Connection beginning with the gops nonstop attacks on our democracy. Unlike when we watched the nation of a mob of trump supporters attempt to overturn a democratic election on January 6th, dont be fooled. Today those efforts continue to thwart democracy. Theyre still happening but theyre unfolding in slow motion. This time not only through violence but through policy as well. Now across 14 states republicans have enacted 22 new laws this year that restrict access to the ballot. Thats according to the brennan center for justice. Its not just bills. Gop lawmakers from pennsylvania are calling for an audit of the states 2020 ballots and this is inspired by the ongoing audit happening in arizona. And in texas republicans nearly passed Senate Bill 7 on sunday which gives judges the ability to cancel any Election Result based on Nothing But Hearsay from partisan pole watchers. It does other awful things too. Democrats were able to temporarily block the passage of this bill by literally walk
Hello, and thanks forjoining us. President biden has ordered a review of intelligence about where the covid 19 outbreak originated from. It follows renewed speculation in america that the virus leaked from a laboratory in the city of wuhan. The World Health Organization is preparing further studies into its origins having previously said it was highly improbable to have come from a lab. But china has accused the us of Playing Politics with coronavirus. Heres our china correspondentjohn sudworth. For more than a year, the theory that the virus leaked from this Wuhan Laboratory has largely been dismissed as a conspiracy. The invisible enemy, the china virus. The theory s association with Donald Trump made it for manyjust one more piece of disinformation. But in the mouth of President Biden, well, that feels different, and suddenly the worlds media are taking it seriously. Well, i think its very important because it will feed into. A welcome change for those long trying to argue that all
united states. happy fourth of july. pr i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead a 40-year-old male opened fire shooting as many as 50 shots on this block. unfortunately you have six victims here. but it could have been more. we only have launched the comprehensive action against terrorist strongholds. it is a crucial part of the strategy of trying to show not omg only his people that he is still in control. and the concern is that russia and china will try to make this an anti west bloc. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, july 4th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in philadelphia where investigators are searching for a motive. five people are dead after a gunman opened fire along several blocks of the southwest side. two children are also in the hospital with injuries. and wpvi has the latest from the scene. reporter: two children ages 2 and 13 luckily in table condition but they were also s
he s in brussels at the nato defense minister s meeting. we ll get that on air momentarily. the white house saying there s no u.s. surveillance aircraft in chinese airspace. some careful wording perhaps in that statement from john kirby at the white house despite china s insistence that we have been doing surveillance in their airspace. they said there s been ten balloons in their airspace. that idea was vehemently denied by admiral kirby just moments ago from the white house. despite the fact, remember this navy video. there s this discussion about extra terrestrials, what are these things. i ll take you back to this video that was released in april of 2020. what is that little white floating thing that they called a tic tac at that time. now we go back to these videos. raises a lot of questions about what is up there, what is out there. they see no evidence that these aerial objects are alien or extra terrestrial bodies. meanwhile, communications with china have gone cold f
continues, the bank of england is forced to step in again. let s start with the war in ukraine we ve seen a second day of russian missile strikes across the country. have a look at this map. it shows all the places that have been hit since monday morning. we ll take a closer look at the damage done in a moment. but first, let s look at the international response. an emergency meeting of g7 leaders that s the group of rich countries has warned russia that irresponsible nuclear rhetoric is threatening global peace. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, had this message. translation: i ask you to increase yourjoint efforts to help financially to create the air shield for ukraine. millions of people will be grateful to the group of seven. now this is the statement issued by the g7 after its meeting. these pictures released earlier by the russian ministry of defence show a little of what s been going on. more cruise missiles launched what they describe as a massive