very sad for japan to just hours after ringing in the new year to have this massive earthquake and have the number of dead just going up by the hour here. but now this story which the pictures are horrific, but the headline is spectacular, that 367 people and 12 crew members walked away from this alive. they survived this. and at social media videos that we re still working to verify and clear for you, but we ve been watching them, passengers that were inside the plane shooting out their windows. you could see the engine on fire, you can see the engine scraping the ground, you could hear in the cabin at least from the one video that i just watched not a surprisingly loud amount of panic. it was almost you could hear the people were startled, but one would imagine that people were very focused if they were all able to get off that plane safely because they would have had just a matter of seconds. this was flight 516 from a tourist hot spot to tokyo. this is their prime season.
potentially direct conflict, you know, of an american plane shooting down a russian plane. the am basketballbassador said have to bomb anti war weapons in belarus in addition to russian anti war assets in ukraine. talk to me about your support for the no fly zone and those organi arguments against it. look, anderson there is risk. i m not going to deny that and we should obviously look at that with eyes wide open. you know, i think there is risk in an action, too, at the moment. what i fear in the long term is that if russia ultimately does take control of kyiv or all of ukraine or most of ukraine and we wake up every morning and continue to see thousands upon thousands of civilians killed and all these tragic stories, there will be a moment where we decide we have to and by that time, i think you re significantly in a much more
essentially bring nato into the fight. they have said they wouldn t put boots on the ground but now they are saying they will not put planes in the sky because that could cause a situation that could escalate and get out of control. anderson. nato plane shooting down russian planes is obviously direct confrontation. appreciate it. thanks so much. now to the south of ukraine where russia s invasion has been especially brutal and successful in recent days. the port city now under russian control. residents are facing what is described as a humanitarian catastrophe according to that city s mayor. people in ukraine s biggest port city are bracing to be the target of russia s next assault.
smoke billowing in its wake as it crashed into a residential neighborhood about 90 miles from kyiv. the ukrainian emergency services says these are the remains of the jet. bombs undetonated mere steps from homes. the scenes of war. a war ukrainians continue to fight with limited help from western allies. in a zoom call with u.s. lawmakers, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy calling for greater military assistance including the transfer of fighter jets from eastern european countries and the establishment of a no-fly zone. the u.s. and nato still resisting such a move, warning it could prompt a full-scale war in europe. a no-fly zone might be just the bridge too far the u.s. plane shooting down a russian plane or vice-versa could escalate to the nuclear war. reporter: russian president