karim khan, the icc s chief prosecutor. she joins us from the hague. cnn s matthew chance is monitoring russian reaction. he joins us as well as does cnn s ivan watson from ukraine. this is a story he and 360 have been reporting on extensively. we start things off with carissa ward and her interview at the hague. carissa. reporter: john, well, karim khan was keen to tell us that this is really just the first step in what promises to be a long journey. the arrest warrants that were given out today for president putin and also for the russia high commissioner for children maria l vova-belova, these are just the first two essentially. there may be more coming. there may be other areas that they will be exploring. there is no shortage of alleged war crimes that have taken place in ukraine. the prosecutor s office here from the icc have made multiple trips to ukraine. but they were keen really to stress the importance of this historic day. take a look. there are many differe
putin accusing him of war crimes in ukraine. but will the russian president actually be arrested? we ll break down where things go from here. anger boiling over in france. violent clashes between protesters and police as people take to the streets to condemn plans to raise the country s retirement age. plus trump s lawyer ordered to testify. what the ruling means for the investigation into the former u.s. president s handling of classified documents. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we begin with a historic decision by the international criminal court. for the first time since russia invaded ukraine the icc has issued an arrest warrant for russia s president over alleged war crimes. the court says vladimir putin bears responsibility for his scheme to illegally deport thousands of ukrainian children to russia. the icc has also issued a similar warrant for russia s so-called commissioner for children s rights, who oversees the d
wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes. but could he actually be taken into custody? former u.s. president donald trump s legal troubles could come to a head quickly. a new york grand jury may indict him as soon as next week. and hundreds of people detained across france following fiery protests. that after the government pushes through a controversial pension reform plan. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. the u.s. president is voicing support for a historic decision by the international criminal court against russia s leader. joe biden says the icc had good reason to issue an arrest warrant for vladimir putin over alleged war crimes in ukraine. well, i think it s justified, but the question is it s not recognized internationally by us either. but i think it makes a very strong point. the icc on friday says mr. putin bears responsibility for an alleged scheme to illegally deport thousands of child
underreported. and that s when you look at the factual matrix and evidence we received it was only right and appropriate to focus on the most vulnerable parts of our society, which are children. we understand that ms. lvova-belova is the russian commissioner for children, she s been very vocal and visible in her role. how did you take the next step also in terms of pushing for the prosecution of president putin himself? and how unusual is that? well, i ve said repeatedly over the last year that we don t start with targets. we start with the evidence. we investigate incriminating and exonerating evidence equally. we want to find the truth. we are statutorily required to get to the truth. and as i said we ve started looking at a range of, wide spectrum of allegations, but the evidence was quite clear because of what has been said publicly from those individuals, what has become available from publicly available sources and also the result of our direct
time we might be seeing something else. and the third factor might be as well the fact that there s so many alleged war crimes happening in ukraine. i think the prosecutor general in ukraine has something like 72,000 potential cases of war crimes. so it also made be an issue of coordination where the international criminal court potentially takes on some of the allegations while other actors, ukrainian, domestic authorities take on something else. so it might be a combination of those factors that led to this important decision to focus on these particular cases. now, the icc alleges that the russian leader is directly involved in the forced deportation of children. is the forced transfer of children considered to be a war crime? well, the prosecutor of the icc definitely thinks so. in fact, it can also be a case of genocide. the genocide convention from 1948 in its article 2 defines potentially the transfer of children from one group to another group to if the facts support it,