please follow the show at jdbalart msnbc. thank you for your time. peter alexander picks up with more news right now. good morning. i am peter alexander here in washington. parts of ukraine are under fire in the dark and running low on water as russia unleashes a new barrage of air strikes overnight. president zelenskyy says 30% of his country s power stations are destroyed by russia part of what he says is vladimir putin s strategy to plunge ukraine into brutal conditions just as winter approaches. we are in ukraine with the very latest ahead. plus, just 21 days out from the midterms, president biden is going to put the spotlight on a crucial issue the democrats hope will motivate their voters. abortion rights. and he is ready to make this promise. codifying roe v. wade into law will be his first big legislative priority in the new congress. if he hopes that ll be enough to keep control of congress in democratic hands, that actually may hinge on a series of other issues. r
after u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the self-governing island. details plus the warnings from china about how volatile the situation is. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. right now it s 10:00 saturday morning in gaza, where israeli warplanes continue to pound islamic jihad for a second day. israel s military says its air strikes on friday hit militants inside gaza who were allegedly about to launch a terror attack. 19 members of islamic jihad were reportedly arrested saturday in the west bank. islamic jihad says one of its senior commanders was killed in the strikes. a short while ago the israeli army said militants in gaza have fired nearly 200 rockets toward israel since friday evening. it claims almost all of those rockets were interseptembered, fell short or landed in open areas. no casualties have been reported. according to the palestinian health ministry, at least 11 people were killed since friday s air strike
two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. the only clue of their i decent is cartoons clinging to them and finding none. i thought he would come back to the room, so i put blood on me and what did you do when you put the blood on yourself? to stay quiet. what did you tell 911? i told them we needed help. because i could have lost my baby girl. she s not the same little girl i used to play with, hang around with and do everything. because she was daddy s little girl. some part of me must have realized she was gone. amidst the chaos i had the urge to return to robb. we had our car at this point and traffic was everywhere. so i then ran barefoot with my flimsy sandals in my hand. i ran a mile to the school, my husband with me. we sat outside for a while before it became clear we wouldn t receive an answer from law enforcement on scene. a san antonio fire fighter eventually gave us a rid
there is a lot of pressure on belarus to enter. they have a border with poland and lithuania i know you cover moscow quickly and report from there often. the situation there appears to be more urgent as police forces and others are swooping in and picking up men basically forcing them to fight. what is the sense of desperation on the russian side? clearly this war is not going the way anybody in moscow wants. you know, at least from the kremlin s standpoint. there is the big counteroffensive in the northeast in the kharkiv region. in the south ukraine gained back a lot of territory and is o pushing closer along the western bank of the river so there is this pressure on putin from the hard line circle especially to get more bodies into ukraine, more people for his war, and that is also why you re seeing these strikes. i know people in moscow who have fled. i mean, more people have left russia at this point than have
ukraine s artillery reportedly hit a bus saturday morning leaving at least five others wounded. ukraine says the cities on its side of the front lines have been taking heavy russian fire for weeks. that s happening as western officials say russia s ground forces are struggling to make more progress in the east. but in the south ukraine says the new russian offensive could be in the making. russia is reportedly sending in troops and equipment to the key city of kherson to push back against ukraine s incremental gains in the region. well, for more now we re joined by malcolm dafls, a senior analyst at the australian strategic policy institute. he s speaking with us from canberra. good to have you with us. thank you for having me. so what can you tell us about the offensive and counteroffensive in the south? russia reportedly deploying more troops. talk to us about the battle for kherson and why it matters. look, if you look at the geography of the region, kherson is very close to c