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states, dan. president biden will be wheels up for europe in the coming hours with russia's unprovoked war in ukraine looming over the trip. why the stakes couldn't be higher for the future of nato, this comes as ukrainians marks 500 days of war. one journalist who's documenting alleged war crimes and the search for justice plus -- >> both nations have an obligation to ronelly manage this relationship. >> u.s. treasury secretary yellen concludes her trip to china, we'll have a live report whether the tensions between the countries have finally thawed. in just a few hours, u.s. president joe biden will head to europe for one of the most important meetings. to shore-up ally support for

ukraine at a very critical time in war. biden's first stop will be the uk. where he's expected to land later today. he'll then travel to lithuania where we'll meet with the president and attend the annual nato meeting. finland is the nato's newest member. he'll attend his first nordic summit while biden is on the defense over his decision to include cluster bombs in his latest military aid package to ukraine. sometimes the bomblets don't explode on impact and the it can kill and maim civilians years later. for more on the president's

upcoming trip, here's cnn's priscilla alvarez. >> reporter: the stakes couldn't be higher for the future of the nato alliance with the ongoing war in ukraine and the failed coup attempt in russia just last month, biden is going to embark on this three-country trip, he'll start in the uk where he'll meet with king charles, then lithulithuania, then finla. discussions about whether or not ukraine will join nato. on friday igs national security adviser sullivan told reporters that unlikely coming out of the meeting that ukraine will be joining nato. >> i don't think there's unanimity whether to bring

ukraine into the nato family now at this moment. the middle of the war. you did that, you know, and i mean what i say, we're determined to commit every inch of territory that's nato territory as a commitment that we've all made no matter what, if the war is going on we're all in a war, so i think we have to lay out a path for the rational path for russia -- excuse me for ukraine to be able to qualify to get into nato. nato is a process that takes some time to meet all the qualifications and from democratization to a whole range of other issues. i spoke to zelenskyy at lengths about this, the united states would be ready to provide while the process was going on, and it's going to take a while,

while that process is going, to provide security, ala we provide for israel, if there's an agreement, if there's a cease-fire, a peace agreement. >> the question whether ukraine will joib nato will be a flashpoint over the course of next week and president biden would be a key player in determining criteria and the time line. will ukraine eventually join nato and what does long-term aid look like in ukraine especially after the united states committed to sending cluster munitions. ukraine's president has brought back five former commanders who had been se sentenced to turkey to russia

after being captured in battle. greeted by supporters and church leaders in a ceremony in a speech they pledged to return to the battlefield and join the counteroffensive against russia. released on the 500th day of the war. ukraine's deputy defense minister listed some of the country's achievement, one of them was striking the bridge that linked russia to crimea. over the past day more attacks have been reported by both sides, on saturday, a russian official said the border region had come under heavy shelling from ukraine. first, let's start with the latest attacks, what more are we learning? >> as you have ladder the governor for the belgorod

region, they say damaging civilian infrastructure, also injuring at least two people, at this stage no official response or comment has been made by ukrainian officials. as you mentioned that very same day we saw this devastating rocket attack on lyiv, at least nine people have been killed with at least a dozen also injured across the region this comes as russia intensifies its attacks on the donetsk region. as we heard earlier lyman is the new focus as they continue their bombardment of the donetsk region. >> that controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. >> reporter: it's received mixed

reaction of course, when we look at moscow, they accused the united states of continuing their aggression. and seeking to prolong the war with supplying ukraine with these cluster munitions. the transfer of cluster munitions is an act of despe desperation. it will not affect the course of a special military operation, she said, which goals and objectives will be fully achieved. now, of course, this is a deeply controversial move, we've heard from the u.s. state department acknowledging that this has come in response in part to the slower pace of the ukrainian counteroffensive, it's not gone as quickly as nato allies would have hoped the gains that have been made hasn't been as

substantial as had been anticipated. this is deeply controversial. the u.s. itself began phasing out the use of cluster munitions back in 2019. there's been backlash from nato allies, united kingdom said they won't be supplying. take a listen. >> the uk is signatory to a convention which prohibits the use of cluster munitions we'll continue to do our part to support ukraine against russia's unprovoked aggression. i'll be heading off to the nato summit next week, where we'll be discussing exactly this with our allies, how we can strengthen our support for ukraine. >> reporter: look, we've seen these cluster munitions used to devastating effect in the past, syria by the russian armed forces there.

