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Russia Accuses Ukraine Of Killing Daughter Of Major Vladimir Putin Ally; Raila Odinga Alleges Vote Rigging, Doesn't Make Evidence Public; Parts Of China Move To Save Energy Amid Heat Wave; Growing Fears Of Interest Rate Hikes And Recession; Donald Trump Seeks "Special Master" To Review Mar-a-Lago Evidence. Aired 12-1a ET

Aired August 23, 2022 - 00:00   ET

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello everyone, I'm John Vause.

Ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM, Ukraine said to mark independence from the Soviet Union amid concerns Moscow will soon ramp up missile attacks and airstrikes on major cities.

New reporting that more than 300 classified documents have been recovered from Donald Trump's Florida home, many inboxes stored in the basement, some described by the former president as mine.

It's going to get worse before it gets better. The grim outlook for the global economy.

ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Center, this is CNN NEWSROOM with John Vause.

VAUSE: In the coming day, Ukraine will mark 31 years of independence from the tyranny of the Soviet Union. Only now to be in a brutal fight for freedom from the tyranny of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And amid concerns of an uptick in Russian airstrikes ahead of Wednesday's national holiday. Public gatherings have now been banned in Kyiv and most major cities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Moscow could be planning something particularly cruel. Ukrainians have endured and survived 180 days of war and on Monday in the capital, a symbolic display of the high price inflicted on Moscow for Ukraine's defiance, dozens of destroyed Russian tanks lining the Main Street.

And in his nightly address, Zelenskyy urged unity while renewing a call for Russia to be labeled a terrorist state.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I'm grateful to all our friends. All our friends of freedom around the world who are promoting the need to recognize the objective reality and legally defined Russia as a terrorist state.

This decision will come anyway you sooner or later. And the only question is how many lives Russia will be able to take before the backlash from the international community becomes really tangible to those who are responsible for this terror?

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VAUSE: Russia is blaming Ukraine for a car bombing that killed the daughter of an influential Russian ideologue. According to state media, Russia's Federal Security Service says the attack on Darya Dugina was prepared by Ukraine's special services carried out by a Ukrainian woman on Saturday.

But a senior Ukrainian official has dismissed the allegation saying Russian propaganda lives in a fictional world.

Meantime, Dugina's His Father Alexander Dugin is calling for "victory against Ukraine in response to his daughter's death."

We have more details now from CNN Fred Pleitgen reporting in from Moscow.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Shortly after the explosion that caused Darya Dugina to crash on a Moscow highway, her car engulfed in flames. Darya Dugina was dead at the scene police say.

Her father pro-Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin looking on in dismay.

Tonight, Vladimir Putin with an angry response, "A vile, cruel crime cut short the life of Darya Dugina. She proved by deed what it means to be a patriot of Russia." The Russian leader said in a condolence letter.

After only a short investigation, the Russians now blaming Ukraine for the murder. The Intelligence Service releasing this video which CNN cannot independently verify, claiming to show a Ukrainian special services operative who allegedly entered Russia together with her young daughter, shadowed Dugina, carried out the car bombing and then fled to neighboring Estonia.

Alexander Dugin, who some believe may have been the actual target of the plot, lashing out against Ukraine.

Our hearts yearn for more than just revenge or retribution. It's too small, not the Russian way. We only need our victory. My daughter laid her maiden life on her altar. So, win, please. Dugin wrote in a statement.

Dugin has long advocated Russian expansionism and some believe laid the ideological groundwork for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

The Ukrainians deny they had anything to do with his daughter's killing. Russian propaganda lives in a fictional world, an advisor to Ukraine's presidential administration said and hinted the Ukrainians believe it may have been an inside job adding, "Vipers in Russian special services started an interest species fight."

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The incident comes as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the half year mark and Moscow is keen to keep public opinion in favor of the operation. With a massive show of patriotism on Russia's National Flag Day in a series of events around the country.

In these trying times as Russia's military is fighting in Ukraine and the country is under heavy sanctions, it's become increasingly important to display patriotism.

At this event, the organizers have brought together hundreds of people to create a giant Russian flag.

Flags in public spaces and on Moscow streets. At this massive nighttime convoy, many of the drivers flashed the Z symbol of Russia's invasion forces fighting in Ukraine.

