in the us. japan launches a nationwide competition to enourage people in their 20s and 30s to drink more alcohol. that was fantastic. you can t buy that feeling, frankly. and striking gold. we hearfrom one of the british divers who helped locate a us first world war shipwreck that s been missing since 1917. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. explosions have been reported at a military airbase in russian occupied crimea. officials there say there s been no damage, and that a ukrainian drone has been shot down. it happened north of the city of sevastopol at the belbek air base. another russian airbase in crimea was hit by explosions earlier this month. and, seperately, in russia itself, two villages close to the border with ukraine were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot. the fire was less than 50 kilometres from the frontier. no casualties have been reported. meanwhile, the un secretary general has sounded the alarm about the da
Step counter those sport matt and wireless remote call good morning. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, its saturday, april 20. Im victims walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning congress is in session for a working weekend because see a final vote on a 95 foreign aid package for ukraine and israel as early as this afternoon. A much different vote though could cost. Mike johnson, the speakers gavel, Marjorie Taylor greene says theres a civil war in the House Of Representatives. And as another lawmaker joining her motion to vacate, were going indepth ahead annually, a half a dozen blasts, rock a Military Base belonging to an iranbacked militia in iraq at a time of high tensions across the mideast. What we know about it coming up and former President Donald Trump hits the Campaign Trail today, just two days hes before Opening Statements begin. In an historic Hush Money Trial in new york, the judges stern warning to trumps legal team, thats coming so in just about
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In military conflicts. Lets speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale whos injerusalem. Talk is through the events so far, and what the reaction tells us about how this is viewed in the region . Remember, we are still in that stage where the full facts are not known, and that those people who are commenting and talking about what has happened, and many of them have agendas to try and talk up or play down what has happened, but in terms of the basic facts, we know that Iranian State media are reporting there have been explosions near a Military Base in isfahan in central iran. Basically if you find tehran on a map and go due south it is there. Essentially there have been reports of air defence explosions taking off, a Senior Iranian commanders have said they have shut down some drones. Again, we still dont know exactly what was part of this air strike. The iranians at the moment are saying there has been no damage. The israelis are officially not saying anything, so there has
Explosions have been reported, not far from a Military Airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to irans Fars News Agency Defense Systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around Illicit Nuclear Weapons Program as well as the countrys Biggest Nuclear research facility, which operates three Small Chinese supplied Research Reactors or flights to its for Hand Tehran Entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. Ready Officials Say air Defense Systems in several regions were activated and the Explosions Heard Isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest, cnns Nic Rob