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here in the united states, canada, and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. kamala harris rolls out her economic policy plans just ahead of the democratic national convention what she's planned and how it's being received in one state. once again, a battleground cautious optimism from leaders around the world following ceasefire talks in doha. what we know about the outstanding demands from both sides as people in gaza face more accusations, a hurricane in the atlantic is pulling homes on the u.s coastline into the water, will take a look at the track for hurricane ernesto's at bears down on bermuda live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber just a couple of days away from the start of the democratic national convention. >> we're getting our first look at vice president kamala harris is planned economic policies. she unveiled parts of that agenda on friday in north

carolina describing the wide range of plans that included tax breaks, tackling price gouging, helping homebuyers canceling some medical debt. meanwhile, donald trump will appear today in pennsylvania. it comes as veterans groups are outraged by trump's latest insults against members of the military. he was talking about the presidential medal of freedom when he made these highly disrespectful comments. listen to this that's the highest award you can get as a civilian. it's the equivalent of the congressional medal of honor. but civilian version, it's actually much better because everyone gets the congressional medal of honor. that's soldiers. they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead trump was praising republican megadonor, miriam adelson. >> he was awarded her the presidential medal of freedom in 2018 now, trump slammed his opponents economic plans before she even revealed most of them. he accused harris of wanting to impose communist price

controls. cnn's eva mckend looks at what the vice president actually said vice president kamala harris, unveiling a populist economic agenda in her first major policy speech since becoming the democratic presidential nominee as president, i will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class together, we will build what i call an opportunity economy for speaking friday in battleground, north carolina, harris outlined a series of proposals, including expanding the child tax credit to as much as $3,600 up from $2,000. >> adding a new child tax credit of up to $6,000 for families with newborns. expanding the earned income tax credit for lower-income workers without children, and help lowering housing costs, including an offer of $25,000

in downpayment assistance for first-time homebuyers as president, i will work in partnership with industry to build the housing we need both to rent and to buy by the end of my first term, we he will end america's housing shortage by building 3 million new homes and rentals as polls show, the vice president narrowing donald trump's advantage on economy. >> harris, drawing a contrast with the vision put forward by her republican rival, compare my plan with what donald trump intends to do he plans to give billionaires massive tax cuts year after year end. he plans to cut corporate taxes by over 1 trillion trillion even as they pull in record profits. >> another element of harris's agenda, a federal ban on price gouging to lower grocery prices and other everyday costs. >> my plan will include new

penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break through rooms. >> trump criticizing that approach during an event thursday in new jersey, camilla's reportedly proposing communist price control, said maduro plan like something straight out of venezuela. you're all gonna be thrown into a communist system. >> but harris supporters say her plans make sense. >> people may call an overstepping, but at the end of day, the government's role is to protect its citizens. and if companies are are overcharging and price gouging, something that should be taken on cnn learning that the vice president engaged in her first debate prep session earlier this week, and howard university in washington with advisors, that is, of course, where she attended college nearly four decades ago. eva mckend cnn, raleigh, north carolina new data shows a partisan divide in how u.s. >> consumers view the economy. a new survey from the university of michigan found

democrats and independents feel energized and more optimistic about the economy in the wake of harris replacing joe biden at the top of the democratic ticket but those who i identified as republican moved in the opposite direction, souring on the economy in the months since biden pass the torch to harris, 41% of respondents say the vice president would be better for the economy 38% said trump would. an earlier i spoke with ryan patel, senior fellow at the drucker school of management at claremont university in he talked about the state of the economy and the plan to stop price gouging. ureus it's easy to say or to view, right? >> you really need to understand where the gouging is coming from. i think it is a policy that is great to have with inflation at its height, working you go and know and understand where it was actually occurring? yes, it's great. we need to have to ensure that there's some practices within places that consumers like us don't get taken advantage of. and

there's these intended consequences. but where, where is it going to go and then on top of that you know, when you think of price inflation from subsidies as she's going to go down that that route. there's an actual could undermine some of the objectives about getting the national debt in control as well. so this is not something that is just here. this is what i'm gonna do, but having to call up those companies, i love to know which one she's going to go after and how that affects the ecosystem and how strong is she going to hold that? >> moving forward, that's right. there are there are certainly risks associated with that for harris running on the administration's record is kind of a challenge. the economy feels different than it reads on paper with good employment and inflation numbers coming down it's something that harris herself admits, i want to play a clip from her here she is new numbers this week alone show that inflation is down under 3%

