rescuing again. i ll ask one of the people who was at the center of the storm the last time around, the former ceo of goldman sachs lloyd blankfein about whether the system is stable, and is your bank account safe? also, how did it come to this? did we learn the wrong lessons the last time? i ll talk to julian tet of the financial times. then don t mess with the french people s retirement plans. that s the lesson from weeks of strikes and protests and then chaos in parliament as the government pushed through their policy anyway. [ speaking non-english ] which brought the outrage right back to the streets. we ll tell you what you need to know. but first, here s my take. on his trip to saudi arabia last year president biden made an emphatic declaration about u.s. policy in the middle east. he said we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia or iran. last week s reproachment between saudi arabia and iran brokered by china suggests that th
days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been destroyed. that there were ruins of buildings being demolished and much of the city was also empty because ukrainians has fled. putin was shown meeting a couple of people who were living in what were described as newly constructed apartment buildings. those people thanked putin for their new homes saying they had had nothing before that. and we ve been hearing some pre
prices for the american people. the white house projects optimism despite soaring inflation. the impacts costs are having on american s wallets and some summer staples. republican senator john cornan booed at a conference. where those negotiations stand now. a mega drought in the united states causing big problems for america s farmers. are we going to have water in two or three years out of our aqua nobody can say that. newsroom starts right now. it is so good to have your company here this morning. it s saturday, june 18th. i m christie paul. good morning. good to be with you. i m boris sanchez. after months of waiting the moderna and pfizer vaccines could get the green light as the cdc advisors get ready to vote on authorization in the next few hours. the white house pledged to have 10 million vaccine doses available says depending on today s vote, shots for kids under 5 could begin as soon as next week. this would mark a major smile stone for many parent
recommend the pfizer or moderna covid-19 vaccines for kids between 6 months and 5 years old. a decision expected in just about an hour. if approved, the white house says vaccinations could begin for young children as early as next week. and many states are already preordering doses. cnn miguel marquez is following the developments so miguel, what is happening right now? well, they are meeting. they re about half way through today s presentation. they ve been going through trying to figure out and discussing how this would actually happen, what providers would be putting these shots into arms, how they deal with the ten-dose vile and how they ll actually roll out these vaccinations also going through all the data with the two vaccines in question here. this is a population of about 20 million americans, the youngest most vulnerable americans, the latest and biggest last traunch o trunch of americans to be eligible. two vaccines looking at moderna and pfizer, slightly diffe
artillery. we don t know how many people died there. that s part of why the outrage is so extreme right now. that the president of russia conducted what the critics are calling basically a propaganda tour. while where is the russian government is trying to show that it is starting to rebuild some of this city. fredrica. all right. quite extraordinary. ivan watson, thank you so much. putin s trip to ukraine comes before china s president planned visit to moscow. salina wang looks at why it s a high stakes meeting. reporter: china s leader flies to moscow to meet with russian president vladimir putin. his first visit since russia invaded ukraine. it s a powerful show of his bold and diplomatic ambitions and his support for moscow.