has said her preference had always been for a negotiated solution but she warned the uk would not shy away from taking action. it s been reported that she will remove the border checks on goods arriving in northern ireland from the rest of the uk. veteran aljazeera correspondent shireen abu akleh has been shot dead while covering an israeli army raid in the occupied west bank. aljazeera says she was shot in the head by israeli forces injenin. israel says palestinian gunmen were also firing at the time, and have offered to carry out a joint investigation. video on social media suggests the palestinian reporter was wearing a flakjacket bearing the word press when she was killed. we know she was because our we know she was because own correspondent told us she was wearing a flakjacket. another journalist was wounded. journalist mujahed al saadi was there when the shooting happened, here s his account of what took place. translation: what happened was,
actively burning in the state and more than 6 tho,000 homes h been evacuated. federal government and fire crews from other states are helping to battle the blazes. we re learning of the apparent attack on a comedian david chappell, it happened tuesday while he was performing in hollywood. video on social media appears to show a person running on stage and tackling him. chappell didn t appear hurt and he later joked about the incident. police say that they took a man into custody and that he was armed with a gun and a knife. that does it here on cnn newsroom. our coverage continues on early start with christine romans.
these images were aired on russian state television. cnn is not in mariupol. we cannot confirm this report. ukrainian officials say remaining defenders in mariupol have now managed to link up and will fight until the end. and in the city of kharkiv, video on social media appears to show explosions in civilian areas from cluster munitions. the u.n. says such attacks may amount to war crimes. for weeks, ukraine s president has been pleading for heavier firepower from the u.s. and nato, and now washington appears to be coming through, announcing a new $800 million security package. notably it includes almost a dozen soviet era mi-17 helicopters which can be used as gunships. that s something volodymyr zelenskyy asked for specifically in a call with president biden on wednesday. also included, more howitzer cannons, switchblade drones, anti-tank missiles, armored personnel carriers, protective
over russian airspace and can drop leaflets on the people, as we thought about wars back before it is much more electronic now. and when you have the majority people still relying on television, and if you are on the outside don t have access to those airwaves, then trying to actually get information over to them and to win them over is going to be a really tough task. as vera said, social media, too, are being shutdown facebook, instagram and twitter. in fact, the facebook parent organisation, meta, is being designated an extremist organisation. and we also need to remember even those russians, younger ones, by and large, who are getting information on online sources and social media, that does not necessarily mean they re getting western information. it could be from russian sources themselves and from other pro russian outlets,
this is bbc news. the headlines: furtherfighting has been taking place outside the ukrainian capital, kyiv, where russian forces are around 25 kilometres from the centre of the city. british military intelligence believes those russian troops have been re grouping, possibly for a fresh offensive that could happen in the coming days. a senior ukrainian minister says around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of ukrainian cities on saturday almost twice the number who were able to get out the day before. but noone managed to leave the besieged port of mariupol blocked by russian forces. in iraq, the state news agency says the city of erbil has been hit by several missiles. video on social media shows several large explosions in the vicinity of the american consulate. no casualties were reported. erbil is the capital of the autonomous kurdish region in northern iraq.