with cnn s alex marquardt near kyiv. what s the feeling in the city? reporter: well, anderson, it has been tense, of course, ever since russia launched their invasion, but i think it is particularly on edge now. we are just to the south of the city, both in the city and outside, people have been keeping their lights off. we re in a hotel where many of the lights off, people staying here using flashlights and the lights on their phones. we are using minimal lighting to come on the air with you. you can see that there s nothing behind me. and that is because we really are seeing, today, russia ratcheting up their targeting of the capital city, which, of course, they would like to take. we saw some five people killed, at least, in that attack on the tv tower earlier today. that is just three miles from the city center. and it is evidence that russia is not just stepping up their attack on the city itself, but
what kind of toxin, so we don t know whether they exactly established that yet. it s a really good question. here s why. it s because if this was the russians, that s a big if, we don t know that either, but if this was, then this kind of a tack is easily traceable to them. then you have to ask yourself why the russians and in particular why president putin would be prepared to see an attack like this carried out that might be traced back to them. there are people that i ve been speaking to, particularly intelligence sources, who are talking about whether this is russia ratcheting up the heat, turning up the heat. ratcheting up the pressure. whether this is designed to try and spread chaos in the uk and cause more problems in the west. there are multiple potential explanations. with very few details at this stage. keir simmons, i m sure we ll be talking to you in the days coming up. next, it s sanctuary city showdown. attorney general jeff sessions throwing an illegal book at califor
the nice suits, and having polite conversations about how to improve the situation on the ground, and then the syrians who are fighting and dying everyday on the ground. many syrians do not feel that their needs are represented. beyond that, they don t feel, and they don t have a seat at the table many this specific instance. so there is deep skepticism that these talks can have any real impact, and certainly, one has to question the very announcement that the u.s. will now be sending troops to syria on the day that these peace talks are taking place, and you seem to be hearing one message which is that we all need to get to the negotiating table and start the discussions, and then seeing something else happening, which is russia ratcheting up the support of the assad regime, and the u.s. ratcheting up the regime of the proxies on the ground. clarissa ward, i want to ask you to standby for a moment as well. we are watching the empty podium, and clearly, a lot of the ts being crossed