court findings are. russia s worst airstrikes on the war of ukraine and the civilians targeted and what american top commander leaks makes of this brutal stage of the war. we will taken to the west coast where surf s up is an urgent warning and another round of waved some more than two stories high and now expected to hit. good morning everyone, good evening i should say. john in your friend or sin. the flurry and soon to be blizzard of new blizzard of new history making flight taking the president off of the ballot. there are legal scholars and we will do the same with the supreme court justices. the newest headline came late today in a trump court filing in oregon and by no means the only news. trumps team unsurprisingly here urging oregon supreme court to dismiss a sub case they are considering in the filing. they say they agree with the democratic secretary of state who indicated that this case should be tossed out on procedural grounds based on the states ballot ac
but back on the trial. why he is declaring that he never red mein kampf. and flooding affects tens of thousands of people in maine, and temperatures there dip to below freezing. this is cnn news central. donald trump vowing to fight this huge ruling out of colorado by the colorado supreme court court which removed him from the comele coal ballot dealing him ineligible to run for president. last night the court disqualified trump because he, quote, engaged in insurrection. majority opinion wrote, trump did not merely in-scite the insurrection and it was fully under way, he continued to support it by completely demanding that mike pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling senators to persuade them to stop the countingeelectric orrial votes. so while trump himself has not commented publicly, his campaign saying that it is a completely flawed decision and they plan to swiftly file an appeal and take this extraordinary case all the way to the supre
tales of traumatic atrocity. and the most difficult years of his career. the billionaire businessman sir richard branson tells the bbc he thought he was going to lose his entire empire in the pandemic. hello, i m sally bundock. a new wave of russian airstrikes is under way in ukraine, with reports of explosions in kyiv and the southern cities of zaporizhzhia and odesa. the raids come a day after russia accused ukraine of carrying out a drone attack on the kremlin it what it claimed was an attempt to assassinate president putin. ukraine has rejected accusations that it was responsible. vincent mcaviney reports. flying in from the left, what appears to be a drone, then an explosion over the kremlin. this footage is explosion over the kremlin. this footage is unverified explosion over the kremlin. this footage is unverified but the kremlin says early on wednesday morning, two drones targeted the residents of the president. moscow quick to blame ukraine saying that no one was inj
ominous development. the director of the cia confirms what cnn has been reporting, that the u.s. is confident that china is thinking about providing lethal aid to russian troops in ukraine. the agency doesn t believe a final decision has been made by beijing, and today the white house is urging caution. and you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance. but if it goes down that road, it will come at real cost to china. and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. but let s begin with today s fierce fighting in ukraine. alex marquardt joins us now from ukraine. alex, thanks for joinings us. what s the latest from there? well, jim. some of the most ferocious fighting with the heaviest casualties on both sides, now taking place in and around the city of bakhmut. russian forces led by mercenaries and convicts in the vogner group do appear to be making some progress. they cl
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. and we begin this hour with the war in ukraine and its global implications. the director of the cia confirms what cnn has been reporting that the u.s. is confident that china is thinking about providing lethal aid to russian troops in ukraine. the agency does not believe a final decision has been made. and today, the white house is urging caution. you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds. whether tell provides military assistance. but if it goes down that road it will come at real cost to china. and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. but let s begin with the latest in the fighting in ukraine. alex marquardt is there for us. reporter: jim, some of heaviest fighting, with some of the worst casualty rates on both sides is now taking place around the eastern city of bakhmut. russian forces before the mercenary groups of convicts and co