Fleet men s multivitamin absolutely free text. Now hello former president questions kamla houses, crowd size, while the vice president hopes to keep building on the momentum of her campaign. And paris bids they ll due to the summer games with a star studded closing, so ceremony and hands off the olympic torch to los angeles, hollywood star live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church have you with us and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east as israel braces for a possible attack from iran and the iranian backed militia group hezbollah us defense secretary lloyd austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the region. A message of deterrence to iran and its proxies. Cnn, political and foreign policy analyst barak ravid, reports that according to a source, israeli defense minister yoav gallant told austin that iran appears to be preparing for a large scale attack tensions were only heightened sunday night after israel says about 30 rockets were launche
Cnn breaking news hello, and welcome to cnn newsroom. I m lynda thank we re following breaking news. The political leader of hamas ismail haniah, was reportedly killed in tehran. That s according to iranian state media, which cites the country s islamic revolutionary guard corps. You can see him here earlier today meeting with iran s president just before the president s inauguration. Of course, he attended that in any met with the supreme leader of iran in a statement, hamas claims that hania was killed in a quote, zionist raid on his residence in tehran. After that ceremony there s no official word from the israeli military when asked for comment, only a brief statement saying, quote, they don t respond to reports in the foreign media. Idea was a longtime member of hamas joining in the late 1980s and rising through the ranks over the years before becoming the groups political chief in 2017, i m going to go live now to haifa, israel, and cnn s jeremy diamond. Of course, this hamas lea
russian military. and i am michael holmes here at cnn s world headquarters in atlanta, are we re following an attempted twitter takeover by the world s richest man, elon musk. we begin with what looks to be a major victory for ukraine s military and huge blow to the russian navy with the sinking of the flagship of russia s black sea naval fleet. russia news agency tass reports the guided missile cruiser sank before being towed to port after a major fire on board. ukrainian fighters say the ship was hit by two neptune missiles. it is certainly plausible and possible that they, in fact, did hit this with a neptune missile or maybe more. i mean, the neptune has a range that would have certainly been able to reach the moskva, which was about 60-65 miles off the coast of odesa. so certainly, within the realm of possibility there. meantime, russia is adding command and control and aviation capabilities to forces in the east as it prepares for a major offensive to take part
world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn news room, a legal case involving former president donald trump is once again headed to court in the coming hours. we will look at which mar-a- lago employee is caught up in it. and how donald trump is reportedly paying for his mounting legal costs. the hottest month on record is finally comeing to a close. we will look at where there is relief in sight from the blistering temperatures baking much of the united states. and dozens were killed and many more wounded after a suspected suicide bombing in pakistan. we ll go live for the latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us, well, the coming hours, we ll see a little known employee of donald trump in federal court as part of the criminal case against the former president and republican candidate for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. carlos deolivere is a property manager at mar-a-lago accused of making false
breaking news this hour, the u.s. ant britain going after militants backed and funded by iran. not long ago, iran condemned the strikes calling them a violation of international law. and russia has requested an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council later today. the coalition strikes are a direct response to the worsening surge of attacks on ships in the red sea from houthi. many of the houthi launches have been intercepted by the u.s. led coalition that had been playing defense until now. american fighter jets have been taking off from the uss dwight d eisenhower aircraft carrier to carry out their mission. the u.s. president issued this statement. these targeted strikes are a clear message that the united states will not allow attacks on ore personnel or imperil freedom of navigation. i will not hesitate to take further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary. we are also hearing from the pentagon. we reserve the rig