Its not going to be close election you Cant Trust a dam im word out of that, Liars Mouth we are investigating each and every one of the brutal murders of americans as acts of terrorism. These actions will not be our last if its all true, the State Government here in new York Wasnt brazenly manipulated for nearly a decade from london. This is Cnn Newsroom with Max Foster and Christina Macfarlane hello hello, and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States and all around the world. Im Christina Macfarlane. It is wednesday, september 4, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 11 00 a. M. In ukraine, where the countrys top diplomat, Foreign Minister dmytro labor, has just tendered his resignation ahead of a major Cabinet Reshuffle Shuffle expected this week, the speaker of Ukraines Parliament says Kulebas Request will be discussed by lawmakers soon and hes not alone. Could labor is one of several ministers to recently offer their resignations according to Ukraines Parliamentary majority leader, this week, more than 50 of the cabinet, minister, of ministers staff well be changed a new members appointed. This comes as russia continues its relentless Air Assaults on ukraine in the past few hours, moscow launched an attack on the Western Ukrainian city of lviv officials say at least seven people were killed. One of the victims is 14yearold girl. Dozens of people have been injured it including a number of children and five people were wounded in the central city of Kryvyi Rhi when a Hotel Building was destroyed well, lets go straight out to cnn, chief international Anchor Christiane Amanpour is joining us now live from kyiv. Christiane, good to see you. I understand that you spoke to the Foreign Minister just Yesterday Today for cnn. What do you make of this news . Christiane, and why it is happening now well, as far as we can tell, this is a formality associated with what President Zelenskyy has said publicly. Now, in an address to the nation overnight that he wants to do, which is at this stage of the war, is now 30 months or so since the fullScale Invasion began, he wants to reshuffle the cabinet. This is not unusual. Hes changed Cabinet Members in the past, for instance, the Defense Minister was changed in the last, in the last year. However, some of these resignations will be accepted, some will be moved elsewhere to other ministries. Summer well, maybe be moved out altogether. We do not know whats going to happen to Foreign Minister kuleba. But of course i have spoken to him. I spoke to the Minister Of Procurement who resigned also just the day before when i spoke to kuleba, it was right after we had heard about the catastrophic attack on poltava in and for ukraine, where the russians launched ballistic missiles against the Military Academy and a hospital to this point, we know that theres at least 50 dead and more than 100 injured. Those numbers may climb because it was really a devastating attack and it punched a gigantic hole into the side of this academy all the way through but what i asked her labour about was what is the effect and the reason does he believe for this uptick in russian assaults, which has happened over this last week. And does the Kursk Incursion, the ukrainian Kursk Incursion into that region of russia signify something particular what was the message they wanted to send . Heres his response now, weve showed everyone we defeated. Not only we defeated the Russian Army in course, we defeated the arguments so popular in among our partners, there was a stalemate because now everyone sees that when everyone sees what weve been talking about all the time when ukraine has everything it needs. We did not lack courage and military skill to advance. And when so they clearly believed that they can win given all the all the equipment that they want, as he just said, they are under huge pressure. The ukrainians on the east in the pokrovsk area, as youve been, weve been talking about for the last week or so huge pressure there, a majorly just to go hub, but both dmytro kuleba, the Foreign Minister and of course President Zelenskyy has said repeatedly this week, and before that they need the kinds of sophisticated Air Defense systems at the very least to be able to knock out ballistic missiles. They cant do that with their own. What he told me, mobile Missile Fans are antimissile defense. They need something like a patriot or the sophisticated systems because these ballistic missiles are the most ferocious, theyre the fastest is very difficult to get out of the way in time between an alert and the ability to get to shelter. So they create a really, really huge damage so this is the message that Zelenskyy Kuleba and his government is sending out the irish Prime Minister is here Today Meeting with the President Zelenskyy. Its being the dutch Prime Minister was here earlier this week. So that is the message that they are trying to send to their allies right now, christina yes. And christian, we were hearing from the Reporting Yesterday on that military facility about the fact that people have really had no warning with these ballistic missiles as youre saying, they literally had minutes to run for cover overnight. Weve seen more attacks on the western city of lviv, which has considered by many in ukraine to be a bit more of a Safe Haven because it is on the other side of the country. Its where many displaced ukrainians have traveled to what is your Sense Christiane that Zelenskyy And Kuleba will get what they want in asking Western Allies for these longrange missiles to be able to strike into russia when we are seeing such an uptick in fighting and missiles coming from russia well, they keep asking for that permission and they believe at least this is what kuleba said and ill quote him. There in the last mile. He said of trying to make that point and get an affirmative answer because what he says is that we are not talking about sending in weapons to destroy troye russian people, russian civilians. What we want to do is be able to a attack the