and, the chinese property that was facing demolition, whose owner figured out how to stave off the city s bulldozers posters of xijinping pasted on every surface. joe biden is not having a good week the row with the french, the row over spending within his own democratic party, and now a row over the treatment of haitian migrants massed on the southern border. today, as if it wasn t bad enough, the special envoy for haiti quit, citing in his letter of resignation the inhumane policies of the biden administrration which he said were counterproductive . on tuesday, these pictures emerged of border guards on horse back, with lassoos, forcing migrants back towards the rio grande river to the mexican side. over 1000 of the migrants who had crossed have since been flown back to haiti. in his letter, the envoy, daniel foote, said haiti was a collapsed state which could not cope with the return of thousands of people who lacked food and shelter. here who lacked food and shelte
for illness after the attack. their injuries are non-life threatening. he says authorities are investigating further to figure out what this is. the pentagon monitoring this development, we re told in an urgent investigation by the uk is already under way. then breaking moments ago, new video shows fierce fighting in mariupol. plumes of smoke from shelling seen in residential areas on the hills above a shipping yard near the city s port. even though russian forces have retreated from the kyiv area there is still danger in northern ukraine. president zelenskyy describing the region as one of the most contaminated by mines in the world. he says retreating russian troops deliberately targeted civils, an an he says is a war crime. translator: the invaders left mines everywhere. they mined people s property. mined cars, doors. they deliberately did everything to ensure the return to these areas after deoccupation was as dangerous as possible due to the actions of the russi
macro advisory in moscow. he said the situation for the russian currency is unique. you should not be looking at it in the same way as if there was a slide in a normally functioning economy or a european economy. the rouble is entirely managed now by the central bank in conjunction with the finance ministry, and has been since we last saw the rouble collapse down to about 130 in march of last year. so the central bank s priority last year was to keep the rouble exchange rate high at around 60, because it was tackling inflation, but this year, because of the sanctions impact and because that has led to a big hit on the value of russia s oil exports in particular, they have devalued the rouble in order to compensate for that fall in dollar terms. in other words, weaker rouble translating dollars into a higher rouble amount to balance the budget. that s been the priority this year. it doesn t reflect an imminent crisis. sort of a broad collapse in the economy. it s the result of
newsroom. thank you all so much for joining us. we re continuing to follow major news here in the united states as well as overseas. cnn is projecting that president joe biden has won south carolina s first in the nation democratic primary. it s a major victory in that state which propelled him to the nomination in 2020 after what was a series of really bruising defeats. the sweeping victory comes after he handily beat his opponents in new hampshire s unofficial, unsanctioned primary last month as the president inches closer to securing his party s nomination and what will likely be a rematch against the former president, donald trump. amid s president biden s bid for re-election, he is facing an escalating conflict in the middle east. a u.s.-led coalition carrying ous a strike against houthis in yemen today. it includes the united kingdom and several other countries struck at least 30 targets across more than a dozen locations. senior biden officials say president biden appr
first, we are also following breaking news in the middle east where iran-backed houthi rebels are vowing tonight to retaliate after a new round of airstrikes by the u.s. and the united kingdom in yemen. they were also supported by several other countries. today the houthis sorry, the group of countries hit at least 30 houthi targets across more than a dozen different locations. senior biden administration officials say that president biden approved this strikes earlier in the week. now, all of this is coming just a day after the u.s. launched other airstrikes. those were retaliatory strikes against iran-backed militants in both iraq and syria. those followed the deadly drone attack last weekend on sunday on u.s. troops in jordan that left three american service members dead. cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson is live in israel on more on what it could mean for the region. first, let s get to cnn s oren lieberman at the pentagon. unlike yesterday s strikes,