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it had no involvement in the coalition of militias mean will only sing the explosion was an attack and did not blame any particular source. the blast happened a day after israel hit i wrought with a strike and response are ron's recent missile and drone attacks. i run at the moment appears to be downplaying the attack perhaps signaling it is trying to move on. when you come back out here live in israel you can get a sense of people are sort of going about their daily lives. we've seen a lot of people out today going to the beach as they normally would. so far no comments directly related to the strike coming from any israeli government official or anyone involved in the military. >> seems like they are trying to calm things down for let's hope it continues. jeff paul live in tel aviv, thank you. super key senate race in pennsylvania may end up deciding the balance of power in the upper chamber for democrat senator bob casey and his republican challenger david mccormick are both stomping across the keystone state ahead
hello, i'm samantha simmonds. after months of stalling, the us house of representatives, has finally approved a multi—billion dolar military aid package for ukraine, in its fight against russia. president zelensky said it was a "solution for saving lives". the vote had been delayed for six months by some republicans, who said they objected to the money being sent overseas, instead of being used at home. the aid is likely to be approved by the senate tomorrow, before being signed into law, by president biden. sarah smith has the very latest, live from washington. this is a five minute vote. as representatives voted on aid for ukraine, the country's blue and yellow flags appeared across the chamber, celebrating finally getting
so after months of delay and dysfunction, house speaker mike johnson finally managed to push through a long stalled aid package. just hours ago, in a bipartisan vote, lawmakers approved three separate bills that will send billions of dollars in foreign aid to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. a fourth bill, including a variety of national security priorities, like a prospective tiktok ban and sanctions on russia, china, and iran also cleared the chamber. the senate is expected to take up the package, which totals over $95 billion early next week. that said, i highly doubt that mike johnson is taking a victory lap tonight. publican speaker is staring down growing threats of an ouster from members of his own caucus, with the motion to vacate that could come as soon as house lawmakers return from a weeklong recess. but republicans are the only ones dealing with some intraparty fractures.
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if you drill down into the republican level of support, you will find that more republican lawmakers voted against against it than they actually did in favour. does that hints some potential problems for speakerjohnson in the days and weeks ahead? but nevertheless it got over the line, we saw ukrainian flags being waved in the chamber, there were pro—ukrainian protesters outside of congress, waving flags as well, it is usually pretty quiet on capitol hill at the weekend but certainly, national attention, international attention very much trained in the capital, and now we know that this goes to the senate. the message from president biden welcoming the fact that the us house of representatives have passed this foreign aid bill specifically for ukraine and penang to message saying to senators, sign off on this, as quickly as possible,
—— in terms of losing avdiivka. the lenski saying we need to support or he was losing the war. nancy pelosi saying those who go against this have blood on their hands, they are kowtowing to president putin. the bbc was speaking to the ukrainian prime minister earlier this past week and he said, if we don't have this, we will lose, if we don't have this, we will lose, if we don't have this us military aid. just going to catch a look, seeing and will you're seeing right now, shearing in the chamber and adjust to paint a picture of what we saw as well outside, normally capitol hill on a saturday is pretty sleepy affair, lawmakers tend to go home to their congressional districts, but instead we had protesters out with the ukrainian flag, waving it, and we had protesters out with the ukrainianflag, waving it, and i'm taking a look at what they are saying on the floor right now. that watch is now stopped. just to see if we have got a final vote tally.
he pointed out it provides accountability. it requires an endgame on part of the war in ukraine it also mentioned $10 million to be alone ukraine would have to pay back. he also said it's not the perfect legislation. he pointed out there are national security priorities but also noted there are safeguards in place to prevent funding going to hamas. back to the top it's not a blank check it seems to be the speaker was directing his messages to those in his party, and his chamber who disagreed with this wholeheartedly. >> i was struck by some of the debate earlier in victoria sparks who is a republican from indiana that was born in northern ukraine. she indicated she was skeptical. i have to look how she voted to have these rollcall votes this afternoon on her amendment and final passage on the ukraine side here but she called this a slush fund.
dr nola haynes, thank you, very good to get your thoughts, thank you for speaking to us. dr haynes was saying that in her view, this is a win for democracy, certainly, samantha, i can tell you the atmosphere here on capitol hill outside the chamber where we saw supporters of ukraine waving the blue and yellow flags, we saw the same scenes, in fact, inside the chamber largely from the democrats so, certainly a feeling at last some progress here for a key ally. helena humphrey there. 0ur correspondent in kyiv, james waterhouse, has been telling us the funding has been welcomed by the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky. yes, he'sjust said, "i'm grateful to the united states house
for ukraine that is not an issue among democrats who saw that in the house, in part because the administration the president's specifically can forget that loan in just a matter of years but there are some differences. >> so the senate has to pass this through their own chamber. they are coming back next week, despite the fact they were supposed to have a scheduled recess because they do find this to be so imperative so important in this moment, alex. >> all right. lauren fox up on capitol hill for us on this very big day. thank you very much, lauren. let's get reaction from jerusalem and ukraine. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is in kyiv, ukrainian capital, and our senior diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us from jerusalem. fred, first to you. >> this aid has been long-delayed by the house has passed by the senate back in february. now, you've got these thanks pouring in from ukrainian officials, including president zelenskyy. i know you've been speaking with ukrainian officials. you've talked about the relief. but is there any concern there about how late this is coming?
house, has quirky rules the republicans have a majority. you can count on one hand with the fingers it's bear this is good theater. if you're political reporter, it's kind of interesting and fun. but there are actual policy and national security consequences to all of this, right? there's no question about it. and the fact that one person can hold entire house of representatives in the speaker's gavel hostage. he's just untenable. i mean, this goes back kevin mccarthy really cut a deal with the devil in the sense of agreeing to that rule. it cost him his job and now mike johnson is in a tough place. he couldn't really change the rule because of the hardliners in his party. but at the same time, it makes sense to change the rule. nobody wants to see one person be able to wholesale something over the speaker's head, like we've seen happening here. it's just not sustainable and so lani, our capitol hill reporter say speaker johnson at one point today was essentially pen against the back of the chamber's surrounded by members peppering him with questions are asking him to do