program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to
chilling temperatures dropping and dropping there. they are stuck outside, don t have the right clothes and everything else. and one family was turned away from the u.s. after a harrowing months long journey to get her from venezuela. we re going to take you to border live. and there s so many dead bodies in china s massive covid crisis right now they can t be burned fast enough. sounds disgusting to say it but this is what s happening. we re going to live to beijing and our salina wang. holiday music playing a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the number one cold shortening brand! highly recommend it!
this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to impose marshal law across russia if he wants to. and putin s use of the word war comes after his defense minister said russia was going to be upping its fighting force by half a million soldiers. so it is unclear whether putin finally slipped up in using the word war, but to be clear it is not a word he has used in ten months. and he said it as we re getting yet another phone call showing the dire straits. this was intercepted and provided to us by ukrainian intelligence. you re hearing from a russian servicewoman and she s talking about how bad things are in putin s army. listen for yourself. translator: they don t give a [ bleep ] about people anywhere. it s everywhere, not just here.