happened yesterday in the courtroom in just a moment. plus russian president vladimir putin gives a rare national address announcing significant moves in the war with ukraine. the russian president also talked about a plan that kyiv is calling a desperate sham. and president biden will surely have something to say about all of that when he takes the podium later this morning at the united nations general assembly. we ll preview that and the other topics he will likely focus on in his speech. good morning, welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with major moves from russia this morning claiming that the west is, quote, trying to destroy us. vladimir putin announced overnight he s partially mobilizing the military in russia while also approving a move to annex portions of ukraine. in a rare prerecorded national address, putin said, quote, russia will use all the instruments at its dis
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penetrate into iran s parliament and went on a shooting spree. one of them was killed fairly quickly. another one blew himself up with a suicide vest. the two others managed to take several hostages but at some point were also overwhelmed. it is unclear whether another one of those managed to blow himself up. that hostage situation went on for a very long time. the interesting thing about that is the session in par lamt stayed in session as that hostage situation was going on. obviously the area around there completely kwau lly quartened o. the shrine for the fountain of the islamic repup lick, very important to the iranians. with this attack, you have the religious center and political center of iran also hit. isis claiming responsible for this. the iranians saying they are taking this very seriously but also saying they are defiant in light of these attacks, guys.