it is the top of a very busy friday afternoon on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. the enter national criminal court issued an arrest warrant for vladamir putin today. the charge, related to deporting thousands of ukrainian children from occupied territories of ukraine into russia. a warrant is also out for the official under putin who is believed to have led to the forced adoptions, you see her in this photo with putin. ukraine reports at least 16,000 children have been forced to live in russia since putin s war in ukraine began. the kremlin calls the warrant outrageous and unacceptable, volodymyr zelenskyy says this will lead to historic responsibility. joining us now is the president of the international criminal court, judge piotr hofmanski. judge, thank you for joining us today. so i want to read from the icc statement here in your ruling. it states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that mr. putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementione
another mq df 9 reaper flight shortly after the flight with the encounter with the russian jet. that, according to three officials familiar with the jet itself, was to look at the area the russians were trying to get to, to see if they could reach the wreckage of the drone. we now saw on flight tracking websites an rq4 global hawk drone over the southern area of the black sea. so we know there have been drone flights over the black sea since the encounter. these drone flights will continue, and that s what defense secretary lloyd austin promised, that the u.s. will continue to fly over international air space. it s pretty petty that russia would decorate these pilots for an incident they initially said they had no part in. the u.s. says russia may have recovered some of the debris from that downed drone. do we know what they recovered? reporter: we haven t gotten a
hormuz. they have offered a map and it s impossible to know exactly where it was shot down. it seems to be a derivative of the rq4 global hawk. it s a surveillance drone the u.s. uses around the world. the iranians have come out with an extremely vicious statement. the guard corps which is the unit that shot this down. he came down and said this was a clear message to the united states not to violate iranian air space. anyone that wants to invade or violate iranian air space or its territory will not come back. the iranian general reiterating that iran does not want war but is prepared to go to war. christine. frederick pleitgen for us in tehran. thanks, fred. talk a little sports ahead. zion williams set to begin at the nba draft.
reporter: yeah, i think a lot of people are worrying about a lot of things in the persian gulf area certainly after the incident took place in the early morning hours of this morning. the thing that s not in dispute, dave, is that an iranian air defense system has shot down a united states drone. it appears as though this is some sort of derivative of the rq4 global hawk. this is a high altitude surveillance drone from the united states. the iranians are saying this incident took place as the drone was violating iranian air space in the early morning hours and they say it happened south of the strait of hormuz. the u.s. says it was flying in international air space. the head of iran s revolutionary guard corps said the shooting down of this drone was a clear message to the united states that iran would defend its air borders. they said the iranian air space was a red line and they said that they would defend it and
morning hours shot down a drone that seems to be a derivative of the rq4 global hawk. that s a high altitude surveillance drone. the u.s. is saying this drone was shot down in international air space somewhere in the strait of hormuz. the iranians say it had violated iranian air space and shot down somewhere south of the strait of hormuz. the iranians coming out with a pretty angry statement after the incident took place. the drone was shot down by iran s elite revolutionary guard corps. the head came out and said unequivocally that the shooting down of the drone is a clear message to the united states that the iranians will not violate its air space or its air space getting violated by anyone that they say their air space is, quote, a red line. all of this comes as tensions between the iranians and u.s. are continuing to simmer that