being taken to slaughter. rupert murdoch admitting his fox hosts endorsed, his word, trump s election lies on air. and that s not all he s confessing as fox fights a $1.6 billion lawsuit. and an outfront investigation tonight, our david culver traveled to the epicenter of the covid-19 outbreak, the virus likely leaked out of that lab in wuhan, china. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, exclusive new information about putin s staggering losses. russia has now suffered more combat deaths in ukraine than in all of its wars combined since world war ii. this is according to a new analysis by the group csis. you ll remember we were bringing you those satellite images every day as the buildup happened. the number of russian deaths per month now, they say, is 25 times higher than it was in chechnya, 35 times the number killed in afghanistan. in a moment we re going to have much more on this new analysis. i also want to bring you tonight th
happening now, mass destruction in more than 3,400 people dead after a powerful earthquake, and dozens of after o armageddon. stand by for new reporting on the catastrophes in turkey and syria as rescuers search for survivors and the death toll keeps rising and rising. also tonight, u.s. officials reveal new information on the size, cape abilities and the vae of the downed balloon. amid rising u.s./china tensions, and as president biden faces new international emergencies, he s also engaged in last-minute preparations for his state of the union address. we ll tell you what the president just said about his prime time speech to congress and the nation a little over 24 hours from now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states, and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. let s get right to the unfolding earthquake disasters in turkey and syria and its truly devastating toll. cnn s jomana karadsheh is in istanbul. one of the most powerful quakes t
Russia s special operations forces, praising how they are fighting in what he calls a special military operation. and saying that they are protecting the russian nation and russian lands. now, the next big speech vladimir putin is going to happen in just a couple of hours from now when he addresses the intelligence service, the fsb, here in moscow, erin. we will be waiting for that, and of course from ed is there, thank you so much. and now seth jones, director of the international security program at the csis. he was an adviser of the commanding general of u.s. special operations forces in afghanistan, and he wrote the report that we mentioned at the top of the program. and the former commanding general of the u.s. army europe who spent a lot of time training ukrainian troops. thanks to both. seth, you say the u.s. government itself was shocked at your finding, and obviously you ve been doing so much tracking of this and troop buildups and satellites since the beginning of the war
Thanks, the training program has now already started, also getting underway in germany. now, that is a very important tank, because little it is one of the most numerous tanks in the wider nato armory. the training on the abrams tanks that the united states are also donating is somewhere off, because they ve got to soars those vehicles. but the idea is that the people that are getting that training will get the training on american tanks and then be able to operate with the ones given to ukraine later on. but they re not the strategic weapons that zelenskyy, the president here is asking for. he wants long range missiles. he wants jets, because there have been reports, and take them with a pinch of salt, wolf, because they come from ukrainian intelligence. they are suggesting a significant mobilization, perhaps, within russian territory. perhaps a new wave of mobilizations. but certainly there are reports of troop buildups along a very long front here in the south, as well as the ea
Just got word during that commercial break that the secretary of state, antony blinken is going to be delivering some remarks at noon. of course, all of this happening amid the situation there in ukraine, troop buildups, reporting from our chief foreign correspondent that russia also sending in more supplies as well. again, the secretary of state expected to make some comments here, roughly 40, 45 minutes from now. we will of course take those in their entirety when they happen. and we re keeping an eye on the