are struggling around the globe and russia is already getting a billion dollars every few days in oil and gas revenues, why did opec slash production? everything has a price. we will explain. but first, here s my take. one of the few issues on which there is a consensus in washington, d.c. is that american policy toward china was built on an intellectual tariff. liberals and conservatives both believe that beijing s embrace of free markets and integration with the global market would fundamentally change china. but they didn t, so the consensus goes, we should recognize this was a naive belief. in fact, viewing china on the eve of the 20th party congress, i m struck by how little that line of analysis captures what has happened in china over the last decade. china has gone through profound economic and social changes. its per capita gdp has gone up almost 30 fold since the start of economic liberalization in 1978. mass education and urbanization have changed the face of
civilians. nothing much has changed on that front. reporter: it s an utterly ghastly scene. hundreds of rescuers combing through the damage to the apartment blocks where we now know the death poll to be 13, 80 people injured. bare this in mind, totally innocent civilian block by what appears to have been six cruise missiles and possibly 16 anti-aircraft missiles, fired by a strategic bomber and stealth jet flying into ukraine. the cruise missiles frequently used across ukraine. antiaircraft missiles being deployed because the inventory of other missiles is depleted. this isn t the first time zaporizhzhia has been hit, jim. this week it s one of a number of attacks we ve seen. it forms part of a pattern that ukrainians say is indiscriminate bombing against civilian targets. some wonder if this is retaliation for the attack on the bridge, the vital part of the russian frvgt that feeds the occupation of crimea, the ukrainian peninsula they illegally annexed in 2014. zaporizhzh
attempt to claim crimea from ukraine. russia claims at least three people were killed. a russian investigative committee arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. cnn s fred pleitgen is live for us from kyiv with the very latest on this. fred, russian officials are now saying traffic has resumed on the bridge? how is that happening? reporter: well, they are saying that the traffic is in reverse on that bridge. they are trying to clear the cars off that bridge but trying to get the traffic moving again as fast as possible. essentially, what they are saying is that all of this happened, this explosion happened in the early morning hours of this morning. when the lacey latest that they have is a struck they say exploded, even though it s not exactly clear whether or not that is the case, that a truck blew up. we have some of that video of that explosion taking place, which seems to have been massive. as a result ther
tonight. there s new cnn polling of likely voting in two key senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania. wisconsin showing no clear leader in the showdown between incumbent republican ron johnson and democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with document lieutenant governor fetterman narrowly ahead of mehmet oz. we learned late today that former president obama will be campaigning there along with president biden on the final weekend before election day. a party official familiar with the planning telling cnn they ve got appearances scheduled for pittsburgh and philadelphia with the possibility of adding more. early voting is under way there and in 38 other states. so far turnout has been heavy on pace with the record 2018 midterms with nearly 7.3 million ballots already cast. with it, we ve already seen multiple reports of voter intimidation, including two armed men dressed in tactical gear sported at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona, friday night. attorney general merrick ga
doep gas prices down now on those stories. butwn. didn t someone else get impeached for that? now after the saudis stood up despite his embarrassing courtship, the president s vowinge his em to reassesslationsh our relationship with the oil rich nation. looks like with th was wrong whe said nobody messes with abbud. we find ourselves in a positiona as beggars. posimost powerful country in the world. it s now in a position ofd. having to beg these third ratets countries. eep ga the democrats will do anythings to try to keep gas from increasing before the election. incrhe s going hat in hand to dictatorships like venezuela, pleading with them to produce more oil at the same time that pl s alienating long time partners in places likace saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. if you think the president su done reassuring the saudis to t help him, november, stay tuned for oh, we got a lot to talk to you later. what do you say to. but it doesn t stop there. biden straight up