still we know that many americans don't yet feel that progress in their daily lives. >> costs are still too high and on a deeper level for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able to get ahead. >> so listen, ryan, this is something you and i have talked about at length over the past couple of months, it's tough to overcome that perception of the felts economy and how how are you going to change that between now and november a great point, yes. >> the numbers she'd right to 0.9% in 12 months through july. that's reported by the labor department, but that just occurred, right? kim. so you're not going to feel that right now or till november i mean, yes, it's things are changing, but it takes time he president joe biden says a cease-fire in gaza is closer than it's ever been biden says, u.s.

>> secretary of state, antony blinken will head to israel today to press for an agreement. and israeli source tells cnn that israeli negotiators are cautiously domestic about the talks, although optimism in the past has been dashed, but the source says there is potential for an agreement when talks resume next week i'm optimistic not far from over a couple of horrors you are you more optimistic now than you have been in months past now all this comes as tensions grow throughout the middle east. >> gaza civil defense says an israeli strike has killed at least 15 people from one family in central gaza. and that more people are trapped in the rubble, rubble lebanon's health ministry says, and israeli strike in southern lebanon has killed at least ten people, including children nobody's officials say the strike also wounded at least five people. israel says it struck hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area overnight and the u.s. is issuing a warning to iran, a senior white house official tells cnn that there could be

cataclysmic consequences if iran strikes israel in retaliation for the killing of hamas political leader mile haniah in tehran cnn's nada bashir joins us live from london and our fred pleitgen is live in tehran. want to start with you nada, what more can you tell us about the latest round of evacuations and gaza? >> well look we've seen civilians in gaza have been told to evacuate, to relocate for their protection time and time again, according to officials in the u.n. more than 80% of gaza's civilian population has now been forced to evacuate over the course of this war. and of course, what we've been hearing over the last few weeks is evacuation order centered around we southern region of khan younis, an area where many civilians have fled to in search of refuge. there is a humanitarian zone or so-called humanitarian zone established on the coastal area, al-mawasi. what we've been seeing is this humanitarian zone shrinking in size progressively, and civilians have once again been told to evacuate from this

particular humanitarian zone in and what we've been hearing from u.n and officials, as well as other humanitarian organizations repeatedly now, is that there is simply nowhere safe left for civilians to turn to. we've had yet more evacuation orders issued by the israeli military just this morning, including areas in central gaza such as the al-maghazi refugee camp maine salaheddine road, as well as two other key roads in central gaza. civilians, once again, being told to move out of these areas. but of course, because of the lack of connectivity and parts of gaza, the lack of internet connection and communications available at many residents are not actually getting these evacuation orders, are not able to move to safety in time. and of course, for many who have had to flee time and time again, particularly the elderly, the disabled. those are the children this is extremely difficult and of course, the security situation on the ground is also hugely difficult. now, the israeli military says they are targeting hamas voices on the ground in parts of these areas, they say they believe that there from illicit firing

rockets towards israeli territory, an israeli troops, but again, these are areas densely populated with civilians. we've seen civilians really pushed into the south of gaza with nowhere else to turn so this is a hugely difficult ask what we've been hearing from the u.n. is that these evacuation orders simply unknown? but enough to protect civilian lives yeah. >> and then nauta adding to the complexity of the evacuations, the strikes, all the deaths. now reports of the first polio case in 25 years in gaza. what more do you know? >> yeah, it is a hugely concerning, hugely troubling development now, in gaza, we've seen the health sector in gaza pushed to the brink of collapse. hospitals at a breaking point. but now one case of polio confirmed in a ten-month-old baby who had not yet been vaccinated. and this is really setting concerns off over the trend. this could lead to across the gaza strip. sadly, alarm bells being sounded by the united nations. we've heard from the u.n.

