welcome to the programme. ukraine has been a common theme at two major leaders summits. we will cover it all here tonight on the context. on the first day of their annual meeting injapan, g7 leaders agreed new sanctions against russia. meanwhile in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit to the arab league gathering, urging those attending, to support ukraine. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria it s the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war, that s blighted the country. and later in the programme we have a special report from the new york times which has uncovered shocking evidence of the greek coastguard abandoning asylum seekers in the sea. but first let s focus in on the g7 summit injapan. the leaders have agreed new sanctions against russia. they said the measures would starve moscow of their technology, industrial equipment, and services that supported its war against ukraine.
ukraine says its open attacks are taking a toll on russia s war machine and a major counteroffensive could begin at any moment. a dire warning as the ceo of an artificial intelligence company testifies on capitol hill. quote, if this technology depose wrong, it can go quite wrong. we know ai is going to change the world, but how, how quickly, how much, no one quite knows. with the u.s. on the brink of defaulting on its debt, lawmakers are digging in at the white house. those talks in just two hours. we are following those major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. amid a barrage of missile and drone attacks in kyiv overnight, russia is making a major claim that it targeted and destroyed one of these, an american-made patriot air missile defense system. a u.s. official tells cnn it was likely damaged but not destroyed. ukraine is not commenting, but it says that its air defenses worked against the large-scale attack, intercepting
all right. so in just a few minutes they re going to try again. president biden, speaker mccarthy will continue their debt standdown face to face at the white house. biden is hosting mccarthy and three other congressional leaders to once again try to get closer at least to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done dozens of times. they have just over two weeks to do it before a potential u.s. default. somehow it is looking like the two sides have dug in even more since last week s meeting. we go to capitol hill. melanie, we ve seen this before, right? we re making progress, we re not making progress, it s sort of the definition of a game of chicken. the trouble is the economy hangs in the balance here. what s really happening? is there any real progress? do we expect any real probably in the white house? reporter: i will tell you, jim, staff have been working behind the scenes to come up with a potential number of policy options for a potential deal but there has b
too. recently i noticed somewhat of a change, and i expressed it here on fox. i warned that vigilante justice was coming. this isn t anything new from what we ve been experiencing for almost like two years in the country where the crimes have become more brazen. it is very clear that the criminals aren t afraid of law enforcement. as this continues in the country we re going to have vigilante justice and we can t have that in a civilized society. someone has to fill that void and we don t want that to happen but the leaders aren t doing anything about it, the mayors aren t stepping up to the plate, the das aren t stepping up to the plate, the judges aren t stepping up to the plate. on so who s going to do it and that s where vigilante justice comes into play. 80s that to brag or be right. i genuinely wanted to be wrong about this issue. but this is just basic science. when government creates this kind of void, someone or some idea will fill it. the most recent example is th
here, phil promises. stay with us, cnn news central starts now. new details this morning about the victims after at least eight people were murdered at a mall in texas. officials are focused on right wing extremism as a possible motive. right now an investigation is under way in brownsville, texas, after an suv slammed into a bus stop killing several people. ahead what we re learning about that driver. this is the week title 42 ends. cnn is at the border as the biden administration and the cities on the front lines prepare for an expected surge of migrants now. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. this morning cnn has learned the name of at least two victims murdered at the mass shooting at the mall in allen, texas. family members say christian lacore was a sweet caring young man, he is on the left there. we re told the man on the right was an engineer living in mckinney, texas. they were two of at least eight people who were ki