source of the weapons that are attacking us thats one thing. Those come from bases inside russia, whether the Air Bases or artillery or a missile launching pads, et cetera. Thats one thing. The other thing is they say we need to be able to shoot down these ballistic missiles. Again, we need the Sophistic Technology to do it again, that is not attacking russians, that is attacking the hardware that theyre sending to kill us so that is how they are trying to frame it now, it is definitely a Step Up in the attack on the cities here over so the last week, i mean, almost relentless nightly. Its really spread around the country now again, i asked the Foreign Minister why he thinks, and he basically said, well, there are many reasons, but the big reason is because he said the russians know that winter is coming and their aim is to again, try to cripple our infrastructure. Cripple our Energy Grid great and remember, according to the stats here, ukraine has lost at least half of its Energy Capacity since this war started because of the attacks. And theyre happening so fast. That is difficult to repair them in time can i, just go back to ask you on the subject of this Cabinet Reshuffle. Christiane, i know you were saying just a minute ago that this is a more of a formality. It has happened before, but the labor was one of the sort of trusted Cabinet Members to Western Allies. Hes one of the main salesmans, if you like, of Ukraines War Effort two Western Allies so do you sense this is a bit of a gamble from zelenskyy to be changing up his cabinet. So extensively at this point, how much also does it have to do with the upcoming u. S. Elections . Well let me just clarify what he meant by a Formality Offering the resignation is a formality. The Cabinet Reshuffle is a big deal and he is had to go on television and announced to the people that hes going to do that the resignations come and then the Parliament President , they have to decide whether theyre going to accept a Bocs Resignation or whether theyll take certain resignation and promote that person or bid them farewell and good luck. So that is what im talking about. Youre absolutely right. Dmytro kuleba has been the face after President Zelenskyy of the of the, of the message of this country and of the narrative of this country ever since the full Scale Invasion started in 2022. And he is incredibly adept at it. He has a very good relationship with many of the allied leaders. Obviously hes been to i dont know what we should call them other adversaries, whatever hes been over to china, hes been talking to india. Hes really trying to do the best he can on behalf of this government to get as much support as he possibly can, particularly support from the Global South as we say, because they do not buy in and they have not yet bought in to the Nato Narrative that one has to defend ukraines right to existence and its sovereignty, given the u. S. Elections, its also massively important. Youve got the president and we assume the Foreign Minister when i interviewed him, i assume the Foreign Minister was coming to New York to the u. N. Ga. And they also plan to meet with the biden Administration Zelenskyy and whoever else he has with him to present their socalled four point victory plan. When i tried to get that out of him, he said, leave it to the president. He will release that information when and where he deems fit so yes, its a huge diplomatic and military effort that they are waging in tandem right now and again, we dont know whats going to happen to kuleba, but well see, keep you up to date. We interviewed him yesterday yeah. Great timing. As always, Christiane Amanpour incredible to have you on the ground that first live in kyiv. Thank you your State Of Pennsylvania is groundzero for tuesdays u. S. Presidential debate, Donald Trump will be in Harrisburg Tonight for a town hall meeting. And Kamala Harris will head to Pittsburgh Thursday to begin preparing for the debate. Still, the former president says he thinks the Election Wont be that close well, i hope its not a class one. I mean, i dont know how people can vote for somebody that is destroyed our country. The inflation, the bad economy. But but to me in a way, the worst is what theyve allowed to happen at our border. I cant believe that theres going to be a close election. You know, were leading in the polls. But it looks less. But i think in The End its not going to be a close election the set to outline more of her economic proposals this week, they include 50,000 Tax Deductions for small Business Startup expenses, funding for banks to invest in startups and removing regulatory hurdles and the Harris Campaign from cnns eva mckend. Now Vice President harris, returning to pittsburgh for the second time this week, thursday, shell spend the weekend they are preparing leading up to next Weeks Debate in philadelphia she wont be holding any rallies during this time, but we could see her Pop Up at a restaurant or two because she does plan to be out in the community. The camp pain, clearly trying to make the most out of the time that they have left. She has historically been studied person and No Doubt shes going to spend a lot of time trying to be ready for possible debates, scenarios. But the campaign has gamed out. It makes more sense to do that in a Battleground State rather than here in washington. Core to her Election Argument you meant framing herself as a champion for the middle class. She speaks to this in a new ad. Lets listen. We all Know Costs are too high, but while corporations are gouging families, trump is focused on giving them tax cuts but Kamala Harris is focused on, you building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. She will make groceries more affordable. Buhbye cracking down on Price Gouging. And Shell Cut Housing costs by taking on corporate speculators the first phase of her economic rollout attacked Price Gouging proposed 25,000 for firsttime homebuyers. The next iteration of that plan slated to roll out wednesday in new hampshire. Its going to