moscow has warned of renewed attacks on the ukrainian capital kyiv, saying so-called decision making centers will be targeted if ukrainian forces continue to plan acts of sabotage and carry out military strikes on russian territory. there were a few other details from the russian ministry of defense, but it's been almost two week news since russian forces retreated from the north after failing to take the capital. the french military now saying a large scale russian offensive in the donbas region could happen within days, possibly ten days. but a spokesperson also added russian forces are yet to make any significant territorial gains, at least so far. meantime, ukrainian fighters claimed to have used anti-ship missiles to cause serious damage to the moskva, flagship of the russian fleet in the black sea. russian state media disputing that account, saying a fire detonated on board this guided missile cruiser and it was evacuated. cnn cannot verify either claim. to the south, russia says more than a thousand ukrainian marines have surrendered in the besieged port city of mariupol. video aired on russian state television what appeared ukrainian soldiers giving up. they have now managed to link up and will fight, quote, until the end. in the city of kharkiv, images on social media appears to show explosions in civilian areas from cluster munitions. the u.n. says such attacks may amount to war crime. well, for weeks now, ukrainian's president has been pleading for heavier firepower from the u.s. and nato. and now washington appears to be coming through, announcing a new $800 million security package. notably, it includes almost a dozen soviet era mi-17 helicopters which can also be used for gunships. president evangelical specifically asked for those helicopters in a call on tuesday. also drones, anti-tank missiles, armored personnel carrier, and protective equipment, as well as equipment for chemical attacks. the european union also announced a $544 million package of military equipment, fuel and first aid. all of this comes following a direct appeal from president zelenskyy in a video message he released, which contains some graphic images. russians intentions to the whole world, it could only be stopped by force of arms. it must be done now. ukraine needs love and supplies. we need heavy artillery, armed vehicles, air defense systems, and combat aircraft. anything to repel russian forces and stop their war crimes. >> meantime, in a significant show of support, the presidents of poland, lithuania, latvia, and estonia traveled to the ukrainian capital to meet with zelenskyy. they discussed aid for ukraine. they also offered to help investigate war crimes committed by the russian troops. cnn correspondents are covering the region here. they had this conflict covered from every angle. nima elbagir is in kharkiv. we begin with matt rivers here in la viv with the dire situation in mariupol. >> reporter: weeks after russia began an offensive bombardment to take the city and still ukraine's government says mariupol has not yet fallen. the keyport on the southeast coast of ukraine increasingly a symbol of both ukrainian resistance and russian military goals. ukrainian officials are holding up the city as a symbol of a heroic fight with an aide to president zelenskyy saying on facebook the two different units defending mariupol have managed to link up and are continuing the fight. one of them released a message they, quote, did not give up their positions. and now there are accusations from the ukrainians that russia has used chemical weapons here. >> translator: the day before yesterday, the russian troops attempted to strike our city with a so-called chemical attack. they tried to drop a chemical agent on our defenders. the agent did affect our defenders, and there is evidence a number of people living in settlements on the outskirts of mariupol were also affected. >> reporter: president zelenskyy accusing russia of using, quote, phosphorous bombs and other munitions prohibited by international law. the u.s. as well as cnn teams on the ground have not yet verified that such an attack did occur. no conclusive imagery has serviced. and russia denies having chemical weapons, but mariupol has been devastating. the mayor says more than 90% of the city's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, and officials say russian forces have cut off crucial supplies, including water and food. >> we are currently discussing 20 to 22,000 people dead in mariupol. >> reporter: meanwhile, russia is engaged in an intense propaganda campaign, saying it is close to capturing what would be its first major ukrainian city since the war began. >> translator: as a result of successful offensive actions of the russian armed forces and the police units of the dpr, 1,026 ukrainian military personnel of the 36th brigade will lay down their arms and surrendered. >> reporter: the russian military taking some reporters on a tour of a theater where hundreds of people had been sheltered when it was hit by a air strike last month, according to ukrainian officials. >> translator: you can see for yourself what the situation in the city is. there are a lot of dead people. >> reporter: and for those still alive, a hellish landscape persists. ukrainian's government says about 180,000 people in and around the city still need to be evacuated. so far many have not been able to do so. matt rivers, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> joining us now a professor of international law at oxford university. professor, thank you for being with us. the u.s. and the french presidents appear at odds whether russia is carrying out genocide. by way of context, joe biden did say that's what it looks like to him. he'll leave the lawyers to work out the rest. i want you to listen to emmanuel macron's reasons for not calling this a genocide. here he is. >> genocide, it carries a meaning. the ukrainian people and the russian people are brother nations. what's happening now is madness. it is of an extraordinary brutality. it's the return of war to europe. but at the same time, i look at the facts. i want to try my best to continue to be able to stop this war and rebuild peace. so i'm not sure that escalation of words serve the cause. >> would you suspect politics could be influencing both leaders here and how they use this word "genocide"? >> what