easing. workers are putting the finishing touches on getting the swiss resort town ready for the business and the political elite. ukraine will send a high-level delegation and several sessions will be held on the war. russia won t be attending the conference. some of the topics will be how to avoid the risk of a global recession in 2023 as well as the global effort to tackle the climate crisis. there is no doubt that our 53rd annual meeting in davos will happen against the most complex geopolitical and geo economic backdrop in decades. so much is at stake. a hole can be avoided, global energy and food prices and also halting a further escalation of the global crisis.
s soledar. the latest from a ukraine military unit is it s still holding onto some of the town s outskirts. scott joins us live from a foggy kyiv. what can you tell us about the blasts today? reporter: this was a couple of hours ago, less than two hours ago actually that we were woken up here in kyiv by three loud explosions very close together, and what was unusual about this is that the air raid sirens in the city went off only moments after the explosions had already taken place. so according to the mayor of kyiv, there were explosions on the eastern bank of the dnipro river, so these beyond the church s dome.
left to surrender and he won t be able to hide for very long because there continues to be gunfire, fights in the streets, and it s only a matter of time, he thinks, before the russians will eventually close in. kim? all right. appreciate that. scott mclean in kyiv. thanks so much. cnn is on the ground just outside of that town, and our ben wedeman got a firsthand look at what s happening there. reporter: one mortar round off. the crew prepares for the next. the target, russian positions in soledar. the leader of this national guard mortar unit who gave us only his nickickname, engineer, says they need help to stop the
and live from the world economic for rum in davos, i m john defterios. from a bone-chilling swiss alps, here s the top stories. kazakhstan s leader, how he will become a player in the oil industry. sony promotes its follow-up to the playstation portable. and stock market surge after the dow reaches the 12,000 mark for the first time in two years. the world economic forum is under way in the swiss resort town of alps. some of the biggest names are on hand to talk to us. president sarkozy takes the stage to talk about his plans for the g-20. we heard from some of the key players including dmitry medvedev whose arrival was delayed because of monday s airport bombing in moscow.