level of decorum as a former prosecutor and not do that but edge time will tell. >> reporter: and local agencies have arrested 300 as you expected drug dealers over the last three months. but is it making a difference in the quality of life for the people that live and work here? according to those we've spoken with, not yet. back to you. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i'm fredricka whitfield. striking automakers are coming face to face today. the strike is in its third full day. today's talks are expected to be with ford and general motors. the uaw said it had and i'm quoting now reasonably productive talks when it met with ford yesterday. and for the first time ever workers are striking at plants from gm, ford and stelantis all at the same time. workers say they want pay and benefits after rough times for the history. the car makers say despite big profits, the raises demanded would drive them out of business. we go to a plant in wayne, michigan. vanessa, moments ago you spoke with house leader hakeem jeffries, who were at the plant today and what did he say? >> it's good news that you have ford and gm back at the negotiating table, stellantis saying they're getting back to the table tomorrow. the union has rejected the offers of 20% wage increases by the big three. but there's been sort aof a rotating cast and we just saw hakeem jeffries inside the local union hall speaking to workers and then out here on the picket line i had a conversation with him just moments ago. take a listen. the union has really not backed down from their demand. the negotiations are all about compromise. do you think they have to compromise a little bit to get the deal done? >> as president obama indicated, uaw workers bailed out these companies. they are around today because of the sacrifices made by the uaw and it's time that the uaw benefit from the fruits of their labor and their sacrifice. >> reporter: you've already seen some of the big three have to idle workers and lay off workers as a result of these targeted strikes. i wonder, are you concerned at all -- i know you're here in support of these folks on the picket lines but are you concerned at all about the economic impact on the industry, on the economy, especially as folks are still grappling with high inflation. >> there's pain and sacrifice involved in any righteous struggle and this is a struggle that isr righteous and lifting p the dreams fors they future uaw workers is a critical fight and it will raise the bar all across america. that's why you're seeing so much support and solidarity across the country. >> reporter: we also asked hakeem jeffries whether he thought it was a good idea that biden administration were sending two senior level officials to town to try to help with negotiations considering the uaw and the big three have made it clear they don't really want administration intervention. he said only time will tell. he said he was here on his own personal time because he wanted to support these workers, these two officials coming to town in the next week or so to try to move these negotiations forward, to try to get these companies and the union to come to a deal. as we know, the uaw president saying he will target more plants across the country if he feels like negotiations are not moving forward. >> thanks so much for that update. now to the white house where president biden has just returned after spending the weekend in wilmington, delaware. l later on today biden will travel to new york city for this year's united nations general assembly. he's scheduled to deliver a speech on tuesday there and the next day he will be meeting on the sidelines with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this will be the first time the two have met since netanyahu returned to office in december. arlette, what do we expect for this week? >> reporter: president biden will meet with the world leaders at the u.n. general assembly, a yearly tradition. it comes at a time the president histories to stress his alliance of the office. the president is expected to talk about america's leadership on the world stage and the need for countries to work to the. that's something we heard when he traveled to lithuania over the summer. and the president is also set to have a number of leader meetings, including with the presidents of kazakhstan and uzbekistan and meeting with the unsecreta u.n. secretary-general. but on wednesday he'll sit down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. there had been some questions about whether there would be any type of meeting, especially as the biden administration and the president have expressed concerns over the judicial reforms that netanyahu's government has been trying to make. ultimately they decided to have the two leaders long-time allies to sit down on the sidelines at the u.n. he will be meeting with the president of brazil on wednesday and then on thursday he will host ukrainian president volo volodymyr zelenskyy at the white house. it comes at a critical time as the president is trying to get additional aid for ukraine passed up on capitol hill, but he's running into resistance from many house republicans. so that is potentially an item that will be discussed over the course of the week as the president is continuing to try to drum up support for ukraine as that war continues. >> arlette saenz at the white house, thanks so much. and before that white house meeting ukrainian president zelenskyy will meet with u.s. senators on capitol hill this thursday. he's trying to secure their support for more aid and the form of ammunition and weapons. this comes as congress is deciding whether to fund additional aid in russia's war against ukraine. nato's secretary-general is warning there may not be a quick end to this war and the international community needs to be