even as his legal problems are mounting his hold on the republican party is tightening. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour in ukraine as it wrestles with a terrifying fear of a nuclear disaster. it is now almost six months to the day since russia launched its unprovoked invasion. new video from ukraine s ministry of defense right here says this is a successful strike destroying a rare russian radar complex in south eastern ukraine. ukraine is about to get more u.s. help in its fight against russia. the pentagon saying it ll now send another $775 million in aid. including ammunition for the high promobility artillery ro rockets, howwitzers and other ammunition plus dozens of drones and different vehicles. a lot of the fighting right now is centered in zaporizhzhia, right around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. ukraine says russia is launching attacks from there because ukraine wouldn t risk
nothing new there, especially from trump. he should have listened to both of us when we were saying earlier this year. have a great rest of your night. nice to see you. good to see you. tonight on the mehdi hasan show prosecuting a former leader. why are some people acting as if it would be completely crazy to prosecute donald j trump? plus, a right-wing harassment campaign against children s hospital staff, based on pure hate and disinformation. what is this country becoming? and, devastating climate-related floods in pakistan. my conversation with the grandson of the country s former prime minister on how to help, and who s to blame. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. it is called the most exclusive clubs in the world. and as a marvel fan, i was always tickled by how saturday night live used to portray the ex presidents as actual cartoon superheroes. because speaking as a relatively new citizen to this country, one thing that is uniquely american about it is th
activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? reporter: what we re hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we re seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need to be patient. we ve been hearing from a senior aid to president zelenskyy saying this morning this is going to be a slow grind. urging patience on the part of ukrainians. we heard also from the ukrainian president himself in his nightly address speaking of his determination saying that russians needed now to go home since they would he said be chased back to their border. clearly this is a turnin
robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor finds a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title. and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the black-and-white gore, the violence of the flash bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty, he purposefully didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, you never went down, ray. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing movies, but it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake, based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. he was just so contr
after the pump at the treatment facility failed. some residents have little or no water in their homes. mississippi s governor declaring a water emergency. until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. it means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets and to meet other critical needs. the city of jackson has battled water issues for years. let s begin with isabel gonzales with our top story. good morning. good morning to you, erica. this is an emergency. the governor there telling the people of jackson not to drink the water, saying that the water and sewer is on the brink of collapse for 250,000 people. now, the governor was alerted last week that pumps at one of the city s two water treatment plants was damage. then came all of the rainfall and the flooding of the pearl river. that was the straw that broke the camel s back. the water is not safe to drink and little to no water pressure for people in j