capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi
trying to shore up more assistance from the united states as his country enters the cold winter months with a battered energy system. in a telephone call sunday volodymyr zelenskyy told u.s. president joe biden was strikes had destroyed about half of ukraine s energy system. he thanked mr. biden for allocating aid to help rebuild the energy grid and for another defense aid package. right now ukrainians in several regions are struggling in the dark amid massive power shutdowns. mr. zelenskyy says odesa has been impacted the most after russia s latest attacks on the energy infrastructure. cnn s will rippley is in odesa and takes a look at the challenging situation in the port city. reporter: a race to restore electricity to parts of southern ukraine this weekend. more than 1.5 million people in the odesa region alone plunged into darkness at the peak of the
we don t have any phone line to call anybody. what s his situation right now? he s stopped eating, and sometimes in coma. he goes unconscious. yes. he died the following year without ever proving his innocence. his trial will likely revisit part of his defense particularly alleged inconsistencies about how the bomb came to be on the plane. nic robertson, cnn, london. still to come, ukrainians are facing untold hardships in the cold and dark as russia continues to strike at their energy system. we ll show you what life is like in the once vibrant city of odesa. that s next. plus fear of rising covid cases in china has some residents choosing to quarantine
energy infrastructure that left many odesans in the dark for three days. what was that like? no electricity, nothing to cook because we have electric cooker. our house has no generator for this. reporter: these parents of three young children look for creative ways to keep the kids occupied. we try make some activities for them. for example, music. reporter: just hours after friday s drone strikes plunged much of the region into darkness, the odesa philharmonic orchestra give a candlelight performance. even a war won t stop the music. will rippley, cnn, odesa, ukraine. meantime ukraine is
outages. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy blames the blackouts on russian saelf-detonating drones made by iran. translator: after the night strike odesa and the cities and other villages and region are in the dark. reporter: ukraine s military says it shot down ten out of 15 explosive drones russia fired friday night. the energy authority warned stabilizing the power grid could take weeks even months. before the blackouts, the black sea and vibrant nightlife made this southern port city a tourist hot spot. with the war came a flood of internally displaced ukrainians, increasing of the population of one of ukraine s largest cities. now this city of refuge is facing regular russian attacks. odesa s power station also took a direct hit last week when russia fired dozens of missiles at targets nationwide. an ongoing assault on ukraine s