Thinking of Paraskeviya tonight, who is seeing Mariupol’s
#Azovstal
steel plant being battered and decimated by Russian forces, while her daughter is still inside. Her story of love and loss—with
@MaddieAraujo
& Alessandro Gentile.
#Mariupol
Polish FM: “The EU has spent double what the U.S. has spent on helping Ukraine. We are often suspected, in the U.S., including in Congress, of being free riders. Well, on this one, we have done the right thing. We now need 🇺🇸 to do what the President has promised”
Brazil's Pres
@jairbolsonaro
says
@domphillips
&
@tuyu_bruno
we’re on “an adventure that is not recommended." Journalism is not an adventure. They were reporting on the Bolsonaro’s disastrous environmental policies & the impact on the Indigenous communities.
#CadeBrunoeDom
“I think it's fair to say I've never seen anything like this, & I never expected in my life I would see such an appalling situation.”
Dr. Nick Maynard, who led an EMT at the Al-Aqsa Hospital says the situation has been “beyond any doubt the worst thing” he’s ever seen.
“It gives me no joy to have to be critical of Pres Biden, he happens to be a close personal friend…but sometimes you have to speak truth to power. It’s not just Israel that is losing into support, it’s America too by being too close to a govt that is not leading well.” 👇🏻
🇵🇱
@radeksikorski
“The Pres of the US went to Kyiv in wartime & assured Ukraine that the US will do ‘whatever it takes’. That ‘whatever it takes’ surely includes antimissiles artillery…to defend Ukrainian cities. If it doesn’t, the US credibility will be at stake.”
Fmr 🌍 chess champion
@Kasparov63
tells me “Putin hopes to out-suffer
#Ukraine
” but “this is not a Ukrainian war, this is our war. Because, God forbid
#Putin
succeeds, he will never be stopped”. “A Ukrainian victory will impact freedom all over the🌎 from N.Korea to Venezuela.”
“I would say to the Biden Administration, don’t provide arms to the killings of thousands of children, not a few children, thousands of children, every hour,” tells me the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council
@NRC_Egeland
👇🏻
Had the opportunity to sit down with
@jguaido
today. He told me there’s no hope for dialogue with
#Maduro
& accuses him of creating a mob-like structure within
#Venezuela
. We discussed this, blood gold, the growing humanitarian crisis and much more. Intv on
@cnni
“I think we cannot understand the
#Qatar
#WorldCup2022
without the Russian one… I think Russia got away with it and I think Qatar is now getting the correct level of scrutiny that Russia didn’t get” tells me
@Okwonga
, the co-host of "stadio: a football podcast".
Turkish presidential spox
@ikalin1
outlined the “two levels” at work in the war in Ukraine. “One is what is happening on the Ukrainian level on Ukrainian lands. The other level is geopolitical muscling”. The priorities according to Kalin below 👇🏻
Irish Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
“there is something untenable & unacceptable about the fact that a permanent member of the Sec Council has essentially undermined the most fundamental principles of the U.N. Charter & been the aggressor here.” Calls current structure “outdated”
Gracias a todos 🇲🇽 por vuestras mensajes de apoyo y bromas brillantes🌋
#Popocatepetl
. He estado practicando pero me voy a quedar con El Popo, just in case! Pero sí, es difícil!
Speaking to me tonight,
@EnricoLetta
says of the populist Brothers of Italy party leader vying for premiership at the Sept election 🇮🇹 “they are always against any policy at the European level for a more integrated Europe. We need Europe with 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸 not with Hungary & Poland”
The UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories,
@FranceskAlbs
tells me that the European Union's words of condemnation following remarks made by Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in France are not enough. 1/2
Before rejoining the grain deal, 🇹🇷 President
@RTErdogan
’s spokesperson
@ikalin1
tells me that President Putin wanted written guarantees that Ukraine will not use the humanitarian corridor for military purposes.
#ukraine
#GrainDeal
#turkey
Turkish presidential spox Ibrahim Kalin has questioned “how much damage” will be done by the time negotiations over the war in
#Ukraine
resume. Kalin says
#Turkey
is trying to find a way to advance talks because it looks “inevitable” that the war will continue for a long time.
