ever embrace american values. us lawmakers grilled the ceo of tiktok about the wildly popular platforms ties to the chinese government and digging in israel s prime minister vows to push on with a judicial overhaul , despite widespread protests and international criticism. zeye from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with john voyeurs. we begin with it for 10 airstrikes in syria that are having deadly consequences for u. s forces deployed to fight isis, depending on says the u. s has launched a retaliatory airstrike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the east . this happened after a drone attack on facility housing u. s personnel in the northeastern part of untr. in a response, u. s defense secretary lloyd austin. said the u. s. will take all necessary measures to protect its people and that no group will strike us troops with impunity. cnn s early even spoke with me a short time ago. a one way drone, essentially a suicide drone carried out attack i
farmland and ever present threat long after the russians have gone even watson spent time with farmers and some tell him they don t have a choice but to put their lives in danger every day. vast stretches of ukraine s famously fertile farmland pockmarked with craters and the tail fins of unexploded rockets after russian and ukrainian soldiers move on, they leave behind another deadly threat just below the surface. alexander s brought me here to see something that s actually frankly a little uncomfortable because right over here on the side of the road. or i don t know. maybe 10 what appeared to be tank mind. my guide is a local farmer named alexander have red look okay, we ve got more antitank mines here. you can see there s 12345. anti tank mines right here on the side of the road. he says. i brought
and we re also seeing custom munitions. tkraini miliry estimates nearly a third of the country is now contaminated with explosive devices. but clearing them is slow and dangerous work. and the war is still being actively fought. littering the countryside with new explosives every day. ukraine is one of the world s great bread baskets every week. it seems there are reports of farmers like this man badly wounded in a blast while trying to plant his fields. alexander have really look says he lost all of last year s harvest due to the russian invasion. the fighting also destroyed his office silos and millions of dollars worth of farm equipment. most important thing now is to clear my field, he says. so that i can plant the next harvest. if farmers like alexander can t do their jobs. the world could see another year of soaring global food prices.
are people actually living here amid this horror. continues to try to help them. he was there, helping those people living there trying to deliver critical supplies and as our ivan watson reports from central ukraine, even as the russians leave some of the towns they ve captured, they leave a lot behind you go in the house. you gotta check for mines and what they leave behind is dangerous. vast stretches of ukraine s famously fertile farmland marked with craters and the tail fins of unexploded rockets after russian and ukrainian soldiers move on, they leave behind another deadly threat just below the surface. alexander s brought me here to see something that s actually frankly a little uncomfortable because right over here on the side of the road. or i don t know. maybe 10 would appear to be tank mind. my guide is a local farmer named alexander
thing now is to clear my field, he said. so that i can plant the next harvest. if farmers like alexander can t do their jobs. the world could see another year of soaring global food prices. now erin. we saw global food prices soar last year, in part because russia blockaded ukrainian ports. they couldn t get their grain out to markets. and the concern now is that farmers like alexander they just can t plant their fields because of the land mines. the u. s government. the state department has committed $91 million to the ukrainian government to double the number of de miners out there clearing fields. but this is a huge job. we re talking about an estimated area that s the size of virginia mary island and connecticut combined, and it s going to take a long time. consider this. to this day. in western europe, farmers are discovering unexploded artillery shells left over from world war