A but hes our son of a u. S. Congress one that says, washington is covering up the killing of a palestinian journalist by israeli forces, insisting on a transparent investigation with from moscow to the world. This is our t international. Im rachel blevins. And here are the top stories at this hour. But 1st, this just in officials and these oper, oci region have confirmed, a blast has hit the center of this city of mila toll no casualties have been reported yet. Now data as the region holds a referendum on whether to join russia to day, we start our special coverage of the referendums and the non nascar new gods, peoples republic, as well as in a row sheet and her san regions of ukraine on whether to join russia the voting has begun with the voting and these 4 regions come as ukrainian troops continued a shell residential areas killing and wounding civilians. Rushing back to local authorities, say key ab wants to terrorize residents ahead of the referenda. Meanwhile, moscow says it wil