the queen paying tribute to prince philip today, escorted by prince andrew. and then the other moment we saw in the subway in ukraine. everyone stood and listened and it will move you, too. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. that tornado threat as we come on the air. the new booster shot for covid. but we are going to begin tonight with the war in ukraine. and russia now saying tonight that they will drastically reduce combat operations around the capital of kyiv, and in the northern city of chernihiv, though adding it is not a cease-fire. president biden responding tonight, saying, we ll see what their actions are. and how the pentagon now sees this tonight. what they said. just moments ago, ukraine s president zelenskyy responding to the russians, as well. this all comes after talks between russia and ukraine and istanb
space shrinks, brianna, there is nowhere for them to go. they can t go into other parts of syria. dyer s border has been closed for years saying they can t handle another humanitarian influx. they are warning about a humanitarian catastrophe. we re hearing a lot of threats and warnings being issued by damascus not to kill any more civilians, but all of that is just rhetoric at this stage. when you talk to syrians, they tell you out of everything they ve been through, all that they ve lost, all of the trauma, one of the more painful aspects of it is the apathy. indeed. arwa, thank you so much for bringing their story to us. arwa damon reporting from istanb istanbul. coming up, navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher being talked
to be included in any communications with foreign officials. the white house did not respond to cnn s request for comment, but a spokesperson told the new york times this, jared has always meticulously followed protocols and guidelines regarding the relationship with mohammed bin salman and all of the other foreign officials with whom he interacts, end quote. the saudis have offered varying and sometimes contradictory accounts of khashoggi s killing from the day he disappeared after he went into the saudi consulate in istanb istanbul. they further denied he was missing. only later did they admit he was dead, the white house and u.s. state department say the u.s. has not reached a conclusion, but last month the cia assessed khashoggi s murder that it was personally ordered by the crown prince, mohammed bin salman. we re following the story in paris, the streets there open for business this day. a day after thousands of yellow vest protesters took over the
things will change. how they will change after the election, that s why we re in the news business. we ll find out. that and to spend time with people like you. thank you very much. we do want to get some breaking news in the investigation into the disappearance and apparent murder of a washington post columnist. we are getting newly released surveillance images which capture a saudi intelligence officer in istanbul on the day jamal khashoggi vanished after entering that saudi consulate. i want to our chief international reporter live with these breaking details. reporter: that s right. so turkish media has released what it purports to be surveillance photo images of this man. he is one of the infamous 15 saudi nationals who flew in on the day of the disappearance. what they show, the first one
shows him arriving at the consulate just about 9:55 a.m., so just before 10 a.m. and the second image shows him leaving the console general s residence. presumably the turkish authorities believe the murder took place in the hours before that second photograph was captured. the third image from surveillance footage shows him checking out of his hotel in istanb istanbul. he had checked in for three days, but when checked out suddenly in the afternoon. and then the fourth photograph shows him arriving at the airport around 6:00 p.m. we then know that he got on the first of two planes that went back to saudi arabia. what s interesting specifically about all of this, erica, is the man who appears in this surveillance footage.