criminal charges today. a source close to his legal team, however, telling cnn the da told them not to expect an indictment until at least tomorrow. so what do we know this morning about what s happening behind the scenes in this unprecedented situation in we will bring you up to speed. plus chinese president xi jinping is meeting at this moment with russian president vp vladimir putin, this is happening in the kremlin. that summit could have major implications for russia s war in ukraine. we will have the latest details from that conversation. and we are watching the stock markets very closely this morning. a lot of green arrows, which is a good thing given the way it s been the last few days as federal reserve chair jerome powell is set to make a decision on another possible interest rate hike, that decision comes tomorrow and will have an impact on your money. we begin this hour with the latest on the former president s possible indictment. cnn s senior legal affairs
that has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin calling his meeting with chinese president xi jingping successful. today, the two leaders signing a joint declaration deepening their partnership. and the summit obviously comes at a critical time for the war in ukraine. there are strong indications now that russia and china are moving closer both economically and militarily. xi is framing himself as a possible peace broker and they say it could be the basis for ending the war. but the u.s. and western allies remain deeply sceptical. there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but added they don t see evidence that weapons are being delivered. we have team coverage on this. ivan watson is in ukraine. but let s begin with will ripley in taiwan. what more do we know about the talks in moscow today? well, you know, there was a line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the re
virginia covering this for us. brian, this video we re told disturbing. what can be learned from it? reporter: john and erica, what you can see in this video is kind of a dramatic kind of a slow-moving but very dramatic encounter that he has with these deputies, i can call it an encounter, i guess, because they re pretty much on top of him the entire time. the first video, though, that we see is of him being brought into the intake ward at central state hospital, a mental health facility in petersburg, virginia, this is surveillance video of him being brought into that hospital on the morning excuse me, on the afternoon of monday, march 6th. you can see deputies bringing him in, they are holding him up, he is in shackles and leg irons, he is not necessarily able to support himself, at least it doesn t look like that on the video. they bring him in, then they get him seated basically on the floor by a chair. there is a chair right there, but he is not in the chair, he is on the floo
and seven sheriff s deputies in virginia. the 28-year-old black man was smothered to death while in custody as he was being transferred to a mental health facility earlier this month. the deputies and three hospital employees are facing second-degree murder charges and all ten have now been indicted by a grand jury. let s go to brian todd who has been following this story for us. the video is said to be extremely disturbing. the family says it shows officials smothering him until he s motionless. reporter: that s right. this is some of the most important pieces of evidence in this case. we just got this video a short time ago from the commonwealth s attorneys office. as you mentioned, it shows the moments leading up to and during what the prosecutor called the process of them smothering him to death. at first the video shows the sheriff s deputies bringing him into the intake ward at the central state hospital in