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Aired April 05, 2022 - 03:00   ET

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm John Vause, live in Lviv, Ukraine.

We begin day 41 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with a warning from Ukrainian officials. The atrocities committed in Bucha it could be just the tip of the iceberg as Ukrainian forces take control of more cities and towns from the Russians there are fears of much worse to come.

The mounting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine will the focus of an address by the Ukrainian president to the U.N. Security Council later today. And there are new satellite images which show life under Russian occupation in Bucha. A warning these images you are about to see for some viewers will be disturbing to watch.

On the left images taken Friday showing bodies on the street. On the right and satellite images taken more than two weeks ago when Russian forces still occupied the area. The same bodies appeared to be lying in the exact same place.

It's more evidence that undercuts Russia's claim the images and video from Bucha are fake.

CNN's team on the ground saw firsthand several bodies their hands tied behind their backs, shot, killed left in a basement. Zelenskyy had a message for Russian mothers. Here it is.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE (through translator): Russian mothers, even if you raise looters how do they also become butchers? You couldn't be unaware of what's inside your children, you couldn't overlook that they are deprived of everything human. No soul, no heart, they killed deliberately and with pleasure.

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VAUSE: President Zelenskyy visited Bucha on Monday. He says there is evidence that more 300 people were killed while Russian troops occupied that town. And the White House warning Bucha will not be the last.

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JAKE SULLIVAN, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: We should under be no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics which have included and will likely continue to include wanted and brazen attacks on civilian targets.

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VAUSE: Well, the images and stories from Bucha as well as other parts of Ukraine has spark global outrage. Globe leaders say the atrocities will not go unpunished and officials from the U.S. and the U.K. also calling for Russia to be suspended from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

ITV News correspondent Dan Rivers reports now from Bucha. Again, a warning, his reports contain disturbing graphic images but they reveal the brutality and sheer cruelty of what happened in Bucha under Russian occupation.

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DAN RIVERS, REPORTER, ITV NEWS (voice over): That the gateway to Bucha and Hostomel there are the mangled remains of Russian vehicles and the blown bridge which marks the extent of their advance. And nearby the burnt bodies of soldiers killed here by a Ukrainian counter offensive.

Gruesome sentinels to a battlefield, in which dated Russian machinery was pitted against the latest western supplied anti-tank weapons. And this was the result. A rewriting of the orthodoxy about Russia's perceived military strength. Some of the Russians who sought to occupy this commuter town near Kyiv will never leave, thanks to one man's war the remains may never be repatriated or possibly even identified.

This is the most potent symbol of the Russian defeat here in Bucha. A streak choked with the charred remains of their tanks and armored vehicles. Now they've gone and we're beginning to get a fuller picture of the terrible toll inflicted on the civilian population here.

War in all of its grotesque brutality has turned the streets into a hell from which there is no triumph.

Massacres of Ukrainian men have been uncovered by the army here. The war crimes committed here marked a bleak new low in this conflict described by Ukraine as the most outrageous atrocity of the 21st century.

There isn't just one site where massacres occurred. The true picture here is only just emerging. This man in Hostomel tells me about the rape and dismemberment of a young woman at the hands of two Chechen soldiers. He says they just slaughtered her like a lamb. But as he took his revenge with other local men killing them both.

For the civilians like Maxym Skripnik caught between the two sides there was little to do but pray for deliverance.

Describe what it was like the bombardment. I mean, describe how it felt to you.

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MAXYM SKRIPNIK, BUCHA RESIDENT: Terrible. It was completely terrible. You know, near my car was exploded three mines.

RIVERS: Some of the dead were buried by their neighbors closed to the shattered remains of their homes. This is where Ina lies, hit by a shell, the grave adorned with food and drink her relatives would have traditionally shared at her funeral. But her son has been unable to reach their town to grieve for his mother.

But many more were hastily interred without headstones or even identification. Here it's believed 280 people were buried in mass graves. One row for Ukrainians one for Russians.

UNKNOWN (through translator): This is horrible. We survived this. They were shelling us. I cannot find words to describe what we lived through.

RIVERS: This family appear to have escaped unscathed after days in a bunker. Until you know, Dima's (Ph) father was detained by the Russians and never seen again. As he swings, he says if the bad men come back, I'll stomp on them.

There seems little chance now of the Russians fighting their way back into these towns. That the legacy of their brief reign of terror will never be forgotten.

