just ahead on cnn newsroom mr. president a decision on whether to seek an indictment is very close at hand and frankly it is quite likely here. we re not out of the woods with the winter storms and this is a big one. we re looking at this as a big event. all four of the americans who were kidnapped are back on u.s. soil. we heard gunshots and there were 12 continuous shots. we saw people being taken away in black bags. liver from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, march 10. this 4:00 a.m. in new york where donald trump may be just a short time away to become the first former president ever to be criminally indicted. the district attorney s office recently offered him one final chance to testify next week. that would be before the grand jury hearing evidence in the stormy daniels hush money case. according to the ti times, in almost always indicates an indictment is close. the investigation centers on $130,0
strong message that the world is still behind us and that we are working as a united front. it also means that the help and support from the united states will continue and will be increased. and i think that this visit is also important for the united states as well as for ukraine because it shows the world leadership on standing up for democracy. the important point that the world needs right now. secretary blinken also announced during the visit that u.s. diplomats are going to be returning to ukraine this week, first to lviv and eventually back into kyiv. it is an important symbolic move, yes, but do you see that as more than a symbolic move? do you think that it will impact have an impact on the ground? you know, u.s. diplomats moving out of the country was the first sign of war. it was actually the first sign
et cetera. but it is something that could take several weeks. i have to point out, it s something that ukraine has been asking for since the invasion of crimea, so this is a longstanding request, but only with the atrocities we ve seen in this war has a u.s. administration seriously considered it. just to add on to what peter was saying about rushing weapons to the battlefield, we in the pentagon press corps did get a briefing by two senior defense officials today who said within hours of a presidential order being passed, they are going through the weapons and stacking them on planes, and that they expect to have something like seven plane loads a day going in shortly. they can get it to kyiv sorry, to lviv. the hard part is getting it across the country by railroad without it getting hit or by truck to those 40,000 ukrainian troops stationed, garrisoned and
colleague of richard engle s reporting i think from irpin. people carrying huge dogs over that river where the bridge was blown up and in all the newspaper stories there s a line how many dogs are in the cars from the eastern part of the country to lviv. it is an important reminder that 51 days ago this was a country whose citizens were just figuring out who will walk the dog and take the kids to school. is normal a distant memory for ukrainians, ali? reporter: it is unfortunately. you know? because you talk to so many of them. they say i want to go home. i want my kid to play with the toys and take the dog for a walk. but they re not living there.
in eastern ukraine earlier today. cnn s ivan watson witnessing crowds rushing to board an evacuation train heading from there to here, to lviv, where i am right now. ukrainian government officials are warning ukrainians from the donbas region north to kharkiv that the russians are advancing. in new york today a largely symbolic but also necessary move, the united nations voting to suspend russia from the human rights council. the council does not have any legal authority and indeed includes other countries that regularly violate human rights, including china. but the panel is conducting its own investigation into alleged russian war crimes. cnn chief international anchor, christiane amanpour, joins me now from kyiv. christiane, what do you make of this comparison by the foreign minister that fighting in the east could soon resemble the