Atlanta. This is cnn cnn Breaking News hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday on for that, the width hailed and we begin with dramatic video of the moment, a russian strike hit a Shopping Center in kharkiv, ukraines second largest city these two people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack two more strikes in other parts of kharkiv followed the initial hit. Cnn nick kate walsh is eastern ukraine. Nick russia has been on the offensive in kharkiv is this stepping up of their attack yeah. Look, i mean, this could have been potentially the worst civilian casualties weve seen since russias offensive about two weeks ago now from the north of kharkiv, from their border areas down to ukraines second city at the moment, the Death Toll Vote is for, has been rising. We could have as many as 40 injured in this one attack on a huge Hardware Store complex in an area in the Northern Areas of kharkiv. Weve been there ourselves, a chain store across all of ukr
Trace gallagher, live in jerusalem, 7 a. M. , Gaza Border Smoke in the background. There would also be fire, apparently another airstrike from Israeli Defense forces no word of a Ground Invasion. But there is Breaking News because overnight the United States, would be f16s targeted ammunition and weapons storage areas in syria. It was a strike that United States says had been coming. I want to bring in the National Security correspondent with a statement from the Defense Secretary. What do we know . Well earlier tonight about two hours ago these two u. S. F16s carried out airstrikes on two different facilities near the iraq border in southEastern Syria near abu kamal. They were irgc run, one stored weapons one ammunition. U. S. Defense we spoke to said they didnt know if iranians were there but iranian fingerprints were all over the attacks that have been taking place on u. S. Bases since october 17th and they hope with this Quote Precision Airstrike on these facilities that iran will
Helicopters that were in this aerial convoy and only one of them crashed. But yes, it was carrying the president. It was carrying the Foreign Minister hossein amir of the law at least three crew members, the governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province. Thats again where the ceremony had been taking place on the border with azerbaijan is separate country. Of course and then the friday prayer, imam who leads the friday prayers in the city of tabriz. Thats the Major Metropolitan Center in that part of iran paula, i have done a road trip through this part of iran to the border, to turkey from tehran and i can personally attest to the fact that this area is rugged. It is very sparsely populated as well. We perhaps explain why you would have such a high level delegation traveling by helicopter because any kind of trip by road would have taken hours and hours and also been on potentially the dangerous roads. But this is a rugged and remote place and an indicator of perhaps why the iranian authori
And get one free or only 24, 95 each im dr. Sanjay gupta in london and this is cnn well, hello and welcome to our view as watching around the world. Im Becky Anderson in london, and we all following Breaking News out of iran for you where the government is expressing condolences save the deaths of president Ebrahim Raisi and the countrys Foreign Minister. And seven others in a Helicopter Crash. Now the bodies of those killed will be transported to a staging area in the city of tabriz iranian Officials Say the helicopter with nine people on board, ran into trouble amid heavy fog on Sunday Afternoon, images of the crash site and irans East Azerbaijan province show the remote mountainous area where the aircraft went down. The president and other officials have been attending an ceremony of a new near the border with azerbaijan Iranian State tv is airing islamic prayers between News Broadcasts afterward of the president s death and the countrys Supreme Leader is vowing there will be no dis
News out of iran where state media has confirmed the death of president Ebrahim Raisi on the countrys Foreign Minister after a Helicopter Crash, the bodies of those killed in the crash will be transported to a staging area in the city of Tabriz Iranian official say the helicopter with nine people on board ran into trouble amid heavy fog on sunday afternoon. What images of the crash site in irans East Azerbaijan province show the remote mountainous area where the aircraft went down, search teams found no survivors the president , another officials have been attending a ceremony for the opening of a new dam near the border with azerbaijan, rescues faced difficult Weather Conditions overnight including cold and heavy fog as they scrambled to locate the crash sayyed, well, iranians were urged to pray for the president before word of his death with the countrys Supreme Leader vowing, there will be no disruption in irans well, lets start with four handcuffs. Is following developments and joi