prepared for that. cnn's senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen properties from kyiv. >> reporter: the ukrainians certainly believe they have a little bit of momentum going on. they say they're consolidating some of the gains they've made in the east of the country around bakhmut, approximately south of bakhmut. there was some pretty remarkable video that came out from the ukrainian forces showing them advancing through the settlement and the place can probably be described as looking like a moon scape with the utter destruction that we see there. certainly the houses that we can see on that video absolutely reduced to rubble. the ukrainians also saying, the ones operating in that area, the russians are now firing a lot of artillery towards that place, trying to stop the ukrainians from advancing any further. nevertheless the ukrainians say for them this is a very important tactical gain they've made. of course it's also important for ukraine's president as he's about to head to the united states to go to the u.n. general assembly and to speak with president biden as well. and the ukrainians say for them, they obviously want more longer range weapons from the u.s. and its partners, but they also say that immediately they need a lot more ammunition, especially artillery ammunition and ammunition for the high mars. we were able to speak to the deputy of defense of this country and she told us there are areas on the front lines where the russians are able to fire ten projectiles for every one that the ukrainians can fire so a big mismatch as the ukrainians are trying to advance. nevertheless, kyiv says by and large they believe their counteroffensive while a lot slower than many had predicted and certainly a lot slower than they would hope for, they believe there is a degree of success because the ukrainians are the ones putting pressure on the russians across the front line while the russians are on the defensive, fredricka. >> fred plighteitgen, thank you much. details about meetings are slim but as the war in ukraine drags on, russia is thought to be in desperate need of ammunition and shells. and it's reported that kim jong un was gifted a bullet-proof vest, a set of drones and special clothing that cannot be defected by thermal imaging cameras. it's been over a year since the russian invasion of ukraine and millions who fled have yet to return to their home country. christianne amanpour meets with a group suffering with survivors guilt as their families remain on the front lines. >> i'm getting very, very emotional. >> reporter: just watching? 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>> reporter: very sad story, a deputy on duty, in uniform, very close to where he worked, about 60 miles north of los angeles, in palmdale. he was just 30 years old and he was found unconscious inside of his car. the sheriff saying it was a good samaritan that found the deputy and alerted authorities. he was taken to the hospital but later found dead. the sheriff is saying many, many law enforcement agencies in this area have offered support and saying he is going to use all the resources available to find the person responsible. here's what the sheriff said. >> he was just driving down the street and for no apparent reason, somebody decided to shoot and murder him, i'm assuming a the this point because he was in uniform. that to me is sickening. >> reporter: so again, they're doing everything they can to ask for the public's help in finding the person responsible, they're asking for videos for any information so they can get closer to the person that did this. this is an officer that was not just 30 years old but he had gotten engaged just four days ago. it was something that of course has destroyed his family, who serves in law enforcement, both his father and grandfather served at the same sheriff's department. so of course this is a department that is now grieving and extremely heart broken by this loss. i also want to point out this is not the first time this happens. just three years ago here in l.a., there are two sheriff deputies ambushed and killed while in their patrol car waiting at a train station. it's also not the first time this happens nationwide, according to the fraternal order of police, there have been 83 ambush style attacks on law enforcement just this year in 2023. they say of those attacks, 101 officers were shot and 15 of them fatally, fred. >> horrible. keep us posted as you learn more information. we'll be right back. with hairspray that flexes with you. new tresemmé hairspray. at mint mobile, we like to do the opposite of what big wireless does. they charge you a lot. we charge you a little. they put their namesn arenas. we put ours on my lower back. so nurally when they announced they'd be raising theiprices due inflation, we decided to deflate our prices due to not hating you. and if this were one of their ads, they'd end it here with a "happy customer". so we'll end ours with an angry goat. oh h-ho, look at the angry goat. ♪ with wet amd, sometimes i worry my world is getting smaller because of my sight. but now, i can open up my world with vabysmo. vabysmo is the first fda-approved treatment for people with wet amd that improves vision and delivers a chance for up to 4 months between treatments. which means doing more of what i love. ♪ vabysmo is the only treatment designed to block 2 causes of wet amd. vabysmo is an eye injection. don't take it if you have an infection or active swelling in or around your eye, or are allergic to it or any of its ingredients. treatments like vabysmo can cause eye infection or retinal detachment. vabysmo may cause a temporary increase in eye pressure after receiving the injection. although uncommon, there is a potential risk of heart attack or stroke associated with blood clots. open up your world! a