they need to take such an historic move to bring transparency to this. eric holcomb is the latest u.s. official to pay a visit to taiwan. we ll seek to continue to build strategic partnerships with you. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, august 22, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 9:00 a.m. in london and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where new details are emerging after the death of dugin, daughter of a prominent supporter of vladimir putin. a murder investigation was launched after she was killed in a car bomb on saturday. the russian investigative committee believe someone ordered and planned the blast. a foreign ministry official has implied ukraine may be responsible, but ukraine is strongly denying that claim. cnn s fred pleitgen is following all the developments from the russian capital. reporter: a car engulfed in a massive fireball on a highway outside moscow. police say the vehicle exploded and crashed, the driver dead on the scene. that
volunteers who provided medical and legal help along with trance p transportation. governor abbott has sent thousands to cities like washington, d.c. and new york. and in a fight with the biden administration over immigration policies. republicans have defended abbott s tactics. we re talking about the new york and d.c. plussing, we re talking about a few thousand immigrants and that is what we deal with on a daily basis in texas. i think what he is doing is highly necessary. someone has to solve this problem. it is an infringement on our rule of law and it is unfair and immoral to millions upon millions of good law abiding immigrants or asylum seekers around the world that have no chance of getting into our system because of the backlog that people are creating because they are geographically close to the united states and they can just walk across. it is not fair. u.s. officials report nearly 2 million encounters on the southwest border this year.