breaking news this hour, the u.s. ant britain going after militants backed and funded by iran. not long ago, iran condemned the strikes calling them a violation of international law. and russia has requested an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council later today. the coalition strikes are a direct response to the worsening surge of attacks on ships in the red sea from houthi. many of the houthi launches have been intercepted by the u.s. led coalition that had been playing defense until now. american fighter jets have been taking off from the uss dwight d eisenhower aircraft carrier to carry out their mission. the u.s. president issued this statement. these targeted strikes are a clear message that the united states will not allow attacks on ore personnel or imperil freedom of navigation. i will not hesitate to take further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary. we are also hearing from the pentagon. we reserve the rig
the u.s. debt ceiling clears its first hurdle in the house, but it still has a way to go to cross that finish line. north korea admits it failed to launch a military spy satellite into orbit, but the attempt has increased tensions and rattled nerves in the south. and unnecessarily aggressive. that s how the u.s. is describing a chinese fighter jet s encounter with an american spy plane over the south china sea. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so a deal to avoid defaulting on tens of trillions of dollars of debt is now moving forward, but the u.s. government is by no means out of the woods. in the coming hours, u.s. house members will vote on a bill to raise the debt ceiling as well as other measures tacked on to limit spending. the house speaker will be busy trying to rangle last-minute support from republicans who just don t like this deal. some democrats are also angry about white house concessions. but house leaders, they seem confid
september the 19th, eight days from now. the queen s casket is expected to leave balmoral patacsil in scotland in about three hours. it ll be the first leg of what will be a salmon final journey back to london where she will lie in state at westminster hall until that funeral. let s get more on this was cnn. i see the queen s casket leave balmoral. that is not particularly a long drive to edinburg but it will take six hours. there s going to be several stops on the way and passing through the cities where it will eventually arrive at the official residence of the royal family. the policies of the hollywood house. and it will be taken to rest in the throne. as you mentioned several steps will follow before the queen is returned in london and later on in windsor we will see significant taking prince charles will go to edinburg and he will meet and also on the stated queen s coffin being carried through a procession down edinburg to st. charles cathedral where she will be left
we begin in ukraine where we re getting a word about a new barrage of russian missile tryings in the south. ukraine says at least 10 millions admit mykolaiv sunday morning as the city still reels from similar strikes on friday. two industrial facilities were hit but no reports of casualties so far. ukraine says russia also fired five cruise missiles in the south but three were shot down. in the east, ukraine said fending off russian ground attacks in the donetsk region despite intense shelling, as in this town near the front line. meanwhile, russia s defense minister was in donbas on saturday ordering troops to increase operations to prevent ukrainian strikes in the region. ukraine s artillery has been stepping up attacks behind the front lines in recent weeks. president zelenskyy says his country is making progress and will keep up the momentum. here he is. translator: we have already managed to liberate part of the territory that was occupied after february 24th. we will
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