commissioner for children s rights are facing war crimes charges from the international criminal court which has issued warrants for their arrest. so is the message today nobody is above the law? i think the message must be that basic principles of humanity bind everybody and nobody should feel they have a free pass. that is kareem khan, the icc chief prosecutor. we spoke to him at the start of the invasion in ukraine and spoke to him extensively throughout the war on the ukrainian people and their identity. tonight an exclusive interview with him on this history making day along with coverage only as cnn can of the impact of it. first, though, here s what president biden said about the icc s decision to cnn s jeremy diamond. i think it s justified, but the question is it s not recognized by us either, but i think it makes a very strong point. let s go to clarissa ward who joins us from the hague. a historic interview for you. reporter: historic interview for us a
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issuing a warrant for vladimir putin for alleged war crimes, putin ice response to that and what the odds are that he actually gets arrested. plus a $30 billion lifeline, how big banks are stepping in to save a smaller one from financial ruin and helping to stabilize the u.s. economy. it s thick in the summertime and builds up and smells terrible. it s heading to the u.s. what we know about the 5,000-mile-long mass of seaweed making its way to the coast and what it will do to the tourism industry. for the second time ever plus another stunning upset in the ncaa tournament. a huge undered to do, 16 seed knocking out a number 1 in the first round of the tournament. our andy scholes is standing by with the highlights. the international court has issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin and the country s children s rights commissioner in an alleged scheme to deport ukrainian children, thousands of them, to russia. of course, moscow rejected those allegations. a spok
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has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnn s ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. reporter: they re issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forcibly deporting them to russian territory. they ve also issued an arrest warrant for a russian government official, and she is kind of the children s right official in the russian government. she has already issued a statement. the kremlin have already issued statements basically calling this these arrest warrants null and void, saying that moscow is not a signatory to the rome statute, that they