merry christmas, everyone! we are so glad you are with us on this special morning. i m poppy hearlow with paul maddingly. this is a special edition of cnn this morning. hope you re having a great holiday with your loved ones. merry christmas. i want to stay on this set forever. isn t it beautiful? it s beautiful. they did a wonderful job. i love all the poinsettias all around. we have a christmas tree and a fire. the iowa caucuses are just three weeks away from today. this morning, we ll highlight the key moments on the campaign trail so far, and how they could shape the final months in the race for the white house. and seasons full of strikes reignite the labor movement in america from hollywood to the motor city, workers won pay raises and new protections. how technology could bring more change to the economy in the year ahead. and coming together this holiday season, as anti-semitism and islamophobia sentiment rises, we ll talk to faith leaders about how we
years for sexually abusing a boy. after yesterday s apology from water companies about sewage in our rivers and seas, i m at a beach in devon which has just been given the official go ahead for bathing. and coming up on bbc news: one of the greatest comebacks. we are reflecting on sheffield wednesday s stunning play off penalty shoot out win to secure a shot at promotion. good afternoon. leaders of the world s most developed g7 economies who are gathered in hiroshima for a summit have promised new sanctions against russia. they said the measures would starve moscow of technology, industrial equipment, and services that supported its war against ukraine. the us is imposing around 300 new sanctions, while the uk has announced a ban on importing russian diamonds, copper, aluminium and nickel. this morning, the g7 leaders laid wreaths at the memorial garden in hiroshima, at the site which was devastated by an atomic bomb in 191i5. ourfirst report this lunchtime is from our corres
robson was endorsed by mike pence. cnn has not yet called that race. also in arizona, cnn is projecting that rusty bowers, the state house speaker who testified before the january 6th committee, will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trump s efforts to throw arizona s 2020 election into doubt. and in michigan, cnn projects election denier tudor dixon has won the republican primary for governor. she will face gretchen whitmer in the fall. also in michigan, peter meijer, one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump has been defeated by challenger john gibbs after democrats meddled in his primary. and you might recall that trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race and one of the erics has won. cnn projecting eric schmitt will defeat eric greitens, the former president president governor who resigned in disgrace. let s begin with cnn s jeff zeleny in st. louis with the very latest. jeff? reporter: