blamed ukraine for that blast, calling it a terror attack. ukraine s president has also accused moscow of terrorism after a string of russian strikes in zaporizhzhia. hours ago a new attack reportedly destroyed an apartment block, leading to several casualties. before that attack, ukraine s president said the strikes this week killed 43 civilians including 14 at this building. cnn s fred pleitgen is live in kyiv with the latest. reporter: just now, ten seconds ago, there were two very big explosions we re hearing right now. i can hear them very clearly from where we are right now. it s unclear whether or not that is incoming russian rockets or any other attack, whether or not that might be outgoing air defense rockets, unclear from our position. certainly it sort of americans with what we ve been seeing the entire morning which appears to be, to us, the ukrainian capital under full-on, massive rocket attack by there s another explosion right now. it seems as though there
theest eastern city of dnipro and zaporizhzhia as well. officials say at least five people have been killed, at least 12 injured. we re still waiting for more numbers on that. video here, this is a pedestrian bridge in kyiv, a nearby strike damaging it with this explosion here. a missile also hit a children s playground. you can see the crater that it left here. the mayor of kyiv is warning people to shelter in place. this morning the russian president, vladimir putin, held a national security council meeting after accusing ukraine of carrying out a terror attack that damaged that bridge that links russia and russian occupied crimea. take a listen. translator: we have no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at the destruction of the critical infrastructure of the russian federation. and authors, executors and master minds are the secret service of ukraine. ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility. meanwhile, there is growing concern that russia is gear
in prison. it s time now for ac 360 . tonight president biden issued a warning about the fate of democracy itself. we ll get senator bernie sanders take on it. the president began by talking about the attack on paul pelosi, the alleged plot to kidnap and ma am house speaker nancy pelosi. he framed the issue as the shared and urgent need to fight for the american survival of the experiment. all americans, regardless of party, to meet this moment of national and generational importance, we must vote knowing what s at stake, not just the policy of the moment, but institutions that have held us together as we sought a more perfect union. the extreme maga element of the republican party, which is a minority of the party, but its driving force. it s trying to succeed where they failed in 2020, to suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself. that means denying your right to vote and deciding whether your vote even counts. instead of waiting until the
never before has north korea conducted this many missile tests in 24 hours. followed up by the possible launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile test just hours ago. all of this happening in what is already a record setting year for pyongyang s illicit missile program. never before have north korean missiles of the northern limit line. below which north korean ships are banned. according to officials in seoul, around 7:48 local time, north korea fired what is believed to be an icbm from an area near the capital, followed up an hour later with two short-range missiles. cnn s tally, that makes it 30 missile tests this year. tokyo initially feared the icbm was on track to fly over its territory, issued alerts for residents in the north, to take shelter. it s now believe the missile failed inflate. all this coming a day after north korean unprecedented barrage of 23 short-range missiles. triggered air raid alarms of south korea s east coast. in tokyo with the latest.
First the latest headlines. Hundreds of Police Officers are searching for a prisoner who escaped from a van, after it was rammed by gunmen in northern france. Two officers were killed, and three others seriously wounded, when attackers opened fire at a toll booth near rouen. Protestors in georgia shut down a major Road Junction in the capital tbilisi, after mps approved a controversial law that will force some organisations to declare foreign funding. Politicians on the isle of man have rejected an amendment to their assisted dying bill. It would have stopped employees of the islands Health Service from Admistering A Lethal Injection to terminally ill people. And manchesters troubled new arena has finally opened its doors, at the fourth attempt. The co op live is the biggest indoor arena in the uk, but faced a series of problems, delays and cancelled events. Americas top diplomat anthony blinken, has been in ukraine to announce the arrival of more us weapons for kyiv. He met president