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VAUSE: We are now getting another gruesome scene, this one from Motyzhyn, small community on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital. And a warning, it is disturbing because it appears to show the bodies of the town's mayor, her husband, her son. The Ukrainian deputy prime minister told CNN earlier the three were all murdered by Russian forces. There are signs of torture on some -- torture on some of them. All three according to the deputy prime minister shot in the head.

Joining me now from Kyiv, Oleksiy Sorokin, the political editor for the news outlet the Kyiv Independent. It's good to see you again, Oleksiy.

Town after town once occupied Russian forces all reporting atrocities which on the surface at least amount to war crimes possibly worse. This conflict is far from over. The Russians will move in and occupy new areas in the east. Is there any way to prevent them from repeating what we've seen so far in places like Bucha and like Irpin?

OLEKSIY SOROKIN, POLITICAL EDITOR, KYIV INDEPENDENT: Unfortunately, we understand that this is not a mistake. This is not one -- one town that were seeing -- we're seeing everywhere. Everywhere where Russians were. Where Russians left, we see bodies, we see their people with their hands tied behind their back shot.

We know the prosecutor general said that we are waiting to uncover atrocities in Borodyanka and she said that these atrocities would even topple those of Bucha and Irpin.

VAUSE: You know, after this is being revealed in Bucha and other cities as well, there really has been genuine outrage around the world. I want you to listen to the president of the European parliament. Here she is.

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ROBERTA METSOLA, PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: We need to step up our strategy of making this illegal invasion the costliest mistake that the Kremlin has ever made. And the hit to the Russia's economy must be proportionate to the unprecedented atrocities that we are seeing.

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VAUSE: You know, many countries are now looking to impose tougher new sanctions. But sanctions do not discipline troops, they do not stop a bullet to their head. It all seems to be after the fact and ineffective.

SOROKIN: Well, actually, we understand that those tanks, those guns are built on the money received from the European Union. Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, are paying, still paying for Russian gas. According to Bloomberg, $321 billion Russia is said to receive from the European Union for its energy.

So, until -- until the European Union pays for Russian gas for Russian coal, for Russian oil, we understand that Russia and Putin will have the money and the funds to sponsor its horrendous war against Ukraine.

VAUSE: So, what you're saying it's time for the Europeans to cut off the supply of energy from the Russians. Do it tough because there's no other choice. That's the least that can be done, right?

SOROKIN: Yes, unfortunately that's what should be done. We understand that this will cause some problems for Germany, for the Netherlands, and for Italy. But this is the right thing to do. Right now, the choice is either have some economic misfortunes or sponsor genocide.

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VAUSE: You know, it's hard enough for someone half way around the world to look at these images of mass graves, bodies with their hands tied behind their backs bullet to the head. How difficult is it for you and for Ukrainians? Can you describe what the reaction has been like?

SOROKIN: I think it's pure shock. This hits close -- close to home. The scenes that we're seeing right now is 15, 20 kilometers from downtown Kyiv. Everybody has a friend, a family member everybody visited those towns. And this is pure shock. This is horrendous. I had to witness this, I had to talk to people who have been there.

Most of them are crying. They don't have words to describe what they saw and this will be a stain on a nation's -- this took a soul, a part of the soul of every Ukrainian. I think this is impossible to find words to describe the horrors that we're witnessing right now.

VAUSE: Yes. You are absolutely right. It seems impossible to capture how horrific this has been. And will be. Unfortunately. Oleksiy Sorokin, thank you. We really appreciate you being with us. Thank you, sir.

SOROKIN: Thank you.

VAUSE: U.S. national security adviser warned Russia is revising its war aims and shifting its focus to the east. He says the Kremlin's new goal is to surround and overwhelm eastern Ukraine. But Russian troops are still hammering southern cities like Mykolaiv. The mayor says 10 civilians have been killed there since Sunday. Forty-six others have been hurt.

Not far from Mykolaiv, CNN's Ben Wedeman and his team went dangerously close to incoming artillery fire. They stopped to talk to Ukrainian soldiers out in the open with little cover. And to be sure this was a very close call. Here's Ben.

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is an area where there has been a fair amount of outgoing as well as incoming artillery. Down the road is a town that has been fought over for several days by Russian and Ukrainian forces. In these vast open spaces, the Russians seem far away. They're not.

OK.

UNKNOWN: Ben?

WEDEMAN: Down here, John, down here. Keep on rolling. You see it over there?

We hugged the earth. Two more artillery rounds.

