life putin and his reported girlfriend are leading now. plus, breaking news. new court filings in the defamation case against fox news have been released. you ll see the message tucker carlson spent to trump lawyer sidney powell, calling her out for conspiracy theoriestheories. and two americans kidnapped in mexico now back in the u.s. for treatment, the other two killed as the search for the killers ramps up. out front tonight on the run. here s the new video of russian soldiers appearing to abandon their posts just south of bakhmut, a shell of a city, the scene of the most vicious fighting of the past months. ukraine s president made it clear that when it comes to bakhmut, ukraine is not about to retreat. translator: this is tactical for us. we understand that after bakhmut they could go further. they could go to an open road for the russians after bakhmut to other towns in the ukraine in the donetsk direction in the east of ukraine. sticking by that. we ve got ne
not necessarily reflect the reality of another, or of the whole. soldiers enjoying a pause in battle does not mean there is no war. az prudhoe film for four jfk shot does not make it a parade. pretending otherwise is conning. people pretending otherwise is counting something else and enabling that come when you are a high-ranking elected official directly in line of succession to the presidency is hard to imagine. or so you might think. because that s just what house speaker kevin mccarthy has done. he s enabled this. the crowd was enormous. a small percentage of them were hooligans. they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again. the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers. fox s tucker carlson last night cherry-picking from some 40,000 hours of footage that speaker mccarthy released to him and only him. of the january 6th attack on the capitol. the fox
attacks on u.s. citizens are unacceptable. we think our mexican and u.s. law enforcement efforts to find these innocent victims, the task force is to ensure justice is done. do you know how many people currently working going about their lives will lose their jobs some. inflation is extremely high and it is hurting the working people of this country badly. he is constantly pointing to china as a critical competitor to the u.s. why w we need a more comprehensive approach to mitigate these threats. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, march 8. 9 3:00 a.m. in eastern texas and matamoros where authorities are working to learn more about the deaths of two of the four americans kidnapped last week. all four were found tuesday. a man is in custody in connection with the kidnappings, but officials vice president said if he is tied to a criminal group. the white house condemned the kidnappings. attacks on u.
to boston. tell them to shoot me because because we re going to have to shoot me down today. where are they diverting us because wherever it is there s going to be a blood bath everywhere. that man is in custody after attempt to go stab a flight attendant and opening a door mid flight. details on the incident coming up. china s foreign minister warning the u.s. of catastrophic consequences if washington does not change its tone on a number of incidents including u.s. support for taiwan. what we re learning from this key communist party meeting. we will get to that all of that. we want to begin this hour with the four americans kidnapped in mexico. rosa flores from houston, dianne gallagher is in south carolina where three of the missing people grew up. these are close friends we re told. what more do we know about them? i know you ve been speaking with the families. reporter: you know, erica, these four families of these americans who were abducted just absolutely t
a tragic end after a mother s trip to mexico with friends to get a medical procedure. now two in the group are dead. two others found alive. how the group got lost and ended up in the hands of armed criminals. plus i m taking over this plane. taking over this plane, he says. terrifying moments on a cross-country flight when a man threatens to hijack the plane. the video as freaked out p passengers tried to react. plus, cnn s upclose look at how the chinese will go to control its country s messaging. welcome to the lead. and we start today with our world lead and new details in tin vest game into those four americans kidnapped in mexico last week. local officials say one person has been detained after two of the u.s. citizens were found d dead. the two others are thankfully alive, though one is severely injured, according to a u.s. official, and those two have returned to the united states for medical treatment and observation. family members say that the four were