Our commander-in-chief and the army are doing everything right, this man says, as the pro-Putin convoys circles Moscow in a display of power trying to show that Russia won't be deterred from its current course.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.

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VAUSE: With us this hour is Lieutenant General Mark Hertling, a CNN military analyst and former commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army. General, good to see you.

LT. GEN. MARK HERTLING, CNN MILITARY ANALYST (on camera): Good to be with you, John.

VAUSE: OK. So, with regards to death of Darya Dugina reporting from the Russian news agency TASS was blunt. The murder of journalist Darya Dugina has been solved, it was prepared by the Ukrainian special services by a citizen of Ukraine.

The denial from Ukraine was also blunt, the secretary of the National Security Council saying we don't work that way, we have more powerful tasks that our guys are doing. We have nothing to do with the murder of this lady. This is the work of the Russian special services.

At this point, who has the most to gain by her death?

HERTLING: Well, first of all, what I'd say is it's fascinating the fact that Russia has come up with accusations less than a day after she was killed. And interestingly enough, they've produced an I.D. of the alleged killer, showing that she's Ukrainian and has somehow fled to Estonia. It just seems a little bit too quick to me for an investigation, John. To answer your question on who has the most to gain, no one, really. I mean, this is an assassination attempt.

But what I do believe is Russia and Mr. Putin specifically may use this as an impetus for upping the attacks.

Remember Dugina and her father Dugain were the ones that were pressing Mr. Putin to work harder, to go big in Ukraine. And Mr. Putin knows that he can't quite do that. He doesn't have the capability to do that.

So, they -- you know, they were very supportive, but also to a degree an enemy. So, who has the most to gain if Mr. Putin decides to go bigger? You know, he'll use the assassination of Dugina to do that.

VAUSE: Well, concerns of Russian retaliation has been that gatherings in Ukrainian capital have been banned until Thursday, head of the key city military administration saying the order was made. So, the security forces could respond in a timely manner to threats of missile and bomb attacks by the troops of the Russian Federation on decision- making centers, military facilities, defense industry facilities, critical infrastructure and nearby residential areas. Similar bans are in place in cities across the country, across Ukraine.

But the question is, what capabilities do the Russians have at this point to increase those missile attacks? How long can they keep those missile attacks going because if they could have done it, you would think they would have done it by now?

HERTLING: Well, they certainly have some caliber missiles left, there's indications that are close to 48 or so are on ships in the Black Sea, and they can reach out as far as they'd like to target.

But the interesting piece is, you know, when you're talking about the missile attack -- the potential missile attacks on Kyiv, going back to your earlier question, this is exactly what Alexander Dugin said Putin should be doing, attacking the main street in the Capitol.

So, that would be interesting. It's also in line with the 24th of August, which is Ukraine's Independence Day.

So, is it smart for Mr. President Zelenskyy to say, be prepared for more missile attacks in the city? Yes. Is Russia going to be able to do it with the capacity and the capability they have in the past? Probably not. They're quite frankly running out of either precision or regular missiles. And it's very difficult for them to continue their operations, is what our intelligence agencies are telling us.

VAUSE: We've heard a lot about this Ukrainian counter-offensive, we're waiting for it for some time, not a lot of evidence of a buildup of troops and vehicles which would normally be used, but there is some hints perhaps in what we saw Friday, the announcement of U.S. military assistance, which includes 40 armored MaxxPro mine-resistant vehicles, 15 ScanEagle surveillance drones, which increase missile accuracy. They're sending Lighter Howitzers, which are easier to move. A recoilless rifles, which are range of you know, a few 100 yards. [00:10:00]

You know, which all indicated it's close quarter fighting if you like, but when it does happen, it seems that this will not be a classic counter offensive. So, what's the strategy here the Ukrainians are likely to use?

HERTLING: I've said that John, that the Ukrainians do not have the capability to meet the definition of a true counter offensive on a large strategic scale. They can potentially do smaller scale strategic operations or excuse me, smaller scale counter offensive operations, some counter attacks.

But in order to do that, you have to have maneuver forces. And what I mean by that is anti-armor infantry, artillery, intelligence, engineers to go through rivers and minefields and Ukraine army is starting to build that force up. But you're exactly right, the package -- the $775 million package that the U.S. military has given them, it has a bunch of wheeled vehicles, more than 60 (INAUDIBLE) and Humvees. It has tow weapon systems, which are the precursors to the javelins. That can be anti-tank missiles, 1500 of them. It has the UAVs, like you said, but it also has a whole lot of other mind clearing equipment, and demolitions. And all of that is for contributing to maneuver operations.

