0 arbiters. poppy, despite the pressure from gop officials, there s no sign that card companies will back down at this point. it s a really significant change, and we ll watch it closely. matt egan, thank you for highlighting it for us. thanks for joining us today. we ll see you back here tomorrow morning. i m poppy harlow. i m jim scuitto, president biden will speak in minutes. our coverage continues with kate bolduan right now. hello, everyone. at this hour, we are moments away from a major speech from president biden, speaking before the united nations general assembly any minute in and out. we see the president entering the u.n. this morning, the who you says the they need to do more to support ukraine and firmly rebuke russia for its unprovoked war. biden s speech comes at a very interesting time. it s just hours after vladimir putin announced he s calling up 300,000 reservists, more troops to fight in ukraine s war. noteworthy as his remarks come after a string of humilia
we are returned to ukraine flag and protection for our citizens everywhere. ukraine also said there has been an increase in desertions among russian troops in the region. while there is no rain in the forecast for much of pakistan in the next several days but that is a small measure of release that s a country that has been battered by monsoon rains. cnn s reports where thousands of people had to leave everything behind. the city of sawant had been something of a sanctuary for some of the more than 6 million people displaced by the floods in this region. now, the main highway has become a waterway. smaller boats into the city are choked with traffic. can see there s just a steady stream of vehicles pouring into
up the momentum in its pushback against russian forces in the northeast. the ukrainian president said they have recaptured more than 30 settlements in the region. liberating estimated 1000 square kilometers in recent days. april russian social media sites says civilians are now being evacuated from 2 cities being threatened by ukrainian forces. the military journalist says they re rushing in reinforcements why ukraine says there has been an increase in desertions among russian troops. many of the newly liberated areas have been under russian occupation for months now. new videos are showing residence reaction to the arrival of ukrainian forces. our reporter has the story. liberated at last. after six months of occupation. some of the first images to be observed. images captured by the soldiers themselves.
we ve got desertions, we ve got people quitting. you have russia looking weaker than they ever have. now they re going into donbas again, an area that they could not subjugate for eight years. so we actually find ourselves in this remarkable position where the what is keeping us, according to a lot of people, from a peace deal in this war is how weak russia is performing and putin is looking for an opportunity to go to the negotiating table with strength. he just can t do it because his troops keep losing to the ukrainians. yeah, it is a remarkable contraction of war aims for moscow, now just focusing on the donbas, barely getting more territory than they hoped from 2014. on the note of diplomacy it didn t receive the attention. boris johnson s visit but the chancellor of austria met with
and try and take them over and control them over time? it speaks to how little they understood the situation and what their long-run plans are. separately, what you re seeing here is in the east. the big picture is that the russians are trying to take this combat power they freed up here in the north, move it out and into russia, some of the airborne forces the russians already in here. lots of desertions and reports of soldiers saying they re not ready to fight. i m not convinced these armored forces, which were terrible in the advance to kyiv, are going to be that useful here in the east. the battle here is for donbas. they want to cut off yooken military in these pocket so they can seize this area. this could be something putin could aim for. he was losing everywhere. he s trying to win somewhere,