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the wobble, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you just ahead on cnn newsroom. a major earthquake has killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey. the strongest earthquake in 100 years or more of record keeping.h and rescue operations, of course, very, very difficult. how and when president joe biden was informed about the suspected chinese spy balloon. china s now accusing the u.s. of overreacting. in fact, it s not just the balloon. it s the message to send the world that we can do whatever we want and america can t stop us. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. this monday, february 6th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 12:00 p.m. in turkey, search and rescue crews are working desperately to find people trapped in a major earthquake that struck in the early hoursch this morning. turkey s vice president said as least 280 people have died. 2200 are injured. and thousands of rescue engineers are headed to the r ....
hello everyone. welcome to the cnn newsroom. today the us and germany announced they are sending advanced level tanks to ukraine. this ends weeks of geopolitical squabbling and introducing what could be a game changer in the russian war in ukraine. it will take months for 31 american abrams tanks to reach the ukraine battlefield and there was no diplomatic arm-twisting behind the decision. they are the most capable tanks on the world and their extremely complex to operate and maintain. we are giving ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to sustain these tanks on the battlefield. .[indiscernible] germany did not force me to change my mind. i wanted to make sure we were all together. germany said it will dispatch 14 tanks to the troops. this move by the most powerful nato members opens the door for other allies to make contributions. the tanks will allow ukraine to go on the offensive and to retake occupied territory germany warns that the approval is ext ....
An american wounded on the ba battlefield in ukraine, just a year after he s released from russia in a high-profile prisoner swap. a biden administration official telling cnn that the marine veteran trevor reed was wounded while fighting in ukraine. they are family sizing that reed was not fighting on behalf of the u.s. government. the u.s. consistently concerned about escalation with russia. cnn s oren liebermann is at the pentagon now. oren, where is lee now? do we note severity of his wounds? reporter: jim, right now, trevor reed is in germany, he s come out of ukraine according to the state department with the help of an ngo who got him out of ukraine with his injuries. we don t know at this point how he suffered the injuries and the extent. we know he was treated first in the ukrainian capital of kyiv and now en route to germany. where exactly, that, too, remains a question that we re ....
You ve got a recovery vehicle over here. these will have to be provided to the ukrainians as well. so that these groups, these squadrons of tanks, these 14 tanks that will be in these squadrons can operate together, operate effectively, and what they re training for here and what the ukrainians will need to do as well, is to have them work effectively with the infantry on the ground. yesterday, we saw french troops in a mock battle storming estonians in trenches, just like we see in ukraine, under that punch that came up with the leopard 2 tanks. they are better than the russian tanks. they ve got night capability, they is fire at one target, track another target. they ve got high-speed reverse which is way better than the russian tanks which believe it or not is very important on the ba battlefield. but the big line, i guess, out of here, it will take some sometime for the ukrainians to get really effective as they want to be on the battlefield. nic in estonia, thank you. ....
Their weeks long diplomatic impasse. the two nations both vowed to send advanced-level tanks to ukraine, introducing what could be a game-changer in russia s war. president biden said it would take months for the 31-year-old abrams tanks to reach ukraine s battlefield, adding there was no diplomatic arm truce. the abrams tanks are the most capable tanks in the world. they re also extremely complex to operate and maintain. so we re also giving ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to sustain these tanks on the ba battlefield. are you going to change your mind on sending these tanks? we want to make sure we re all together. that s what we re doing all along, and that s what we re doing right now. germany said that it will send 14 leopard 2 tanks to the troops. this decision, the announcement by the u.s. and germans, they opened the doors for other allies to send things to ....