nonmerit requests we found a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned over to the archives and the justice department. fully cooperating to get this resolved quickly. think you ll find there s nothing there i have no regrets i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me too do. it s exactly what we are doing. there s no there there picasso made out for merger attorney general of the united states, michael, judge thanks so much for coming in. at the top hear what he think of that answer? there is no they are, therefore the president. was not what theirs was to learn special counsel investigation? what s with all due respect there s a plenty there. because the documents were founs were found in an unauthorized place. they were there for several years. they were taken from the white house and placed in on the other unauthorized place for the first place they were founded not open till february 2018. there were some of them the highest
here in the uk, 2022 saw the highest number of excess deaths outside the covid pandemic in half a century. and france tries again to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. it s an unpopular reform that didn t go well last time it tried. we ll be live in paris. we start in ukraine. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine s army is facing an extremely difficult situation as fighting continues in the eastern donbas region. the focus is the salt mining town of soledar. the uk defence ministry says it s likely that russian forces including wagner group mercenaries now control most of the town. we ll be taking a look at why it s become central to this conflict. but first, here s president zelensky. translation: and what did russia want to win there? i everything is completely destroyed. there was almost no life left. thousands of their people are gone, the whole land in soledar is covered with the corpses of the invaders and scarred from the strikes. this is what madness loo
just ahead. we will continue to bring gas prices down. they know the economy remains top of mind for voters. the president. hi, bob. my whole life has been deals. it is trump unvarnished, blunt, profane. it will not surprise you that he attacks people he doesn t like. we haven t seen something like this in new york city for nearly a century. these are human beings being shipped all over. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, october the 19th. 9 a.m. in london. 4 a.m. in washington. in the coming hours u.s. president joe biden will address voter anxiety over energy prices less than three weeks ahead of the mid-term election. mr. biden is expected to announce that 15 million barrels of oil will be released from the u.s. strategic petroleum reserve in an effort to ease oil prices. it s at the lowest level since the 1980s. despite gas prices going down, crude prices have been rising after opec plus announced plan