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Of the capitol we now understand they punched through those russian lines. they move the russian forces back about 15 miles. the uk ministry of defense, just in the last three hours, said it is quite likely they will encircle and trap a group of russian soldiers near the city of irpin. that is where the civilians were being evacuated from earlier this week. in the eastern part of the country it's almost as if the russian army is taking out its military losses on the civilian population. the situation in mariupol remains absolute hell. that according to the mayor who says there's 100,000 civili...

That they've been able to determine that, yes, they did conduct the air strikes in one of these areas, where the allegations have emerged from on march 17th. so, now they will conduct a formal assessment. they will look at all of the data they have, they will look at the allegations, they will try and figure out what exactly did happen, were civilians killed, how did this happen? one of the theories may well be, we are told, that isis took civilians, held them as human shields, human hostages in buildings it knew might be struck by the coalition. so the u.s. military has a view already that if...

Mosul offensive kicked off. it's been a slow and steady fight. this was urban warfare. they've seized the easy to take areas on the outskirts of mosul. they have to proceed really cautiously. we spent time at a refugee camp just 12 miles east of mosul yesterday and a lot of the folks we spoke to said there are still lots of civilians, up to a million, believed to be held as human hostages, human shields, by islamic state fighters and that makes it really hard to push through with full military force. ali? >> reporting from iraq, thanks, lucy. when we come back, a look at the stories making h...