good evening, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been at the white house this evening, making the case for more military aid. he will have got a more sympathetic hearing from president biden, than he got earlier in the day from the speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy had denied the ukrainian leader a joint address to congress. although he did meet him to discuss the $24 billion dollars to discuss the $24 billion of additional aid which currently hangs in the balance. right now the republican caucus is deeply divided over spending, the us government is hurtling towards a shutdown in 9 days time, and the ukraine spending has been stripped out of mccarthy s proposals. today 29 republicans signed a joint letter to the white house opposing that latest payment. let s speak to our correspondent helena humphrey at the white house. she is watching events behind her and president zelensky arrived just half an hour ago. what do you think will be up for discussion, helena? t
i don t think they would be so eager to die house of the dragon, streaming exclusively on macs hello everyone. you re on cnn newsroom. i m alice and camerota in new york and we do begin with breaking news president biden is back at camp david tonight he survived founded were told by his family this meeting had been planned for months, but it is fair to say that there are serious conversations we can imagine happening there tonight we do have new reporting this hour at what is taking place at camp david and what the president is being urged to do. cnn s priscilla alvarez and isaac we re are here with us. priscilla, let me start with you. what have you learned while the president has been huddling with his family? i can t david for this previously scheduled visit, but of course it came at a critical juncture and senior biden advisers are telling cnn that he has been encouraged by his family to stay in the race and that they are often bring their support. now we know the presi
breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
w. . this is d. w. news from berlin tonight to back on earth. to the international space station malfunctions in mid-air leaving only seconds to prevent a deadly disaster the launch in kazakhstan appeared to go well at first but minutes had to blast off the two astronauts reported a problem that will forced to make an emergency landing we ll get the latest in moscow also coming up we ll meet. syrian refugee children forced onto the streets of lebanon to make a living. and. will debut in germany s games against the
netherlands and world champions. it s good to have you with an extraordinary feat of survival tonight two astronauts emerged unscathed today after a failed rocket take off the pair parachuted down in kazakhstan after a booster on their russian soyuz rocket failed in route to the international space station now they re safe and said to be a good health tonight but russia says that it is suspending manned launches from the baikonur cosmodrome pending an investigation here s
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activists in kenya have protested to urge the government to crack down on a former south sudan army chief paul belong to one is on a u.n. sanctions blacklist over his country s civil war and lives in exile in kenya the activists say people benefiting from the conflict are laundering money through kenyan bank