UNKNOWN: Shit.

WEDEMAN: Cameraman John Torigoe keeps rolling. Alrighty. So, we had two incoming rounds responding to artillery that's been firing in the Russian directions. Those shells came pretty close to us. No one has been injured. The officer tells translator Valeriia Dubrovska we need to go now.

VALERIIA DUBROVSKA, TRANSLATOR: They said, go away. Like, hid and run!

WEDEMAN: OK, OK. I don't think it's safe. I hope the car is OK.

UNKNOWN: Are you ready to move? WEDEMAN: Yes, let's go. And so, we run with full body armor to the

cars. One car can't move. Peppered with shrapnel. We're losing -- we're losing petrol.

UNKNOWN: Yes.

DUBROVSKA: I can't --

WEDEMAN: No time to lose.

UNKNOWN: Throw it in the back.

WEDEMAN: Driver Igor Tiagno (Ph) razor-focused on getting us to safety. His car also hit.

UNKNOWN: Go, go, go, go, go!

UNKNOWN: Let's go!

UNKNOWN: Go, go, go!

WEDEMAN: All right. Now we are trying to get out of this area as quickly as possible. Our other car completely destroyed. Crammed into this small car we approach safer ground.

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KAREEM KHADDER, CNN PRODUCER: We are getting into that hard cover in that village and then we'll take a (Inaudible).

WEDEMAN: Producer Kareem Khadder checks the damage to the car. The soldiers we left behind are still out there. We could leave. They can't.

Ben Wedeman, CNN, outside Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

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VAUSE: We'll take a short break. When we come back, a story of resilience. This woman forced to flee her home again. A lifetime ago she fled the Nazis. Now she's escaping Russia's invasion.

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VAUSE: Just 19 minutes past the hour: Welcome back, everyone. Well, the United States now supporting a multi-national team of prosecutors and experts to collect, preserve, and analyze evidence of possible war crimes in Ukraine.

The State Department says the efforts are aimed at pursuing criminal accountability for atrocities in Russian's war against Ukraine. The invasion has forced millions from their homes. Leaving behind everything they know. Most of them are women and children. And for some of them it's not their first time they had to flee a war. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz live now from Medyka, Poland near the border

with Ukraine. And boy, history repeats not in a good way.

SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN REPORTER: Absolutely, John. I'm at the border crossings here. And this is the pedestrian crossing. So, people come across with only what they can carry. I'm going to give you a quick look around. That border is right there you can see people flowing through with their bags. And if you pan around, I want you to get a sense of what they walk into.

It's essentially a little tent community. Here's one of the tents, focused on obviously providing food anything people need. We're going to show you another tent. That one is for mother and children. So, if they want to take a moment to have a peace, a bit of peace, a bit of quiet and talk to a volunteer that can help them.

And you can see all the way down. There's dozens of volunteers here wearing high-vest jackets. And what they want to do is they want to greet these families right at the border, they want to help them with bags, they want to offer them some help. They want to offer them a sense of dignity. They want to answer their questions. They want to give them what they might not have been able to grab. Whether that's baby milk or clothes before they fled home.

So, it's a real contrast fleeing violence to come into this tent community and see this over flow of humanity and it's, as you said, John, it's an astounding to see the people that cross this border.

We wanted to speak to someone who'd survived the last time Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city had been in conflict, had seen death and destruction on this scale which was of course during World War II when Nazi troops invaded and was trying to survive this conflict.

Now, it wasn't easy to find 82-year-old Margaryta Zatuchna for the many charity organizations that wanted to rescue her and pull her out of Kharkiv. But when we met her at this border, she had quite the story to tell. Take a look.

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UNKNOWN: I'm the director of the Jewish community center --

ABDELAZIZ: This is the moment Margaryta Zatuchna says she finally felt safe. Welcomed by her Jewish community in Krakow.

MARGARYTA ZATUCHNA, FLED KHARKIV, UKRAINE: I'm presented with so beautiful much flowers and it was, it smells very well.

ABDELAZIZ: We sat down to hear the story from twice a survivor.

ZATUCHNA: I was born in 1940 and when the war was Germany began, I was only one year and a half.

ABDELAZIZ: In 1941, her family fled their home in Kharkiv where Nazis murdered an estimated 16,000 Jews. She later returned, grew up and grew old in peacetime. That is until Russian troops invaded. Bombing and besieging Kharkiv.