“I promised myself that I would never get to the point of saying ‘we can’t describe this’. Today, I just wish that I could have captured the number of mum’s who greeted me in tears because they’re running out of ways to protect their children from starvation &bombs”
@1james_elder
Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights & Chair of
@TheElders
urges the U.S. “to urgently review its military assistance to Israel & put in place conditions for any future provision”. If this doesn’t happen, she tells me “then the USA owns the problem”.
“I don’t think we need to complicate too much whether or not we’re witnessing war crimes. Ukraine is the largest crime scene in the world today”, tells me the former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes David Scheffer.
#ukrainewar
#Russia
“This is a desperate attempt by Venezuela to seize our territory”.
As Maduro orders the creation of a new state, including land from
#Guyana
,
@OTPGY
says “In this Western hemisphere, we cannot allow a situation like Ukraine, we cannot allow the annexation of a territory”
The International Committee of the Red Cross
@ICRC
tells CNN it is working with the United Nations in an ongoing operation to move people put of
#Mariupol
and the besieged
#Azovstal
steel plant.
#UkraineWar
Argentinian Pres
@alferdez
“Today we are a better society” as
#Argentina
makes history as the largest country in Latin America to legalise abortion.
#argentina
El aborto seguro, legal y gratuito es ley.
A ello me comprometí que fuera en los días de campaña electoral.
Hoy somos una sociedad mejor que amplía derechos a las mujeres y garantiza la salud pública.
Recuperar el valor de la palabra empeñada. Compromiso de la política.
Ecuadorian Presidential candidate & fmr. VP
@ottosonnenh
tells me “There’s a lot of influence of drug dealers & drug traffickers in different institutions in the country; in the judiciary branch & even some influence in the police force, and in local governments”.
#EcuadorDeLuto
Venezuela’s
@jguaido
is on an European tour to ask for the support of EU & US leaders to cut the funding of
#Maduro
& “illegal groups” loyal to him. He told me the sale of
#Venezuelan
“blood gold” is funding Maduro’s regime, illegal paramilitary groups & terrorist organizations
Lithuanian Foreign Minister
@GLandsbergis
tells me tonight that “Until Ukraine has won, nobody is safe”. He added “If Ukraine is unable to win, if Putin can claim victory, then it spells problems, it spells a new geopolitical reality for everybody, not just for Ukraine.”
The Armenian Ambassador to the UK has called on the “international community to take a role” in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Amb
@VaruzhanN
tells me that the ethnic Armenians in the disputed territory have “been subjected to total & inhumane blockade for more than nine months.”
We won a
#newsemmy
& I still cant quite believe it! Thank you to
@TheLeadCNN
with
@jaketapper
& to my dogged producer
@VascoCNN
& my incredibly hardworking team in 🇬🇧 & in 🇻🇪. Mil gracias al pueblo Venezuelano por vuestro cariño y tiempo, y por confiarme con vuestras palabras.
The Mayor of
#Mariupol
Vadym Boichenko tells
@jimsciutto
that “according to our estimates we have about 20.000 civilian deaths in Mariupol, and we are witnessing the enemy trying to hide their crimes in mass graves.”
#ukrainewar
Kosovo PM tells me tonight he will not surrender the country to a “fascist militia”.
I asked
@albinkurti
whether he planned to heed calls to withdraw Kosovar police officers from the country’s northern municipalities & he told me: “We have to have rule of law. 1/4
Now it feels real! 🏆 Thank you
@newsemmys
for the recognition. I will continue to highlight the humanitarian and economic crisis in Venezuela and those responsible for it. Huge thanks to
@jaketapper
& the entire team
@TheLeadCNN
As the Presidential campaign gets underway in
#Brazil
, in what is expected to be one of the most divisive in the country’s history,
@camposmello
tells me “I have no doubt we have a slow motion coup going on…he’s [Bolsonaro] not going to accept the results”
#BolsonarovsLula
@leopoldolopez
says he’s been liberated by Venezuelan military “at the order of President Guaido”. Asks for all to mobilise and adds “this is the hour to conquer freedom. Strength & Faith”
Venezuela: ha iniciado la fase definitiva para el cese de la usurpación, la Operación Libertad. He sido liberado por militares a la orden de la Constitución y del Presidente Guaidó. Estoy en la Base La Carlota. Todos a movilizarnos. Es hora de conquistar la Libertad. Fuerza y Fe
Israel has “definitely” breached international humanitarian law in Gaza, tells me Slovenia’s Foreign Minister
@tfajon
The FM says she believes the world has “failed on tests of humanity”, adding “there’s no second chance to save Gaza”. The FM called for a ceasefire.
