with the president. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. president biden hoping to flex his diplomatic muscles here in new york. it s unclear how much of the world he has been able to rally so far around these issues that he thinks are the most urgent facing the planet. we are the authors of history. president biden sees two problems as bigger than all the rest. climate change. we don t have much time. and russia s invasion of ukraine. permanent member of the united nations security council invaded its neighbor. peter: but no call to remove russia from the u.n. security council despite renewed warnings of weapons of mass destruction. they re making irresponsible threats to use nuclear weapons. critics say the president s russia talk was missing something. call out the countries that are helping russia. call out the fact that china is helping. call out the fact that iran is sending drones. call out north korea for rockets. ing. among newcomers
warns its next target appears to be bermuda after lashing the turks and caicos islands. we re live in the caribbean in minutes. and new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the special master tasked with reviewing those materials seized from the former president s hom water on one of the trump team s key arguments. what it could signal about where the investigation goes next. we begin with the president s speech at the united nations happening this hour. joining me now is erin mclayoff lint in ukraine. ambassador william taylor is with us as well. and michael, let me get to you if i can can. we have a little guidance about the upcoming address. we do expect to hear the president respond to vladimir putin s nuclear threat. we are told that this is not going to be a tit for tat response. what do you expect to hear from the president? what makes this speech unique and significant? presidents give addresses to the united nations general assembly every year. it s an a
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in new york where world leaders are taking part in a un meeting which is already being dominated by ukraine. russia s invasion was always going to be at the top of the agenda, but events on tuesday have brought the war into even sharper focus. officials in russian controlled areas in the east and south of ukraine have announced snap referendums onjoining russia. it appears to be part of a push by moscow to accelerate their annexation, in response to serious setbacks on the battlefield. in areas newly liberated by ukrainians forces, disturbing accounts of torture by russian soldiers are continuing to emerge. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports now from the city of izyum i want to warn you orla s report contains some distressing testimony. in the centre of izyum, the heart of darkness. ukrainian investigators say the russians turned this police station into a torture chamber. we were taken down to the ce
the country s longest serving monarch. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is tuesday, september 20th, 4 a.m. here on the east coast of the united states where we are tracking hurricane fiona as the storm gains strength in the atlantic. fiona is now a category 3 hurricane barrelling closer to the turks and caicos islands after tearing through the dominican republic on monday. heavy rains and strong winds ripped through cities destroying buildings and homes. more than 1 million people are without running water in the dominican republic and officials say it s too soon to know the exact number of power outages. it s only a glimpse of the power of this storm, and that s expected to get even stronger through the weeks. let s turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who s keeping a close eye on the storm. all eyes on the storm. it is a major hurricane, category 3. possibly up to a category 4. the turks and caicos, home to 5,000 pe
its republican governor can make a midterm immigration point as a texas sheriff makes him the target of an investigation. ron desantis defends his move. they all signed consent forms to go and then the vendor that is doing this for florida provided them with a packet that had a map of martha s vineyard, the numbers for different services on martha s vineyard. what we ve been able to do is show this border is a disaster. biden has failed on this as much or more than on any other policy, and now people are talking about it. the breaking news against donald trump. a brand-new court filing from the former president s lawyers hit the dockett. in it the legal team asked to keep in please a stop on the investigation of those documents seized from an fbi search warrant served at mar-a-lago. they called the doj probe, quote, misguided, and argue the justice department hasn t proven any of the documents taken from his mar-a-lago home are indeed classified. more on this new respon