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shooting. and the platinum jubilee celebrations in the u.k. minus the guest of honor. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. welcome, everyone. the war in eastern ukraine now being described as a grinding slog with neither side appearing to make any significant gains in recent days. ukraine concedes russian troops have made some modest in roads in and around the key city of severodonetsk but were pushed back from nearby towns. britain s defense ministry says it expects russians will control all of the luhansk region within two weeks. the international red cross said the scale of destruction defies comprehension. but ukraine claims its forces have progressed into the southern kherson region. as the conflict surpassed 100 days ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, remained confident of the outcome. translator: we have been dedefending ukraine for 100 days. victory shall be ours. glory to ukraine. now, the human toll in u ....
defending their country from russian aggression . u.s. president joe biden is headed to japan after wrapping up a three-day visit to south korea. he left owe sawn air base just outside seoul a short time ago, expected to arrive in japan in about an hour to mark his first trip to asia as commander in chief. while biden has tried to focus on bolstering america s economic ties in the region, the shadow of potential conflict is never far away. saturday the u.s. and south korea announced plans to hold joint military drills. blake essig is in tokyo with a preview of what to expect from the japan leg of biden s trip. let s start with paula hancocks. so the headline was the resumption of joint military drills, but there were important economic issues at stake here too. what headway did president biden make while he was there? reporter: kim, the headlines that he really wanted to see was about the economic ties that he had. he had developed here. and president biden was in t ....
live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea next hour to begin his very first asia trip as president. he ll spen most of the weekend in the country holding talks with the new south korean president before heading to japan, where he ll be meeting with japan s prime minister as well as indian and australian leaders. officials say the trip to asia comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but biden plans to, in his words, quote, affirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. cnn s kivevin liptak is live fr seoul. it s taken a while for him to make his first trip in his presidency. he is certainly coming over later than his recent predecessor, and probably a little later than he would have liked to. president biden has tried to make asia a center of his foreign policy, just like president obama did. just like president trump did. but he has been stymied somewhat by these ....
retail ceos say they are getting crushed by rising prices. we re live in london with a look at the impact on global markets. and a stand still on the battlefield as russia s offensive appears to have stalled. could ukraine have the upper hand to regain territory? we are live in lviv with the latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, the high profile u.s. republican senate race in the key swing state of pennsylvania remains too close to call, and it will likely be days before a winner is announced. tv dr. mehmet oz holds an extremely narrow lead, some 1200 votes over former hedge fund executive dave mccormick. but former u.s. president donald trump, who endorsed oz, is already urging him to declare victory. last week and having a defibrillator implanted on election day. now, you may have noticed, i am not john fetterman. the next senator of our great state. reporter: the ballot counting here in ....
victory for every ukrainian. a ukrainian rap group takes the prize in the song contest. and we begin with a senseless tragedy that s become just all too common in the united states. another mass shooting. mis police say ten people were killed when a 18-year-old white male opened fire in a grocery store in a largely-black neighborhood. they re calling the attack racially motivated, and witnesses are describing a scene that was both horrifying and heartbreaking. i seen a guy in a full army suit, just shooting shots at people. and i seen a security guard run in the store. and then i seen the guy go in, army style, bent over, just shooting at people. and i heard him shooting at people. and i saw three people laying down, and i didn t have a phone on me, so i was just screaming at somebody to call the police and came out. he put the gun to his head, to his chin, then he dropped it, then he took off with a bulletproof vest and got on his hands and knees and put his hands ....