“This is Russia at play” European Parliament Pres
@RobertaMetsola
tells me that’s “it’s no coincidence” that tensions between Azerbaijan & Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region escalated as world leaders gathered in NY. Pres Metsola called it “a one-sided attack”. 👇🏻
Pres
#Zelensky
has told G7 leaders that he wants the war in Ukraine to end by the end of 2022, according to a source familiar with his remarks. Zelensky called for a major push to end the war before the winter sets in several months, the source said.
#UkraineWar
“There are at least a couple of actors behind the scenes who are heavily invested that this (Hamas) conflict is prolonged as much as possible.”
Lithuania’s FM
@GLandsbergis
says Russia “is profiting” from conflict—“distracting us from Ukraine works perfectly.”
As we reach the six-month mark of the war in
#Ukraine
@jensstoltenberg
tells me “we need to prepare for the long haul. We also have to remember that the price we are paying is a price that we can measure in money. The price Ukrainians are paying is a price measured in lives.”
“In Portugal, it is forbidden to smoke tobacco outside a school or a hospital. It is forbidden to advertise ice cream & sugar candies. And yet, it’s allowed for [people] to be there, injecting drugs,” said Rui Moreira, Porto’s mayor. “We’ve normalized it.”
Israeli Fin Min Bezalel Smotrich called for the Palestinian town of
#Huwara
“to be erased”.
@NRC_Egeland
gives me his reax: “What I heard was an ugly face of an ugly, lethal, terrible, unjustifiable occupation. This is mafia style politicians who have come to power in
#Israel
.”
Brazilian Senator
@randolfeap
says an independent commission of the Senate will be created to investigate the disappearance of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.
#CadeBrunoeDom
URGENTE! O nosso requerimento foi aprovado e agora o Senado criará uma Comissão Externa para investigar caso de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira. A comissão também irá investigar outros casos de violência na Amazônia. Pedimos urgência (máx. 24h) na indicação dos membros da comissão!
“We’ve seen several acts of harassment by Russia” tells me Finland’s FM
@elinavaltonen
“We have seen an increased amount of cyberattacks, and in recent weeks, Russia has been mobilising their country’s citizens towards our border to seek asylum.”
Spain’s Interior Ministry now says that around 8,000 people crossed from Morocco into
#Ceuta
. Of those 4,000 have already been returned to
#Morocco
.
#Spain
Ukraine’s Deputy PM
@IrynaVereshchuk
on
#Mariupol
“More than 100 people have been evacuated & the evacuation continues. All this happened thanks to the control of the Presof Ukraine,
@antonioguterres
, & the Intl. Committee of the Red Cross, for which we are very, very grateful."
As the
#Taliban
extend their repressive rule over the women of
#Afghanistan
,
@Fawziakoofi77
tells me “the world is failing the women of Afghanistan.” “They are being deprived of all basic fundamental rights…and their existence is being questioned. They have become invisible”.
As Georgians take to the streets of
#Tbilisi
for a second night to protest the foreign agents bill, Georgia’s President
@Zourabichvili_S
tells me “Georgia is not the next [target], but the ongoing victim of Russia’s aggression, of Russia’s imperialism”.
#TbilisiProtest
A fascinating discussion with the talented
@drexlerjorge
on the rise of Latin music, the appeal of regaetton & the importance of “singing the Uruguayan dictatorship out my bones”. Intv coming soon 📺
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister says Ukraine expects to carry out an exchange of Russian prisoners of war for the severely injured soldiers evacuated from the
#Azovstal
steel plant in Mariuopl late on Monday.
#Mariupol
Pres Biden says “it’s always better to meet face-to-face”, but as
@Billbrowder
tells me “Putin is the only person walking away with a win from this thing. If we wanted to express our displeasure with the things Putin is doing, we didn’t need to do it with all this pomp and glory”
"The only thing that Vladimir Putin understands" is "power and consequences," when it comes to foreign policy, says CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
@BillBrowder
. The Biden-Putin summit was "the wrong thing to do" for the U.S. and "hard consequences" are needed instead.
