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Cheering and applause. Placards and cheers and babies getting attention from politicians. Keir starmer is quite the fan of visiting Lower League Football grounds in places he hopes labour can win. He was in gillingham in kent this morning, his deputy with him, too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these days, they find its like wading through treacle. Applause. Red cards arent usually welcome for folk on a Football Pitch but expect to see plenty of these in the next month or so, spelling out labours core message. Weve had 1a years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and Division Feeding Chaos and division. If you want change, you have to vote for it and if you vote labour, its a vote to stop the chaos. Its a vote to turn the page and its a vote to rebuild our country together. Thank you very much. Cheering and applause. Thank you a general election is about winning seats and staying in them. Rishi sunakjust about managed that in ilkes
Gruesome new evidence emerges of atrocities committed during the hamas surprise attack. Climbing to 1200 amid new rocket strikes. On the ground, israeli troops amassing near gaza. Conditions growing more intense. Food and fuel running out. The warren terg the sixth tai with the talks aimed at their lease as the u. S. Secretary of state heads to israel this hour. The other major breaking story were following, congressman Steve Scalise wins the republican nomination to be the next House Speaker beating out rival jim jordan, but the house remains paralyzed tonight as scalise tries to lock up the support he needs to win a full house vote. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Tonight israeli leaders are renewing their vow to crush hamas as the world is getting a fuller picture of the scope and the horror of the hamas attack that triggered this increasingly deadly middle east war. Our corres
so i think this is meeting, again, i don t have any classified intelligence, but i m sure this meeting was an attempt to get him back on board while his forces, the wagner group are being disbursed and, in fact, sort of broken up, being told, hey, they ve got to join the russian military or get away from the wagner group so there is confusion within that force. steve, it was june 24th that putin called the leaders of the rebellion, which would include prigozhin traitors on television. now the spokesperson is saying fo five days later he met with prigozhin and on russian state television, they re putting out all of this video on the raids on prigozhin s property. looking at his wigs, money, and all the guns he has, which i assume comes with the kremlin stamp of approval for all of that video to be out there, then to be sort of trying to tear him down as a populist. how do you read all of this?
tuesday in state school term time, but obviously the private schools have broken up, and that is, wow, thatis have broken up, and that is, wow, that is just have broken up, and that is, wow, that isjust considered have broken up, and that is, wow, that is just considered around private school term time, not a state school. so just little things like that, and then weirdly, most of the kids have the kid, and there wasn t enough left for a few of us, we didn t get the memo. maybe that isjust bad we didn t get the memo. maybe that is just bad organisation, we didn t get the memo. maybe that isjust bad organisation, butjust a little micro things where we feel we are out of the loop. it is a weird sport, i have had to learn a lot myself, and i have started playing myself, and i have started playing myself, to get an appreciation of what my kids are learning, we are learning together, really. but anyway, ifeel like. compared to