dismissed its top judge. vsevolod kniaziev was detained for allegedly taking multi million dollar bribes. prosecutors say he was arrested as part of their biggest ever anti corru ption case. ukraine is under pressure to tackle corruption as a requirement forjoining the european union. the reuters news agency says mr kniaziev could not be reached for comment. meanwhile, ukrainian officials have praised their anti missile defence system. overnight, it blocked an intense barrage of russian rockets over the capital kyiv. they say the system shot down six advanced russian hypersonic missiles, which president putin has claimed are unstoppable . kyiv s mayor, vitali klitschko, described the night. actually, last night, our citizens didn t sleep because three hours long, beginning at 230, we have a bombing alarm, and at the whole night we listened to huge explosions and it actually was one of the massive missile attacks to our home hometown. different kinds of rockets the russians s
holding face to face meetings. we re live with the very latest. and 12 days until possible economic catastrophe as the negotiations on the debt ceiling hit snag after snag in washington. plus everyone is going to see this and witness a miracle. she s returned from a russian jail and playing in the wnba again. brittney griner returns to the court. andy scholes will break down her first game back since her release from a russian jail. we begin this hour japan as the ukrainian president begins his in-person appeal for support at the g7 summit. he arrived a short time ago tweeting that peace will become closer today. he will be meeting with many of the world leaders gathered there beginning with italy s prime minister. joe biden has given him a boost agreeing to support training ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighter jets. the u.s. debt crisis is looming large over the summit threatening to rock the global economy. talks appear dead locked, but president biden says he s confi
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tonight including me. a man tells a joke about two dogs and a squirrel, to million dollar fine and could be headed to prison? what is happening? utah mom accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about her grief, punching a sister-in-law on the face while trying to get into her husband safe. i am you erin burnett, upfront tonight, strike on a russian base, new video of a fiery blast on a russian base, you will see the explosion there, the ball of fire you see there is inside the russian occupied city of mary a pole, according to ukrainian officials. it is home to at least 150 russian soldiers, mariupol is been an important staging area for russian fork it forces, it has been safe from attack for months, but things to powerful new missiles from the uk it is now in ukraine s crosshairs, ukraine s military posted a video, a drone they said only cost about $1000, showing it taking out a russian tank, valued at more than $1 million. what could be a
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour at the u.s./mexico border. it s been three days since the end of title 42, the pandemic-era policy that slowed the number of migrants allowed into the u.s. with thursday s expiration, many border communities were bracing for a surge of migrants. at least for now, that has not happened yet. homeland security officials say there were about 4,200 encounters yesterday. that s a big drop from the day before. and yesterday s numbers are less than half of the 10,000 seen at the u.s./mexico border in the days before title 42 ended. just minutes ago, we heard from president biden as he completed a bike ride. here s what he had to say about the situation down at the border. how do you think things are going at the board, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? pardon me? do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. no. it wou