man who threatened his grip on power, yevgeny prigozhin. but why? and did that meeting actually happen? plus tonight, major movement in the trump investigations. the doj going after trump s longtime aide in the classified documents case, while another grand jury is about to be selected. will it bring a third indictment against trump? and a massive manhunt tonight in pennsylvania. a suspected murderer with survivalist skills escapes from prison using a bed sheet. is someone tonight helping him stay alive and away and armed from police? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin, the not-so-strong man. the kremlin revealing tonight that putin met with yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of that armed rebellion just five days after the attempted coup. the kremlin is giving some details. they re saying it was a nearly three-hour meeting. they re saying it happened on june 29th. so a lot of details there, including putin s spokesperson dmitr
paula reid in for jim acosta. you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russia s war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnn s sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? reporter: i think it s very significant indeed, for two reasons. first of all, it s kind of proving the need for highly sophisticated weapons such as the patriot missile that the ukrainians have been asking for effectively since 2014 when they were first invaded by the russians. but then on a technological level, paula, this is a very significant development because patriot was never designed for hypersonic missiles because they didn t exist when patriot was designed. this is a missile that can travel up to te
right now. breaking news. an american reporter has been arrested in russia accused by russia of espionage. we re talking about an american citizen who has now been arrested for what you can assume is doing his job. two black hawk helicopters crashing overnight in kentucky, sudden old house something pop loud, loud bang helicopters from 101st airborne division were on a routine training mission when the incident happened resulted in quotes several casualties. concerns for the health of pope francis as the 86 year old is hospitalist tests showed that he does indeed have a respiratory infection. it s unclear if the leader of the world s nearly 1.4 billion roman catholics will be able to lead the celebration of this weekend s pump. sunday mass and holy week ceremonies the vatican leading up to easter on april 9th. children are dying. there are six people are dead in that school, including three children, because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. talk about protecting o
but should their discoveries be finders keepers? hello and welcome to bbc news. next week will mark the one year anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. us president biden is scheduled to give a speech on tuesday in neighbouring poland on the same day that vladimir putin is due to give an address in moscow. ukraine s president zelensky has again called on western allies to speed up their delivery of weapons warning that delays would cost lives. it all comes as the munich security conference is under way with calls for nato to give kyiv long term security assurances. in the next few hours, the uk prime minister, rishi sunak will address the conference, telling western countries they need to redouble their military support for ukraine. he ll also tell delegates that kyiv needs security guarantees even after the war has ended. let s get more now on our top story and cross live to munich which is hosting that annual security conference, this yearfocusing on ukraine o
sensitive documents. so it doesn t matter that they were there. he said, quote, everything was declassified. so far, that argument has been noticeably absent for many decoration by trump s lawyers in court. this morning, and a legal filing, trump s attorneys once again failed to say that trump declassified any documents. for the more, then system that actually, these documents might not in fact be classified to begin with. essentially, trump s team is saying, don t trust the doj, because who knows of these papers are really classified. over and over again. the 100 classified documents identified by the doj, the justice department, are afford to buy trump s legal team as, quote, purportedly classified. yes, that s classified in quotes. a little over two hours after that sharply ordered filing, trump s attorneys in the justice department appeared in federal court in brooklyn this afternoon for their first conference with the newly in pointed trump picked special master, and jud