World. This is early start, i m laura jarrett. Good morning, i m christine romans. It is thursday, june 3rd, it is 5:00 a. M. In new york. It looks like a new era may be dawning in israel, bargaining right down to the wire israeli opposition parties struck a new deal overnight setting up the exit of israel s longest serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Elliott gotkine is covering the developments in jerusalem. Elliott, opposition leaders got to their deal just 38 minutes before the final deadline. What happens now? reporter: it certainly went down to the wire. What happens right now is that there needs to be a vote of confidence in the israeli knesset or parliament. That vote needs to be called by the speakers of the knesset who happens to be from prime minister netanyahu s likud party. What looks likely at this stage is that on monday he will follow the rules and convene the vote which will happen a week later so june 14th. What this opposition bloc, this coalition in waiting, i
reporter: i wasn t trying to say you were supporting prigozhin. i m saying this development was extremely dangerous. do you at least admit that? he was 60 miles from their nuclear air base. the secretary said that instability in a major country is always a major concern. reporter: at the world s largest nuclear i answered the question. one more. kylie first. reporter: one thing that you mentioned sorry. you said the united states will continue sorry. the united states will continue to impose costs on wagner or its successor. is there any indication that wagner is setting up a successor organization? we ve noted the announcements by the ministry of defense that wagner forces are supposed to be absorbed into the ministry of defense. don t have any assessment of what will happen to the wagner group either in ukraine or elsewhere around the world, but whether it s wagner or a successor or any other organization that conducts the activity that is wagner has condu
territory claimed by russia have been liberated. on sunday ukrainian military commander clanld the army had retaken nearly 1200 square miles in two weeks. by monday the official number had doubled. translator: from the beginning of september until today our soldiers have already liberated more than 6,000 square kilometers of the territory of ukraine in the east and south. the movement of our troops continues. the drastic jump in the news is the fact journalists are being denied access to the front lines. u.s. officials refraining from putting out numbers. they say ukrainian soldiers have pushed the soldiers back. clearly we have seen them go on the offensive in the last couple of weeks and actually regain quite a bit of territory. again, i think i ll stay out of quantifying it in too much detail but they are actually taking territory back certainly over the last two weeks during the counter offensive positions. cnn s matthew chance has more from ukraine and russia.
lesser extent in the south down here. they ve gained even more ground in offensives. president zelenskyy claims they have recaptured some 6,000 square kilometers of territory. it s about 2,300 square miles since the beginning of the month. this is impossible to verify, but it is even more ground than the russians actually gained in the last several months and it happened fast. i want to show you this animation here, if we can zoom in. you can see the yellow there, how quickly ukrainian troops have recaptured territory that had been occupied by the russians. now russia is responding. ukrainian officials say russian strikes knocked out power in the region. in donetsk ukrainian forces also recaptured a town there after forces crossed the donetsk river. this here is the aftermath. the capture will further complicate any attempt by the remaining russian-backed forces to withdraw, and last night secretary of state tony blinken called the recent gains by ukrainians encouraging.
Ahead is what will happen in new york. new york was a key state in the last midterm election in 2022. republicans managed to run the table on key states, key districts, which is why they took back the house but will the lines change ahead of 2024? that s another major, major question, boris, all of which will have a huge impact on whether it s joe biden in the second term or a new republican president, boris. yeah, again, underscores the precarious position that house speaker mccarthy is in. manu raju from capitol hill, thank you very much. brianna. moments ago, vladimir putin will make important statements they called them this after a serious threat to his power in more than 20 years. we ll have more of that ahead on cnn news central.