i think very often leaders use the word genocide in order to evoke a particular response. in other words, what they're really trying to do, at least what president biden appears to be trying to do is to galvanize international action and to galvanize a response in relation to what is going on in ukraine. of course in terms of whether or not genocide is actually being committed, as a matter of law, you to look at what the definition under international law and look at whether the criteria for genocide have been fulfilled. >> this is from the u.n. when it comes to actual definition of genocide. to cuonstitute genocide there must be intent to destroy a national, ethical, racial or religious group. it is a special intent that makes a crime of genocide that makes the crime of genocide so unique. so what is known publicly at this point, is there at least enough evidence to begin an investigation of the possibility that genocide is taking place? >> well, the international criminal court is already investigating the situation in ukraine, and i'm sure that the prosecutors of the icc will be looking at the condition of all international crimes in ukraine. so that could be both war crimes and genocide and also crimes against humanity. so in terms of possibility, yes, of course we can discuss it. but as you pointed out, the definition of genocide under the genocide convention is very particular. it requires this intention to destroy in whole or in part the national, ethical, racial or religious group. and what's important to note is it's an intention to achieve the physical or the biological destruction of that group. so it's not just, you know, destroying as a cultural group or as a cultural entity. it's actually achieving the physical of the biological dysfunction. and that's quite a high standard to establish. and of course because this is talking about a state of mind, it's a special intent, as you called it. you have to show that those who are involved in this activity, that they have this state of mind. so you either establish that by what they say or you establish that by inference from what they have done. and that's often not easy to do. >> now you and other legal experts have prepared a special legal tribunal to prosecute times of aggression, which is use of armed force by a state against a sovereign integrity or political independence of another state or any manner inconsistent with the charter of the united nations. it can include invasion, military occupation, and annexation by the use of force, blockaded by the coast. that would seem an open and shut case. how would that investigation, how would that tribunal actually work? and who would be held accountable? >> yeah, so the crime of aggression, which is what a number of us have been speaking about in the context of the invasion of ukraine, the primary question is about the waging of war which is unlawful. and as you say, this is a open and shut case in this particular circumstance, you know. the use of force by russia against ukraine is clearly in breach of its national law. so how would it happen? well, first thing to notice that the international criminal court in the hague in general terms has jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, but does not have jurisdiction over the time of aggression in the context of russia and ukraine. and this is because russia's not a party to the statute of the international criminal court. and also because though the un security council could refer the time of aggression to the icc, russia of course would veto in this case. so what we need in this particular case is the establishment of a different international tribunal, a special tribunal to deal with the crime of aggression committed against ukraine. now you ask who would be held accountable. unlike the other international crimes like genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression is different in that it is a leadership crime. so only those who are in leadership positions in the state that has engaged in aggression can be held responsible for aggression. so it would be the leadership in russia. also potentially actually the leadership in belarus. which was complicit in this act of aggression. >> professor, thank you so much for your time. thank you for explaining the legalities and where we stand on this, especially when it comes to genocide, which is often overused but not often understood. thank you so much, sir. >> it's a pleasure. the man accused of shooting and wounding ten people on a crowded subway train in brooklyn is now in police custody. he doesn't appear to have gone on the run. in fact, as przshimon prokupecz reports, he reportedly told investigators where they could find him. >> reporter: patrol officers arresting the suspect walking the streets in new york city's east village after sources say he actually called in a tip, leading police to his general location. >> he was taken into custody without incident and has been transported to an nypd facility. we hope this arrest brings some solace to the victims and the people of the city of new york. >> reporter: the 62-year-old talked about violence and mass shootings and multiple rambling videos posted on youtube, including this one uploaded monday. >> i've been through a lot of [ bleep ]. what i can say, i wanted to kill people. i wanted to watch people die right in front of my [ bleep ] face immediately. but i thought about the fact that hey, man, i don't want to go to prison. >> in other videos, the subjgge said he had ptsd. >> why aren't we identifying these dangerous threats? why aren't we being more proactive, instead of waiting for this to happen? >> reporter: the videos also giving insight into the alleged shooter's path to brooklyn. leaving his home on milwaukee on march 20th, the suspect said he was heading to the, quote, danger zone. he stopped in fort wayne, pittsburgh and newark, before arriving in philadelphia on march 25th. police initially named him as a person of interest because they found a credit card and keys to a rented u-haul van at the scene. later, track down the vehicle where source say it appeared he may have send the night. he rented the van from this philadelphia store on monday. court documents say the suspect visited a philadelphia storage facility filled with ammunition and more weapons on the evening before the attack. they also show