real life drama for hollywood actors as contract talks collapse setting up a strike. plus president biden in finland to welcome one and eventually two nordic nations to the nato alliance. and federal prosecutors talk to the top elections official in michigan. what does she know about efforts to overturn the 2020 vote. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. we begin this morning with a developing story out of hollywood, california, where contract negotiations with the s.a.g. actors union and major studios and streamers broke down overnight. this sets the stage for hollywood s first big shutdown in more than six decades. union leaders say its national board will meet a few hours from now to formally authorize a strike. s.a.g. has about 160,000 members. if they go on strike, they would join hollywood screen writers who walked off the job in may. more on this coming up. but first president biden with a meeting of nordic leaders in finland this morning fo
ukraine fired after speaking out against putin s war. hear him in his own words. a truly remarkable audio recording that outfront has obtained showing putin s military in disarray tonight. plus, more breaking news. cnn learning about another official interviewed in the special counsel s probe into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. is jack smith closing in on a charging decision tonight? and kim jong un personally guiding north korea s latest missile launch, its longest missile flight ever, as we learn more about the growing influence of kim s sister. we have a special report on that coming up. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. a senior russian general fired for speaking out against putin s war. outfront tonight obtaining remarkable audio of a russian general in command of forces in southern ukraine right along that crucial front line near zaporizhzhia. the general says he was relieved of duty
london ahead on cnn newsroom ukraine s future is in nato. putin and its craven lust for land and power unleashes brutal war on ukraine. he was betting nato would break apart. he was betting nato would break. hottest temperatures of summer are coming up this weekend and in some places the hottest temperatures ever recorded. people s cars got flipped over, windows knocked out. people were screaming. this storm is really bad. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, june 13th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00 a.m. in helsinki. in the hours ahead, president zelenskyy will be meeting with authoriz nordic leaders and the finish president. and there they offered ukrainian president zelenskyy security guarantees and assurances but still no time line on joining the alliance. nic robertson is following developments and joins me now here in london with the latest. starting with what biden is doing today, he is in helsinki
correspondent chat pergram followed this all day and came to a head moments ago. good evening, chad. good evening bret. the house passed 217 to 215 and four gop defection and the bill wasn t ready to pass last night and nancy mace called the bill weak and she s a yes today. that s a pretty dramatic change and position. we had a very productive meeting because until then, a lot of us have not been included in the conversation so to get that commitment from him and working with us on balancing the budget and members force mccarthy to alter the bill in order to win their votes and one change moving up the date for healthy people to find work if they want to qualify for food aid. in the midnight seance that republicans conducted, mccarthy preserved tax breaks for ethanol, corn state members ballinged. we ll not allow balked. we ll not allow them to budget it on the back of american farmers. but tim burchette. we re increasing the debt $1.5 trillion over ten year
what appears to be the attempted assassination of the prime minister of slovakia. tonight we ll have the latest. what s behind the life threatening attack, by a man we now know is a political activist and poet? we ll be speaking to a former prime minister of slovakia. also tonight, president zelensky has cancelled foreign trips as ukrainian forces struggle to contain the new russian offensive. will the new american arms deal be enough? and this. you can tjust park people in an emergency department, just like a sort of dumping ground. this should be seen as a national disgrace. our exclusive investigation into nhs england s misnamed corridor care leaving patients often untended outside wards for hours. and the first interview with the brother of a british mexican national, on trial in qatar, who claims he was targeted for being gay, and that drugs were planted on him. alongside him, the mp leading efforts to have him repatriated. good evening. today we have witnessed the fir