Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
. and officials in texas say that they are trying their best with the resources they have. processing migrants has become. but authorities in iceland are not ready to let people back into that you are homes just yet. we ll explain why. two georgian election workers have the green light to go after rudy giuliani s assets right away to collect their award. a judge in washington gave them the go-ahead on wednesday. that is after the former trump attorney was ordered to pay close to $150 million to two women who sued him for defamation over statements after the 2020 election. and as jessica schneider reports, the judge concluded some of giuliani s own claims don t add up. reporter: the judge in this case is really coming out with some scathing language against rudy giuliani in giving these plaintiffs the green light to start or try to start collecting anyway their $148 million right now. she s really criticizing rudy giuliani and his failure to really cooper
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it is the top of a very busy friday afternoon on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. the enter national criminal court issued an arrest warrant for vladamir putin today. the charge, related to deporting thousands of ukrainian children from occupied territories of ukraine into russia. a warrant is also out for the official under putin who is believed to have led to the forced adoptions, you see her in this photo with putin. ukraine reports at least 16,000 children have been forced to live in russia since putin s war in ukraine began. the kremlin calls the warrant outrageous and unacceptable, volodymyr zelenskyy says this will lead to historic responsibility. joining us now is the president of the international criminal court, judge piotr hofmanski. judge, thank you for joining us today. so i want to read from the icc statement here in your ruling. it states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that mr. putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementione
counterpart railed against the west, and the russian president once again accused the west of escalating the conflict. he also announced russia is now suspending its participation in the start nuclear arms reduction treaty. phil mattingly is in warsaw for us. phil, tell us what the u.s. reaction was specifically to the news from vladimir putin that he was going to suspend his participation in the new start treaty? it was a split screen, not one that was planned. that state of the nation address framed everything the president detailed in his lengthy remarks in warsaw. when it comes to what president putin said about the new start treaty, u.s. officials were quick to respond that it would be irresponsible and compliance wise, russia has not been fully comp compliant over the last few years, and so there s gray area here, middle ground, but it underscores what is the dissolving of the u.s. and russia relationship, and the result of russia s invasion of ukraine, it s a central