harbors a dark history, we will take you to oasis villa, a painful reminder of the fragility of taiwan s democracy. announcer: live from the cnn center, it is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where for the second time in days the city of zaporizhzhia is taking a deadly pounding from russian rockets. have a look here, these are scenes of chaos after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday reportedly killing at least 17 people, while further south moscow is scrambling to get the bridge drinking crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now, russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed, but drivers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can still support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened, but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feeling sorry ab
haven t seen. even when kim jong-un was launching missiles and tensions were reaching near crisis level back in 2017, he launched 23 missiles throughout the entire year. he has already surpassed that considerably in in terms of the number of tests this year and fired seven missiles just in the last two weeks. this is more than he has done since he came to power in 2011. and it raises a question, because north korea is not using these for propaganda. you are not seeing images on north korean state media like we normally would see, 24 years after the launch. that that says to me and analysts i m speaking with, these launches are for scientific knowledge and to prove a point, some believe, that he wants those to know his arsenal is there, capable. and even at a time of global conflict, he has weapons that he feels can, you know, stand on their own. obviously, some people think this is all a cry for attention. i think politics might have less to do with it in that there is a list
kennedy and the cuban missile crisis, i don t think there s anything as the ability of using a nuclear tact cal weapon and not end up with armageddon. this is stark language and comes as the u.s. considers how to respond to a range of potential scenarios. let s bring in white house correspondent jeremy diamond for more. reporter: u.s. officials say there s been no change in russia s nuclear posture. one senior u.s. official telling cnn that the u.s. didn t detect anything yesterday that would indicate an escalation in russia s nuclear posture, that s why it s striking to hear the language that president biden used last night talking about the prospect of armageddon should putin use nuclear weapons and making clear he doesn t believe the russian leader is bluffing. here s a snippet of the president s comments from the fund-raiser in new york last night, off camera. saying, quote, we have a guy i know fairly well within he s not joking when he talks about potential use of t
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