also used on the ground in ukraine by both sides in this conflict. of course ukraine has received cluster munitions from the turkish government as part of their military aid packages. . real concern is these canisters deploy sub -- which often fail to detonate. a significant concern. outlawed by more than a hundred nations. the u.s. is hoping this leads to a turning point on the battlefield. >> all right, thanks so much. for more on this i'm joined now from ukraine by independent journalist th ist natalia, workd to reveal incidents of war crimes. so, first, i just want to go back to what we were just talking about there, your

perspective on that decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine, do you think that's the right decision? >> so of course it's the moral choice, but there's definitely the difference on the way how to use it, of course the probability of any weapon is really bad for the human life, but it depends on how it's used because we had in ukraine within the last years the rush is hans uses missile bombing the shopping mall in the peaceful town. recreation center, hotel in ode is, a. they used cluster munition to fire on the train with women and children fleeing. while working on war crimes the

ukrainian army isn't really fighting against civilians, it's fighting against numerous infantry which is what the cluster munition is, definitely a difficult decision, the ukrainians would rather have a better, more precise weapon. they're fighting for fighter jets. this dilgs is taken as i may speculate or even guess, you know, this is what the u.s. is ready to give. it would be something better that would be better. maybe the one excuse which i would say, you know, the front line area the fight has been going on for a year and a half. the situation of bakhmut had 70,000 people living, now it's 1,000. it's like a dead zone. the only weapon, in the defense war wherever you have you'll

defend your life to exist. >> you talked about how long this war has been going on, ukraine has been marking this emotional milestone this weekend, 500 days of war, how are you and those close to you processing this? >> so, i think this day, you know, coming to 500 days in fact and being on air with you reminds me i was on air with cnn during the first days of the war when we were talking about kyiv falling after three, four days which didn't happen. that's very important to mark. that ukraine still controls most of its territory and somehow managed to have a liveable okay life for majority, but of course even now we have this year the strengthening of the russian indiscriminant attack on the peaceful towns and in particularly on the civilian infrastructure and the civilian object houses in western ukraine

like in lyiv this week and also on kyiv, as well as we recorded more under the russian on pas -- occupations. it's really a lot. unfortunately, you know what we can tell with confidence say the life this the occupation is unbearable. there's no other way for the ukrainians to free their own people. >> you referenced that russian attack on the pizzeria, i know from your writing, it was something that really touched you personally, take us through that. >> so, yes, what's important to understand, it's one of the many at attacks however of course it's more dreadful for you the close

colleague the writer who was also documenting the war crimes, so she was there in, you know, it's a peaceful place, a town close to the front line, however where the soldiers would take the breaks and still a lot of locals, now we know it was targeted with extremely precise weapon, which usually should be used for something super specific, no the pizzeria. the russian propaganda was saying, referring to how the discourse going on, on the second floor of this pizzeria there was military compound, there was no second floor. we all lost dear friends. 13 people died. it's obviously devastating. you feel numb. the task of ukraine is to keep the people accountable for these. it's not the ran dam tragedy,

it's not inevitable if russia stops there won't be shelling. if they just stopped, enough to do that, but our task is to pursue, to fight for accountability, instead of just accepting the losses of the life of the people. >> yeah, that's right, you wrote that it's important to hold people accountable to prevent more tragedies like this from happening in future. really appreciate hearing from you again. thanks so much. >> thank you. a gunman on a scooter opens fire in several areas of new york city, killing one person, wounding three others. what police are saying about motive behind the attacks. plus, while president biden prepares for his trip abroad a top canadian official is heading home after high-level talks in

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after months of strained relations we may be seeing a relaxing of tensions between the u.s. and china, u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen is heading back from china after direct talks with top officials. yellen held about ten hours of talks over the past two days aimed at stabilizing relations. the u.s. anticipates more frequent and regular communication with beijing. let's get more from will ripley, will, for yellen, mission accomplished here? >> reporter: this mission certainly yes, i think by all accounts, the messaging, the images, they got along pretty

well, china treated secretary yellen with a lot of respect, they came to tables with ideas they wanted to talk about and in the end they both claimed they have this plan in place for stable communication. so crucial, step checked off, they have so much they need to talk, so many contentious issues that have been building up and building up, leading to the l lowest level of relations between the u.s. and china in 50 years and the most unstable because of the heavily mateilit liez areas in recent months and years. that the u.s. and china could be spiraling closer to conflict but this is a diplomatic off-ramp that began with president xi and president biden in balli in

