once again with iranian-built kamikaze drones. we will have a live report from kyiv. and also we will speak with former ukrainian president poroshenko about his reaction and the very latest in the war. and you will hear the exclusive one-on-one interview with georgia republican senate county herschel walker. what he said about claims he paid for an abortion. plus, a california community relieved after police say they caught a suspected serial killer. and xi jinping is poised to win an unprecedented third term in office. we ll get the latest from beijing. we will look into the importance of language in identity. we will go inside what is becoming a big debate about spanish and cultural. and we begin this hour with the breaking news out of ukraine where the country s dam was struck again by another were round of russian strikes overnight. kyiv s mayor says the city was struck by iranian-made kamikaze drones that hit critical infrastructure and a residential building.
conservatives must focus on the future, closed quote, a not so veiled shot at his former boss, the former president s false claims about the 2020 election. remarkable to have a vice president who served under that president to then challenge him. a spokesman for the former president tells cnn he will use his speech today to focus on law and order. this as the justice department s inquiry into the capitol attack widens. pence s former chief of staff marc short confirmed to cnn he testified before a doj grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection, making him the highest profile witness known to have testified so far in the criminal investigation. have a listen. our secret service did a phenomenal job that day. and their job was made more complicated candidly by the fact that the capitol had been breached and they wanted to evacuate the vice president, but it has been covered the vice president didn t want the image of a 15-car motorcade fleeing the hallmark of d
temperatures, hitting record highs across the country, at the same time they are trying to battle this. plus, troubling signs for the u.s. economy. second quarter gdp, how much the economy grew and it s expected to shrink as president biden faces several economic challenges. inflation, continued supply chain issues, gas prices high but coming down. all of this overshadowing a 3.6%, very low unemployment rate. several key economic indicators expected this week. we ll talk about what s ahead. and republican congressman and january 6th committee vice chair liz cheney says a subpoena for ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, is not off the table. anxiety is growing among republicans over the committee s revelations about former president trump and many in the party are now encouraging other republicans to jump in the 2024 race for the white house. let s begin with the wildfire in california. our national correspondent camilla is at the scene of the fi
are you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we are following a number of new developments in the israel-hamas war. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leader in jordan. blinken stressed support for israel to implement humanitarian pauses, as he s calling them, in the fighting in gaza. short of a cease-fire demanded by arab countries and international aid agencies. the u.s. official says hamas is blocking foreign nationals from leaving gaza for egypt through the rafah crossing. hamas is demanding that israel guarantee that ambulances from gaza, that they can reach that crossing. and egyptian source says more than 700 foreign nationals were expected to cross through rafah earlier today including 400 americans. free, free palestine! people around the world are marching and singing in rallies against the war today including this one here in washington. you can see the capitol in the background there.
sustainable global security on the european front. you ve sat at the table with vladimir putin. you were involved in negotiations with him. i hear from every ukrainian, for now, there will be no negotiations. they don t want to negotiate peace, they want russia to leave, and that means leaving crimea as well. what happens? how does this and? we have, from my personal experience, we have several conclusions, several pieces of advice how to make a negotiation with putin. point number one, please don t trust putin. putin never tells the truth. point number two, please don t be afraid of putin. be ukrainian, learn how to do that. point number three, we need to create a global correlation and i m happy that we re doing that. even with the agreement, minsk agreement, we ve created a complex of steps that was point number one, this is the wisdom of the whole russian troops from ukraine. point number two, there was