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Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
repeating that mistake. he s been clear, the u.s. troops are not going to go into ukraine or engage with russian soldiers there, but this is to bolster allies. to send the message here that the west, including the u.s. and europe, is a united front. that there are still also hopes for diplomacy. and white house officials and administration officials i ve talked to in the last day were somewhat encouraged, what they heard from president putin of russia yesterday, in a news conference. sure, there was plenty of bell coast rhetoric from the president and a lot of blame as he pointed fingers at everybody but russia for causing this crisis, suggesting it was nato s escalation that led to it. but at the same time, putin said that he would be open for further talks. that he kept the door open for diplomacy, which is the first tyke he said said that in a stretch. and aides that i talked to took that as something as a hopeful signal, that there could be further discussions, perhaps between blin
i m jonathan lemire. after violating two cease-fire attempts over the weekend, russia says its military will hold its fire this morning, and allow humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to evacuate. the cease-fire began earlier today in four major ukrainian cities. it comes at the request of french president emanuel macron who held a nearly two hour long phone call with president vladimir putin of russia yesterday. it s unclear when the cease-fire would end. the announcement comes after russian forces violated a temporary cease-fire in the port city of mariupol yesterday, hampering evacuations with a barrage of shelling. ukrainian officials saying russian shelling has hit critical infrastructure in the city. which is desperately short of food, water, and medicine. according to the red cross, around 200,000 people are trapped in the city. the situation in and around the capital of kyiv is no different. at least eight civilian, including a family, were killed by a russian shelling yes
this comes a day after ukraine rejected the cease-fire offer from russia yesterday, jonathan. they said absolutely not this morning, they re discussing another humanitarian corridor to get people out of the city according to president zelenskyy, 100,000 people are still trapped inside that is a lot lower than the estimate we got the last couple days yesterday, about 7,000 people got out. but the humanitarian corridor in and out of mariupol is no longer passable people have to get in private vehicles, jonathan, to get out of the city, out of mariupol to get humanitarian aid and supplies and move to the buses and move to zaporizhzhia, zap reese zaporizhzhia where they can board trains and get out we know it s definitely staggering and the russians have made some progress in southern and eastern ukraine. but the ukrainian army has really pushed them back and made progress in the other direction.