nove november. >> the united states is not seeking to decouple from china. there's an important distinction between decoupling on the one hand and on the other hand, diversifying critical supply chains. taking national security actions. we know that the decoupling of the world's two largest economies would be disastrous for both countries and destabilizing for the world. and it would be virtually impossible to undertake. >> reporter: but, you know that suspected spy balloon when she talked about those targeted actions she blacklisted a number of manufacturers in china. china retaliates with their own measures as well. you'll see that kind of thing,

kim, in terms of something bigger and more disruptive, the hope is on the economist side they can keep this relationship professional and they can get through this long list of c contentious issues they have to deal with. >> still plenty of areas of disagreement, what are some of the main top ibs of disagreement there in. >> reporter: well, if you're talking about specifically the economy, china has been criticized for not opening up its economy enough in terms of giving foreign businesses freedom to, you know, operate in ways they would be able in other countries that are more business-friendly, having to share their confidential technology and user information so that the government can monitor users which some platforms said they weren't willing to do. human rights concerns, people who are working at factories in china, certainly an issue maybe less of an issue it was 30, 40

years ago, but still human rights particularly for the uighur muslims and the ongoing threat over this island of taiwan, they have a lot of western democracies concerned and those issues persist, but all of those western democracies a lot of them probably their number one trading partner is china. they got to make it work. the economies are linked. you can't pull them apart without essentially just devastating beyond what we can describe the floral economy. >> so much is at stake there. will ripley in taipei, thanks so much. protesters in israel kept up the pressure on the government for the 27th consecutive weekend over the prime minister's proposed judicial changes. they marched in tel aviv and other cities on saturday to oppose bill that restricts supreme court power and undermines democracy.

in tel aviv, police used water cannon on people blocking a main highway. demonstrators say they're worried about the future. listen to this. >> translator: they're trying to make it like the reform is frozen, they'll negotiate, but behind the scenes they're constantly advancing more and more laws. there's a law they're planning to pass soon and i hope we'll be able to stop it one way or another, by exerting pressure on some knesset members so they'll vote against it. >> translator: i don't think things are getting any better. my concern hasn't dropped. it will infringe on the ability for people to fight for their rights here.

sudanese ministry of health, this video is from the raymond support forces, they dispute the official death toll, saying more than 31 people were killed. fighting sudan's army for months, it did carry out an operation but targeted it only targeted rebel fighters. japan's plan to release treated wastewater from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant drawing more criticism, this time from north korea, saying the move is evil and anti-humanitarian. t japan will treat the water to remove pollutants, released gradually in a highly diluted form and that process will begin some time this summer. president biden and other

nato leaders will soon meet in lithuania to discuss their ongoing support for ukraine, but this year's summit is already overshadowed by biden's controversial decision to supply ukraine with cluster munitions. and soccer trail blazers announces her retirement. megan rapinoe's impact on and off the field. stay with us. so you can glide through youour entire day with confidence. ♪ feel the dove men glide. ♪ when you have chronic kidney disease... there are places you'd like to be. like here. and here. not so much here. if you have chronic kidn disease,

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watching here in the united states, canada and all around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." want to get back to one of our top stories this hour, president biden is heading to europe to shore-up alliances at a critical time, he'll visit the uk first where he'll meet with the prime minister and king charles, we'll then travel to lithuania where we'll meet with the lithuanian president. last hour i spoke about biden's trip with a former obama official. i asked him if sending u.s. cluster bombs to ukraine undermines u.s.'s moral authority in dealing with this crisis. >> for the better part of the last year and half we've heard lot of lettic and promises but there has been i think a big gap in terms of what ukraine has actually gotten and ukraine has

been fighting with one hand tied behind its back in a lot of respects as the u.s. as well as other allies put restrictions on the length of missiles they can receive or in this case obviously cluster munitions and while the u.s. went through a very difficult process deliberating this, at the end of the day they came out at the right spot, they have to help ukraine take back territory and stop the casualties. >> they've been grappling with the situation for a while, how do you think president biden has handled this crisis? >> well, look, from the standpoint of stepping up when it mattered i think biden gets an a-plus. however, this is important for the deliberations taking place this week we got to see more of strategy, because right now what

