and bring on the good stuff. guaranteed visit four imprint.com good morning to you. welcome to cnn this morning, it s sunday, june 23rd. i m victor blackwell and i m amara walker. thank you so much for being with us. here s what we re watching for you. this morning. the one one-on-one showdown between president biden and former president trump is just four days away. trump is out on the trail taking shots as his opponent while the president hunger s down with the staff at camp, david was catastrophic. flooding is prompting evacuations and rescues and states across the midwest and heat alerts persist for more than 100 million people through the weekend dc hit 100 degrees for the first time in eight years. also stunning accusations against a texas woman accused of trying to drown a three-year-old at a pool. why those are the community are calling the incident than a potential hate-crime. boeing and nasa officials are again delaying the boeing starliner capsule is retu
and that comes with further scrutiny about his ideas and his political record. it s more like a police interview! laughter. he was asked about views he d expressed in the past about vladimir putin. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to al
into a wider regional war. the two sides have exchanged fire across the lebanon israel border in recent weeks. hezbollah says it is fighting israel to support hamas in gaza. israel s military said that operational plans for an offensive in lebanon had been approved and validated . the un secretary general antonio guterres has warned there is a real risk that the crisis on the israel lebanon border could escalate. one rash move, one miscalculation could trigger a catastrophe that goes far beyond the borders and, frankly, beyond imagination. let s be clear the people of the region and the people of the world cannot afford lebanon to become another gaza. with me now said shehata from bbc arabic a from bbc arabic strike near the icrc compound, a strike near the icrc compound, what more can you tell us about it. tell us about it. the international - tell us about it. the - international committee of tell us about it. tue: international committee of the red cross on the x platf
our political correspondent jack fenwick reports. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to align himself with putin. he s become a putin apologist. mr farage said last night that putin was wrong to invade, the eu was wrong to expand eastward
thank you forjoining us. tell us exactly what has happened. thank you ve much. exactly what has happened. thank you very much- as exactly what has happened. thank you very much. as you ve exactly what has happened. thank you very much. as you ve already - very much. as you ve already mentioned yesterday afternoon there were several very loud explosions and extremely close proximity to our offices of the international committee of the red cross in rafah which led to very high loss of life. there were many wounded, the scenes were horrific, frankly and nothing i ve ever seen before. we had an influx of children, women, young men, all of whom had been extremely badly injured as a result of these explosions and we were able to transfer them to the nearby located red cross field hospital where we have dedicated teams working to save lives and to meet the needs of civilians during this conflict who have consistently lacked access to health care and we were able to receive 22 da