$73 million settlement against a gun manufacturer. the victims now have access to thousands of internal company documents they hope could help other families in the future. we begin in ukraine. the secretary of state tony blinken speaking with foreign minister sergey lavrov. president biden conferencing with the french president emanuel macron and russia s putin holding a meeting with germany s olaf scholz. how the world reads the russian leader s intent is key to whether you view the 24 hours as diplomacy or if it still ends with an invasion. some of the military units will now return to their bases once exercises in the region finish. some, including world financial markets, interpret this as a tone shift moment. but the nato secretary-general says seeing is believing and that, so far, there is no proof of any significant de-escalation. in fact, an american defense official tells cnn other russian units now creeping closer to the