it s one of the deadliest attacks by a lone gunman in europe this century. police are still trying to establish a motive. our correspondent sarah rainsford is in prague. bells toll. a nation paused today, to remember the victims of an attack people here can t make sense of, that has brought pain and suffering. church bells rang out across the czech republic, to mark the moment. to honour those killed when a student attacked his own university, shooting in the corridors and classrooms. so far, we know three of the dead, including a teacher who was 49. here at the faculty attacks some have person #58 connections to the victims. a friend of these women survived by locking herself into a classroom to hide. she cowered done the table. i saw her yesterday, i felt sorry for her, she was still shaking. images from a bodycamera show the police hunt for the gunman, inside charles university. at this point the 24 year old was prowling the corridors above. we are told most of his victims
bell rings. bell rings. bell tolls. bells peal. bells peal. the bells tolling in memory of the dead. this is an incident which has deeply, deeply shocked this country. as well as those who died, people are thinking about the people who were injured, a number of those are still in hospital, some with serious injuries. we know that many of the casualties were cheque, three czech. czech. details have been emerging about the identities of some of the victims, one of them was the director of the institute of musicology at the university. she was 49 years old, she was the mother of two children. the institute put out a statement saying that this was an extremely cruel time for us all. meanwhile, the police investigations are continuing, people here continuing to ask themselves what it was that could have driven this 24 year old gunman to behave in this way. this is a very sad moment coming as it doesjust before is a very sad moment coming as it does just before christmas, a time
that recession is not inevitable. spreading in the usa, triple digit temperatures across the midwest. with record heat on the way. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. we begin in ukraine where president volodymyr zelenskyy is warning that russia will step up its attacks. your opinion unit is trying to figure out whether too bad bid ukraine s bed. we should expect hostile reactions from russia. and not only against ukraine, but other european countries. we are preparing, we are ready, we worn partners. those warnings, as fighting continues in the eastern city. critical to russia s push to take control of the region. let s take a look at the moment that russian forces seized control. this video from a russian soldier s body cam shows troops moving past buildings before opening the local government building. the russian shoulders make their way up to the roof where they waive their victory flag. ukraine found out that the city had been take
Belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. Putin said that the latest attacks on ukraine are part of an effort to demilitarise ukraine. 0ur Eastern Europe correspondent sarah rainsford, reports from kharkiv. Here in kharkiv there was just another air raid. And those are happening almost every day now. We heard the sound of explosions and thats when metro stations like this one become a shelter for people. People head underground to hide from those missiles, because itjust takes a few seconds before they reach this city from russia, which is around about a0 kilometres away. Now, we dont know what was targeted this time, but we do know over overnight here in ukraine, there was a Massive Attack by russia on the Energy Infrastructure right across the country, from west to here in the northeast. And here in kharkiv, 300 missiles were fired. They destroyed a power substation, electricity substation, and they damaged yet another power plant here. And the city is struggling. You know, the metro