reporter: shanghai resident pushing back after nearly three weeks of lockdown. these videos circulating on social media show people confronting police for being forced from homes. these are not people with covid-19, but rather people whose apartments are being turned into government facilities to surp surge with the covid cases. chinese officials vow to send every positive case of covid-19 and any close contact to government quarantine, no matter the age. here, you see an elderly man shuffling towards a group of other senior scitizens, some in their 90s, most in wheelchairs transferred from this iets lagz city after testing positive. video shared from inside another center shows elderly patients seemingly unattended. cots set up in halls with wooden boards and thin sheets as bedding. since the start of the outbreak in early march, more than 400,000 cases have been reported
is different. they re urging scitizens to remain calm. they are surrounded by russia on three sides. an attack, according to the white house, would likely begin with ariel bombings, missile attacks and a rapid assault on kyiv, which could fall, american officials say, within 48 hours. alex is on the ground in ukraine. alex, let s talk about what is the mood among ukrainian citizens. i know for days, we ve been hearing a lot less concern from what you hear here in the united states. i wonder if that s changing? reporter: we are still seeing the gap between the dire warnings from washington and the reaction on the ground. the people of ukraine are not acting like a population that believes that it is about to be invaded. there is a lot more calm compared to those warnings that we have hearrsbut really over the course of the
bags in front of the kremlin so that everybody can see what is really going on and his information machine can t hide that from his own scitizens. yeah, you started a recent cnn op-ed by asking what s the only real deterrent to a ukraine ukraine invasion by putin? so so what is the answer to that, given the the situation right now? it is his public. it s his defeat mechanism. the public in russia, for where this war is not really popular. and i don t think we understand that in the less. this is not something people are necessary hi rallying around the flag for. they have to see what is really going on. they have to see the real pi pictures in ukraine when the shooting starts and they have see that there are real russians that are coming back as casualties. and then the sanctions need to hit, and essentially need to say to the russian public do you want this guy leading you? right? is this what you want? is this the future you want?
taliban, become the head of state of afghanistan. really, what does that mean for the international community? we don t know. we don t know how inclusive it s going to be. we don t know if they re really going to give any power at any level in the government to women and what that might look like, the expectations and the bar is really low on that one. the reality right now, we don t have a good assessment of what the government looks like. what we do know from the resistance is they have a call to arms more broadly across the country outside the valley as well. nic robertson reporting for us from pakistan. thank you very much. secretary of state antony blinken is flying to qatar. some u.s. scitizens and our afghan allies out of the country. the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee said he has received classified briefings that taliban forces
americans, and we are working hard to make arrangements, make plans with each of those people and each of their families to get them safely to the airport and get them out. we re communicating with them by email, by telephone, by text message. they ve been very responsive and, as i said before, this is an operational and logistical challenge and a risky and dynamic environment. but we are executing a plan to get those american citizens out of the country. now the question is, how do you do it? and the pentagon yesterday hint ed as much at this, that this could be going on or may be going on. are there special operations happening right now? are there extractions happening outside of the airport within kabul to get american scitizens to safety? i am not going to speak to the operational parameters of what is happening at the air field right now. what i will tell you, brianna, and this is very important, is that for the american citizens