That's what the Ukrainians need to do in any kind of counter attack. I wouldn't call it a counter offensive. That's a much larger scale. But I think what you're seeing is the Russians have extended their supply lines to the point that they can't move any further. They're on the defensive.

So, as they've transitioned to the defense, Ukraine is going to -- is going to transition to more offensive operations and use the terrain to their advantage. And I think that's what you're going to see in the southern locations.

VAUSE: I guess the question is when? Next couple of days, next several weeks? What do you think?

HERTLING: I think this is going to be very slow. You're going to see small scale counter attacks, just like we saw in the Donbas over the last several months, but in each one of them it's a continued attrition battle.

VAUSE: General Hertling, thanks so much.

HERTLING: Pleasure, John, thanks.

VAUSE: The loser of Kenya's presidential election is now challenging the results in the Supreme Court. Raila Odinga made allegations of vote rigging and declared the results to be null and void and claimed corruption cartels were to blame for his narrow loss to William Ruto.

Odinga submitting a truck full of documents to the court on Monday, but it remains unclear what evidence he has if any the vote was rigged. CNN's Larry Madowo has the latest now from Nairobi.

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LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): This is the third time that Raila Odinga has contested the outcome of a Kenyan presidential election. And this is the fifth time Raila Odinga guy has run and lost the Kenyan presidential election.

This time, the heart of his case before the Supreme Court in Kenya is that there's a corruption network, this nebulous cartel that infiltrated the system of Kenya's Electoral Commission and essentially change the results.

He thinks that these people hacked the system of Kenya's Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission. And he says if this is allowed to stand, Kenyans will not have a country.

RAILA ODINGA, KENYAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The 2022 presidential election represents the most daring move by those cartel to overturn the wishes of the electorate. We refuse to allow Kenya to go that direction. It must not happen and it will not happen.

MADOWO: Kenya's official President Elect William Ruto has said he would engage with the court processes. But in the meantime, he's been moving ahead, preparing to form the next government.

There were four commissioners out of seven from Kenya's electoral commission that disowned the presidential outcome, and said that they could not take ownership of the results because of the opaque nature of them.

However, the chairperson of the commission claimed that they had tried to make him moderate the results to force a runoff.

Kenya's Supreme Court has 14 days to hear and determine this election petition filed by Raila Odinga.

Larry Madowo, CNN, Nairobi.

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VAUSE: Tensions arising in Pakistan as police investigate whether former Prime Minister Imran Khan violated anti-terror laws. Khan threaten to take action against Islamabad's police chief and a female judge during a speech on Saturday. It was over the arrest of his former chief of staff on sedition charges.

Khan is accused of hate speech and has been banned from speaking on live television. Hundreds of his supporters are gathered outside his home saying they'll take over the Capitol if he's detained.

The death toll from severe flash flooding is rising in parts of South Asia. Floodwaters are still high in Pakistan where nine more deaths were reported Sunday, bringing the total numbers since June to at least 225. Roads and bridges have been washed away. Tthousands have been left

stranded.

Meantime, in Afghanistan, cleanup underway after thousands of homes were damaged by flood water. More than 60 deaths were reported across three provinces in just the last month with many more have been hurt.

In China, they're taking drastic new measures to save power, middle crippling heat wave. That includes Shanghai which is turning off billboards and other outdoor advertisements to try and conserve energy.

CNN's Kristie Lu Stout joins us now live from Hong Kong, a place with a lot about outdoor advertisements as well.

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So, as China is, you know, they had this heat wave which is going on, they've got the drought which is affecting hydro, what's being done to save power?

KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Yes, it's a pretty desperate situation in China right now, which is suffering through its worst and strongest heat waves since 1961. And as officials deal with rising in surging electricity demand for aircons, etcetera from households, they're also dealing with dwindling hydropower capacity. So, they're taking measures across the country.

For example, in Shanghai, as you mentioned, outdoor billboards, electric advertisements have been switched off. I think we have the video for you. Even the iconic Bund skyline in the mega city of Shanghai has gone dark all in a bid to conserve electricity during this extreme heat wave.

