Running ads distancing themselves from president biden. for lifting a trump era policy. plus, a warrant issued today for the alabama corrections officer last seen leaving jail with an inmate, charged with murder. cnn has an exclusive look inside his now empty cell. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead and the besieged city of mariupol, ukraine, where some civilians are finally finding a way out after weeks, months of a relentless russian bombardment. ukrainian officials say there were two planned evacuation corridors, one for people around the city who want to leave and another for those who had been trapped inside the azovstal steel plant. but it remains unclear if either of those corridors held. this is new video of a large smoke plume over the city of mariupol today, and a commander at the steel plant tells cnn the complex has been under constants fire since early this morning.
Reuters shot this video. and this is what putin s so-called success looks like. new and disturbing satellite images showing what appear to be mass graves near mariupol. you see them at the top of your screen there. more and more graves being added everyday. ukrainian officials say that vladimir putin s forces dug multiple mass graves, each measuring about 100 feet just outside of mariupol and repeatedly dumped truckloads of corpses in them. thousands of corpses, hard to wrap your head around it, thousands of them. ukraine says 79 people successfully evacuated from mariupol today, president volodomyr zelenskyy says thousands of civilians still trapped inside the city. that, as the united states of america president, joe biden, announces another 500 million in u.s. assistance for ukraine s government in addition to the 800 million in military aid he pledged today. we won t always be able to
And we have heard for so long, anna, about the desperate situation in mariupol, first of all, any prospect at all of trying to help people get out of that port city? at all of trying to help people get out of that port city? well, what we have heard out of that port city? well, what we have heard in out of that port city? well, what we have heard in the out of that port city? well, what we have heard in the last out of that port city? well, what we have heard in the last hour - out of that port city? well, what we have heard in the last hour or- have heard in the last hour or two, jane, have heard in the last hour or two, jane, is have heard in the last hour or two, jane, is perhaps the most positive indication jane, is perhaps the most positive indication for weeks because it has been indication for weeks because it has been really more than a month now since been really more than a month now since a been really more than a month now since a significant humanitaria
To go through so i think at the moment the expectation is it would not. the interesting thing at the moment is it is the whole party gait issueis moment is it is the whole party gait issue is so unpredictable. last week felt distinctly calmer amongst conservative mps and the prime minister was getting up again in parliament and apologising. the other moment going tomorrow. it feels unpredictable as to what will come next. . ~ feels unpredictable as to what will come next- and we ll have full coverage of prime minister s questions on bbc news and bbc two as we join our colleages at politics live a little later this hour. let s return now to the latest developments in ukraine. anna foster is in the capital, kyiv. bring us up to date. bring us up-to-date. it seems to be all about what bring us up-to-date. it seems to be all about what was bring us up-to-date. it seems to be all about what was happening i bring us up-to-date. it seems to be all about what was happening in i bring us u
That has also begun outside of the country. so it just goes to show that the urgency is really ramping up because the previous approved package, as that equipment is starting to arrive, there are already discussions by u.s. officials for an additional weapons package to be approved. guys. mj lee, thank you. and so as you know, we re to figure out what is happening in far poll. this is new video into our newsroom and it shows residents of mariupol gathering outside today. this is to evacuate the city on a convoy of buses that we also see lined up. there was a humanitarian corridor agreed upon for mariupol today, but it is not clear good they a if they are ge buses and all these people can safe will he evacuate. latest estimate is 120,000 people still in this besieged city. of course we know that there are about 1,000 people at that