his business ventures here. thank you for the reporting. thank you. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s thursday, october 27th. and i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. nice to be back with you. it s great to have you here. john berman is off this morning. beginning with developments in ukraine where battle lines are being drawn in the southern city of kherson. ukraine says russia continues to move the occupation administration from kherson but is enforcing the city with newly mobilized recruits that ukraine s military suggests are being used as cannon fodder. more than 70,000 civilians have left the city as fighting increases. and a russian military strike in zaporizhzhia causing some damage, and power grids. cnn also witnessed a prisoner exchange, including the remains of an american fighter who traveled to ukraine to fight alongside the ukrainian troops. clarissa ward joins us from
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. Sunday, october 22nd. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. We begin with the expected Israeli Ground offensive into gaza. Saturday, the Israeli Military said would increase airstrikes on hamas targets ahead of any ground incursion. Thousands of israeli troops and hundreds of Armored Vehicles are at the gaza border ready to strike hamas. Israel Defense Forces dropped flyers into Northern Gaza warning civilians to once again evacuate to the south or they might be considered a partner for the terrorist organization. As Fighting Increases at the northern border with lebanon. Defense production act said the u. S. Malt said the u. S. Is increasing readiness in the region, including deploying additional Defense Systems to the middle east and american troops on standby to deploy at a moments notice. Meanwhile, egypts red crescent says 17 aid trucks carrying food and medicine are ready to enter gaza through the rafah Border Crossing but
night. bret: jesse, i will wait around for the sloth. jesse: you will wait a long time. bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, new attacks on u.s. forces in syria by iranian-backed terrorists. that is after the latest u.s. retaliatory strike on sunday. that now brings the total number of attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east to more than 50 since mid october. tonight, the fighting between israeli troops and hamas terrorists is centered around gaza s largest hospital. while fighting increases in northern israel as well against hezbollah fighters, correspondent alex hogan is in northern israel tonight with the latest. good evening, alex. good evening, bret. day 38 of the wariments idf releasing this photo. israeli soldiers say they managed to capture the parliamentary building in gaza city and raised the israeli flag. meanwhile here in the northern part of the country it is an entirely different situation. escalation on israel
his business ventures here. thank you for the reporting. thank you. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s thursday, october 27th. and i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. nice to be back with you. it s great to have you here. john berman is off this morning. beginning with developments in ukraine where battle lines are being drawn in the southern city of kherson. ukraine says russia continues to move the occupation administration from kherson but is enforcing the city with newly mobilized recruits that ukraine s military suggests are being used as cannon fodder. more than 70,000 civilians have left the city as fighting increases.