Also, you have in the city of Chongqing, some 5000 firefighters and emergency personnel have been dispatched to put out bushfires caused by the drought in this time of extreme heat for China.

Local authorities claim that the fires have been put out and they also say new casualties have been reported.

Now, as for the entire province of Sichuan (PH), which is a mega province of some 84 million people. We've learned that its hydropower capacity has been cut by half. That is very significant because in this province, some 80 percent of its electricity comes from hydropower.

So, to make up for the shortfall, they're now running their largest coal fired plant nonstop at full capacity.

Not only that, officials in Sichuan have also extended a blackout for factories in 19 of the 21 cities in Sichuan Province. And that is huge because this is a major high tech manufacturing hub, you have companies like Apple, Intel, Foxconn running production plants there.

And as a result of the power crunch in Sichuan province, that has led to supply chain disruptions for automakers in Shanghai. This is according to local state media reports affecting big automakers like Tesla, as well as SAIC Motors, it's China's biggest automaker that operates joint ventures with the likes of Volkswagen and G.M.

Look, since June, China has been literally baking in this intense and prolonged heat wave as affected some 900 million people.

Finally, I want to show this pretty dramatic map for you. It's just a forecast of what's going to look like in the days ahead and more extreme temperatures.

In fact, earlier today, China issued a red alert heat warning, the highest level warning to at least 165 cities and counties across the country. They're expecting temperatures to exceed 40 degrees Celsius or around 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

Across China, John, you know, the human toll is serious and the economic toll is rising, back to you.

VAUSE: And it's still hot and it's not getting cooler anytime soon. Kristie, thank you for that. Kristie Lu Stout live for us in Hong Kong.

Still ahead here on CNN, Donald Trump's legal team tries to play the long game, hoping to stall the investigation after the FBI search of his Florida home.

Also ahead, three offices in Arkansas under investigation after a violent arrest all caught on camera, details in a moment.

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VAUSE: A big sell off on Wall Street on Monday now being felt across the Asian, markets are looking lower. The Nikkei though currently, look at that, down by 1.20 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng down by half percent.

Interestingly, the Shanghai Composite just there in positive territory. That's off the back of a surprise interest rate cut there by China's central bank.

The Dow tumbled more than 640 points on Monday, the NASDAQ and the S&P both plunged more than two percent. This all comes from fears U.S. Federal Reserve will once again hike interest rates by three quarters of a point next month.

Markets can be volatile all week ahead of the gathering of central bankers on Thursday and a speech by Jerome Powell on Friday.

The question many are asking right now are we on a one way express right to economic Armageddon? Or maybe all the bad economic news is just you know, transitory?

Answer to that and more, we're joined now by Rana Foorohar a CNN Global Economic Analyst as well as Global Business Columnist and associate editor for The Financial Times. Good to see you.

RANA FOOROHAR, CNN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ANALYST: Great to see you, John.

VAUSE: OK. Here's a snapshot of economic news from Monday. Market Watch reporting -- rather CNN is reporting this, I should say, 72 percent of economists expect a U.S. recession by mid-2023. Now, there's Market Watch, U.S. house values fell for the first time since 2012. U.K. economy shrank record 11 percent in 2020, worse since 1709. That's from the Reuters news agency. Forbes says this grim forecast for the U.K., inflation interest rates and economy, Citi warns U.K. inflation on course to 18.6 percent next year.

Most disturbing of all though, Kate Middleton flies economy with kids to Scotland. I mean, that's the --that's the point here. You know, this is the wife of the heir of the British throne in the back of the bus. But that's what most of us are doing right now. We're cutting back on spending. We're -- you know, sort of not buying what we're used to, although the Royals do actually fly commercial fairly regularly.

But the point is, you know, are we doing enough and cutting back what we're doing? Buying generic brands and that kind of stuff to end this cycle of rate hikes? Or is it much more to come?

FOOROHAR: Well, I fear that there is more to come and that there may be more (INAUDIBLE) in Kate Middleton's future. I think that's a nice gesture by the way.

You know, we're at the beginning of what I think is going to be an economic slowdown. There's no question about it. We're probably due for another few rate hikes. You know, this week, there may be talk about that in Jackson Hole where the central bankers in the U.S. are meeting.

