in northern italy. and, irish boxer katie taylor, bids to become only the second fighter in the modern era, to hold all the major belts, at two different weights. in london, joanna simpson s husband killed her in a vicious attack. he is now due for release after serving half his sentence. her mother desperately wants him to stay behind bars. good evening. vladimir putin cast a shadow over two major international summits today. in a significant shift of policy, at the g7 meeting of the world s most advanced economies injapan, america signalled it s willingness to back the supply of f 16fighterjets, and the training of ukrainian pilots, in the war with russia. meanwhile moscow s closest ally in the middle east. syria s bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia, after years of international isolation. during syria s bloody civil war, it was only massive russian military support, that allowed assad condemned by many as a war criminal
hello. a warm welcome. the fate of ethnic armenians in disputed nagorno karabakh is hanging in the balance, as their leaders say most will likely leave their historic homeland now controlled by azerbaijan. the region is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan, but large parts of it have been controlled by ethnic armenians for three decades. tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. some aid has reached the enclave, but food, medicine and fuel are all in short supply. in new york, azerbaijan s foreign minister told the un general assembly that baku was determined to reintegrate karabakh armenians as equal citizens. but his armenian counterpart demanded the un establish a mission in the region to prevent further killings of ethnic armenians. the bbc s olga ivshina is one of the first journalists to have reached the region since this week s hostilities began. she sent us this report. this is t
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good afternoon. a major new deadline hangs over washington and the heads of federal employees across country. just one week from today the federal government face as midnight shutdown and unless a funding bill can be passed and signed by the president. with every passing hour that looks more unlikely. house speaker kevin mccarthy sent lawmakers home for a long weekend after federal agencies becoming a formal process preparing for a shutdown of military personnel. their paychecks could be delayed for weeks as a crisis grows at the southern board perp federal officials sending more resources to help with this week s surge of migrants crossing into the u.s. today house speaker kevin mccarthy conceded he has to win over republican s hard-liners but hopeful they ll fall in line to pass a stopgap spending measure and prevent a shutdown. finally agree on this, and shutting down i don t see and cnn chief cong
bret: good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we re covering two big stories. both happening on capitol hill right now. house speaker mike johnson rolls the dice on a foreign aid package with his own speakership on the line. but, first, the exceedingly rare event of an impeachment trial for a merv the president s cabinet never got off the ground today in the u.s. senate it. took a little more than three hours for the democrats in the senate to end the proceeding before it began against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. raising a lot of questions about constitutional process and politics. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill to show us what happened. good evening, chad. bret, senate democrats stuck together to end the trial before it even began. they did not vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment. they voted along party lines to rule the articles ou out of sync with the constitution. rai
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