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Cecilia Vega reports from Brussels as President Joe Biden sits down with allies over the war in Ukraine.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces the second day of her Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has the highlights from the first day, and Joel Payne, a CBS News political contributor and Democratic strategist, joined "CBS News Mornings" to discuss.

Russia says it used hypersonic missiles to attack two Ukrainian facilities over the weekend. The U.S. has not been able to confirm that, but if true, it would be the first time a hypersonic weapon has been used in combat. Former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Mike Vikers joins "Red and Blue" to discuss what this might signal about Putin's strategy, plus a new report about U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a possible deal with Russia could include his country agreeing not to join NATO in exchange for a cease-fire and the withdrawal of Russian troops. Ukraine’s military says bombs have been falling on the besieged port city of Mariupol every ten minutes.

Speaking at the Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting, Biden warned business leaders of possible Russian cyberattacks amid Ukrainian invasion. President Joe Biden warned that Russia may be preparing to wage cyberattacks against the United States in retaliation for the economic sanctions the U.S. and its NATO allies have levied against Moscow.

Russian forces in Kherson reportedly opened fire on peaceful protesters, according to reports.

In the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked the Supreme Court nominee about her prior rulings on cases involving distributors of child pornography. Durbin cited tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in which he accused Jackson of delivering insufficient punishment to those offenders and said he is concerned that her record “endangers our children.” Experts have said that Hawley’s charges are misleading. Jackson responded to Durbin by saying that “nothing could be further from the truth,” noting that child sex abuse crimes are some of the most difficult cases with which judges must engage. She added that judicial guidelines set by Congress require judges not to hand down the highest possible penalty, but impose a sentence that is “sufficient but not greater than necessary to promote the purposes of punishment.” Jackson also said that it’s important to her to ensure that former child victims are represented in her sentences. “I tell [defendants] about the victim statements that have come in to me as a judge. I tell them about the adults who were former child sex abuse victims, who tell me that they will never have a normal adult relationship because of this abuse,” Jackson said. Jackson was nominated by President Joe Biden in February to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman on the high court. After opening statements from Jackson, her colleagues and the senators March 21, senators will spend two days questioning Jackson at length about her rulings and judicial philosophy. On the final day of the hearings March 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from friends and colleagues of Jackson about her temperament and approach to the law.

Ukrainian forces said they retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv early Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol raged unabated. Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north. Intensified artillery fire could be heard from the northwest, where Russia has sought to encircle and capture several suburban areas of the capital, a crucial target. Residents sheltered at home or underground under a 35-hour curfew imposed by city authorities that runs to Wednesday morning.

Ukrainian forces said they retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv early Tuesday, according to reports.

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board went into a near-vertical dive and crashed in a remote mountainous area of of Guangxi province in southern China on Monday. All 123 passengers and 9 crew of flight MU5735 are feared dead. It was the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. Search and rescue operations continued on Tuesday morning. The crash set off a forest fire visible from space in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade. State broadcaster CCTV reported it was later put out. More than 18 hours after communication was lost with the plane, there was still no word about the fate of passengers and crew members, leaving families waiting to learn whether anyone survived. Video from CCTV showed military personnel, firefighters and search and rescue teams scouring the wooded mountainous area where the crash took place. A small broken plane fragment could be seen in the footage. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said the crash occurred near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region. The plane was flying from Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast. China Eastern Flight MU5735 was traveling 455 knots (523 mph, 842 kph) at around 29,000 feet when it entered a steep and fast dive around 2:20 p.m. local time, according to data from flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.com. The plane plunged to 7,400 feet before briefly regaining about 1,200 feet in altitude, then descended sharply again. The plane stopped transmitting data 96 seconds after starting to fall. Local villagers were first to arrive at the forested area where the plane went down and sparked a blaze big enough to be seen on NASA satellite images. Hundreds of rescue workers were swiftly dispatched from Guangxi and neighboring Guangdong province. It was about an hour into the flight, and nearing the point at which it would begin descending into Guangzhou, when it pitched downward. CCTV said China Eastern set up nine teams to deal with aircraft disposal, accident investigation, family assistance and other pressing matters. The CAAC and China Eastern both said they had sent officials to the crash site in accordance with emergency measures. At this juncture it’s too early to predict what caused the crash. Possibilities range from an equipment malfunction, to a weather-related event, to pilot illness or suicide, to a terrorist attack of some description. Nothing has been ruled out. The primary focus will be on scouring the wreckage to finding the plane’s so-called black boxes — the flight data and cockpit recorders, which should provide the biggest clues as to the cause of the nosedive. One particular detail of note is that the aircraft’s dive appeared to have halted for about 10 seconds and it climbed briefly at about 8,000 feet before resuming its descent, according to data from Flightradar24. The airline announced that it would ground all its Boeing 737-800 jets from Tuesday, and expressed condolences to passengers and crew on board. Boeing said in a message to all employees it was “deeply saddened” by the crash and had been in “close communication with customer and regulatory authorities since the accident.” China’s Vice Premier Liu He has been tasked with overseeing the investigation, which will be carried out by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Authorities will work alongside a senior investigator from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and representatives from Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 20 the siege of Mariupol will go down in history as “war crimes” by Russian forces #trending #viral