"There was no water or power. We couldn't buy food. It was impossible to live," she says. "There were explosions after explosions. A real war." Not even a monument that honors the city's Holocaust victims escaped Moscow's so called de-Nazification campaign. But Margaryta stayed to care for her sick husband Velary (Ph) as long as she could.

"An explosion blew out our windows," she says. After that shock he grew weaker and weaker. After nearly a month of war Velary (Ph) passed away. His body still lies in a morgue. There are no funerals because of the fighting.

Now age 82 the Holocaust survivor knew it was time to go. Packed only what she could carry and fled her birthplace.

ZATUCHNA: It is very difficult when my beautiful town when I leave all my life is destroyed.

ABDELAZIZ: A driver picked up Margaryta in this vehicle damaged in an earlier attack. For two days, they traveled out of Kharkiv and across dangerous territory to Lviv.

ZATUCHNA: It is a very hard road.

ABDELAZIZ: From there she boarded an ambulance and was ferried into Poland. We were tracking her evacuation and met her at the border crossing.

Hi, welcome to Poland.

But Margaryta still has further to go. She wants to join her brother in New Jersey.

ZATUCHNA: I was not scared.

ABDELAZIZ: Where is this bravery from?

ZATUCHNA: It comes. It comes alone to us.

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ABDELAZIZ: Margaryta hopes to return, bury her husband of 40 years and see her beloved city at peace again.

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ABDELAZIZ: John, what's astounding when you watch that report and when we spend time with Margaryta as we did for two days is she never stops smiling. Despite everything she's been through. Despite all that she has endured. She truly has that heart of a survivor.

And I asked her do you know if you are going to the go to the United States? You are 82 years old. You may never see Kharkiv again. And she insisted that she will return to her city. But that city, John, has been devastated by Russia's onslaught. You can only imagine it will be more many generations before it's rebuilt. VAUSE: Salma, thank you for such a wonderful story. And we appreciate

it. Thank you.

If you would like to help the people of Ukraine who need a shelter and food, water or medical supplies, that kind of thing. Please go to cnn.com/impact. There you'll find several ways you can help and you can be guaranteed your money goes to those who need it.

Well, the mayor of the besieged city of Mariupol has a dire warning. His city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe desperately need of help to evacuate thousands of civilians. Our closer look of the conflict in Ukraine, up next.

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VAUSE: Welcome back, everyone. I'm John Vause. Thirty minutes past the hour.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy scheduled to address the U.N. Security Council in the coming hours as horrifying images from the town of Bucha are sparking international outrage.

Some countries are expelling Russian diplomats. Others are vowing further sanctions and that includes the United States which expects to announce new sanctions on Russia this week. All of this as more shocking images emerge, more evidence of war crimes and we have to warn you these images are graphic.

Bodies can be seen lying on the streets, a number of them with their hands tied behind their backs. The head of the Human Rights Watch warns these images could be, quote, "replicated on a very large scale."

Ukraine's president says more than 300 people were killed in Bucha but expects the number to rise as the city is searched. And he warns, civilian casualties maybe even higher in other liberated towns and cities.

Meantime, a Ukrainian official say the situation in Luhansk has become difficult with heavy shelling and street fighting. A senior Ukrainian official tells CNN an evacuation convoy to Mariupol has been turned back by Russian forces. The mayor said earlier his city was on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe and that has not seen food, water, or medicine in more than a month. The situation is, quote, "very difficult."

The Red Cross also said earlier attempts to reach Mariupol with humanitarian aid and help with civilian evacuations failed on Monday yet again because of security issues. The former president of Ukraine also speaking out on the dire situation.

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PETRO POROSHENKO, FORMER PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE: I today speak with our fighters in Mariupol, and they said that it is significantly worse in Mariupol then in Bucha, despite the fact that it is impossible to imagine. Also, now 340 people killed without mercy. Many of them with tied hands. We find it exactly that day and don't be mistake Bucha is not alone.

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VAUSE: You may remember these images of the Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fyodorov being detained last month by armed men. He was charge with terrorism offences by Russian-backed rebels but later was freed as part of a prisoner swap. Fyodorov says the situation right now in his hometown is, quote, "hell." I spoke to him a short time ago.

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VAUSE: I want to get your take on what you are expecting in Melitopol once the Russian forces withdraw. Assuming that Ukrainian forces liberate your town what are you hearing about what's been going on? What are your biggest concerns in terms of what's happened to the civilian population at the hands of those Russian soldiers?

