million strong population is in dire need of humanitarian assistance. aid agencies can t get to them. diseases are rife. what are you and others trying to do to help them? thank you for having me. this war is entering its ten months with no end in sight. we are passing through probably the worst humanitarian crisis in the recent history of the country, with displacement, refugees, loss of life, shortage of everything food, medicine, shelter. ..destruction of infrastructure, property. ..collapse of the economy, collapse of the state. the un organisations like ocha, the who, unhcr. ..put the death toll atabout 13,000. ..which is a very conservative estimate, injuries, about 33,000. i think that this is far much higher than that. and i would like to believe we might spend years to be able to know the exact figure. as you said, there is huge displacement, over 11 million displaced refugees, around two million scattered all over the region. egypt hosting the highest number of re
alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. i do especially think president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and he was all in. he was all in. kevin mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump s house. built on the backs of trump s republican acolytes whose jobs depend on the support of donald trump s own base. but dynamics that were on display during a four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in the six months since. the chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the cou
america s newsroom. the charges stem from the mishandling of confidential documents. bill: there are at least seven counts. among them obstruction and conspiracy. sandra: he is ordered to appear in federal court tuesday in miami. meanwhile trump s allies and attorneys are blasting these charges as politically motivated. i will say if the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what joe biden is trying to do tonight. we don t have a republic anymore. i can also say that there is a two tier system of justice we re seeing right now. when your name is donald trump and leading in the polls you will get hit hard and indicted until you can t take it anymore. this is a pattern of the f.b.i. not investigating anything with respect to biden. bill: on that last point, all of this unfolding as bribery allegations grow louder against the sitting president. the f.b.i. finally allowing members of congress to view a document at the center of what s
newton. while negotiators race to reach a debt limit deal. the impact on sbmall business owners,sh they re message is simple, get a deal done. and filling your tank compared to this time last year and what s behind the change. republican governor ron desantis on the offensive, and there are clear signs that the gloves will be coming off now that he s officially running for the white house. announcer: live in cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so the white house and republicans could be on the brink of reaching a deal that would allow the united states to keep paying its bills. negotiators have been hammering out the details in late-night talks and a source tells cnn that an agreement on raising the debt ceiling could come as soon as today. even a deal is reached it still, remember, has to pass both houses of congress to avert a financial disaster. manu raju has our report. the clock is now ticking, june 5th. the new date to avoid the first ever de
russia resorts to pictures of rubble to convince the public to get behind the war. the treasury department warning it has $39 billion left in cash as of tonight. yellen moves the dead ceiling deadline. an update to a story we told you about. $2 million and jail time after a chinese comedian made a comment about the communist party. wait until you see tonight. let s go out front. good evening. an aggressive strike. new video tshowing thick smoke what is believed to be a steel plant in mariupol. ukraine hit the city with two missiles. this is tactical but hugely symbolic in terms of a strike. this is where ukrainian troops were in the deadly standoff for russian forces for weeks last year. mariupol is even important staging ground for russian forces in southern ukraine. it s crucial. there s a flow of russian military convoys. a ukrainian strike changes the game. in russia, staid imte media is something new. i want to show you the drone video. this is from bakhmut. it is