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Reporting the first casualties after days of anti-government riots. police said they found through bodies in a burned out building in the chinatown district. police say the city is still tense, and its starting to get back to normal now. they also say more than 100 people have been arrested since rioting began on wednesday. meantime, an australian army unit landed in the capital while pap what, new guinea, deployed a security team to help the rallies from the prime minister that protesters want ...

But the kremlin insists russia has no plans to get involved. mark lobel reports. ukrainians living in the rebel—held east survey recent damage amidst a war of words with russia as western and ukrainian officials speak of a build—up of russian forces on the countrys borders with ukraine. ukraines president, addressing the media on friday, suggested his country could come under attack as early as next week. translation: weve received information that in our state . there will be a coup detat i...

Using real concerns about russia to crack down on his opponents, too. matthew chance, cnn, london. now u.s. president joe biden says hes concerned about mr. zelinskys comments on the alleged coup inside ukraine. meantime, the u.s. and its nato allies will be discussing ways to further deter russia from its aggression toward ukraine at a summit in latvia this week. natos secretary general says the military build-up on the border is raising tensions. hes calling on moscow to deescalate the situa...

Frankly, its clear what hes trying to do it. hes trying to tamp things down. im sorry to take this literally from the book, but you have to do the literal moment when milley says to general lee, if were going to attack, im going to call you ahead of time. people have misconstrued that to say, oh, that means im going to tip you off. what it means is there will be a build up. there will be tensions and they will be talking on this top secret back channel. >> thats what he says right there on page ...

The u.s. has shared intelligence that show a build-up of russian troops and artillery to prepare for rapid large scale push in to ukraine from multiple locations. secretary state tony blinken announced additional sanctions that could target the nord stream 2 pipeline. >> we dont need what putins intentions are but we know what happened in the past. we know the playbook of citing some provocation from ukraine or any other country and using that as an excuse to do what russia is planning to do all...

How they can devert attention away from the military build-up on the ukraine border. jennifer? >> gillian: thanks. lets bring in daniel davis. he served 21 years in the army deploying to combat zones four times. hes a senior fellow and expert for defense priorities. colonel, thanks for your time today. >> thanks for having me. >> gillian: you say the biden administrations number 1 responsibility here is to make sure that they dont cause any harm, that they dont to anything to escalade the tensio...

Additional weapons to ukraine to help fortify the country from a potential russian invasion. this as moscow is ramping up its presence at the border. we have cnn anchor and correspondent jim sciutto with us on this story. this would be, to be clear, american assets on the ground. >> no question. as russia built up this force here, im told the u.s. has a two-prong strategy. internationalize the crisis, get allies on board, warn russia with one voice, and the other thing, not give russia an expect...

Russia. and thats the dilemma were in. no matter what the united states does. there will be recriminations from some side or another, either of appeasing russia, if no action is taken, or certainly on the russian side of basically building an aggressive posture. russia is even accusing the united states of using ukraine as a kind of platform for aggression against russian territory. >> so you see the biden administration as in a bind here. but you are the expert on president putin and his thinki...

>> thank you. take care. >> you as well. were following a tense situation on the the border between russia and ukraine. a build up of troops is prompting deep concern inside the pentagon. the joint chief chairman held a phone call to discuss. fred pleitgen has this report. >> reporter: on patrol in some of the most contested waters in the world, ukraines navy took us on an artillery boat just as tensions with with russia have reached a boiling point. the goal is to defend the sovereignty of ukra...

Chairman of the chief spoke to counterpart and ukrainian counterpart yesterday. the second time in a week. the u.s. has shared intelligence and maps with europe allies that show a build up of russian troops and large scale push into ukraine from multiple locations. secretary of state tony blinken announced additional sanctions that could target the nord stream 2 pipeline. >> there is also the nuclear bomb of sanctions which is people are reluctant to do that. i think if there were a major ukrain...