hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m john vause. ahead this hour, standstill. russia s eastern offensive appears to have stalled in ukraine. the plummet continues. stock markets in asia sharply lower following a big fall on wall street, all triggered by dismat earning reports by big retailers and fears of record high inflation. and still too early to call in the pennsylvania senate republican primary. but not too early for donald trump to urge the candidate he endorsed to declare victory. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with john vause. vladimir putin s three-day war is now into day 85 and appears to be going nowhere, with one nato official saying momentum is shifting in favor of ukraine. overall, nato says the war is at a standstill for now, neither side expected to make major gains. one area of progress for ukraine is a counter offensive in the kharkiv region. ukraine s military says another settlement has bee
Story. The october 7th attack by hamas which the u. S. Labels a Terrorist Organization left at least 1400 people dead. More than 200 people are being held hostage according to israeli officials, and many more people are still unaccounted for. In response, israel began a Bombing Campaign in gaza. According to the hamas controlled Health Ministry more than 4,000 people have died there so far. The story of hamas is complex. Its roots date back to the formation of israel in 1948. It has many factions including the socalled Military Wing which perpetrated the terror attack. Over the next hour, cnns sara sidner brings us The Whole Story on hamas from how they were formed, what their ideology is, and how they have evolved over the decades. We want to warn you some of the images youll see in this hour may be disturbing. Pure, unadulterated evil. I cant even try to comprehend these monsters. Terrorists. This is not islam. They should be spit out. We cannot expect that israel will continue to bl
Joe biden over what he is arguing is being bombed behind the criminal indictments, he is basic. Now we talked about the criminal indictments. More generally, he did not specifically discuss his new york hush money case, which of course he was just returning from this week from being out of the courtroom. So i found that very interesting. I think a big question that still remains as donald trump is probably halfway through his remarks right now. We know that hes is still currently under a gag order despite his attorneys earlier in the week trying to see if they could alter that gag order to allow him to talk about witnesses more generally but they said that he could not do that. So were still unclear whether or not hes going to go back to discuss this case in more detail. I can tell you, jessica, from my conversations with trump still in behind the scenes, his lawyers are really urged him not to do that, not to delve too much into that. But again, well see if that changes for the rest o