chance for up to 4 months between treatments with vabysmo. ask your doctor. we handcraft every stearns & foster® using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam, and ultra-conforming innersprings, for a beautiful mattress, and indescribable comfort. for a limited time, save up to $800 on select stearns & foster® adjustable mattress sets. here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. welcome back. with the entertainment world's writer strike now in its fourth month, some daytime shows including drew barrymore's shows were set to return last week. now after a lot of backlash, drew's show will be postponed. she shared the announcement today saying the show is on pause until the strike is over. "the talk" was also set to premiere tomorrow but now says plans for a new launch date are also being evaluated. what is going on? cnn senior entertainment rep reporter lesia france joins me now. a writer's strike is ongoing, they need writers, even though they said they were going to go on with writing. drew barrymore took a lot of heat. >> so much backlash. she said i take full responsibility, she didn't want to hide behind p.r. on friday she comes forward with a lot of emotional video and she was choked up. the video was mocked so widely on social media that it was deleted and now she came back and said they're just not going to do the show. you say you're not going to have any writers on your show, at least they're not going to run afoul of the rules, so you have to either hire non-union writers or have no writers. that was not good enough for them at all. they feel everything should come to a standstill while they work out this strike. >> many of the striking writers felt like that would undermine their cause, if you were to even make those kinds of concessions or adaptations in order for the show to go on. but one of the other day time shows, "the view" has been able to go on and we haven't seen the same kind of backlashs are even though whoopi and some of the co hosts say regularly i'm reading notes from my colleague over here who wrote this, they're not proceeding with writers, why is there different treatment? >> i think one has to do with the fact that drew pulled out from hosting an mtv awards show. if you're going to pull out of that, why do you move forward with your own show? to be fair, we don't node what kin -- know what kind of deals were made with her local talk show. we only know what we've been told. drew barrymore rubbed some people the wrong way and they felt like her coming out with this emotional video really are really upset people. a lot of people said they didn't think it was genuine and she's an actress is what i saw a lot on twitter. it feels that she can do not right. >> i was talking to a critic and writer yesterday, why are people so upset? he was like a lot of us just really like her and we were so disappointed in her approach here. so now i wonder even if there was a schedule to get back on the air this week and now there's a postponement or pause, is there going to be a regrouping of whether she might ever be able to successfully relaunch her show, even perhaps after the strike is over? 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why wait until you're announcing a retirement in which to do so? wouldn't it be the braver and more admirable things to do, to do those things while you're in office? >> >> yes, and i think he has been. since serving for utah in the senate, he's been the only republican to vote to convict former president trump a few years ago. as i write in a piece on cnn opinion, this is something i've always known of him. i've worked very closely with him for the better part of a decade. i've gotten the chance to know him very well. he's someone i believe who has always been guided fundamentally by what's the right thing to do here? so this will not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed mitt romney's career and i think what we're going to see over the coming 16 months is an extension and continuation of what he's been doing in office. >> you wrote a piece calling his retirement a grand finale and predicted he could really make a difference in the remainder of his term. and you're right, more specifically that he's never shy to do what he feels is right. in his final months in the senate, romney will be even more unencumbered, untroubled by a future election campaign or the need to maintain asem blens of party unity. his grand finale could be among the most consequential moments of a storied career. do you see he will essentially make a pledge or he'll make it his mission to i guess try to make sure trump is not back in office, like say cheney or christie had done? >> i think he's made it very clear where he stands on the former president. i think he is going to work as hard as he can to make sure that the republican party, the republican nominee is someone who isn't former president trump. i think the reality is something he's admitted a lot, that the former president is in control of this nominating race at this point. it looks likely that he will be the nominee. i think more on the issues, fred, that's where we're going to find his leadership. one great example is on entitlement reform where all republicans said we're not going to do anything about medicare and social security. he's essentially said we can't have that position, it's not sustainable. i think you're going to see on the key issues he cares about like the debt, how we continue to deal with challenges from china. climate change. that's something no one talks about. mitt romney will take a leadership position on those issues and that will be refreshing to people around the country, republicans or democrats. >> romney is going to be 86. he called on others to make way for the next generation. when he pressed on what have you done