the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn
egypt with an iron fist for 30 years is now in a maximum security prison where he ll spend the rest of his life. earlier today an egyptian court found hosni mubarak guilty of making orders to shoot and kill civilians. the angry mubarak was taken by ambulance to the cairo police academy where the verdict and life sentence was handed down. he was wheeled in on a gurney under heavy guard. six of mubarak s former military men were acquitted. that sparked an uproar inside and outside the courtroom. [ chanting ] . furious protesters called it wrong and want to topple the regime. the security is very tight. 5,000 police have been deployed. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman joins us live from tahrir square. what s the scene like? reporter: well, we ve got more people coming in to tahrir square. just a short while ago we watched them bun posters of one of the presidential candidates. he was mubarak s prime minister. the anger seems to be going into the direction o
theblaze.com. happy friday let s get to our starting point. protests happening right now in afghanistan, protesting the decision of some nato trops to burn korans. hundreds of people to surround the embassy. five people have been hurt. nick paton walsh is live for news kabul. what s the latest? well, what we re hearing is that the west of the country, hurat, one of the main city there s. u.s. consulate in kabul, the u.s. consulate out there have a very angry crowd outside. hundreds of people, i had actually from an eyewitness could hear the sirens, the panic from that particular area. we understand that to the hospital in hurat, one dead body has been brought fr presumably from this protest. one injured and one lost their life. they are apparently close to the u.s. consulate, setting fire to police cars, clashes now breaking out police police and proteste protesters. in kabul, we have heard of shots being fired in the air to try and move the crowd that we re heading towar