you have a pot luck dinner, everybody's bringing a dish and ukraine is somewhat struggling with the arms they've gotten, how they work together and what they actually need in order to push russian forces out of their territory. >> for some political headlines in the u.s., long list of priorities awaits congress as it returns from recess this week the deadline for u.s. government's spending is due in less than two months and the house and senate are still miles apart on the budget. house speaker mccarthy is struggling to bring his own caucus together. cnn has learned that controversial congresswoman marjory taylor greene has been ousted from the free dom caucus

it's been revealed that special counsel jack smith has spent more than $5 million on his high-profile investigations into former president donald trump. smith's team questioned several witnesses about a chaotic oval office meeting after trump lost the 2020 election. >> reporter: we've learned that prosecutors have asked multiple witnesses in just last week about this chaotic oval office meeting after trump lost the presidential election. the timing of this meeting is important. as sources tell cnn prosecutors are focused on what took place november 14,2020 until january 6th, 2021. prose prosecutors had questions about

military seizing voting machines. this group included trump's former national security adviser michael flynn and former trump lawyer sidney powell. trump's former personal attorney giuliani also participated in the meeting and was asked about it in recent weeks. giuliani alluded to plan to gain access to voting machines. january 6th was on trump's plan when he left this meeting. encouraging his supporters to show up on that day and be, quote, wild. >> republican voters in iowa could be the first to choose their new presidential nominee the state's central committee voted unanimously to hold their first in the nation caucus on january 15th. the iowa date would be the

earliest start to the nomination process since 2012. former president donald trump called on the nevada supporters to help send him back to the white house. he lost nevada in 2020 by 2.4%. he repeated his usual lies about election cheating, he went on to crit criticize ron desantis, criticized him for using nevada mountain as a nuclear waste repository. >> voted to for yucca mountain as a waste repository. so he wants as a dumping ground

for waste. he's not going to say that. i don't know how he gets out of it. >> police in new york have apprehended a man who shot and killed one person and injured three more while riding a scooter through parts of new york city. the shootings appear to be random. >> reporter: the indiscriminant nature of this violence is particularly disturbing here as nypd investigators believe that the gunman was shooting people randomly in parts of queens and brooklyn, new york, the suspect aboard a scooter used a 9-millimeter pistol, to shoot four people, the arrest of the suspect happenedless than two hours after the spree started. investigators able to get pictures out to investigators, he was arrested without incident.

i want to hear directly from one police official as they updated us on saturday about what they know about this weekend shooting and its motive. >> it seems his act were random, when you look at the demographics and pedigree of the victims they're all different. at the same time, this video shows he's not following anybody as he's driving on his scooter. >> reporter: in terms of the weapon itself, police went on to say they haven't found a serial number on it, so soon to say if it's a ghost gun, privately assembled and impossible to trace weapons, or possibly that identifying information was just filed off, turning to federal investigators with that aspect of that investigation, the latest shooting of its kind in the united states, this past monday a masked armed and armored suspect opened fire in a neighborhood in philadelphia, pennsylvania, shooting and killing five people. officials in newark, new

jersey, say the cargo ship fire that killed two firefighters has now been contained. it was burning since late wednesday. crews made progress overnight. officials say all the firefighters injured have been released from the hospital. the cause of the bhaz is still not known. scorching temperatures continue to sweep across parts of the u.s. a look at the forecast, next, plus the leaders of colombia and brazil meet to discuss ways to save the amazon rainforest. and later elton john says good bye with his final performance of his farewell tour. that's coming up. stay with us. lasts all day. secret helps eliminate odor, instead of just masking it. and hours later, i still l smell fresh. secret works! ohhh yesss. ♪