You know, I think that we're just at the beginning of a point where consumers are really beginning to button up their wallets and say, what do I really need? What do I have to have? In U.S., for example, consumer debt has finally started to rise again. You know, for a while following the great financial crisis, people were really trying to get their balance sheets in order.

And now, inflation, and despite, you know, higher wages and a pretty good job market is just forcing people to run down their savings and go back into debt. So, there's a lot of sobering news out there.

VAUSE: Apparently, this summer camp for central bankers and policy wonks, politicians. It's held annually at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is the first one since the end of the pandemic, the theme this year, reassessing constraints on the economy and policy. Well, what a fun time.

This Friday though, the Fed Reserve chief, this is the big headline, Jerome Powell will speak publicly. That's the same day in July inflation numbers come out. A lot of focus will be on what he says and the decisions that come after that. So, in terms of global economics, is this like a left turn right turn

moment in history? You make a wrong turn, and it's World War I and in an economic sense, terrible disaster? Make a right turn, and we're all OK?

FOOROHAR: Well, you know, it's great point. Jackson Hole is typically a place where central bankers talk about big turns and lay out the policies.

Now, you could argue that that's already happened. We've entered a period of rate hikes, we know that the era of easy money is over. You know, we're getting used to that slowly but surely.

But I think it is kind of a -- let's call it a Copernican moment maybe for central banks, and for economists in general, because, frankly, they've just gotten a lot wrong in the last couple of decades. You know, from the financial crisis to the idea that you could never again have 10 percent inflation, that was never going to happen. These are things that a big deal economists have gotten wrong, central bankers have gotten wrong in the last few years. And I think there -- a lot of people are feeling a loss of trust in this institution, as in so many, and they're being called to account to explain for the mistakes.

VAUSE: And the former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers to that point is advising the Fed that honesty is the best policy. He points out that unemployment, in his opinion, in the U.S. needs to rise from 3.5 percent right now, north of five percent before inflation starts easing.

And basically, it's time to come clean with the -- with the public and say that there is pain ahead. It seems that message has not reached the Fed, listen to this.

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NEEL KASHKARI, PRESIDENT, MINNEAPOLIS FEDERAL RESERVE BANK: And so, the question right now is, can we bring inflation down without triggering a recession? And my answer that question is, I don't know.

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VAUSE: Summers is pretty blunt. He said, you can't have your cake and eat it too, basically. So, where do you stand, what do you think?

FOOROHAR: Well, I think that's a fair comment. You know, I've been saying for many years, actually, that I think we've had easy money policies for way too long. And this is something to be fair that many people way before Larry Summers have been saying, both on the left, and on the right, there's been a sort of a buck passing on the part of politicians to central bankers.

But central bankers have limited tools in their toolbox, right? They can -- they can lower rates, they can control the money supply, they can bolster asset prices, but they can't create a new factory, they can't invent new products and services, they can't really change things on Main Street. And that's why you have this big divide between Wall Street and Main Street.

Central Bankers can bolster asset prices, they can't necessarily create real Main Street growth. So, I think being honest about that and saying, look, there are limits to what we can do would be a good thing in this moment.

VAUSE: Yes, I was expecting some kind of magic from it from the Fed and I just don't think the magics going to be there for much longer.

FOOROHAR: No magic wand.

VAUSE: Good to see you. Thank you.

FOOROHAR: You too.

VAUSE: Late reporting this hour from the New York Times, the details and just what was recovered from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

More than 150 sensitive documents were recovered by the National Archives back in January. But when the FBI agents returned earlier this month with a search warrant, they found another stash of highly classified material.

All up, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from the former president since he left the White House.

According to the Times, some was stored in boxes in the basement of the home, which sources tell the Times the former president described as mine.

Meantime, Trump's legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a third party attorney, known as a Special Master to oversee the review of evidence the FBI took at the Florida hotel from the Florida.

CNN's Katelyn Polantz has details now on this latest legal maneuver from the Trump team.

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KATELYN POLANTZ, CNN SENIOR CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER (on camera): Donald Trump's legal team has gone to court to hit back against that search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago, and now in court on Monday, his team has filed a request for a third party to be appointed by the court, something called a Special Master that can come in and review that the evidence that the FBI the Justice Department collected out of Mar-a-Lago was appropriately handled, and that they have the ability to use that in their investigation.