IVAN FYODOROV, MAYOR, MELITOPOL, UKRAINE: Good day. And now -- and now in Melitopol is very dangerous situation but one month ago to my city come far. (Ph). It starts from 21st of February from first rocket shoots to our military airport that's situated at 12 -- it's 1,000 meters from civilian houses.

And that's why all citizens now are scared, our citizens now can't understand anything but city more than one month already occupied it. Now the Russian Federation may (Inaudible) in our city. As they stopped humanitarian aid, they doesn't view us possibility to evacuate citizens and to stop all citizens in city entry gives them possibility on the go to Crimea but not to Ukraine and territories that control Ukraine. That's why in this general situation I think it's cannot sit (Ph) from our citizens.

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VAUSE: I'm just curious about when you were kidnapped, when you were taken hostage by the Russian forces, they interrogated you for about a week and then you were released in a prisoner exchange program. What did you learn about the Russian soldiers whilst you were being detained or in captivity? What was your impression?

FYODOROV: Russian soldiers, it's a zombie. They don't -- didn't understand anything around the situation. Because they are well-known the Russian propaganda ends it all. When I was kidnapped and see it in a camera and I ask them why are you coming to my city? Why are you coming to my country? And they answer me that they wanted to save Russian language but it is very stupid because in Melitopol 95 percent of Melitopol citizens, Ukrainian Melitopol citizens speak on Russian.

They said they will make us free from Nazism but it's impossible because I am 33 years old. I didn't find any Nazis in my city. And so, they said that we are not polite and we handle a polite relationship with veterans of Second World War. But it's a stupid argument too. Because every year sometime on the year I meet with our veterans and spoke with them every year. And I know all of these veterans.

That's why Russian soldiers it's a e zombie. They doesn't understand the real situation in Ukraine and (Inaudible) in the world.

VAUSE: So, they honestly thought that they were coming to Ukraine to fight the Nazis because that's what they've been told by Vladimir Putin and they thought that the Russian language was in danger in your city where 95 percent of the people actually speak Russian?

Overall, though, what was your impression of these Russian soldiers in terms of, you know, their age, their experience, their world view? How did you find them?

FYODOROV: I found them is that they have (Inaudible) only, they are typical and not normal situation. And their chief who sit in Moscow want to make war but not want to have some diplomatic issues and some diplomatic relationship. They want war, they want to start new Russian empire and (Inaudible) if now all countries of gold don't be united with Ukraine the war will come in other countries, in the European Union, in European houses and (Inaudible) because Putin don't want to stop in Ukraine. And now Ukraine it's important for all civilian countries.

VAUSE: Mayor, we will leave it there. Mayor Fyodorov, we thank you for your time there in Zaporizhzhia which is pretty much a safe haven right now from your city. So, thank you very much, sir, for being with us.

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I'm John Vause in Lviv, Ukraine. We will continue to follow the breaking news coverage out of Ukraine. But there is a lot more ahead on CNN. But we'll go back to Rosemary Church in Atlanta. Rosemary?

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: And John, it has been a particularly tough day to report. And you have been incredible. Thank you so much for joining us live from Lviv in Ukraine. I appreciate it.

VAUSE: Thank you.

CHURCH: And still to come on CNN, there is no end in sight for Shanghai's lockdown as new COVID infections continue to rise. What's next for the city in the midst of its worst outbreak ever? That and more after the break.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well, Shanghai will stay under lockdown as new COVID infections continue to surge. The city is in the midst of its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. Authorities finished a second round of citywide testing on Tuesday with the help of more than 10,000 healthcare workers brought in to help manage the outbreak. CNN Selina Wang joins me now from Tokyo with the latest. Good to see

you again, Selina. So how have people in Shanghai been coping with this lockdown, and now news of course that it will be extended in the midst of the surge in cases.

SELINA WANG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Great to be with you, Rosemary. Well, no surprise people in Shanghai are angry and they are fed up. This is China's megacity of 25 million residents. It is the financial capital, it's the most cosmopolitan city in the country. And people there have been enduring this strict home confinement. Numerous complains of people struggling to get daily essential, urgent medical care.

And they're learning that this city-wide lockdown which was only supposed to last a matter of days is now being extended indefinitely until further notice. This is as COVID cases in Shanghai continue to reach record highs, more than 10,000 a day.

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And city officials there have conducted multiple rounds of mask testing. This is also as the medical system in Shanghai has been stretched to its limits. Even though most of the COVID-19 cases have been reported in China are being reported as asymptomatic or mild every single COVID case. Even if you've got no symptoms it has to go to the hospital or to a centralized quarantine facility.

