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Country are realizing their one child law is hurting economic growth. now, the government making major efforts to encourage couples to have more children. cnn has reporters around the world with the latest headlines. >> reporter: i'm fred pleitgen in moscow, as russia continues to pile the pressure on the u.s. and its nato allies. the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, saying the russians want answers very soon to some of the security demands that they put forward in the security talks with the u.s. that happened in geneva last week. now, the russians also announced they would be holding...

Like a phone conversation between vladimir putin and u.s. president joe biden. that happened on saturday. however, the russians are saying that they believe that there are still unanswered questions to which they would like to have further conversations with the white house. all this comes as the u.s. says the russians are continuing to amass forces near the borders with ukraine. several thousand more troops arriving there this past week alone. >> reporter: i'm sam kiley in kharkiv. it is only 50 miles to the north around the city of bell grad where there is russian fire power. hundreds of tan...

They're doing in places like mariupol where they go piece by piece to get the rubble out to look for survivors. the mayor of melitopol is now freed. after a prisoner swap. cnn's reporters are covering the latest. >> reporter: i'm sam kiley in kyiv, where president zelenskyy enjoyed a brief glimmer of optimism, and even joy, today, when he spoke with ivan federov, the mayor of melitopol who a week ago had been abducted by russian troops when they overran his city. he disappeared and very quickly was able to be released as a result of a special forces operation conducted by the ukrainian armed...