fire to disperse protesters in the seized port city of kherson. and in mariupol officials defying russia s ultimatum to surrender, as thousands remain trapped by the onslaught. the u.s. concern tonight the russians are becoming desperate amid a stalemate also tonight, the historic confirmation hearings under way for ketanji brown jackson, the first black woman nominated to the supreme court. what she vowed in her opening statement, and how republicans signal they will challenge her. it comes as justice clarence thomas remains hospitalized with flu-like symptoms we ll have the latest on his condition severe storms on the move reports already coming in of extensive tornado damage al roker is tracking it the boeing 737 crashing in china with 132 people on board. video purportedly showing the final moments, the plane nose-diving 21,000 feet in just over one minute the urgent search for answers. and the ukrainian music star who escaped
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she barely escaped mariupol, dodging shelling and land mines. we were like blind cats, she says. we just took a gamble and left. also out of mariupol tonight, the two associated press journalists who documented the first horrors of the russian invasion, including the bombing of a maternity ward the doctors pleaded with us to film families bringing in their own dead and wounded. no one knows what s going on in our city, they said. in a new harrowing account, they describe their escape the russians were hunting us they had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. but ukrainian soldiers were under orders to find and extract them first. if the russians catch you, one of the soldiers said, they will get you on camera and make you say that everything you filmed is a lie all your efforts and everything you have done in mariupol will be in vain. we also spoke today with ukraine s deput minister who said russian troops are rounding up ukrainians
who is going to talk to them? reporter: but president putin, who is still able to sell russian oil and gas, is facing the possibility of new sanctions as president biden travels this week for a nato summit lester all right keir, thank you. today the biden administration formally declared that the military in myanmar committed genocide mass atrocities against the minority rohingya population in that country formally known as burma more than 1 million rohingya are in a refugee camp, the world s largest in neighboring bangladesh up next, a ukrainian singer s powerful anti-war anthem after fleeing her homeland and the musicians banding together to help her performance
far. diplomacy deteriorating on multiple fronts. russia s foreign ministry calling in the u.s. ambassador to russia, threatening to sever ties, furious after president biden called president putin a murderous dictator the russian leader has called his critics scum and traitors. despite all this, turkey s president erdogan trying to mediate. tonight after speaking with president putin last week, his spokesman was on the call. i see them actually closer today than they were three or four weeks ago reporter: he says turkey s efforts to bring zelenskyy and putin together is the only way to stop the bloodshed. it sounds like you re suggesting, frankly, a level of trust with president putin that simply isn t there for some leaders, that is true but that s why there must be a trust channel. if everybody burns bridges with russia,