hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster. he s likely meeting with leaders on tuesday, setting up another showdown on debt limits. we shouldn t be here. the united states border patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters. this is not a democrat or republican problem. this is an american problem. master of the optics. standing with all of the european leaders, ukraine taking its place in the european bloc. live from london, this is cnn newsroom. with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, may the 15th. 9:00 a.m. here in the uk where ukraine s president zelenskyy is meeting with the prime minister, mr. zelenskyy is fresh off a weekend of stops at european capitals to meet with other key allies. france and germany publicly pledged addition al military ai. the uk s package will include air defense missiles and air attack with a range of 200
invaded another country since world war ii nothing like that has happened. things have changed radically and we have to milwaukee sure we change them back. president joe biden once again promising to protect eastern europe against russian aggression. it comes as vladimir putin pulls out of a nuclear arms treaty. plus the forewoman for the georgia grand jury on election interference has been getting a lot of face time this week, and her media tour may add some complications to the investigation itself. and also ahead tim scott s not so subtle stop in iowa, and when the south carolina senator might make a decision on a presidential campaign. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden is back at the white house this morning following a historic and successful trip to eastern europe. yesterday the president met with the leaders from the eastern flank of nato, a gro
reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it s unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there s a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it s important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and today
it s newsday. hi singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there. thank ou for it s newsday. hi there. thank you for being it s newsday. hi there. thank you for being with it s newsday. hi there. thank you for being with us. - it s newsday. hi there. thank you for being with us. if- you for being with us. if you re just you for being with us. if you rejustjoining us, here s a quick update on the latest developments on the israel gaza war. forthe developments on the israel gaza war. for the first time since the conflict broke out, more than 400 foreign passport holders and injured palestinians have been allowed to leave gaza. the rafah border crossing, in the south of gaza, until today had only been opening to allow humanitarian aid for palestinians in. elsewhere, there s been another big air strike onjabalia in northern gaza, which israel has declared an evacuation zone. this, a day after an israeli attack killed dozens of peo
..this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. presidentjoe biden has hailed the diplomatic breakthrough that allowed the first civilians to leave gaza after weeks of being trapped by the conflict. dozens of injured palestinians and hundreds of foreign nationals have been allowed to go. they entered egypt by the rafah crossing on the border, with the injured being treated at field hospitals there. the foreign office says the first british nationals have crossed and more will be taken out in stages over the coming days. people have been trapped in gaza since israel tightened its siege just over three weeks ago after it was attacked by hamas which is classed as a terrorist organisation by the uk and other governments. and in northern gaza, there s been another air strike onjabalia, a day after an israeli attack killed dozens of people at the refugee camp there. israel says its forces killed another hamas commander in the latest strike but un human