to prove fear ending up as a mean and a bizarre and alarming clash between china and the philippines on the high seas, the chinese coast guard launching a quote, brutal assault, a filipino general while slamming beijing s over the attack saying, quote, only pirates do this and artificial intelligence may be coming for all our jobs. and faster than thought possible. a new survey has a stark warning for americans were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. the cnn news central just one week from today, president biden and former trump will go head to head right here on cnn, the debate in atlanta will be the first of this year s presidential race. and we just learned that former president trump will get the final word after a coin flip to determine the order of closing statements and podium placements. but before they we take the debate stage next week, both candidates are preparing in very different ways today, president biden headi
to try to get through ukrainian air defenses. ukraine has gotten very good at shooting down certain types of missiles. and now russia is using a variety of different types of cruise missiles to get through those air defenses. that is why ukraine has repeatedly been asking western allies for more and more sophisticated air defenses to try to swat these drones and these missiles out of the sky. erin? all right, alex, thank you very much live from kyiv tonight. and alex s reporting comes as we re getting new video into outfront of a prominent russian military hardliner, also actually a former fsb officer. his name is igor girkin. he s making his first appearance in court. prominent pro-military guy. well, he was arrested and charged with inciting extremist activity just three days after he took on putin directly in a telegram post, in which after all the support he d given he d called putin a low life and a
he relies on his minister of defense yevgeny prigozhin and the director of russia s federal security service fsb. but it does not mean all of russia s military the other senior military leaders are his intelligence officers would not turn against vladimir putin. in the early days of the were vladimir putin the fsb officer in space bar the for intelligence and the former union putin tried to make him a scapegoat for intelligence failures in ukraine are absolutely vladimir putin s alone. so it is possible there may be groups forming among the security services and in the military that might decide to launch their own coup against vladimir putin. we have already seen rearguard action from anti- putin elements. we have seen drones in moscow. there are those who are counting vladimir putin and see an opportunity right now to take the fight to the kremlin.
for the united states. the icbm is said to have a range of about 7,500 miles, which means that its targets could be any city in the united states. they say it could carry six or more nuclear weapons. putin sending this warning to the west and to the united states at the same time as he is facing some damning new criticism about the war in ukraine from at home. a former fsb officer, someone who used to be a member of russia s top secret intelligence agency, is now calling for military heads to roll. his name is igor gerkin, a man who originally helped carry out putin s plan to annex crimea in 2014 and recently spent two months on the front lines. now he says it is time for a complete overhaul of russia s military leadership. listen to him. translator: there have been a lot of problems. the most important being the serious issues our troops are having with equipment.