds on, its not strategically significant, but it has gained symbolic importance for both sides. bernard smith has the latest . there isn't much left of back much to fight for, but ukraine and russia continue to throw soldiers and materiel into one of the bloodiest battles of the