welcome the whole story i m anderson cooper since its launch, a little more than two years ago, the james webb space telescope has been we capturing some of the most spectacular and enlightening images of outer space. we ve ever seen its mission is to study every phase in the history of our universe. the data and the images from web are helping some of our smartest scientific minds answer some of the most intriguing questions of our time like, where did we come from? is time travel possible? and are we alone for the past? it s two years, cnn space correspondent kristin fisher has followed two teams of scientists as they were awarded precious minutes with the james webb telescope in an effort to answer these very quiet what they found is breathtaking and groundbreaking the james webb space telescope precedented in science and scale this is effectively the best time machine that we ve ever created james webb is revealing the cosmic story where do we come from? are we alone in
all right. it s monday, june 17, right now on cnn this morning, president biden and donald trump are looking for a boost to their campaign war chests ten days out from the first presidential debate hundreds of vacua is strong winds fuel fast-moving, fire near los angeles, plus israel s military announces a tactical pause in rafa to get more humanitarian aid into gaza. yet, the prime minister of criticizes the move 5:00 a.m. here in washington 5:00 a.m. here in washington. here s a live look in new york city and good morning everyone. i m on a roger kasie hunt has the day off. it s so great to be with you. president biden and donald trump holding dueling campaign events over the weekend, which is ten days to go into the first presidential debate of 2024. of course, right here on cnn for donald trump, he went to detroit decor black voters, but also throw red meat to his base in an event run by a hard right group, by didn t meantime, hard now with movie stars joining barack
laughter welcome everyone here in this cnn newsroom, i m omar jimenez in washington. we re going to begin this hour with fierce fighting in eastern ukraine as ukrainian troops say they ve successfully countered or they are successfully countering russian advances around the town near kharkiv, right along the russian border, which is turned the town itself into a front line in this war, you can see vovchansk highlighted on the map there. now the extent of the damage is pretty staggering, as you can see, there from ms drone footage over her head, much of the fighting in the last few weeks has reportedly centered around an aggregate plant, which usually produces materials for construction. now it s a combat zone we re ukrainian troops have tried to isolate russian units to cross the border as part of a recent offensive, one ukrainian commander referred to russian troops in the town as surrounded and one of the biggest this shifts on that eastern front is the us permitting ukrain
christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week. this is cnn breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield if breaking news from the middle east right now, the idf says eight israeli soldiers were killed during what they re calling an incident in rafah it marks one of the deadliest single incidents for israeli forces since october 7. cnn s paula hancocks is live for us in tel aviv. paula, what more can you tell us? well, fread, we understand this happened in the western area of refer. it s an area where there has been fighting over but recent days. now the idf saying eight soldiers have been killed in this particular incidents that they are looking into it, investigating, finding it the cause of what happened, as you say, it is one of the deadliest days from the israeli military side since october 7. now, what we re hearing is a statement as well. from hamas. they say that they carried o
x ed to 231231. this situation room with wolf blitzer welcome to week nitric six cnn are they dueling canaries in the coal mine? i, michael smerconish in philadelphia. this week came to different events that might forecast the outcome of the 2024 american election. first, the elections in europe that leaned right. and second, the arrest of eight foreign nationals believed seem to be affiliated with isis, who entered via the mexican border. i have amazing expertise on hand to discuss each kurt volker, former us ambassador to nato at richard clarke, former adviser to three us presidents. first to the eu elections last weekend, which saw right-wing populist parties score big wins driven in part by board what or politics and inflation? far-right parties won 134 of the european parliament s 720 seats forming a substantial block against mainstream parties, assembling coalitions that are needed to pass laws. the right gain significantly in the union s three biggest countries, fr