focus on spending a Tax Deduction for costs associated with starting a business and removing regulatory hurdles like filing requirements and operational licenses for businesses of a certain size. Eva mckend, cnn, washington. Well, the Trump Campaign is Signaling Business as usual ahead of the debate with Vice President harris, cnns Kristen Holmes has more on that with roughly a week until that critical showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, trumps team says that they really arent changing much in terms of preparation for the debate ahead of next tuesday, they say its going to look very similar to what he did when he was rigged, getting ready for his debate with president Joe Biden and that means no mock sessions, no one standing in to act as president Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, and no real roleplaying in terms of moderators and questioning Donald Trump instead, what theyre going to do is what they did before, which is these blocks of time that they call either Policy Sessions are Policy Review sessions. And during those trumps sits down with some of his senior advisers, sometimes lawmakers are involved, includes jason miller, steven miller, who has advised trump on immigration. Vans haley, who is a Speech Writer and also a Policy Writer for the former president , among others, to go over what they think questions might be and how they believed Donald Trump should answer those questions. These are generally in informal they are done really anywhere from his Maralago Home to his Bedminster Home to the plane in between various events now, one thing to note is while they say that nothing has changed, hes going to continue to do these policies sessions like he did before Donald Trump and his team were very happy with the results of the, four of the last debate against president joe so biden. There were also nervous going into that debate. They said they couldnt control. They werent sure how he was going to act when he was up on that stage. They were really bringing up back in 2020 when Donald Trump was on the stage with Joe Biden and went after him in such an aggressive way that it turned off a lot of viewers, theyre hoping wouldnt do that again now thats obvious police still a concern when it comes to the former president s. Those have been conversations they have had as well. But again, they dont like to use the Word Preparation instead, they focused on this idea of these Policy Sessions and thats what they are doing ahead of tuesdays debate. Big questions, of course, whether or not they can get through on those certain issues, particularly on Tone And Temperament that remains to be seen and will not be seen until the two of them take that stage on tuesday Kristen Holmes, cnn, washington now, nearly 11 months after the October 7 attacks against israel, the u. S. Justice department has filed criminal charges against six top hamas officials. They include the late political leader Ismail Haniyeh. Hamass current leader in gaza, Yahya Sinwar and the head of the hamas desperate office, Khaled Meshaal theyre charged with terrorism, Conspiracy To Murder us nationals and use Weapons Of Mass Destruction resulting in death. The charges filed back in february were kept under seal in case the Justice Department had an opportunity to arrest any of the defendants. But an official said that with three of the Hamas Leaders charged now dead, it was no longer necessary to wait the complaint also follows the Money Trail and zeroes in on those Financing Hamas as outlined in our complaint, those defendants armed with weapons, political support, and funding from the government of iran, and support from his biller have led hamass efforts to destroy the state of Israel Thrill and murdered civilians in support of that aim Cnns Paula hancocks is covering this for us live from Abu Dhabi. And paula, we know this charge targets six Hamas Leaders as those saying that, but three of whom are already dead. So what are the chances of this coming to anything given that the remaining three are in hiding . Well, its a very good question, christina, him when you consider that the Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar is believed to be underground in a tunnel somewhere in gaza. Its very hard to see how they will be held accountable, but it is something that the department of justice so has decided was necessary. Its the first criminal step that theyve taken to try and hold those responsible for October 7 accountable. Now, it does focus on those attacks where more than 40 american citizens were killed, there was more than, or at least ten american citizens taken hostage as well. But it does span several decades. So we have heard in this complaint that there are several decades of alleged Terrorist Attacks against american nationals and against others in the region. Would you say this was originally filed in february . It has been acknowledged now that since the death in particular of the former leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in tehran recently. That they decided to unseal this documents. But what were hearing from the Biden Administration, what were hearing also from the Attorney General is that it is important to have this kind of complete even if something cannot be done immediately. Lets listen to what the Attorney General had to say the Justice Department has a long memory. We will pursue the terrorists responsible for murdering americans. And those who illegally provide them with Material Support for the rest of their lives now the unsealing of this complaint, of course, comes just days after six israeli hostages that were found killed in gaza, one of them and Israeli American the 23yearold Hersh Goldberg polin whose parents were very vocal, who had met with the Biden Administration on number of times, who had spoken at the democratic convention and we heard from the u. S. President saying, quote, make no mistake, Hamas Leaders will pay for these crimes. Now, the u. S. Has said that there wont be american boots on the ground