laughter welcome everyone here in this cnn newsroom, i m omar jimenez in washington. we re going to begin this hour with fierce fighting in eastern ukraine as ukrainian troops say they ve successfully countered or they are successfully countering russian advances around the town near kharkiv, right along the russian border, which is turned the town itself into a front line in this war, you can see vovchansk highlighted on the map there. now the extent of the damage is pretty staggering, as you can see, there from ms drone footage over her head, much of the fighting in the last few weeks has reportedly centered around an aggregate plant, which usually produces materials for construction. now it s a combat zone we re ukrainian troops have tried to isolate russian units to cross the border as part of a recent offensive, one ukrainian commander referred to russian troops in the town as surrounded and one of the biggest this shifts on that eastern front is the us permitting ukrain
christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week. this is cnn breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield if breaking news from the middle east right now, the idf says eight israeli soldiers were killed during what they re calling an incident in rafah it marks one of the deadliest single incidents for israeli forces since october 7. cnn s paula hancocks is live for us in tel aviv. paula, what more can you tell us? well, fread, we understand this happened in the western area of refer. it s an area where there has been fighting over but recent days. now the idf saying eight soldiers have been killed in this particular incidents that they are looking into it, investigating, finding it the cause of what happened, as you say, it is one of the deadliest days from the israeli military side since october 7. now, what we re hearing is a statement as well. from hamas. they say that they carried o
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could help reach out just some of those suburban voters, like herself erin. all right. geoff i want to thank you very much. thanks for joining us. the news continues now right here on cnn it s wednesday, june 5th, right now on cnn, this morning, band at the order asylum seekers waking up to new rules after president biden s executive action already facing political and legal challenges victory and discipline appointment india s prime minister winning a third consecutive term in erase though, that was much closer than predicted. and boeing about to try one more time to launch two astronauts to the international space station on its starliner spacecraft all right five again here in washington, a live look at our us but on this wednesday morning. good morning, everyone. it s wonderful to have you with us. i m kasie hunt president biden s new restrictions on asylum seekers at the us mexico border are now in effect only a limited number of migrants claiming asylum will be allo