Even more so though, Trump is requesting for a pause on what the Justice Department is doing at this time as they examine whether there have been federal laws broken related to the handling of federal records and National Defense Information. So, in his new full court filing today, Donald Trump is arguing his

constitutional rights may be at issue here, he may have potential privileges that should be protected that these are things a Special Master should consider.

And on top of that, his attorneys are laying out some details we hadn't known before, such as what happened in June between the Justice Department and Donald Trump and his team, and specifically they are describing Trump having some agency in authorizing a search of Mar-a- Lago by the Justice Department to see where documents may have been held at that time, locking a storage room to secure them and also complying with a subpoena for surveillance documents.

On top of that, Trump's team does make public and unusual message that his attorney sent to Merrick Garland just a few weeks ago after that search, in the days after Trump said in his message to Garland, whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know -- let us know, that is an unusual thing for someone even a former president to be sending during an ongoing investigation.

Now, on top of this all, as we're looking at it, the Justice Department has not yet responded in court, they say through a spokesman on Monday night that they'd like to. The judge also has not responded to this request in the Southern District of Florida federal court.

But a few caveats here, it has been two weeks since that search of Mar-a-Lago and there has been a filter team already at work at the Justice Department, making sure that evidence that should not be used as this investigation continues is used.

Katelyn Polantz, CNN, Washington.

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VAUSE: Three law enforcement officers are under investigation in the U.S. state of Arkansas, accused of violently beating a suspect during an arrest which was caught on camera.

CNN's Nadia Romero has the story. A warning now, some of the video you're about to see is disturbing.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is bad. We got to get out of here.

NADIA ROMERO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty after this disturbing video was posted online showing them beating a man outside a convenience store. Arkansas State Police have now opened an investigation into use of force by all three officers and the FBI is also investigating.

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The Crawford County Sheriff's Office has identified them as, Deputy Zack King, Deputy Levi White, and Mulberry police officer Thell Riddle. CNN has reached out to all three, but so far hasn't heard back.

SHERIFF JIMMY DAMANTE, CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSAS: They will be punished for what they did if they are found to be in violation of any rights, laws, or anything like that.

ROMERO (voiceover): The incident happened Sunday in Mulberry, Arkansas, about 140 miles Northwest of Little Rock. In the video, you can see at least two officers punching and hitting the man and kneeing him repeatedly as they try to arrest him. That's when a bystander off camera yells at the officers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Don't beat him. He needs his medicine.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back the eff up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get in your car.

ROMERO (voiceover): Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said the officer's response was not consistent with the training they received.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR): That is reprehensible conduct in which a suspect is beat in that fashion. We saw a glimpse of that. It is under investigation.

ROMERO (voiceover): Police say, the man in the video is 27-year-old Randal Worcester of Goose Creek, South Carolina. An attorney representing Worcester tell CNN that Worcester was wanted for allegedly threatening a gas station clerk in a nearby town. Though Crawford County Sheriff says when officers located him he was cooperative at first, then got violent and tried to attack the officers.

DAVID POWELL, RANDAL WORCESTER'S ATTORNEY: We've all seen the video. I don't believe that the excessive amount of force that was used would be justified by, if my client did in fact spit on anyone. I believe it was above and beyond what the officers were trained to do and what they should've done in that situation.

ROMERO (voiceover): Police say Worcester refused medical treatment but was taken to the police as a precaution. He's facing numerous charges, including assault, battery, and resisting arrest. Worcester is now out of jail on $15,000 bond.

POWELL: There were multiple abrasions to his face, scratches. He did complain of pain to his head. He was only able to sleep on one head side of his head because (INAUDIBLE) and the injuries to the other side.

ROMERO (on camera): The sheriff says that the three officers involved were not wearing body cameras, but he says he did see dashcam video that has not been released to the public. The sheriff says what he saw on video does not represent his department and he's vowing to punish any of the deputies if they violated anyone's rights or laws. Now, the attorneys for the suspect Randal Worcester say they believed the officers used excessive force and that their actions were not justified. One of the attorneys told me that she believes the woman who took that cell phone video saved her client's life. Nadia Romero, CNN, Crawford County, Arkansas.

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VAUSE: Just ahead here on CNN. A rare voice of dissent from within the Russian military. CNN speaks to a Russian paratrooper who is now hiding after criticizing Vladimir Putin's war of choice.

