hello, and welcome to our viewers, joining us in the us and from all around the world. i, max foster, just the head, was nightmare me, but border if you would like to know if our elections are democratic or not. i think they are democratic vladimir putin claims the superiority of russia s political system over what, over that of the united states as the results of russia s election, surprised pretty much no one. israel s prime minister slams comments by the top us senator calling for new election in his country. it is the white house pushes for a ceasefire amid the humanitarian crisis in gaza and republicans defend former president trump s latest controversial remarks on the campaign trail analysis on the likely trump-biden he for the white house live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster what we begin this out. in russia where vladimir putin is calling for national unity as the country wraps up a presidential election that certain to deliver him a mas
full fledged invasion in february last year or in 2022, most experts feared last year or in 2022, most experts feared that last year or in 2022, most experts feared that russia would control the key feared that russia would control the key kyiv feared that russia would control the key kyiv within days and all of you can key kyiv within days and all of you can weeks. the reality is that the ukrainians were able to push lrack the ukrainians were able to push back the the ukrainians were able to push back the russian forces and they have back the russian forces and they have liberated 50% of the territory that russia occupied at the beginning of the war. they have enabled beginning of the war. they have enabled to inflict heavy losses on the russian armed forces, more than 300 casualties, thousands of armed vehicles 300 casualties, thousands of armed vehicles have been destroyed and hurrdreds vehicles have been destroyed and hundreds of planes. this i
i m sara marie and washington whitfield with this breaking news, was millions in the southeastern part of the state are under flood watches after five straight days of heavy rain. entire neighborhoods are inundated with water more than a third of texas counties had been declared disaster areas and texas governor greg abbott could expand it to include more counties as the flooding spreads, the high-water rescues have searched as well so far in harris county, which includes houston, more than 200 people have been rescued from homes and vehicles, and more than 150 pets have been pulled from the floodwaters in north houston. an officer was able to save a man and three dogs from rising water using a jet ski. watch this i m trying to get them out of the water. he is trying to make it black dog over there are yes dogs circle all right it s like attention judge all right. let s catch your breath a little okay. you can have a seat up here i m officer scott norton, our pretty incre
available to stream on and max good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, may 5th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it is always a pleasure to be with you. thank you for being with us. here s what we re watching for you. two feet of rain in parts of texas have flooded home stranded people on rooves and 30 entire neighborhoods into rivers and there is more rain on the way. the warnings from officials as more wet weather moves in, police and protesters clashed during a pro-palestinian demonstration at the university of virginia, the school is now responding to that altercation. what we re hearing from minister later, there are reports of progress, but no breakthrough as ceasefire talks continue between israel and hamas, where negotiation stay in as israel s government faces increasing pressure to bring those hostages home. and the cicadas are here and there s a good chance you will hear them before you see them, we ll explain later on cnn thi
the release of hostages, together with an immediate ceasefire in gaza. and they also discussed increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza through preparations to open new northern crossings starting this week. the statement concludes that the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position, although it didn t give details of what that is. hours earlier, the palestinian president said only the us could prevent an israeli attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. mahmoud abbas is at the world economic forum summit in riyadh. he will be joined there on monday by the us secretary of state, antony blinken. mr blinken will then continue ontojordan and israel aftervisiting saudi arabia. talks are expected to include what can be done to secure a hostage release ceasefire deal. a hamas delegation is reportedly in cairo for discussions on monday. however, israeli ministers have clashed over a possible deal. far right finance minis