good morning. a quiet weekend of weather ahead. a west east divide. the best of the sunshine out west. further east, a fresh cold winds driving and plenty of showers. all the details from the coming out shortly. all the details from me coming up. it s saturday, the 25th of february. our top story: a fifth man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of an off duty police officer in county tyrone. two gunmen fired several shots at detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell at a sports complex in omagh on wednesday. he remains in a critical but stable condition. a rally will be held in the town later today condemning the shooting. our ireland correspondent chris page reports. john chris page reports. caldwell s friends, neighbours and john caldwell s friends, neighbours and colleagues have paid tribute to his bravery and selflessness. eyewitnesses say that he shouted to children to run to safety, even has he was being attacked himself. this sports complex in the town o
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 25th. i m amara walker. good morning, amara, i m boris sanchez. we re grateful you are starting your weekend with us. you are live in the cnn newsroom and despite the vicious lies you may be reading on social media, amara and i didn t plan to coordinate our outfits, it happened naturally because great minds think alike. i think we re ready to welcome spring when it has ppen ukraine enters the second year of war with russia with a message to the world. [ speaking non-english ] [ cheers ] ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy acknowledging the grim milestones speaking before troops in kyiv. he declared 2023 as a year of ukraine s victory over russia and expressed confidence in his country s ability to fend off attacks. in the meantime, ukraine s international allies showed their solidarity with tributes and announcements of new weapons and funding heading to the region. the first shipment of heavy battle tanks arriv
high interest rates are real bad for people who are buying stuff they don t pay for right away. that s my ba-humbug. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. it s friday. friday. we love our jobs but it is friday. i think i love friday. tgif. we made it guys. we made it. we made it. good morning, everyone. don lemon here. poppy harlow, kaitlan collins and it is friday and we are happy to be here but we re happy that it s friday and we get a couple days off, because next week is going to be a marathon. we have a lot going on next week. wait until you see how long we re on television. we have cots behind us we re going to be sleeping on. it s going to be a busy week. it is. and leading into next week there is an oprah size endorsement we have to talk about. it s in pennsylvania s senate race. will it make a difference? big one. hours from now thousands of twitter employees will learn if they are fired through email. wha
like other ukrainian cities from bucha to mariupol, another enormous mass grave has been discovered. this time in a forest near the city of izium. authorities continue to exhumed the bodies of which there are reportedly more than 450, including civilians, children and soldiers a. like many of the bodies show signs of, quote, violent. death while several have their hands bound and show signs of torture. it is now day 207 of russia s invasion, with putin s plan to take all of three days to capture the capital of kyiv. right now ukraine continues to gain ground with a successful counteroffensive in the northeast, reclaiming several thousand square miles of territory. ukraine also continues to have success with a counteroffensive in the south. at the same, time russia is making small gains in some towns in donetsk. one of the regions that make up the donbas. to say that russian soldiers are making those gains might be misleading. as the new york times reports, the frontline ukrai
happening on the border no closer than griff jenkins in mexico right now and their side of the border, thanks are things are getting worse and rampant there. we re in mexico and witnessed multiple times this morning of smugglers moving the migrants across. i want to you see this, by the way, this is a rope that you can see that literally been tied together for the migrants in the dark hours to take into the water to go across and this over here is the u.s. side. that s where we have seen groups for the last 24 hours we ve been here crossing all day, every day. a smuggler tells me that the border is quote, open, and he also says that to cross this river about 500 to $1500 u.s. dollars, but then if you want to be picked up and taken to san antonio or houston, upwards of 9 to $10,000. let me show you a drone shot, some footage of the group that crossed right at this location several hours ago. our drone on the u.s. side eagle pass was able to get a shot of that. this is part