I speak to
@MOISESBARBOZA
about the heartbreaking reality on the ground & hear from
@MiguelNicolelis
who tells me “Brazil is an open air laboratory for the virus to evolve”
For several days now we’ve been at the Colombia-Venezuela border, listening to stories of why so many Venezuelans make the journey next door. This was the hardest one to hear—listen to Señor Sanchez. Heartbreaking! With 🎥
@joseCNN
& 🎞
@NGallonCNN
The evacuation of civilians from
#Azovstal
steel plant in
#Mariupol
has started according to Pres
#Zelensky
. Finally, a breakthrough for those who have been holed up inside for two months.
Розпочалася евакуація цивільних з Азовсталі. Перша група приблизно зі 100 осіб уже прямує на підконтрольну територію. Завтра зустрічатимемо їх у Запоріжжі. Дякую нашій команді! Нині вони, разом з представниками #ООН, працюють над евакуацією решти цивільних із території заводу.
Russian journo for TV Rain
@katyakotrikadze
tells me what’s making the news bulletins today in Russia “they’re liberating the cities & towns of Ukraine. They are showing people who are thanking the Russian army. They are not talking about the 3 month baby [killed in Odessa today]
The 9th vote is now underway for the speaker of the House. On the show Tonight
@LarrySabato
says “If he [McCarthy] somehow wins, he’s going to be the weakest speaker in modern times, maybe ever. He has simply no power left. He’s given away the store”
“We have to take away the illusion that, if somehow [the West] stopped helping Ukraine, the war will go away. The war will not go away.”
Latvia’s FM
@krisjaniskarins
: “We’re at a difficult juncture, we have to realise collectively that we have to help Ukraine stop Russia.”
@FranceskAlbs
says she’s always been "disappointed" by US policies on the matter & says UN Security Council is "paralyzed" by the US veto. “There is a schism, a sort of disconnect between what the UN as a general assembly recognizes as wrong & what it has the capacity to do.”
“They [US admin] are treating him [Benny Gantz] as if he’s a Prime Minister in the making, in the hope that this will seriously upset & rile Mr. Netanyahu”—
@AlonPinkas
on how Bibi, “through hubris & rudeness”, has turned “Israel from an ally to a high-maintenance, ongoing crisis”
#Kazakhstan
’s Pres says he had ordered his security forces to “open fire to kill without warning”. In a televised speech,
#Tokayev
called those protesting “bandits, criminals & murderers”.
@NdosSantosCNN
tells me “this is the type of autocratic talk that will be raising eyebrows”
Lithuanian PM
@IngridaSimonyte
tells me that Russia suspending its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty is Moscow's "trick to increase pressure." On allies hesitating, she tells me: “How can you push back Russia’s military if you do not have heavy weapons”
Estonia’s FM
@Tsahkna
tells me the
#Wagner
rebellion was just the small visible part of a much larger problem for Russia calling it the “top of the iceberg.” On
#Ukraine
, he added “The most dangerous place for neighboring countries is to stay in the waiting room of
#NATO
.”
Estonia's FM
@UrmasReinsalu
urged Ukraine's allies to "not be frightened" by the warnings from Russian Ambassador to the US of crossing “red lines” by providing arms to
#Kyiv
: “What more can happen? The genocide is taking place."
#RussiaUkraineWar
#estonia
#NATO
#G7
The
@UN
says that $54 bn are needed to meet the basic needs of the world’s most vulnerable, but the UN doesn’t expect to raise even half of that.
@UNReliefChief
tells me “how do you choose between a school & a clinic, how do you choose between food & nutritional support”.
In this exclusive interview,
@UNICEF
Goodwill Ambassador
@priyankachopra
tells me: "I knew this trip would hit me differently because of the fact that I have recently become a mum."
#Ukraine
"The resilience of mothers and their undying, unconditional need to nurture and protect their children has really shaken me."
@UNICEF
Goodwill Ambassador
@priyankachopra
speaks exclusively to
@isacnn
about meeting Ukrainian children and families seeking refuge in Poland.
“This cannot be the last convoy. It just can’t. There’s too many lives at stake here” tells me
@WFPChief
as 20 aid trucks crossed from Egypt to Gaza. Before the conflict, an average of 450 trucks were arriving in Gaza daily.
