to say about the possibility of taking the witness stand in his own defense in the classified documents case. and also ahead an update on president biden s covid status following the first lady s infection as he s set to leave today for a major summit overseas. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with the first major hearing for the fulton county election interference case that ended in a loss for two defendants. sidney powell and kenneth chesebro were denied their requests to split their trials. the pair each requested speedy trials but did not want to be in court together. district attorney fani willis is still pushing to keep all 19 codefendants together, trying them all on the expedited trial date that chesebro was granted. now, fulton county superior court judge scott mcafee did not seemed convinced that could be possible. it just seems a bit unrealistic
bullet, possibly beyond, continuing to try to hold on to that city, even as the russians continue to try to advance along that enormous front of the donbas. jose? and raf, there are hundreds of thousands of civilians, of people in mariupol, that really couldn t get out. reporter: that s right. they re still trapped there and the russians are sealing that city off. they are asserting their domination over a city they have destroyed already. there is a ring of checkpoints now at the main routes in and out of the city, and russian forces say nobody goes anywhere unless they allow them. an adviser to the mayor of mariupol says they have begun issuing passes to civilians still inside who are not being allowed to move from one to the other. the deputy prime minister has been trying in vain to get the russians to agree to a
acquaintance. the paratrooper have saying russia has staged a huge column 250 men, several tanks they are hoping to advance toward kyiv. how far is that town irpin where you are. 50 miles to the northwest of where we are now. and for the last few days we have been able to hear the shelling of that town and speak to people who come out of that constantly. they are flattening that town. the mayor said yesterday he would not leave. he would stay and fight there is a real battle been going on there it is one of the entry points into this city. it s significantly critical town to hold. the ukrainians have been pushed out. last we heard, they were pushing back in to try retake it yes, they are trying to encircle kyiv. there is still that southern corridor out. some people suggesting russia doesn t have the forces yet massed here to cut the whole city off. if they was to continue to move through here and seeing movement
kyiv but on cities all across the country. and we are starting to really feel the efforts of russia to cut this city off, to encircle it, to strangle it. we re seeing heavier and heavier fighting coming from the north and from the west. those russian forces pushing forward. we see more and more ukrainian residents coming out of those areas, some 2,000 have left the neighborhood of irpin, according to the police. that is, of course, where we saw shelling by russian forces that left at least eight people dead. four people at a checkpoint. we have seen those tanks that you were referencing in residential areas, in irpin. very close to residential buildings. and all kinds of civilian areas, buildings and infrastructure that were hit by russian forces to the north and to the west of the city, including a bakery today. we learned was hit west of the city in a plac.
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