they need to take such an historic move to bring transparency to this. eric holcomb is the latest u.s. official to pay a visit to taiwan. we ll seek to continue to build strategic partnerships with you. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, august 22, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 9:00 a.m. in london and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where new details are emerging after the death of dugin, daughter of a prominent supporter of vladimir putin. a murder investigation was launched after she was killed in a car bomb on saturday. the russian investigative committee believe someone ordered and planned the blast. a foreign ministry official has implied ukraine may be responsible, but ukraine is strongly denying that claim. cnn s fred pleitgen is following all the developments from the russian capital. reporter: a car engulfed in a massive fireball on a highway outside moscow. police say the vehicle exploded and crashed, the driver dead on the scene. that
imperial ambitions. darya dugina died as an explosive device went off as she drove. she is the daughter of alexander dugin, an ally of russian president vladimir putin. for the latest let s turn to frederik pleitgen in moscow. fred. reporter: hi there christine. first of all, the reason why i m standing here is because today is also russian flag day and there is a big celebration here, people coming out and are told to show their patriotism here in central moscow. but of course the killing of darya dugina really is something that continues to dominate the headlines here and especially the question of how it could happen and second of all who might be behind it which is really something that lot of people are debating here. what is being becoming clear is that there does seem to be a pretty high degree of sophistication behind all of this. of course we know that her car blew up on a moscow highway late saturday night. and then engulfed in a fireball, she crashed and was dead
make a near full recovery after having emergency brain surgery to save his life. he did have another big scare over the weekend as he fell and hit his head again. he was trying to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night by himself which he isn t supposed to do. doctors performed a ct scan following the fall to make sure there wasn t any swelling in his brain and thankfully the results came back normal. this happened just after easton had thanked all his fans for the thoughts and prayers. hey, this is easton. thank you for the prayers. you starting to feel better, bud? yeah, i m starting to feel better. awesome. team easton. we love you, buddy. love you, too. we all continue to pray for easton and his recovery. his team from utah was eliminated from the little league world series yesterday. new day continues right now. alarming new video of a violent arrest in arkansas. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins
the two crawford county deputies were suspended and the police officer placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated. police say the man in the video is 27-year-old randall w warchester. they accused him of spitting at a convenience store clerk. where he was arrested outside the store. one witness tells a cnn affiliate it looked like the man got up to run away to avoid arrest, but the sheriff claims he got up to attack an officer. warchester is being held at the county jail on multiple charges. it s unclear whether he has an attorney. the crawford county sheriff s office released a statement writing, i hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter. arkansas governor asa hutchinson tweeted it will be investigated pursuant to video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney. now, the local sheriff s office says a state investigation has been opened that will be limited to the physical use of
his medicine but the officers yell at her to back up. the 27-year-old man was eventually taken to jail where he is facing multiple charges, including battery and assault. omar jimenez is with us and leads us off. what more do we know about the suspect and the events that led up to the disturbing encounter? right now one. anyone who watched that video, it s an ugly scene that you re seeing there. what led up to it, while we don t know those immediate moments, we do know that it started when a gas station attendant nearby called the police for a man who was allegedly threatening that person and spit on that person. so police were called. they basically found this person at a nearby convenience store and that s where the video appears to pick up. now, the crawford county sheriff s office, which is the county in mulberry, arkansas, just put out a statement this past hour identifying these three officers involved. the statement said these deputies involved in the video yesterday