hello, again, everyone. we begin with breaking news on ukraine. russia says it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal that it made and had gotten under way with ukraine. cnn s nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this? reporter: very significant. russia says it is withdrawing from this deal for an indefinite period. it agreed the deal brokered by the u.n. in a similar deal with ukraine back at the end of july. back then it was anticipated that this would allow all the grain that was backing up in ukrainian ports to get to all those hard-hit, third-world countries in desperate need of food supplies. anticipated that tons of grain could be shifted. the ukrainians said the russians have been dragging their feet. the russians are saying share not sure they woul with this grain deal. so far some 405 ships have been involved in the deal moving 9.1 million tons, which is less than half of what was originally anticipated. but what precipitated
newsroom . i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news in south korea where 59 people are dead and 150 others are hurt. that is in seoul, the capital. and it happened at a halloween festival. i want to show you some of the scene. we have to warn you this video is graphic. it is an incredibly chaotic scene. you can see people performing cpr on some of the victims on the scene. it is unclear what caused people to collapse in these kind of numbers. will ripley is at the keep. will, you re right there. this is just unbelievable what s occurred. what more can you tell us? when we arrived, people were on the phone, sobbing, calling their loved ones to let them know they were okay. that chaos has turned into a stunned sense of shock in the nightclub district of seoul where tens of thousands of people have come to celebrate halloween. they were packed so tightly into some of the side streets. in fact, the party that was happening was at a hotel just behind me. we a
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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.
will take immediate action to help people with the cost of their energy bills and i will be making an announcement on that tomorrow. and we ll report from pakistan and the deadly flooding there. officials the threat of the country s largest lake bursting its banks is receding. we start with the war in ukraine. the russian president vladimir putin says the sanctions imposed on russia following the invasion of ukraine represent the biggest current threat to the world economy. have a listen. translation: after the pandemic, different challenges arrived that have also been global in nature and pose a danger to the whole world. i m talking about the west s sanctions fever. its brazen and aggressive attempts to force others how to behave, deprive them of their sovereignty and force them into submission. there is nothing unusual about that. this policy has been used by the west for decades. the kremlin has repeatedly tried to downplay the effect of sanctions on its economy. with s