joe manchin s press conferences on joe biden s domestic agenda as they develop. we re also following breaking news. cnn has just learned that a colombian man is now in u.s. custody arrested for his alleged role in the assassination of haiti s president last year. the suspect will appear in a miami federal court this afternoon. let s get over to cnn matt rivers who is joining us now with all the breaking detoys. matt, what have you learned about this? yeah, kate, this is one of the top suspects in the assassination of haitian president jovenel moise who who is killed in his own residence going back to the beginning of july. the suspect, mario palacios, is considered one of the top suspects. he actually admitted in a media interview not long ago to being in the residence the night this assassination happened. the big difference with palacios he was able to escape from hate, one of several suspects who were able to escape from haiti. he made his way to jamaica where jamaican authorities
ukraine now topping, get this, 4 million people and includes not only ukrainians but also nonukrainians who called the country home, cnn matt rivers has spoke to one of them who s now trying to help fellow refugees. reporter: in the mplay area f a temporary refugee shelter, kids sketch out their recent traumas on paper. burning tanks drawn in crayon, deadly battles fill out the chalk board. just outside that tent, gupta can t rerase their pain, but he can get one of those kids a stuffed animal and a smile in the process. when somebody says i m scared what do you tell them? what s going to happen next, everything is going to be okay, so don t worry, then i start joking then. reporter: get a laugh. yes, yes, then i know.
we re following breaking news. the death toll from that devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit haiti is now risen to almost 2,000 people and tropical storm grace is making matters worse. cnn matt rivers has just arrived in a very hard hit city of jeremy matt, what are you seeing there? reporter: yeah, wolf, we really just got here a few hours ago and yet, even though we haven t been here very long, the damage in this city is extremely apparent. every block in the town behind me just below me has some sort of damage. some blocks worse than others but some of the worst damage would be totally collapsed buildings. we know hundreds of people of that 2,000 figure that you just mentioned, hundreds of them come from here in jeremy, thousands of the injured of the 10,000 or so reported injured.
condemned this. both have lodged appeals and both families focus on what s good. she is a happy kid. baby angel is a joy even if she doesn t sleep enough. her mom hopes one day soon after a nap like this one her dad will be there when she wakes up. matt rivers, cnn, myanmar. a heartwrenching very frustrating story, one that frankly done get enough attention and i m grateful to matt rivers for bringing us that report. there are plenty of global challenges like this impacting america and for expert analysis on them be sure to subscribe to my weekend warriors podcast. available on apple stitcher and other podcast apps. i talk to experts about foreign affairs every week. that s it for us tonight. cnn newsroom with ana cabrera is up next. when you shop with retailmenot, you find money everywhere.
government that institutionalized their discrimination and persecution. at an emergency u.n. security council meeting in 2017, nikki haley said myanmar authorities had carried out a brutal sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority. and bangladesh s foreign minister condemned the violence in myanmar as nothing short as a genocide. the government has been cracking down on journalists trying to tell this important story. that is taking its toll. cnn matt rivers got rare permission to visit myanmar where he spoke to the wives of two imprisoned reuters journalists. reporter: she is now 3 months old but only met her father once so far. because her dad is one of two reuters journalist from myanmar sentenced to seven years in prison. i want my daughter to know how her father loves her she says.