shooting. and the platinum jubilee celebrations in the u.k. minus the guest of honor. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. welcome, everyone. the war in eastern ukraine now being described as a grinding slog with neither side appearing to make any significant gains in recent days. ukraine concedes russian troops have made some modest in roads in and around the key city of severodonetsk but were pushed back from nearby towns. britain s defense ministry says it expects russians will control all of the luhansk region within two weeks. the international red cross said the scale of destruction defies comprehension. but ukraine claims its forces have progressed into the southern kherson region. as the conflict surpassed 100 days ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, remained confident of the outcome. translator: we have been dedefending ukraine for 100 days. victory shall be ours. glory to ukraine. now, the human toll in ukraine
Newsday. Welcome to London Bridge in the heart of the british capital where we now have a fuller picture of the attack that killed seven people and injured many others. Three men arriving by van, went on the rampage. First hitting people with their vehicle, then lashing out with knives in bars and restaurants. This is still very much and i are active crime scene and you can see the area targeted by those three men is in lockdown. Police say these cordons will remain up for quite some time as the Investigation Continues, and were getting a fuller picture of what happened that night. Police say they know the identities of the three people and there have been raids in east london as well, 12 people have been arrested. Throughout this Special Edition of Newsday Carrico i indi will bring you full details of what happened in london and also the International Reaction to that event mariko oi. First lets get more from our Home Affairs Editor mark easton. Clear the area now and a country cried
is a very clear conflict of interest. the paper also says that later on in the letter he is told he has to send any witness provide to the enquiry to the cabinet office first so it can be security checked and he needs to make any necessary reductions that they say before submitting it to the inquiry as part of the terms of keeping the public money for his legal advice. to hong kong now where a number of rights activists have been detained by the police on the eve of the thirty fourth anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre in beijing. the activists were stopped near a key location where vigils used to be held for the pro democracy protesters who were killed by the military in 1989. such vigils have now been banned after china imposed a national security law on the territory. the artist sanmu chen,
spending billions of money to resist, not not only in china, in beijing. a chinese national was arrested in laos by chinese police, two lao shi and police in laos, and he disappeared. but we are seeing a lot of people challenging it. today there is one video about a woman displaying this american flag, and throwing the flyers in declaration of independence when she was arrested, and she actually made a great statement basically, saying that we are human, we need to embrace freedom of democracy, we want to make china a place where we want to stay. we are decades on from those tiananmen square protests. has any progress been made on what you were calling for back then?
because this is one of the closest places to beijing that i can commemorate. and what kind of reaction have you been getting there? we can see some of the authorities on the other side of the road. what kind of reaction have you been getting from them? they are trying to be helpful. injapan there is order, they re trying to facilitate our event. and when you hear that people in hong kong have been detained while trying to keep the legacy of the tiananmen massacre alive, what is your reaction to that? well, watching the video of people walking around hong kong streets, chanting don t be afraid, hong kong people, tomorrow is june four. there are always brave people who remember to challenge the leadership.