payback. what is next with cdc changes. breaking tonight we have to wait a little longer, at least, to get a look at the materials used by the justice department to obtain the search warrant for last week s search and raid of the florida compound of former president trump. the judge declined to order the unsealing today instead scheduling a hearing for thursday. the president is calling for the release of the affidavit that was part of those materials in what he calls the interest of transparency. the fbi opposes the move. correspondent mark meredith has our report tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. thursday s hearing is going to be fascinating pitting former president trump directly against the government he once led. trump and the media are urging federal judge to unseal the affidavit related to last week s search. the justice department trying to block the release and as for president biden, he is just trying to avoid talking about the case. palest
russian planes. ukrainian officials stopped short of claiming responsibility for either explosion but have taken out russian ammunition hubs and supply roots in the last week. russian president vladimir putin is accusing the u.s. and britain of helping ukraine plan the attack. the nato block is moving east, building up its military infrastructure, deploying missile defense systems and increasing the strike capabilities of offensive forces. tension between moscow and kyiv only building outside of the zappa region nuclear power plant. europe s largest. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warns continued shelling could have catastrophic consequences. any incorporation at the nor evacuations and rescues underway in the hard hit donbas region today after renewed russian
polish border and across to ukraine, and that becomes a strictly ukrainian problem of moving it from western ukraine to eastern ukraine where it can be effective in the donbas. ., ., ., donbas. you are painting a good icture donbas. you are painting a good picture there donbas. you are painting a good picture there of donbas. you are painting a good picture there of how donbas. you are painting a good picture there of how long - donbas. you are painting a good picture there of how long it - donbas. you are painting a good| picture there of how long it takes and just how difficult it is to move these weapons to where they are needed. you have mentioned this is quite sophisticated weaponry, but is it enough for the ukrainians to be able to hold off a russian attack? i think this is one of those cases where the quality of the western contributions, in terms of the rocket systems, the artillery systems, can, overa period of rocket systems, the artillery systems, can, over a period of
explain what they saw, but particularly those who have experienced that casual cruelty, the willingness to indulge in grotesque violence that has really come to define the russian occupation of these communities around kyiv. terrorized by drunk soldiers. phil black, appreciate it. thank you. perspective now from the brutality of the war from samantha powers. her previous work as ambassador to the u.n. and member of the national security council she s rallied the u.n. and other nations to focus on human rights and atrocities across the globe. ambassador power, russia s pulled forces out of northern ukraine, redirecting most of its combat power to it donbas. just overall how do you see the conflict right now? well, on the one hand we re starting actually to see you cranian civilians who have crossed into europe return to their homes, what s left of them in places like the capital city kyiv, even in places like bucha
crimea to remain russian and the donbas area? given the horrors we re seeing, it emsoos like it s hard to imagine zelenskyy could accept such a thing? it is hard to imagine and he won t accept that the russians would control forever crimea and donbas. and you re exactly right. it s up to president zelenskyy to decide what would go into these negotiations. you re right to ask how this ends and where do we go from here? the russians have a hard swaug as well. the russian troops are tired. remember, peter, they ve been in the field in the winter since january. and they got really badly beaten. you ve pointed out that they got badly beaten around kyiv. they had to withdraw. they were driven back to belarus and russia to try to lick their wounds, recover. and it s these same troops that they re trying to send to