deputy foreign minister is coming out and clarifying and saying that actually, there is a separate 1988 agreement under which the u. s and russia. to have agreed to inform each other of when they conduct these missile launches and that russia will continue to abide by that agreement. but look, there s still a lot of questions here about how much the u. s can rely on russia to actually tell the united states right because, as i mentioned they did suspend their participation in the new start treaty last month, and that has raised a lot of concerns among us officials about how the u. s and russia are essentially going to keep track of each other s nuclear posture as well. as the warheads that they have the missiles, etcetera, and actually, it was a senior pentagon official testifying just the other day on capitol hill, who revealed for the first time that when the us reached out to the russians recently to get a sense as part of that agreement for nuclear for russia s nuclear posture, its
after the wall street journal reporter who is based in moscow , was arrested on suspicion of espionage. cnn s jeremy diamond standing by at the white house. first we go to cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance who is in moscow. i wonder matthew how russian authorities are describing this at this point. well they re absolutely kind of committed to the idea that this individual 11 girls, covic, 32, year old reporter for the wall street journal, was not was up to no good. the foreign ministry saying that he whatever he was doing in yekaterinburg, russian city, 1100 miles or so from moscow. it was nothing to do with journalism within the past hour or so, a court in moscow where he s been arraigned, has designated his case top secret, it s revealed in a press statement. that goes. covic has . um denied guilt. he hasn t accepted that he is guilty of
taking this seriously at the scene to be clear at this point . there are no injuries reported and the cause of that derailment is still under investigation. we have learned that the ntsb is now sending their own team to investigate. but as you can see on your screen, several cars were ignited in this derailment and have burned for hours at forced those evacuations, everyone within a half mile of this site in this small town raymond, minnesota, the population there less than 1000 people. and this comes nearly two months after that derailment in east palestine. several incidents but that one the highest profile, which also caused a large fire and evacuation. and, of course, those concerns, health concerns environmental concerns, and so this is a very active scene. we know the governor is heading there now, and we ll have more. updates throughout the morning. jim jessica just amazing how many we ve seen in recent weeks. get gabe cohen thanks so much for following today. russia is
forces treaty, pulling back from some of the notifications as required under start, but also open threats to use nuclear weapons right in and around ukraine. what actually remains of the notifications and the other parts of the start treaty right now, in the wake of this so very little. unfortunately both russia and the united states have said that even though they won t be providing the notifications every six months of how many nuclear forces they have, where they re located, and movements of those forces that both sides will stay under the limits established by the treaty. under new start, both sides will have no more than 1550 offensive strategic nuclear weapons deployed. and we believe the u. s government has said. we believe that russia continues to be under that limit . but natasha was exactly right that the transparency that predictability that the information the two sides of
informed them that they would not be giving the americans that information anymore. well, in response, the u. s. says that it is not going to give that information to russia anymore, either. so that kind of line of communication just determining, you know, both countries nuclear capabilities here and the amount of warheads each country has that has appeared to be suspended. however the actual notification of when russia conducts a missile launch, for example, that will continue important gym because it could help avoid some serious miscalculations by both countries. yeah, fascinating. alright natasha bertrand with that update for us a critical update. thanks so much. let s continue the conversation now with john wolfstahl. he s a nuclear expert who formerly served as senior director at the national security council. this under president obama. john good to have you on this morning. thanks for having me. alright so help us understand where we stand now because there s been a gradual wa