good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the horror. ukraine s ministry of defense releasing these jarring and grotesque images. this is before and after. the soldier here is ukrainian. the image on the left is him taken during the siege of the azostal steel plant. that is when they were hunkered down not getting the full food and water that they needed. but there he was fighting. and on the right four months later, that is him now, starved, deformed. it is not even possible to imagine what happened to that man. and yet that picture is the reality. it is how russia is treating human beings. and you can t look the other way when you see that. it comes as putin has taken the war to a whole new level today running a sham election in parts of ukraine that are kind of under russian control. i ll show you the ballot. it reads just one question. the wording varies depending on the region. are you in favor of seceding from ukraine and joining the russian federation? and dow
recovered from mar-a-lago last month, and it includes empty folders marked as classified. we re live in moscow as the nation bids farewell to the leading soviet who brought the cold war to a peaceful end. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. well, if at first you don t succeed, try again. it s 5:00 a.m. on florida s space coast and after last monday s scrubbed launch, nasa s artemis i rocket is ready for liftoff once more. have a look, this is the scene live right now from the kennedy space center. things go to plan, the unmanned mission will be able to launch this afternoon going beyond the moon and kicking off a new stage in space exploration. the artemis program could see humans return to the lunar surface and set their sights on mars and beyond. the vibe around the kennedy space center is electric right now. as nasa chief bill nelson explains, that could be one of the challenges. here he is. the launch team is very confiden
identity cards issued by kosovo. kosovo has an ethnic albanian majority and has declared independence from serbia. the chancellor nadim zahawi says middle income earners, as well as low earners, will need government help to pay energy bills this winter. it comes as another minister defended the decision to wait until a new prime minister is in place before any announcement on further support is made. on friday, the regulator 0fgem confirmed a dramatic 80 percent rise in the energy price cap from october for england, wales and scotland, taking the average annual household bill to more than three and a half thousand pounds. here s our business correspondent marc ashdown. help is coming. that s the message from the chancellor on rocketing energy bills. but when, how and who will receive it remains difficult to tell. in an interview with the daily telegraph, nadim zahawi warns high bills could be here to stay for the next two years, and says while he s concerned about helping peo
at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one of the country s worst disasters as the heaviest monsoon rains in decades continue. nearly a thousand people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced. southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pa ktunkwa province. our correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving, and the water is still trapped between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. for some, that meant beside a road. families left with what they could manage. this
of so called quiet quitting ? thousands of people in areas at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one of the country s worst disasters as the heaviest monsoon rains in decades continue. nearly a thousand people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced. southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pa ktunkwa province. our correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving, and the water is still trapped between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. families left with what