yet. russia has its own version of mcdonald s, it comes under a different name here. food and politics have nothing in common. like come on, man, keep things simple. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is monday, june 13th, just after 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where more bombshell testimony could be on tap today. the january 6 committee set to reconvene before the tv cameras. over the weekend, two members of the panel offered a preview of what the public could expect today. have a look. should have been an bundantl clear that there was no evidence that the election was stolen and he ignored that. so the hearing monday is focusing on a deep dive in that, getting into the information that what were all of those things that he knew this was a lie but he continued to abct on that. i think if anyone truly believed after what the attorney general says, for instance, after what every piece of information comes in, if you trul
bring in salma abdelaziz who is joining me live from kyiv. as you ve been reporting now the last few weeks, not only are ukrainian forces outmanned and outgunned, but they are also nearly encircled. paint us a picture of what you are hearing there on the ground. reporter: so let s zoom in on that flash point city of severdonetsk, that all-important goal for president putin s army. right now we understand that russian troops are working to encircle that city. three bridges that connect to the sister city, two of those three bridges have already been destroyed and the third one is being heavy shelled. the main highway leading to that city is under constant bombardment, so that makes it difficult to pull civilian out. there is an estimated 10,000 people by last count still inside. there is a critical factory, a chemical plant where a few hundred were sheltering, we understand that plant was caught
to the ukrainian troops who say they ll fight to the bitter end? we know about 600 or so or injured from the last time we heard from the people inside that steel plant. earlier i spoke about that with a military expert who slammed what russia is doing in mariupol. have a listen. make no mistake if russians wanted those civilians out, they would make the order and get every single civilian out. by the way, the wounded shoulders, those are considered non-combatant in an armed conflict. they re not fighters and need to get out as well. in the meantime, john, what we have been seeing in the batfield is russia really pressing on with its offensive in the east and intensifying i think it s important to point out intensifying that. they are somewhat a bit
i think that the cia is going to figure out a way to get there, but it s not going to be the same and we won t have military bases and we won t have the leverage to extract our people. and i don t think the taliban needs our money. they have china, russia, pakistan, they have had a relationship with iran that has provided them with material assistance. we are in a bad place. we have somema leverage. we had all of that. and that was our leverage. if we had evacuated civilians and at that time, we would be fine, but we reversed it and said and that is the key takeaways. president joe biden realized back then the afghan national army wasn t going to make it. and that was the time to hold and keep our military until we got our civilian out as a