ring out across ukraine as russia steps up the assault in the east. tonight, drive ukraine out of one town that is key to russia s plans to take a crucial city plus, breaking news, trump invited back, face facebook and instagram inviting him back. mr. war george sanchez got his money is deepening tonight. the embattled congressman suggest the $700,000 personal loan was not personal at all. details ahead. let s go out front. good evening i m aaron burnett. at front sight, ukraine sounding the alarm. air sirens blaring across much of central and eastern ukraine today. as forces wrap up. forces are making gains in the east but, any small gains are becoming a great cost. just take a solo door. no one knows the number of dead there, except that it is unbearably high, not strategically located town. tonight russia controls this so take a look at this what does it mean to control the town? there is new video that you can see, a total wasteland. total total destruction. and it s
major consequences for all americans. just one hour from now the federal reserve is expected to roll out its eighth straight interest rate hike. experts, executives and the markets all hope it will be one of the smallest yet. just a few blocks away, down at the white house, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy will sit down for their first stare-down since mccarthy became speaker over the debt ceiling. if one doesn t blink soon, you can say goodbye to federal elt benefits and hello to a financial meltdown, all courtesy of your representatives on capitol hill. let s start with cnn s matt egan over at the fed. matt, is today the day that jerome powell starts to pump the brakes on these interest rate hikes? it certainly looks that way. it would be a big surprise if that didn t happen. fed officials have been dropping hints, strong hints for weeks now that they do plan to dial back this war on inflation today. the thinking is that the fed goes from a 50 basis poin
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim scuitto, live from the united nations, where minutes from now president biden will deliver his global address. hanging over this assembly are new and alarming threa from russia. a major public escalation in the war in ukraine, as world leaders meet here at the u.n. this is a harrowing time for ukraine, for europe and the wo world. president putin announced he s calling up 300,000 reservists. he also said he s not bluffing. let s begin on the ground in ukraine. nick paton walsh is in the eastern ukraine. this is not the first time the russian president has threatened nuclear weapons. ukraine would be the center of this, what s the reaction. reporter: there always have deep concerns, but also a reality is setting in, possibly a leader in defeat and possibly using rhetoric where he doesn t have capacity, but it doesn t reduce the fear this was essentially response there have been none, but also key one of the words he said was using the
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israeli military now says an additional nine soldiers have been killed inside gaza. they were hit by an atm while operating in the northern part of the strip. for the very latest, chief fox news correspondent jonathan hunt joins us live from jerusalem. jonathan, lauren, good morning from jerusalem. we just got this word from the israeli defense forces that nine soldiers were killed yesterday, today morning, as they were part of the ground operations in inside the gaza strip on the northern end of the strip. now, those soldiers were apparently hit by what is called an anti tank guided missile as they moved forward as part of the ongoing operations there in northern gaza. now, we should point out that these nine soldiers that we have now been told about who were killed are in addition to the two we have previously reported. so what we public we know is that 11 an idf soldiers have been killed inside gaza since the ground operation on got underway in earnest. and the anti-tank g