#BREAKING
: The US says it carried out a "successful" anti-terrorism raid in Northwest
#Syria
. The
#Pentagon
statement confirms there were no US casualties - the target is unknown. But
@JomanaCNN
tells me rescue group The White Helmets report 13 people died, including 6 children.
Eritrean troops are operating with total impunity in Ethiopia's war-torn northern
#Tigray
region, killing, raping, and blocking humanitarian aid to starving populations. Powerful reporting from
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
&
@elizamackintosh
& Alex Platt
The West has hit back at
#Putin
with sanctions but many believe they don’t go far enough.
@annastewart
looks at what else the U.S. & Europe may have up their sleeves. She tells me they're yet to play their trump card: disconnecting
#Russia
from
#SWIFT
.
#UkraineRussiaCrisis
I asked this Chicago resident Andrew Tart what he would do if he won the $1.28 BILLION Mega Millions jackpot. He gave maybe the best answer I've heard yet.
@IsaCNN
It has been 4 yrs since 5 Americans & a U.S. resident were called to Venezuela for a meeting, only to be arrested & convicted of corruption. An investigation by
@VascoCNN
@TimListerCNN
& me has found that the men, known as the
#CITGO6
, were tricked & convicted on bogus charges
“My own staff, my own colleague Abeer has been eating animal feed, and horrifyingly, the food that they were eating which is food for horse and donkeys is now running out, and they’re now eating bird seed”, tells me
@melanie_ward
@MedicalAidPal
As the Presidential campaign gets underway in
#Brazil
, in what is expected to be one of the most divisive in the country’s history,
@camposmello
tells me “I have no doubt we have a slow motion coup going on…he’s [Bolsonaro] not going to accept the results”
#BolsonarovsLula
Environmental activists have taken Brazilian President
#JairBolsonaro
to the Intl. Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, for his "ruthless" & "widespread attack on the Amazon, its dependants, and its defenders”.
Israeli fighter pilots are threatening to boycott training exercises tomorrow over govt plans to weaken the judiciary. Fmr IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz tells me they’re “worried the system will be changed from a democracy to a dictatorship -govt is playing politics with values”.
Kosovo PM
@albinkurti
added he wants to see a “multicultural society” in Kosovo, but added, “we cannot have a privileged minority because Belgrade is lamenting for [the] loss of Kosovo in 1999.” 3/4
Spanish Interior Minister
@interiorgob
says
#Spain
has so far sent back 2,700 migrants from the Spanish enclave
#Ceuta
to Morocco. "We will be strong in defending our borders," he said.
As Haiti reels from yet another natural disaster—a 4.9 magnitude earthquake and a wave of torrential rains, the
@WFP
’s country director tells me “Haiti is a forgotten crisis”
#Haiti
Russian dissent Anastasia Shevchenko spent 2 yrs under house arrest for speaking out against
#Putin
. In that time, she had to deal with something no parent should have to face, her daughter dying alone. “Why my daughter? Why children?This is “Putin’s irrational cruelty” she says
#CadeBrunoeDom
where are
@tuyu_bruno
&
@domphillips
? They have been missing in the Brazilian Amazon since Sunday morning. Indigenous groups say both had received death threats from suspected illegal miners and cattle hunters.
Today we learned that two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday: Fox News photojournalist Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova. Here's our full story:
Queen Rania speaking to
@amanpour
"This the first time in modern history that there is such human suffering &the world is not even calling for a ceasefire, so the silence is deafening – and to many in our region, it makes the Western world complicit."
In a world exclusive,
@QueenRania
of Jordan spoke with me about the ongoing bombing of Gaza, civilian deaths, the massacres of October 7, and what she calls “a glaring double standard” in the west’s reaction to all this. Watch our full conversation.
Lithuania’s Foreign Min
@GLandsbergis
“The Russian attacks are becoming more riskier; they are targeting targets closer to the NATO border, therefore I think it’s almost inevitable that we will see more of these sort of events, incidents also on NATO territory.” 1/3
“We are a Democratic Republic, and we have to ensure that in the municipal buildings which are property of the Republic, there will be these Kosova mayors who have been elected. On the other hand, we are facing not peaceful protesters, we are facing a mob of extremists…2/4