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dangerous heat wave will continuesouthwest, texas and florida, high temperatures are expected to reac intthe triple digits in some parts and severe storms are possible across southeast, the carolinas and the mid-atlantic, main threat damaging winds and hail. torrential rainfall is pushing rivers above their warning levels in china. have a look at this. with more rain forecast for the next several days some areas in the northeast have seen flash flooding along with hail storms rising flood waters are forcing to evacuate. heavy rain parts of the india's capital to a stand still. people have been wading through waterlogged areas as they struggle to get around the area. more spells of intense rain are expected in the coming days. the presidents of brazil and

colombia are meeting to discuss ways to save the amazon. the lungs of the planet. under assault from mining to cattle ranching and climate change. the bilateral meeting comes ahead of an international summit on saving the amazon. >> reporter: the meeting on signals a renewed interest over the amazon rainforest but the two largest nations in south america the two leaders met ahead of the crucial summit to be held in brazil next month, when a new pact to did protect the amazon will be discussed. when the world recorded its highest temperatures in thousands of years, he stressed that real investment is needed to avoid climate cat strophe. >> saving life on the planet requires an investment of $3.3

trillion per year. that means a change in the world's economic relations. it means prioritizing life over capital. >> reporter: lula stopped short of gas exploration in amazon. but to stop illegal deforestation by 2030. saturday lula 's first visit to colombia. showed this week that latin america is particularly sensitive to extreme climate events, drought, catastrophic floods and hurricanes. >> officials in brazil say at least nine people have been killed in the collapse of an apartment building. you see there rescue workers are using sledge hammers and power

tools to break through the concrete in the search for five people who are missing. the body of a 19-year-old woman was pulled from the rubble on saturday morning the building crumbled early on friday when many people were still asleep. all right, still ahead, one of the greats of women's soccer has announced she's retiring. megan rapinoe, a look at her impact on the sport.

a surprise announcement saturday megan rapinoe said she'll retire from professional soccer at the end of 2023 season. with me now is coy wire, hard to overstate her impacts on and off the field, what's been the reaction to her announcement? >> a bit of a shock and a bit emotional as you see the sound bite that we have megan. for her, her longtime teammate

put it best yesterday, at least she gets to go out on her own note. she's won the last two world cup, olympic gold medalist. 2019, she became the first woman to win the world cup best player award. one of seven u.s. women's national team players with 50 career goals and assists. she'll be remembered just as much if not more so for activist, athlete activist for social and racial justice, the lgbtq community. she said that she's still focused on what's soon to come. >> i feel like as excited to play the rest of my career as i do to retire and to step away from this beautiful game, i know

that i'm really lucky to be in this position that i get to have agency over the end of this really beautiful part of my life and so in a way i feel like it's a little bit of borrowed time and something i feel really grateful for and really excited about. >> now, rapinoe will become the 14th american ever to reach 200 international caps today as team usa take on wales in california at 4:00 p.m. eastern, final tune-up before the women's world cup kicks off 11 days from now. i mentioned something that her teammate alex morgan said, now with this news we have to go out and win the whole damn thing. >> listen, on that, the women have to be a favorite going into this, how do you think they're going to do? >> they're one of the favorites along with team england. you have germany as well, someone to watch, a team to

watch, also look out for japan -- >> i thought you were going to say canada. >> of course canada, you got to save the best for last. >> let's turn to baseball now and i understand, i'm not a huge baseball fan but i know something historic happened, take us through. >> i was here yesterday with you the chicago cubs had done something their franchise, get a win at yankee stadium, here we have detroit, tigers founded in 1901, they thrown for their first-ever combined no-hitter, three guys on a rainy sleepy saturday in motor city, matt manning starting the party that woke the part y up. he went six and two-thirds

innings. with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, lange would have to keep him from getting the hit. tigers beat the blue jays, 10-0. ten games under .500. 20 times have been a combined no-hitter and this is detroit's first. >> man, holy [ bleep ], how about that detroit? let's go. >> honestly, i swear i had no idea. after the first i was trying to get the two-run lead and i was just trying to protect that lead. let's win the game. let's go. >> all right, finally the nba releasing details of a new mid season tournament, it starts november 3rd, all 30 teams participating, each conference

separated into three groups the best team from each group plus two wild cards will reach the knockout stage with the championship game being played in los angeles, december 9th, players on the winning team get a $500,000 not bad. you think the players have to like it, they get to potentially play in a championship game in vegas for half a million. the wnba has the commissioner's cup. it kind of influenced this decision. >> it will be fun to watch. thank you so much, coy wire a different kind of good-bye here, elton john has left the buil building. >> i'm not going to be touring anymore apart from the last tour which is going to start in september of this year and a global tour. it's the last time i'll be touring. and traveling the world.

covid and hip surgery delayed his time tour. final concert on saturday. 21 gold albums, more than 300 million albums sold. he wants to spend more time with his two sons and husband david furnish. cnn this morning is next. for the rest of the world it's marketplace asia.

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