a surprise visit and a major show of support. secretary of state tony blinken on the ground in ukraine and meeting with president zelenskyy. blinken s message for ukraine and also for americans back home. we are burning up. this summer we re experiencing the hottest temperatures ever recorded in human history. is this the new normal? i m sara sidner with the masterful kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. later today a historic first in the various criminal cases against donald trump. cameras will be on in the courtroom. so we can all see the proceedings inside and that means voters can see. this will be in georgia where a judge will hear arguments about whether a trial should start as soon as next month, october 23rd, and whether trump s case should be severed from some or all of his 18 co-defendants. that s what trump wants, along with a much later trial as speculation swirls over whether any of his co-defendants might turn on him. with us now cnn
coalition carefully appealing to different groups with specific policies. if he loses one of these groups, his team fears that the math will not add up come election day but he needs to risk it and get tougher on immigration. it has become a proxy for all kinds of issues where people feel that elites simply don t get the concerns of average people and their concerns are rooted in real facts on the ground america has taken in huge numbers of immigrants over the last five decades and 1970, foreign born people made up 5.7% of the country as of 2020, that number is 15.3% and it s not just america and sweden. that number went from 6.6% in 1970 to 19.8% in 2020 in the uk, from 5.3% to 13.8% as i noted my new book, age of revolutions, the western world
the next 48 hours, we may see temperatures going up to 118, 120. it s going to be the hottest day of the year and may even break the records for the hottest day every recorded in europe. which was recorded here in italy two years ago. there was 119.8 fahrenheit, chris. claudio lavanga get cool. thank you so much for the reporting. donald trump and his indecision over the next gop debate. will he join, and would he ever consider his rivals as potential running mates. the answer in 60 seconds. running mates. the answer in 60 seconds with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv power e trade s easy-to-use tools, like dynamic charting and risk-reward analysis
but definitely not used to this kind of heat waves. right now it s 6:00 in the evening. it s about 102 fahrenheit and going to get worse tomorrow when the forecast is going to be for temperatures to reach as high as 118, 120 degrees somewhere in sardinha, an island on the west off the west coast of italy. let s see whether that will even break the record for the hottest day in ever recorded in europe, which was recorded a couple years ago still here in italy in sicily. it was 119.8 degrees. the name of the heat wave says it all. the italian meteorologists called it, of the dead, lingering souls, this one delivering poor souls in the city to air conditioning environment or out in the mountains or beaches, andrea. there are huge numbers, unprecedented numbers of american tourists there.
the birth rate was the lowest on record in the last twelve months with just 6.77 births per thousand people. that was lower than the death rate which was 7.37 deaths per thousand people. translation: those aged above 60 was 280 million, j 19.8% of the population. those aged 65 and above was 210 million, 14.9% of the total population. in terms of urban rural structure, urban population accounted for 65.22% of the total population, up by 0.5 percentage points on the end of 2021. now it s time for a look