And there have been countless complaints about the conditions at these isolation facilities. And this social media video filmed at a makeshift hospital in Shanghai you can see that there are people who are literally battling each other for basic supplies for food, for blankets.

We spoke to a woman who is there at the scene that you could see in that video. There have also been video circulating online of children even infants quarantining alone in the hospital separated from their families. We don't know how many families have been impacted by this. But according to diplomatic sources familiar with the matter we've learned that U.S. citizens have been impacted by this policy. Rosemary?

CHURCH: And Selina, is there any sign at all that China might have actually relaxed its zero COVID policy?

WANG: Well, even considering these enormous economic and social cost, so far authorities have continued to double down on the rhetoric that fighting COVID-19 is a number one priority. They are doubling down on that zero COVID strategy, treating this as really an all-out battle against the virus.

It is clear that authorities think that the alternative to the strict lockdowns would be a nightmare scenario that involves exposing 1.4 billion people to the virus. Especially considering the population has lagging vaccination rates for the elderly population. There is fears that the virus could completely overwhelm the healthcare system.

But considering the struggles that people are facing in Shanghai, this current outbreak is not only putting China's zero COVID policy to the test but it's also testing its people's patients. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Most definitely is. Selina Wang bringing us the latest from her vantage point here in Tokyo. Many thanks.

Well, U.S. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to become the first Black woman to be confirmed a Supreme Court justice after the Senate voted to advance to her nomination to a confirmation vote. After the Senate judiciary committee deadlocked 11 votes both for and against Jackson's nomination, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a vote to break that deadlock and send her nomination to the floor.

Three Senate Republicans including Senator Mitt Romney voted in support of Jackson. The vote to confirm her is expected to be held later this week.

Well, Sacramento police have arrested a suspect they believe is connected to a mass shooting responsible for the deaths of six people on Sunday morning. Police have identified the 26-year-old man as a related suspect. He was taken into custody on charges of assault and illegal firearm possession. Authorities have also released the identities of the six people killed, three men and three women ranging in age from 21 to 57 years.

Well, the southeastern U.S. is bracing for more severe weather. Storms are unfolding across the southern plains. Tornado watches have been issued for parts of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. With the dangerous weather threatening some 35 million people across the Gulf Coast.

Meanwhile, these images show four people who have to be rescued after their cars were swept away by flash flooding on Monday night. It happened in McKinney, Texas just outside of Dallas.

Coming up, World Central Kitchen has been feeding refugees since the beginning of the conflict. You will hear from one chef who is donating his expertise in the kitchen to the people of Ukraine. Back with that in just a moment.

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CHURCH: With millions of frightened people on the move trying to escape Russia's brutal war, there is a big need to fill just getting them the daily necessities of life. Volunteers are stepping up including Chef Marc Murphy with the charity World Central Kitchen. I asked him how and why he was doing this.

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MARC MURPHY, CHEF: Right now, I'm in the kitchen. I'm about a couple of miles away from the border of Poland, we're preparing thousands and thousands of meals. We are sending it to different refugee centers. We're sending it to the border. And the train stations where there's a lot of people coming and going. So, we're, you know, we're doing our little part. Eating food is a human -- you know, I just think people should be able

to eat food. It's a human right. Crossing the border after a cold long trip, coming across we are giving the kids a cup of hot chocolate or a little chicken soup or something to keep them warm. We try to make a little difference where we can.

And we have this big cauldron. We can make about 1,500 meals at a time. We have six of them going. We have these large ovens. We have them way back. We have a lot of volunteers that are here that are making sandwiches. With some people are just grabbing sandwiches and getting on buses and going to places in Europe.

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So, it's a, it's a big operation. And we're just -- we just keep at it every day.

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CHURCH: Murphy also told me that he couldn't sit around and watch what was happening in Ukraine. And that he cleared his schedule for two months to help out.

Well, congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks, the 2022 men's college basketball's champions. They beat the North Carolina Tar Heel 72 to 69 in a thrilling game Monday night in New Orleans. Kansas trailed by as much as 16 points in the first half. But they made the record books with the largest comeback in title game history. This is the fourth time in school history that the Jayhawk's have won the men's championship. Well done.

And thank you so much for spending part of your day with me. I'm Rosemary Church. Our breaking news coverage continues next with Max Foster.

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