the world. a i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. four weeks from today, we ll be waking up to results from the iowa caucus, so this is crunch time in the land of cornfields and presidential politics. donald trump holding a rally there tonight while nikki haley is going on offense. i ve done well over 120 something, 140 town halls. and i never talk about my opponents. but today i am. the former u.n. ambassador and south carolina governor is sharpening attacks against her opponents calling out donald trump last night for his persistent praise of dictators. also the haley campaign and super pac both releasing new tv ads knocking ron desantis and president biden. i ll just say it, biden is too old and congress is the most exclusive nursing home in america. in a world consumed by chaos, ron desantis is another disaster. the desantis campaign, a dumpster fire. his style always trying to outtrump trump. phony and failing. a weaker nominee than trump. armed with those new ads
now that his presidential twitter launch did not launch so much, what does ron desantis do now? one of the best sourced florida reporters on earth tells us what a desantis campaign win means for them. a florida boy is recovering at home after he was shot by a police officer, but he is the one who called 911 for help. the family is now calling for the officer to be fired and charged. and could the pill form of diabetes and weight loss drugs like ozempic work just as well as the shot? ahead, the day that researchers are calling good news. we are following the major developing stories and much more right here on cnn news central. new reaction to the ron desantis glitch heard around the world or not really heard well for 25 minutes as the case may be. one of the challengers asa hutchinson struck a sympathetic tone this morning. i did feel for governor desantis. he is trailing donald trump in the polls, but he is clearly one of the top two candidates in the gop, but he
to 29 and 27 years. you continued to abuse him, and you lied that he had covid, so that no one would see him and remove him from your care. and in doing so, you subjected your own baby son to unimaginable cruelty. as a vigil takes place in cardiff for the two teenagers killed in an accident which sparked rioting, we speak exclusively to one of their families. and they re the talk of the terraces can luton town win the championship play off and host the premier league s biggest stars at their humble home? and newsnight at 1030, we will go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big story. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. the presenter phillip schofield has resigned from his remaining itv shows and has quit the network entirely, after acknowleging that he had an affair with a younger male colleague at this morning. in a statement, mr schofield said he had lied about the relationship to itv, as well as to his agents, lawy
great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last hours, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops and the paramilitary wagner group for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counteroffensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday fo diplomatic talks touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic talks with many of the gathered heads of the g7 nations. that includes prime minist
fox news alert president biden is wrapping up his time in japan giving along press conference that ended about 20 minutes ago. live team coverage with edward lawrence covering what biden can expect when he comes home. pete: they watched it so you don t have to let s start with peter doocy was in the press conference. the two things that they talk the most about was weapons for ukraine as they fight off the russian offensive and also what to do about a rising china in this part of the world. a big focus was economic but president biden got a question about chinese military aggression particularly their decision to turn off the military hotline that the secretary uses to talk to his counterpart. listen now president biden after days of china talk here in japan answer that one. we should have a hope in hotline at the bali conference president xi and i agreed and then the silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars worth of equipment over the united states and it got s