for russia. a minor incursion, president biden sparks confusion and sows doubt on america s response if russia invades ukraine. we ll have reaction from moscow this hour. donald trump gets handed a major legal blow as the u.s. supreme court rejects his request to keep his white house documents hidden. what this means for the january 6 investigation. and hundreds of thousands of syrians facing a harsh and brutal winter. human rights groups calling it a crisis within a crisis. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. good morning, everyone. welcome to the show. it is thursday, january the 20th, and we begin with the last thing u.s. president joe biden needed really with his approval rating at a listless 41%, and that is a foreign policy stumble. his administration is scrambling really to clean up his suggestion that a minor incursion by russia into ukraine might get a less forceful response than an outright invasion. have a listen. russ
what caused the sonic boom that rattled residents across two states and the nation s capital. the grand jury investigating the trump classified documents case is starting today. new video this morning as a chinese warship comes close to a u.s. destroyer in the taiwan strait over the weekend. the new warnings from both sides. and back at home, it s a big week for the republican race for the white house with at least three new candidates expected to make announcements. we begin this hour with federal investigators now on the site of a small plane crash, a private plane crash, that went off course and flew near the nation s capital on sunday. the plane took off from tennessee heading to long island, new york, but did an unexpected 180 heading south toward washington and crashed. four people were on board. no survivors have been found. fighter jets from d.c., the national guard there were scrambled to intercept the plane traveling at supersonic seems which caused the s
welcome to our viewers. i don t think there will be a recession. if there is, it will be a slight recession. the three largest economies will continue to stall. we believe we are in a stronger position than many other countries when it comes to dealing with global challenges. do you think putin is a rational actor? i think he is a rational actor who s miscalculated significantly. president putin is failing in ukraine. we re going to continue to work to provide air defense capabilities to the ukrainians. the justice department is now urging the supreme court to stay out of this ongoing mar-a-lago classified document saga. i agree with the justice department. these are sensitive materials and you ought to very closely and very carefully manage who has access to them. this is a new hoax, the document hoax. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s wednesday, october 12th. 9 a.m. in london, 4 a.m. in washington where preside
so important to hear this, we re going to continue our live coverage of the breaking news tonight, israel launching a retaliatory strike against iran. say with cnn cnn s breaking news hello everyone. i m michael holmes in atlanta and we are following major breaking news for you or rainy and media reporting. several explosions near the city is farhan. details still coming in, but a us official confirming to cnn this is israeli retaliation for saturday is a radian drone and missile strike on israel. official says the targets not nuclear. iranian state media report the country s air defenses have been activated i did in several provinces and flights to and from a number of major cities have been suspended cnn s alex marquardt, his life for instance our in washington, but we begin with nick robertson in jerusalem. nika, i know a lot of caution already because what we don t know is far greater than what we do know. but what have you been hearing yeah, what we re learning f
explosions have been reported, not far from a military airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to iran s fars news agency defense systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around illicit nuclear weapons program as well as the country s biggest nuclear research facility, which operates three small chinese supplied research reactors or flights to its for hand tehran entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. ready officials say air defense systems in several regions were activated and the explosions heard& isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest,