has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnn s ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. reporter: they re issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forcibly deporting them to russian territory. they ve also issued an arrest warrant for a russian government official, and she is kind of the children s right official in the russian government. she has already issued a statement. the kremlin have already issued statements basically calling this these arrest warrants null and void, saying that moscow is not a signatory to the rome statute, that they
it is the top of a very busy friday afternoon on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. the enter national criminal court issued an arrest warrant for vladamir putin today. the charge, related to deporting thousands of ukrainian children from occupied territories of ukraine into russia. a warrant is also out for the official under putin who is believed to have led to the forced adoptions, you see her in this photo with putin. ukraine reports at least 16,000 children have been forced to live in russia since putin s war in ukraine began. the kremlin calls the warrant outrageous and unacceptable, volodymyr zelenskyy says this will lead to historic responsibility. joining us now is the president of the international criminal court, judge piotr hofmanski. judge, thank you for joining us today. so i want to read from the icc statement here in your ruling. it states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that mr. putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementione
anderson cooper tomorrow at eight on cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in the african country of sudan , where thousands of americans are caught up in an escalating crisis. the u. s. state department has announced it will carry out a military assisted evacuation of government personnel if the crisis worsens. in the past week, more than 400 people have died since two rival generals first lead their forces into a battle for control of the country. that death toll includes at least one american, both sudan s army and its paramilitary rival. or s f say they will. help evacuate foreign nationals. in fact, minutes ago, the rsf commander says he has talked to us officials and pledged his assistance. when it comes to evacuating americans. the u. s is making preparations . we understand to get diplomatic personnel out right now, but the white house says private citizens should not expect any evacuation and cnn s larry meadow has the la
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write may your days be merry and bright. carley: good morning and merry day after christmas. here on fox & friends. it only comes once a year. let s stretch this out as long as we can. joe: christmas lasts as long as the christmas tree is up. you can t say it s not christmas if you have the christmas tree up. carley: you raise a good point. when do you take christmas tree down? joe: i will take it down when i get back home which may be a while. griff: christmas tree reject music. this is 80 s rock band play those after christmas you still got to get them in which our executive producer tammy is cringing they were playing all this christmas music. as long as you have bad christmas music you want to play leave the tree up they go together. carley: bad christmas music is better than no christmas music at all in my opinion. carley: we celebrated christmas in a big way. griff: on the couch. carley: so glad you are here today. we have some pictures to show? gr