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VAUSE: Welcome back everyone. You're watching CNN Newsroom. I'm John Vause. In Vladimir Putin's Russia, there's little tolerance for those who are openly critical of the Kremlin. Those who publicly oppose the war in Crimea risk jail time. Well, voices of dissent from within Russia's armed forces are practically unheard of. But CNN's Matthew Chance met with a Russian paratrooper who is the first serving member of the military to speak out against the conflict. He was then forced to leave the country.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): The first wave of Russian forces. Crack airborne troops like we met outside Kyiv just hours after the war began. Outgunned, these men were quickly pushed back. But elsewhere in Ukraine, others held on, fighting what the Kremlin still calls its special military operation. But now, six months on, there are public signs of discontent.

PAVEL FILATYEV, RUSSIAN SOLDIER (through translator): It's awful to realize that Russia is destroying Ukraine and Ukraine hates Russia because of what we are doing. And that the whole world thinks Russians are animals and bad people.

CHANCE (voiceover): We traveled to a secret location, thousands of miles from the war zone, to meet that disillusioned Russian soldier in hiding who says he feels compelled to speak out despite the risk.

CHANCE (on camera): Right, well, this is the place where we're told he's currently holed up. We've spoken to him on the phone already. He's very paranoid. Concerned the Russian security forces are trying to track him down. But he has agreed to meet with us and to speak with us.

Hi, Pavel.

FILATYEV: Hello.

CHANCE (on camera): Pavel. (Speaking in foreign language).

FILATYEV: (Speaking in foreign language). CHANCE (voiceover): Pavel Filatyev serves in Russia's elite 56 Air Assault Regiment, deployed to Ukraine's Kherson region as part of that first invasion wave. He fought for more than two months on the front lines, he told me, and was appalled by what he saw.

FILATYEV (through translator): We were dragged into this serious conflict, but we're just destroying towns. And not actually liberating anyone. All of that is a lie. We are simply destroying peaceful lives.

CHANCE (voiceover): And we've seen those lives destroyed. Russian troops killing thousands of Ukrainian civilians in a bloody rampage across the country. Human rights groups and others documenting alleged war crimes, including rapes and killings. But that's something Filatyev denies witnessing at all. Although he does describe how grinding battles, poor conditions, and a severe lack of basic supplies turned Russian soldiers like him into savages.

FILATYEV (through translator): Many of us had no food, no water, nor even sleeping bags. Because it was very cold at night and we couldn't sleep, we would find some rubbish, some rags just to wrap ourselves in to keep warm. Some took laptops, computers, and other technology. Perhaps because their salary does not provide for them to get those in an honest way. Many robbed abandoned stores with mobile phones and other things. I don't want to justify their actions, but it is important to understand that their poor level of life pushes them to do such things during war.

CHANCE (on camera): A lot of Ukrainians feel that you should be held responsible for what you've done, and for the actions that you have taken part in. Do you think that you should be held responsible? Do you feel responsible for what you've done?

FILATYEV (through translator): Look, the majority of Russian servicemen did not break the laws of combat. But morally, I feel guilty. Guilty for being used as an instrument in political gains, which will not even bring Russia any benefit. Our army has been destroyed. My government has destroyed almost every sphere with corruption, and everyone in Russia knows it.

CHANCE (voiceover): But Filatyev is the first Russian soldier to speak up. Publishing his scathing frontline memoirs on social media before fleeing his homeland. Now, he's in exile and he fears a potential target too for the powers he has criticized. Matthew Chance, CNN.

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Kate and William busting their own move out of London. A source tells CNN the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are moving the family to Windsor to try and give their kids a normal life. Good luck with that. CNN's Max Foster reports.

MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: In royal terms, at least, this is pretty unprecedented. The heir to the throne and the Duchess of Cambridge are taking their children out of their schools in London, out of Kensington Palace, and its many rooms and its many members of staff. And they're moving into a four-bedroom cottage in the rural Edil (ph) of the Queen's Windsor estate outside London.

They are going to sign their children into a new school, Lambert School, a prestigious fee-paying school nearby. And they say they want to be hands-on involved parents. This is a lifestyle change in many ways for them. They won't have any living staff. They will have access to the wider rural state staff. But this is a big change for them and does signify how they want to carry their royal lives forward. According to a royal source I spoke to, they just want their family to have as normal a life as possible. Max Foster, CNN, London.

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