politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a high altitude picture of the mud air encounterer between a drone and russian fighter jets. the classified video shows moscow putting the drone in its cross hairs, ignite ing a cloudf jet fuel and buzzing the drone twice. plus our banking system remains strong. the treasury secretary tries to calm nerves. she s on capitol hill today assuring americans your money is safe. and today the senate barrels toward a vote on undoing the force against iraq. it happens two decades after the run up of shock and awe. tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. saddam hussein and his sons must leave iraq within 48 hours. at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to dearm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. up first for us, 42 seconds of simply hold your breath video adding to tensions between the united states and russia. toda
top u.s. military leader talking finally again discussing the hour s long call of the state of the war. how ukrainian using official recognition technology on the battlefield and plus two russian journalists were able to defy the sensors, they were still alive to do it. we start with the preliminary hearing that could become a first in this war. a prosecution of an alleged russian war criminal even as the war goes on around it. melissa bell has the story. she warns you some of the images you are seeing are graphic. reporter: ukraine opens its first war crime trial. the 21-year-old vadim shishimarin accused of shooting an unarmed man. they include the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians in bucha and the killings of many sicivilian of men and children in the two months long of kharkiv. we have commanders give orders of shots. from other side, we understand that ordinary soldiers have their own responsibility for these atrocities. reporter: that s a message that needs to be
-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
two missions before columbia it happened on sts-112 atlantis. a significant strike hit the skirt of the solid rocket booster and actually put a dent in it. -prior till the launch of columbia, and a couple of the meetings, the topic of foam coming off 112 came up. there s probably, erm. 15 to 20 people around the table and then there s a lot of other people at nasa in the room. we talked about starting to look into this a little bit more because we ve seen it come off on, you know, more than one flight now. we should understand if there s a way to prevent it. -late october of 2002, after sts-112 atlantis, i went to a meeting about that flight.
Late october of 2002, after sts112 atlantis, i went to a meeting about that flight. I had put together a report about the Foam Loss and the damage to the solid rocket booster. And i presented the case that said, that amount of foam, that mass, in one chunk coming off Shuttle Atlantis this was the vehicle telling us something is wrong, heres your warning. At risk of being insubordinate, i said to the heads of the Shuttle Program sitting around the centre table, i was adamant at that meeting, either fix the problem or dont fly an external tank on the next launch, which is impossible. From that meeting, i never heard any discussion of lets get a better understanding of this