points and said he does no think it is what americans want the manhattan district attorney s office whic investigated trump s role in lunch money payments made to stormy daniels back in 201 declined to comment yesterda on trump s claims, or his cros through protest. nbc news, late last night, obtained his email sent by the da, alvin bragg, in which sh assured his staff that their safety is his top priority in part it reads, we do no tolerate attempts to intimidat our office or threaten the rul of law in new york there has been no official wor yet whether or not bright take to take the unprecedented move of indicting former president. the grand jury in this case ha not finished their work. the group is expected to reconvene tomorrow joining me now from palm beach florida. capitol correspondent, garrett hague. hague, great to see you again. you are near mar-a-lago. give us the insight into trump world. how are lawmakers reacting t trump s claim here well, other than the trut
an important southeastern port city in the donbas region of ukraine that russia captured last spring following devastating and destructiv battle yesterday, he travel to crimea to mark nine years since the region was forcibly taken from ukraine. putin toured the area with crimea s russian installed governor and visited both an art school and a children center this comes just days after the international criminal court announced that it issued a arrest warrant for putin for allegedly committing war crimes including the crime of overseeing the unlawfu objection and deportation of children from occupied areas o ukraine including mariupol int russia the icc also issued an arres warrant for putin s commission of her children s right saying she committed similar crimes last month, the report put out by the conflict of secretary found that russian forces have moved at least 6000 ukrainia children to camps an facilities across russia wer forced adoptions and militar training despite a warrant
across france against plans by president macron to raise the retirement age. new zealand reopens its borders to international tourists, for the first time in more than two years. . the southeastern port city of mariupol is a shell of what is was before the russian invasion began. but throughout the bombardment, many civilians have been stuck there despite repeated efforts to get them to safety. now the red cross and the united nations are helping in an operation to move them. a convoy of vehicles made it to mariupol on saturday to take out some of the hundreds of people trapped in the city s vast azovstal steel plant. these images show
russian forces are concentrated and focused on that offensive. no matter how many russian service men they re bringing into that area, we will keep on fighting and defending and we will be doing this daily. at the same time ukrainian forces are struggling to hold out in the southeastern port city of mariupol after they rejected a russian deadline to surr surrender. this shows women and children sheltering inside a steel plant there. ukraine says russian forces are firing on the plant willingly despite knowing there are civilians inside. our coverage begins with cnn s ed lavandera with kyiv, ukraine. good morning, ed. what do we know about these recent movements of russian forces and what are ukrainians doing to prepare? reporter: we know that ukrainian forces have been adjusting and moving into this region to prepare for this renewed offensive from russian forces there in eastern ukraine and what we have seen from
facilities and a car tyre service point in lviv. let s hear from our correspondent there, danjohnson who witnessed it. this is where one of the missiles hit this morning. the authorities tell us that it is a tyre fitting garage, a place that looks after people s cars. they say this is not a military target whatsoever, but they have said three other military facilities were hit in this morning s air raid. it was about ten to 8am when we heard the air raid sirens sound once again. there have been more air raids in the last few days, more alerts, but then it was about 30 or a0 minutes after the sirens that i heard the sound of something like jets overhead. it s not clear if the strikes were launched from fighterjets or if there were missiles launched from outside ukraine, but i actually saw a couple of the missiles myself streaking across the sky and then hitting buildings on the city s roofline, and then we saw the black plumes of smoke rising up.