to help the next generation and how do you train up and he promised to go to college campuses and help people to pursue a life of public service or become more politically engaged. do you see that he will be able to, i guess, kind of train up the next generation? you know, how much stock or confidence does he have really in the next generation of political leaders? >> well, he talked about passing the baton, and he knows it's going to be incumbent on him in part to make sure he's continuing to mentor and help people who want to walk this path of public service and to walk it in a way that he has. i ran for office last here in california and i did it in part inspired by his example. it's something that i think is very powerful. so i hope that he continues to try and do that. but at the end of the day, he has got to be somebody who leads by example and he recognizes and understands that and so talking to people, cultivating others to lead, cultivating others to step into this void that's going to be left, i think those are things he takes very seriously and i know they are things he going to be committed to in the u.s. senate. it doesn't mean he'll stop engjie engaging with the political system or have leaders that he believes are important. >> thanks very much for being with us. >> good to see you. >> up next, dozens of children fathered by u.n. personnel were left behind in haiti. now their mothers want justice. when cnn hero mike ball learned about the thousands of children in detention centers, he decided to start a songwriting program to help kids process their traumas. >> thinking being in a position where nobody has really cared what you feel. instead now you talk about what you feel and a whole bunch of people go, yeah! it's life changing. we can plant a seed of confidence in that child of self-confidence and self-worth that is just so powerful. >> to get an inside look at this songwriting program and hear more of their songs, go to cnnhec cnnheros.com. we'll be right back. 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[ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: she has a teenage daughter who was fathered by a uruguayan peacekeeper. she says she is at least one of 35 women who were in exploitative or abusive relationships with u.n. personnel. peace is something this mother says she has never known. she has filed a paternity claim but argues the u.n. should be held accountable as well. she says she has been left to raise a daughter on paltry sums authorized by the u.n. [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: rosmina says she was a child when she was lured into a relationship with another uruguayan peacekeeper and became pregnant. he was sent home and served a sentence for abuse. that's according to a u.n. document. but rosmina wanted us to see her home, a place where she says dreams once stood. a plot for a house. still, a barren foundation. she has no money to build here. she lives on this patch of land in nothing more than a tent, clinging to proof and staking her claim that the u.n. is also responsible for the harm done to her and her 12-year-old son. >> do you think he understood that you were a child? [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: rosmina says while her abuser was punished, that does not absolve the u.n. of its responsibility. we sat down with a half dozen families, some of whom have received money, mostly for schooling. but all had the same complaint, that they were made to feel like beggars, not victims of exploitation, made to wait years for little money that does not meet the needs of their children. [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: this woman says she and her son have been victimized all over again, first fighting for paternity tests, then financial support, submitting receipts for expenses to the u.n., waiting months or years for money that arrives sporadically or not at all. if money is granted, the u.n. decides how she should spend it. [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: by the u.n.'s own admission, allegations of exploitation and abuse have been a predictable problem in u.n. missions around the world. in 2017, the u.n. secretary-general launched what he called a new approach, pledging zero tolerance for future abusers. and he appointed jane connors as the u.n.'s first victims' rights advocate. her expertise is matched by a fierce will to help. but she acknowledges the limitations of the u.n. system. >> the u.n. doesn't provide compensation, and the u.n. is in a position to essentially create cooperation with a member state in order to reach the desired objective. i would love to see more progress, but i think you can't -- you can't argue that there's been no progress. >> reporter: connors says the u.n. has helped with school fees, some medical expenses, and assisted with some paternity claims at the behest of an initiative from the secretary-general. >> i think we have made some progress with regard to the children going to school, with regard to some of the paternity claims that have been resolved. some are ongoing. but we have much more to do. >> reporter: it has been six years since the united nations and the secretary-general himself pledged to make the rights and dignity of victims a priority. >> that was 2017. >> mm-hmm. >> how far do you think you've gotten with that? >> the commitment is there. we're improving, but it is -- it remains his imperative, and i think, as i say, more is to be done. >> reporter: what needs to be done, these women say, is simple. no strings attached financial support. they say that will restore their dignity and allow their children a measure of accountability that the u.n. has so far failed to provide. paula newton, cnn, port sa lieu, haiti. i'm fredricka whitfield. the "cnn newsroom" continues with jim acosta right now.