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
the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn
taking to the streets, refusing to go to classes. now we are seeing organized strike action taking place. it is really remarkable to see six weeks on now how far this protest movement is going, how much momentum it has gained. protests taking place up and down the country. still, december spite the regime s brutal and deadly crackdown on peaceful protesters, using live fire ammunition, tear gas, metal pellets against peaceful protesters, we have seen reports of a rising death toll amongst demonstrators at the hands of the regime s security forces. still, these protests continue. we saw over the weekend strike action taking place in iran s northwestern kurdish region in the kurdish capital. we saw really the streets being quite eerily quiet in response to the protests. many shops choosing to close their storefronts in strike action, in solidarity with the protest movement. we saw protests taking place in
tear gas, metal bullets, and even live fire ammunition. while the death toll varies at this stage from different sources, we ve heard from one human rights organization based in norway which focuses on iran, they ve been tallying the death toll since the beginning of these protests and they have pegged that figure at at least 154 killed. of course, over the weekend we have seen videos circulating of the security forces targeting and attacking houses where protesters are bleachedth believed to have been sheltering in the city. we ve also seen in addition to these protests interestingly last night is what appears to have been the hacking of iran s state broadcaster. for a few moments we saw that broadcast being interrupted in a video that has now gone viral i have to say, a video that showed the iran supreme leader with a target superimposed on his head. but what was most poignant, perhaps, about that hacking or
abhorrent suggestion that the president of the united states is somehow the equivalent of hitler for asking joe biden to lead a task force on gun violence. this was a recently constructed home page on the drudge report, which was vocalized vaingloriously by this gentleman. hitler took the guns. stalin took the guns. mao took the guns. fidel castro took the guns. i m here to tell you 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms. unfortunately, messrs. lapierre and jones are being historically inaccurate. the suggestion that hitler promoted gun control is actually pretty wide of the mark. in fact, gun control was forcibly imposed upon germany following the treaty of versailles after the first world war. in 1919 the reichstag inacted regulations that asserted that all firearms as well as all kinds of fire ammunition are to