surveillance photos of the uk-haul van crossing into brooklyn. two hours later, a man matching his description left the u-haul on foot. wnbc obtained this video showing a man law enforcement believes to be the suspect and wearing similar gloeting, entering the subway system about two hours before the shooting began. investigators also linking the gun found at the scene to a purchase by the suspect sources say. and authorities have tracked the purchase of a gas max to him through an ebay account. the alleged shooter is expected to be in court later thursday afternoon. and no one in law enforcement expected this is the way the manhunt would end. the suspect calling on himself, calling crimestoppers, telling them hey, i'm at this location, come and get me. shimon prokupecz, cnn, brooklyn, new york. juliette kayyem is a cnn national security analyst and former u.s. homeland security official under the obama administration. and i spoke with her earlier and asked her to weigh in on what comes next with the subway shooting investigation. >> is going to be the more important part. he now in custody. this is going to be a familiar typical criminal indictment, and then a case. i said well, it will look very familiar. the more interesting piece in play is what they're going to indict him with. as we heard in the press conference with the nypd, they are going to bring what's called terrorism charges. it's under the patriot act. this is the post-9/11 statute created. and it permits a federal indictment against someone who uses terrorism or other forms of violence to disrupt mass transit. and what we don't know yet, and i think that the nypd has to be clearer about this, what we don't know yet is was there a political or other form of terrorism, moeflgts, or is this someone with a lot of mental issues or other issues that led him to violence. and those are important differences, because in a country that takes counterterrorism seriously, you don't want to -- you don't want to overuse terrorism charges or the terrorism word even for that matter. >> yeah. and of course the biggest question is the why, the motive. >> yeah. >> but the other question, after all of this, why do you think the suspect called police himself to let them know where he they could find him? >> yeah, i had suspected this and i talked about his exit strategy. one way to look at all the weaponry he had, everything from that machete to the explosives to the fireworks is that he didn't have an intention of leaving, that this might have been something that he anticipated that he would die. and therefore, the last 24 hours have been him sort of just waiting to be caught in some way. because this wasn't a well planned out attack in the sense like he didn't -- it wasn't clear what his strategy was in terms of an exit. he is just a few miles from the subway. he hasn't gone anywhere. so that's one explanation that the police will look into. the other is that he knew he couldn't get away and therefore he calls it in. >> cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem talking to me earlier. frank james is due to maybe his initial court appearance later today. we'll go live to ukraine 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official says the moskva has been hit by missiles. but russia claims the ship was evacuated after a fire on bourdette nated ammunition. cnn cannot verify either report. but artillery fire and missile strikes continue to target ukraine's second biggest city ahead of an offense in the east. at least seven civilians have been killed. others wounded in just the past 24 hours. nima elbagir is there. >> reporter: desolate, bare, lifeless. this is what it looks like after weeks of relentless russian shelling. saltivka, the most densely populated district in kharkiv. it's being bombed day after day, night after night. there are very few people left. the elderly mostly. one man stayed behind to keep his mother safe. igor says that he lives on the 16th floor of one of these buildings with his mother. he says his mother is deeply religious and deeply committed to staying here, even though they're almost entirely surrounded. and she won't leave so he won't leave. but this is a front line under renewed pressure. the russians are pushing hard. that is so close. those are russian positions. they are shelling towards us. we are just over a mile away from the russian forces. this is their route into kharkiv and then on in ukraine. for now this is the front line. that can change any moment now. they are trying as hard as they can to push that frontline inwards. the soldiers want to show us more evidence of the heavy bombardment. the soldiers want us to move very quickly because russian snipers are operating in this area. we have got to move. the rumble you hear is the constant shelling. the shelling's just been absolutely relentless. from the moment we arrived, we have been hearing it. we have to be careful where with we have to be careful where we also dispersing mines from the rockets they are sending over in here the shelling has intensified over the last few days. regional issues told cnn this is evidence of the renewed russian' military push. yeah, let's go. so, from where we are, we are pretty much surrounded by russian troops on three sides. tens of thousands of russian troops are believed to be amassing to come into kharkiv, to come into ukraine from this direction. we've got to move. the soldiers wanted us out of there. it was becoming too intense. just 30 minutes later, we saw why. this warehouse is in the south. of saltivka. it took a direct hit. this is an area that, after the initial aborted invasion, has been beyond the reach of russian ground troops. but now, once again, nowhere is safe. nima elbagir, cnn, kharkiv. there is so much grief here there so much sadness, and there has been so much loss already, because across ukraine there are mothers who are grieving for their chirp. and what you're to be see, i know you have already seen this because we've played it a few times. but there is this mother who has found out that her son is dead. he is at the bottom of a well. it's in a village west of kyiv. and a warn. what you're about to see is truly 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>> the evening seaboard. we do expect the tornado threat really to diminish over the next few hours and only five in the grand scheme of things a limited number considering how many significant wind reports we had. over 220 of them scattered about a wide area of here with winds that were gusting as much as 60 to 70 miles per hour. we had major damage, major power outages, thunderstorms abound here, would you believe it? over a 12-hour span. 106,000 lightning strikes across this region in an area of storms that stretched about 800 miles. so not surprising to see some of these storms produce tornadoes. and of course we saw those reports, five reports of tornadoes in the past 24 or so hours. but incredibly, the run of tornados across the united states has been as remarkable as it gets. look at the month of march. on average bringing 80 tornadoes. we saw a historic 292 preliminary reports of tornadoes. in the first 13 days 129 tornadoes reported. 