to that day including all the violence and chaos that happened in this building behind me. the idea that all of this was just a demonstration that got a little bit out of control is absurd. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, june 7, boris johnson is clinging to his leadership after a closer than expected confidence vote in parliament. uk lawmakers are angry that the prime minister attended numerous parties while the rest of the country was under covid lockdown. mr. johnson will meet his cabinet today to lay out his vision, he says he wants to continue delivering on the issues that matter to british people. i m grateful to colleagues, i m grateful for the support they have given me. of course i understand what we need to do now is come together as a government, as a party, and that is exactly what we can now do. but it won t be that easy for the prime minister who only has a year to turn around his declining popularity, if that. do
i m martha maccallum. we have two big breaking story at 3:00 p.m. eastern time this afternoon. israeli forces pressing in to the heart of gaza city now. this is the moment that many have been knowing would come in all of this. it is now underway. we assume that hamas terrorists are digging in in many of the tunnels that we have seen uncovered by the idf. this is really being called an unprecedented city-street-to-street battle. civilians, many of whom have been trapped by hamas essentially, can t get out in a lot of these situations. there s hostages, more than 200 of them some where in this space, including americans that we understand are held somewhere in the city. this is an extraordinarily tense situation with a lot of lives at stake. so our coverage will continue as we get new images from the fight in throughout the course of this hour. also, iran continues to attack us at our bases in the region. our u.s. service members. what is our response? john kirby will join us f
to kramatorsk, that is of course the last stronghold for ukrainian troops in the luhansk region, a major key victory if russians are able to enter that, a major step toward vladimir putin s goal of trying to take control of the donbas region. so this is critical for ukrainian defenders to continue to hold their ground. but both sides are draining serious resources. ukrainian officials tell us that an incredible amount of resources are being trained, that is troops, artillery, resources, equipment by russian forces as they try to bombard the main access route into severdonetsk. and of course civilians trapped in the middle, 15,000 people still in severdonetsk, ukrainian police trying to pull them out, but again the main access road heavily being shelled. so a conflict is grinding into a street to street battle, an hour by hour change. what could turn the tide here for ukrainian forces is those key long range weapons the united states, the uk promising
job is to assist and advise iraqi forces to liberate that city from rice s terrorism. benjamin is there with the latest. this battle is approaching its sixth month, and as it approaches the end of the battle, they are doing well, it s becoming more bitter. this is not only a street to street battle, it s door-to-door as the u.s. backed iraqi forces move into the most congested parts of the city in the western old town and it is getting tougher and iraqi commanders and say the presence of hundreds of thousands of civilians is causing major delays. isis have been sheltering behind civilians forcing many to stay in their homes and many who have escaped to say that it has also forced residents to move with them, using them as human shields. on sunday, iraqi forces attacked militant positions with helicopter gunships and exchanged heavy gun and rocket fire around mosul where there is a mosque with an islamic state leader who declared the
things to say. so it s little wonder that people don t dare come up and speak to us. there were officials around us and people were trying to tell them what to say, anderson. arwa damon, you re in benghazi tonight. you were with opposition fighters in bin jawad today. last night when we spoke, you talked about the opposition momentum having stopped. it now just hasn t stopped, it seems like there s been a big reversal. what happened today? reporter: that s right, anderson. we caught up with opposition fighters just outside of bin jawad as they were coming under a heavy artillery barrage. they told us the barrage had begun in the morning and there were snipers in bin jawad shooting at them. some of them describing a street-to-street battle. they say they stood their ground for as long as they could, but after seven hours we saw them forced to turn around and retreat all the way to the outskirts of that critical joil oil town of ras lanuf and then