hello. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. any moment now, president biden is expected to update americans on the recent and unprecedented shootdowns of objects over north america. the president has been facing growing pressure to bring more transparency to the issue that has gripped the nation for the last month. let s get straight to jeremy diamond in washington. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is the first time we hear directly from president biden in a formal setting on the downing not only of that chinese spy balloon but the three objects brought down between friday and sunday. to get to this point, a couple of things had to happen because the white house has really been in discussions over the last several days about the wisdom, the merits of the president potentially addressing this issue. they were wary at first of making this a bigger issue than it actually is. and they were also wanting to make sure the president waited until
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challenging. you cannot and should not do it unless you have a full tank. we give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it s time. and so, for me it s time. good morning, everyone. poppy is off wi, kaitlan and i here. when it s time to go, it s time to go. it shocked a lot of people. that was a resignation that people were not expected. that was new zealand s prime minister resigning. we ll discuss her surprise announcement in a moment with christiane amanpour. plus president biden has been planning to announce his re-election bid after february 7th but then came the document scandal does that delay his decision. there is a new george santos lie. the new york lawmaker claims repeatedly and consistently that his mother was in the world trade center on 9/11 now we know she wasn t even in the country. a bold prediction by volodymyr zelenskyy in a speech in davos, vowing his country will reclaim crimea from the russians. but we begin with this president
this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. russia unleashing missiles across ukraine. few cities were spared in what could be the broadest assault since the invasion began. dozens more injured. v vladimir putin is posting about the strikes. he said they re in retaliation over the weekend of a key bridge linking russia to annexed crimea and accusing ukraine of terrorism as imangs like these are broadcast all over the world. the ukraine president is holding emergency talks with g-7 leaders today about how to respond to this. let s get straight to fred pleitgen live in kyiv. cities all over ukraine were bomb bombarded but look at what is behind you. even a playground in kyiv. reporter: when he was dressing the security council is that he said that the russians hit command and communications infrastructure of the ukraine military. but as you could see behind me, this is definitely not command or communication infrastructure from the ukrainian military. this is a pl
dozens more are hurt. today, putin is boasting about these attacks and vowing there will be more. he says the attacks are retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. ukraine s president zelenskyy meanwhile says putin s latest assault shows a world he is a terrorist. cnn nick paton walsh is in onei targeted overnight. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: what we saw here was a sign that while russia boasts about the precision firepower, it s hard to discern what the target was and clear it hasn t really hit it. across ukraine, we ve seen startling brutality, frankly. this is not the first time that russia has it seems targeted or killed civilians since the start of this war, but we haven t seen a level of violence unleashed across pretty much all of ukraine s major population centers like we ve seen today for a number of months, possibly since the start of the war. kyiv fundamentally gained the blunt brunt of this. carnage, m