155 is the average. mind you, we still have upwards of two plus weeks left before the month is over. notice the storm's now beginning to taper off. significant rainfall in place. some of these areas, two, three, even five plus inches of rainfall with flooding in place there. high pressure building on the back side of it. there is the storm system now pushing off the eastern seaboard. and yes, a level 2 on a scale of 1 to 5 for severe weather still into thursday afternoon, includes the city of philadelphia and new york. the good news out of all of this is no tornado risk. very limited for that. notice damaging winds and hail becoming the primary threats now for thursday afternoon storms. rosemary? >> pedram javaheri, thank you so much for wrapping all of that. we appreciate it. more than 300 people are dead after what officials call one of the worst storms south africa has ever seen. heavy rain, flooding, and mud slides have pummelled parts of the east coast since monday, destroying homes, roads, and bridges. there are also widespread power outages. rescuers have been working to evacuate the affected communities. north korea is preparing to celebrate a major anniversary. friday marks 110 years since the birth of its founding father, kim il sung. and the festivities for the so-called day of the sun often involve weapons. cnn's paula hancocks is standing by live in seoul. she joins us now. so paula, what are the expectations here? how likely is it that north korea will launch another missile test during this time? >> well, rosemary, with all things north korea, we will only find out for sure when they decide they want to tell us. but i think what most observers are looking at this point is there could well be some kind of parade. certainly there have been festivities in the days running up to friday. the 110th birth anniversary of the country's founder. it's more significant even than usual. it's always the biggest day in north korea for the year. but the fact that it ends in either a zero or a 5 is always a bigger deal for north korea. so what observers are looking at is whether there are going to be weapons within this parade, whether there are going to be new weapons systems throughout the parade. but we already know exactly what north korea and kim jong-un would like to be showing. >> kim jong-un knows what weapons and missiles systems he wants to perfect. and so do we because he has told us. in january last year, he gave one of the most detailed military reports in north korea's history according to state-run media. his five-year wish list. since then, he has been systematically working through it. >> the north koreans have really i think laid out an ambitious agenda for a military modernization. and it proves to be very credible. >> reporter: among the systems already at least partially tested according to pyongyang pyongyang, a hypersonic glide vehicle, which if perfected, could evade defense systems. it's a big if. only the u.s., russia and china currently have this capability. a military reconnaissance satellite. necessary, pyongyang says, to keep an eye on the u.s. and its allies. elements were tested earlier this year but the pentagon believes the space launch is a cover for a test of a new intercontinental-ballistic missile system. a 15,000-kilometer icbm. that's 9,300 miles. which could reach mainland united states and beyond. an icbm tested march 24th came closer to this than ever before but south korean officials doubt pyongyang's claims it was their most recently unveiled hwasong 17. missile experts say a test of that weapon may have failed a week earlier. >> given the shape of this warhead, it is likely to be a mirv, an icbm with multiple warheads. and also it was fired on the normal trajectory, it can hit anywhere on the continental united states. >> reporter: and tactical nuclear weapons. >> because kim jong un has spoken quite explicitly about tactical-nuclear weapons. these are the kind of nuclear weapons that are designed to be put on small artillery rockets and smaller, short-range ballistic missiles. >> reporter: the next test expected at any time may approximate smaller than the last from 2017. tremors which could be felt in neighboring china and south korea. tests which surely attract international attention but kim jong un also has a domestic audience. >> to cover up the economic failure, he need to show up another achievement. i think a weapon program that he can be very proud of. >> reporter: time wise, kim jong un may be in the most ideal testing environment in his more than ten years in power. the world's attention is on russia's invasion of ukraine and the chances of russia or china side being the u.s. and the united nations security council to sanction north korea are next to zero. >> there is just no chance of any kind of u.n. security council sanctioned action. the u.n. security council can even condemn north korea's latest icbm test in unison. >> which means that most observers you speak to do agree there is going to be plenty more testing coming up. in fact, january is already in the record books for the number of missile launches. also, the uss abraham lincoln, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is currently in korean waters, waters just off the peninsula in an apparent show of force, just before this big anniversary, and will probably move away just after it. so certainly every eye is on north korea to see what, if anything of weapons systems they're going to unveil. rosemary? 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