test. test. test. test. . . . hello and a warm welcome to viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton here on cnn newsroom days after shooting down a suspected chinese spy balloon. u.s. officials currently a second object has been shutdown in alaska grief and devastation in turkey and syria as hopes of finding survivors fade following monday s powerful earthquake, brazilian president sits down for an exclusive interview. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula. for second time less than a week, u.s. fighter jets have taken down an object flying over american air space, i want you to take a look at this, officials say the latest one was shot down friday over frozen water near alaska s northern coast. and that apparently was on the order of president joe biden, smaller and not as well equipped as the chinese surveillance balloon, this object was at an altitude of 40,000 feet. not posed apparently a risk to civil
politics. at this hour president biden looks to change the midterm trajectory. three weeks exactly from election day and the president promises new federal efforts to protect abortion rights but he needs democrats in charge of congress to succeed. plus, the trump tapes. cnn exclusively obtains recordings from a new audio book over the course of 20 interviews, the former president brags about his nuclear button, says he respects vladimir putin and more. and democracy is always on the ballot but this year is very different. three republicans who might win house seats were at trump s january 6th rally and a red state republican senator who tried to help trump hold power takes heat at a campaign debate. any moment now we will hear directly from the president of the united states. his goal today, to shake up the final three weeks of the midterm campaign by focusing on abortion rights. the president s remark, we are told, will include a new promise to open next year with legislati
so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled. by 1995, 66% of all venezuelans were impoverished. getting poorer tends to make motors radical so inevitably venezuela got radical politics. you know what happened next, venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced to eating zoo animals. there was no food, for that matter there was no electricity. seven just half a lifetime, an advanced society had returned to the stone age. united states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week but we are moving closer to it. inflation is a big part of the reason. of all the economic crises a country can face, inflation is the most dangerous. inflation doesn t just make people poorer, it totally destroys their confidence in their leaders, the authorities who issue the now worthless currency they are using for toilet paper. inflation is not an act of god like a drug or hurricane, it is an active
officials say russia launched more than 100 missiles, rockets and drones knocking off line a significant part of ukraine s power generating capacity. the vast majority of ukrainians do in fact still have power, water and heat. that s according to the country s prime minister. meantime ukraine s air did he firsts are about to get more weapons to help them fight back. lithuania is sending dozens of even aircraft guns which officials say can shoot down both drones and airplanes, further west, u.s. military hardware i did also arrived in ukraine, the armored vehicles and air defenses which were promised you ll remember to kiev last month. ahead for us, brazilly new president visits washington and sits down with us for an exclusive interview, what dasilva said about his white house meeting and effort to protect democracy. . . . ou.
of panic there among some countries, isn t there? panic and suspicion, and when i say suspicion, it is mainly because no one is really sure whether all the developed nations and those who can really provide some sort of a financial support network here will deliver their promises and pledges. in his war against ukraine, president putin seems to be concentrating on two strategies at the moment. he is hoping that by destroying much of ukraine s power generating capacity, he can force ukrainians to decide in the cold and dark of their towns and cities that it is not worth resisting any longer. and he is hoping that as the republicans make gains in the american midterm elections, they will force president biden to put