at mexico border. here are tonight s headlines. the controversial barriers described as inhumane, but the governor says he has a right to defend the border. hottest month on earth ever. july is on its way to the record books, and there is no relief in sight. it will be 227 million of us experiencing highs o about 90. multiple islands in greece are on fire right now, the blistering heat forcing mass evacuations of tourists. i never thought that i would experience a summer like that. north korea fires to short short-range missiles a week after u.s. arrives in north korea. in the latest on the american soldier who has gone awol. members of the israeli parliament have accrued a major part of prima sister benjamin netanyahu s judicial reform plan. it does significant damage to the power of the state s supreme court. state and local police in ohio are looking at a traffic stop, showing an ohio police officer releasing a dog on a truck driver despite comman
the controversial barriers described as inhumane, but the governor says he has a right to defend the border. hottest month on earth ever. july is on its way to the record books, and there is no relief in sight. it s going to be 227 million of us experiencing highs of about 90. multiple islands in greece are on fire right now. the blistering heat forcing mass evacuations of tourists. i never thought that i would experience a summer like that. major garrett: north korea fires two short-range missiles a week after u.s. nuclear submarine arrives in south korea. plus the latest on the american soldier who has gone awol. members of the israeli parliament have approved a major part of prime minister benjamin netanyahu s controversial judicial reform plan. the decision does significant damage to the power of the state s supreme court. state and local police in ohio are investigating a traffic stop, body cam footage shows an ohio police officer releasing
you re watching cnn news central. we begin with the special counsel s investigation into former president donald trump. more than $9 million, is that s how much jack smith and the justice department have spent investigating the former president so far. and cnn has exclusively learned a recent focus of those efforts is this chaotic oval office meeting that took place six weeks after trump lost the 2020 election. that is one way to put it. it was incredibly chaotic. the special counsel s team is digging into this infamous december 2020 meeting at the white house when outside advisers in trump s inner circle floated some pretty out-there ideas, things like martial law to keep him in power. yeah. an effort to overturn the election. we re covering this from all angles. with us here in washington, zachary cohen and susan page. plus, cnn s michael zeldin is in zeleny is in iowa. zach, it seem what is s happening here is the investigation focusing on a national effort, ri
alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet su
alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet su