welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
at a university in prague. about 20 more were injured, some of them seriously. police say the gunman was also killed. these are the live pictures coming out of prague. the latest lanes we are getting from this latest press conference is that the shooters body was found at the faculty of arts after a long search by police of the university area. also going the police that the suspect s s father was found dead earlier on today. so those are the latest lines that we are hearing. we are also hearing that he was indeed, the suspect, i mean, a student at the suspect, i mean, a student at the university at the university in prague. if you remember or have been watching the programme over the last couple of hours can i have been speaking to various journalists inside prague who have been telling me that that is what people have been saying, but had not been confirmed. now it has. another suspect was a university student, that his father was found dead earlier on in the day. of cours
viewers in the united states, and all around the world, i am paula newton, ahead on cnn newsroom. the white house, and congressional republicans, said to be inching ever closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. but, that could be just the beginning of an effort to avoid a default. new reporting for the washington post, employees of former president trump, allegedly, moving boxes of papers at mar-a-lago a day before the justice department showed up to collect classified documents. russia has, apparently, begun moving tactical nuclear weapons to belarus. what experts are saying about it. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. talks between the white house, and congressional republicans, to avoid an economic catastrophe are set to be ahead. there is words from negotiators that they are moving closer to a deal. cnn has learned, both sides are talking about a compromise to raise the debt ceiling, and to cap federal spending for at least the next two y
hello, i m vishala sri pathma. ukrainian officials have dismissed claims that the city of bakhmut has fallen to russia, after wagner mercenaries said they ve started handing over control of the eastern city to moscow s army. the battle for bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of the war. this aerialfootage taken earlier this month shows intense shelling in a residential area. most people fled before fighting broke out. bakhmut is of little strategic value, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for russia. meanwhile, the ukrainian president volodymr zelensky made a surprise speech for graduates atjohns hopkins university in maryland. i m proud that ukraine is not losing a single day in its defence against russian terror. every day, we do everything to become stronger, to give more protection to people, to save more lives. the united states has also not lost a single day to help ukraine repel the russian aggression. the battle for bakhmut began last august, and ukra
the town hall with the gop frontrunner and the reaction from the republican rivals and the impact now on the republican primary. what voter ss in the gop and fa beyond learned from donald trump last night. and preparing for a surge of migrants hours before a covid policy ends tonight. more from border. and now, twist on a murder case. joran van der sloot is being extradited to the united states. all of this now on cnn news central. the end of title 42 ends just before midnight which is going to allow the border officials to send migrants back across the border. it is what the border patrol has been waiting after they have been apprehending migrants each day. the border patrol says they are waiting to go to dallas, houston, new york and miami, and nick valencia is in brownsville, texas, for us this morning. what are you seeing for us on the streets. sara, it is a lot. a lot to be surrounded by this hopelessness, and these migrants who have been crossing seemingly optim