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welcome to the programme. exactly six months ago, vladimir putin ordered his army to invade ukraine. it was a decision that not only unleashed the biggest war in europe since world war ii, but it also turned the world on its head. thousands of ukrainians and russian soldiers have been killed in the fighting. today, in ukraine, it is independence day. normally, there would be parades and celebrations marking 31 years of freedom from soviet rule. but not today, it s not safe. and in the past 6 months, russia has clawed away at ukraine s freedom. this was the map of ukraine on february 24th. russian backed separatists already held significant territory in the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk and moscow controlled the annexed crimean peninsula. this is how things stand now. russian forces control large parts of the south of the country, all of the luhansk region and continue to make advances in donetsk. but there is still the threat of danger, everywhere in the countr ....
chad myers has been following this for us. also live in atlanta. and chad, rafael says there was another tremor. what are you seeing? i am actually seeing that tremor on one of the size mo seismograms in southern california. the shaking was felt by the needle ps .thnee needles. these are the minutes as we go across. about one minute of shake. then right here, a secondary shake, chp wwhich would have bee after shock. maybe 5.5, although it hasn t been posted. there will be i know we push this to the back burn err little bit and said there s not a lot of damage. that is true. there s not a lot of damage in big cities. but let me tell you, a 7.6 and in mexico is saying 6.6. not that it s a different earthquake. it s a different scale. all of the countries have a different scale. that s where we think it is, doesn t mean it s not a 7.6. it just means on our scale it s a 6.6, on the u.s. scale it s a 6.6. so for us knowing our earthquake, it s still a 7.6. and that s ....
is really prepared for this kind of quake or worse, and the other breaking news story we re following, bullets flying from moammar gadhafi s compound in tripoli, only hours after it was captured by rebels. cnn goes inside the compound as chaos, looting and celebrations unfold. we re following a very dangerous and uncertain situation in libya right now. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. millions of americans on the east coast and beyond heard the ground rumble and felt buildings sway. the earthquake that struck just a few hours ago measured 5.8, the strongest to rock the area in over a century. for this part of the country it s a rare event. many people were dazed and scared as they poured into the streets. some are still feeling emotional aftershocks. the quake was centered almost 90 miles southwest of washington, d.c., and northern virginia. it was felt to some degree as far away as both detroit and atlanta. damage reports are still coming in. no word ....
[ speaking in a foreign language ] [ gunfire ] [ speaking in a foreign language ] hello, everyone. this is randi kaye here watching the live events unfold in libya here along with michael holmes. it is 7:00 p.m. in tripoli, where the fight to oust moammar gadhafi just took a potentially momentous turn. within the past 90 minutes, libyan rebels penetrated gadhafi s compound which nato war planes have bombed off and on now for months. the rebels now have the run of the place. we have seen them celebrating, confiscating files and weapons and ammunition as they go room by room through what is a large compound with multiple buildings. we are hearing about pockets of fire, in fact, we have actually seen that. you can see now a fire that appears to have broken out in one part of the compound there. until he pulls out, it s difficult to know what part this is. we have been seeing that domed building which has been to the left and to the right of that domed building is the f ....