First Move with Julia Chatterley

Julia is in Davos for the first-ever springtime meeting of the World Economic Forum, and the first in-person WEC since the pandemic began. The key items on the agenda include the war in Ukraine, the global recessionary threat, worsening food shortages, and the Covid-19 pandemic. First Move will have it all covered for you this week, beginning with today's episode. To learn more about how CNN prote...

President Joe Biden is in South Korea, kicking off his first trip to Asia since taking office. He joined the new South Korean President Yoon Seok-youl at a Samsung semiconductor plant. The main goal of his trip is to reassure America's Asian allies of its commitment to counter and contain China. The President is also bracing for the possibility of a nuclear test by North Korea. Our coverage begins...

As today's show began, US stock futures pointed to deeper losses a day after a major selloff on Wall Street -- the biggest one-day decline since June 2020. Investors are increasingly worried about rising inflation -- and a possible recession -- after dire earnings reports from giants like Walmart and Target. CNN's Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans explains what's going on and what we c...

A new report from Human Rights Watch details numerous alleged crimes by Russian forces against civilians in northern Ukraine. Among them are 22 apparent summary executions and nine other unlawful killings. Meantime, in Kyiv, the first Russian war crimes trial since Moscow's invasion has begun. A 21-year-old Russian soldier accused of killing a 62-year-old man has pleaded guilty. CNN's Melissa Bell...

Russia continues artillery attacks across northeast Ukraine, targeting border villages. Why Putin's invaders chose this strategy isn't clear. Meanwhile, Ukraine says its combat mission in Mariupol is over, with commanders at the massive Azovstal plant ordered to save the lives of their personnel. More than 260 people left the plant Monday, but some Ukrainian forces remain there, and efforts are un...

A Ukrainian unit says it has reached the Russian border and put down a blue and yellow stake with the message, "Mister President, we made it." As Russian forces are repelled near Kharkiv, Moscow is ramping up attacks in other areas. Today's show begins with a live report from Lviv, followed by live coverage of Sweden's Prime Minister announcing her country is pushing forward for NATO membership. T...

Billionaire CEO Elon Musk announces his $44 billion deal to take Twitter private is now "on hold," then just hours later tweets he's not ready to walk away just yet. Twitter shareholders react negatively to the news as shares initially fall more than 20% before bouncing back a bit. What's Musk's endgame? Is he angling for a better price during this volatile time for tech? Also in today's show: Isr...

In today's show we take an in-depth look at the continued weakness in global financial markets, particularly the highly valued US tech stocks which were hammered in Wednesday's session. It's a massive repricing of risk as investors are slashing expectations of profitability in a world of slower growth and rising inflation.  Also in this episode of First Move: the latest from Ukraine, including mor...

Ukraine says its troops have recaptured several areas near Kharkiv, and a video shows signs of a chaotic Russian retreat.  According to President Zelensky, "The occupiers are gradually being pushed away from Kharkiv." Meanwhile, a top US intelligence specialist says Vladimir Putin is preparing for prolonged war in Ukraine and that Russian failures could usher in a dangerous new phase. And Presiden...

Prior to Russia's invasion, Ukraine was the world's fourth largest exporter of maize. But with the country's ports at a standstill and a Russian blockade enforced, President Zelensky urges the international community to step in to prevent a global food crisis. "This is not just a strike at Ukraine," he says. "Without our agrarian exports, dozens of countries in various regions of the world have fo...

Today's episode starts immediately after a live press conference by European leaders wrapping up their huge conference in Strasbourg, France. French President Macron, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, and EU President Ursula von der Leyen talked about a message of unity regarding Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, especially in terms of how they're implementing sanctions against Ru...

Zelensky says the bombardment of the Mariupol steel plant is now nonstop. Global financial markets are swimming in a turbulent sea of red. But one bright spot: the US added more jobs in April than expected. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Those heartbreaking words are from a Ukrainian official as heavy shelling continues at the steel plant in Mariupol. CNN received new images revealing what hundreds of civilians have endured for weeks and months: relentless bombardment by Russian forces. President Zelensky says more than 340 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia Wednesday. He called for a ceasefire to allow more civil...

“Putin must pay a price, a high price, for his brutal aggression,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament as she announced a sixth round of sanctions against Russia. The EU is now proposing a ban on Russian oil imports and the removal of Russia's biggest bank from the SWIFT payment network. Meanwhile in Ukraine, heavy battles are being fought at the Mariupo...

This episode of First Move begins just after we'd received word that 106 evacuees from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol were on buses making their way to Zaporizhzhia. After waiting all morning for confirmation, we did indeed receive video evidence of those buses arriving and people getting off those buses. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh was there to greet them. To learn more about how CNN protects li...

An attempt to evacuate people from the embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway. Over the weekend more than 100 civilians were ferried to safety from the besieged Azovstal steel plant, some seeing sunight for the first time in weeks or even months. The plant came under fire again Saturday night, according to Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, two explosions were reported in Russia's Belgorod reg...

Only hours after Ukraine said that it would try again to get civilians out of a steel plant in Mariupol, an official there says Russian forces blocked off a potential escape route. An operation to evacuate the plant had been scheduled for today. Hundreds of people are thought to be sheltering inside the plant, which has become symbolic of Ukraine's resistance. Meanwhile, there have been heavy stri...

Today's show begins as a clearly emotional UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is seeing for himself the horrors in Ukraine ahead of a meeting with President Zelensky. Guterres told CNN the war will continue unless "Russia decides to end it. And it won't be decided by meetings." Meanwhile, as Russian shelling intensifies across eastern Ukraine, civilians trapped in the region continue to rely on...

As we came on the air today the White House had just confirmed the release of former US Marine Trevor Reed, who'd been detained in Russia since 2019. Reed, who was freed in a prisoner swap, was sentenced to nine years in prison in July 2020 for endangering the "life and health" of Russian police officers in an altercation. Reed and his family have denied the charges against him. Today's show begin...

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Satellite images of Mariupol appear to show rows of mass graves. Russian soldiers are accused of burying the bodies of countless civilians including women and children. Mariupol's mayor is calling it evidence of war crimes. In the east, heavy fighting is reported in Donetsk and Luhansk. Evacuation attempts were interrupted by Russian shelling. Meanwhile, Ukraine's finance minister is in Washington...

Today's show features two guests crucial to both the present and future of Ukraine: Yuriy Ryzhenkov, CEO of Metinvest Holding, the firm that owns the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol currently surrounded by Russian forces; and Odile Renaud-Basso, the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), which was established to help post-Soviet states fight for democracy.  Also o...

The last Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol, sheltered in a steel plant surrounded by Russian forces, allow another deadline to surrender to expire and remain adamant they will not give in. The commander of Ukrainian forces there sent this message: "This is our statement to the world, and it may be our last statement, and maybe we have a few days or hours left. The enemy's units are ten times larger t...

In a critical moment in Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the battle for the Donbas region is underway. President Zelensky is vowing to fight on against a large scale Russian ground offensive. We've already seen efforts to break through Ukraine's front lines in three regions in the east. Meanwhile, in Mariupol, Russian forces have given that city's resistance fighters a second deadline to surrender. To...

"No safe places left." Those are the words of a Ukrainian official in the eastern city of Luhansk, who says Russia is "shelling everywhere." He accused Russian soldiers of opening fire on people escaping in a car, killing four. And officials in nearby Kreminna say their city has been lost to Russians carrying huge amounts of equipment. Meanwhile, in Mariupol the resistance continues after troops r...