activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? reporter: what we re hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we re seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need to be patient. we ve been hearing from a senior aid to president zelenskyy saying this morning this is going to be a slow grind. urging patience on the part of ukrainians. we heard also from the ukrainian president himself in his nightly address speaking of his determination saying that russians needed now to go home since they would he said be chased back to their border. clearly this is a turnin
that al-qaeda has not returned to afghanistan after the u.s. withdrawal. the late saturday statement comes two weeks after president biden announced that drone strike in kabul, killing kind as leader. it marks one year since the u.s. began as chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, allowing tampa taliban to regain control. new reaction today on the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resource. members of congress asking for a damage assessment from the intelligence community on those documents seethed. these documents not only contain our nation s top secret, but because the countries would do us harm, do harm to our own citizens, we don t want them to get a hold of them in any way. take photos lynn, anything, because they can actually reverse engineer them and figure out who the sources are, what s the confidential information is. that is why it is so important that these documents remain unsafe locations and mar-a-lago, where you can check out croquet sets and tennis rac
information and some news from that phone call in the next few minutes to learn what exactly happened there. and now this. statistics tell me that the border is only getting worse. how many of the 600,000 people match the terror watch list? by definition, they are got-aways. so you don t know. how can you say the border is secure? do you know what the gop plan is for the border? i do not. i not heard a plan. i ve heard grievances. have you had a conversation with anyone in the administration about stepping down from your currents role? i have not. i hope for the sake of the safety of the american people that that conversation happens very soon. sandra: that was homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas getting a grilling during a tense hearing on can toll hill today. it s the first time he s testified before congress since chris magnus chaotic exit. fox news aishah hasnie is on
chaotic exit and continue to echo on the american political scene. but the people of afghanistan now live the effects of that 20 year long war every day.d re extensively from afghanistan and she is joining us now. there is a grim precarious future. reporter: that s right. we just returned from two week within afghanistan and no question that this country is now more isolated than it has been in a very long time and more impoverished. and that is the thing that really strikes you when you are on the ground. according to the international rescue committee, 97% of afghans will be living in poverty by the end of the year. and more than half the country is reliant on humanitarian aid and nearly half the afghan people are facing a state of acute hunger. and there are real fears that there could be something
Facing serious legal peril in the documents investigation, the former president has turned to his old playbook of painting himself as persecuted amid legal and political stumbles.