secretary general calling for a pause in fighting in order to allow for rapid vaccination campaign to take place. we know that the security situation on the ground has made it hugely difficult in some cases, impossible for humanitarian organizations to action please safely operate on the ground, particularly when it comes to aid distribution, what they're calling for now is for temporary cessation of violence and hostilities in order to allow for this vaccine vaccination campaign for more than half 1 million children in the gaza strip to take base. they're focusing on children under the age of ten. the world health organization has confirmed that it has released the availability to one 1.6 million vaccine doses for the gaza strip. this is a health emergency, a real point of concern. and what we've heard from the u.n. secretary general is not only does there need to be a pause in fighting to allow this vaccination campaign to take place. but he has said that the main real goal here vaccine. he says, to quell the spread of polio would be an immediate ceasefire. >> can all right i want to turn

to fred now tensions in the region still so high as we wait for a runs plan retaliation against israel. >> what more can you tell us about the u.s. warning to iran? >> well, the iranians certainly appear to have received that message sources that we've been speaking to on the ground here. kim are essentially laughing that off, not just that, but also some of the words that we heard from the foreign minister of israel yesterday when he was meeting with the foreign ministers, the foreign secretaries of the uk and france, where he essentially said that he expects the eu okay, in france to attack israel, to attack iran, that if iran attacks israel in retaliation, of course, for the assassination of ismail haniyeh that happened here in teheran on july 31st, the iranians are still very much saying that there will be revenge for that killing. however, they are not saying when, where and how that is going to happen at the same time, of course these ceasefire talks that are going on, are there have been going on in doha that of course, also still a big factor in all of this.

and i think one of the interesting things that we've seen kim is that iran is also a big factor in those talks, even though they are not directly involved in those talks. one of the things that we have seen as those talks have progressed over the past two days, is that the end of each day? the prime minister of qatar has had a phone call with the foreign minister of iran to keep iran informed about what exactly is being talked about there and some of the progress that is being made, the optimism that we're seeing, for instance, from the u.s side is certainly not something that we're feeling on the ground. here from iranian officials. in fact, the iranian foreign minister he come out and he said in that phone call with the qatari prime minister that he warned of the qatari's about what he called israeli deceit in those negotiations. he also said that the iranians do not consider the united states to be objective mediator in any sort of talks. they see believe that the u.s is firmly in israel's corner in all of this. so the retaliation this is something that the iranians say is not linked at all to the talks. it's something that could happen at any time. but

right now of course, the iranians are still keeping the israelis and much of this region guessing as to when and how that is going to happen. but they certainly are following those talks very closely. and of course, the iranians have also said that despite the fact that they do wants to take revenge for that killing of ismail haniyeh. they also do not want to throw this region here into even more turmoil than it already is in any way yeah speaking of those tensions and the retaliation, i want to take advantage of your insights since you're there, how is all of this playing? >> now on the streets of tehran yeah. well, it's certainly something that still looms very much, something that you see when you're on the ground here in tehran and other iranian cities as well. it's a very prominent issue here for the iranians. you have a lot of posters here on the streets in tehran with the likeness of ismail haniyeh on a vowing revenge one of them saying he's revenge. it is our duty. but you also see a lot of palestinian flags that a lot of

public places. his bulla flags also a lot of public places, a lot of the things that show that the axis, as they put it, of resistance against israel, as the iranians like to call it and so therefore, the iranians are still saying that revenge is still very we much in play. but of course the same time they are also watching how they play their hand in the region right now. because as we've been saying, they don't want this to spiral into a large conflict that could then also involve the united states as well. one of the things that the iranians have said, and one of the things that they believe that they have shown is that they do have a formidable arsenal of long distance weapons that they could use if they were could do it to conduct some sort of strike they say that in the last time that they struck the israelis, which of course was after the bombing of iran's consulate in damascus, syria that killed several top level revolutionary guard commanders. they say that then in that retaliation, they used a lot they're older missiles and drones. they say they have much more formidable weapons at their disposal now and it is something that they

are capable of doing. of course, at the same time, they do also have a lot of groups and militias around the middle east that support the iranians as well. so right now, the iranians are still calibrating what exactly they are going to do at the same time, of course, also watching those ceasefire talks very closely as well, kim. >> all right, so listen great to have you there. fred pleitgen live into r1. now that bashir live in london. thank you both alright just ahead. hurricane ernesto makes landfall on bermuda, bring dangerous storm surge and life-threatening flooding to the tiny island. lost japan. now breathing a sigh relief and returning to business as usual, after a close call with typhoon ampil. all that more when we come back, stay with us ampil essences is packed with naturally derived plant based ingredients. your hair will love, and none of the stuff it won't our sulfate three collection now incredible. and leave your hair touchingly soft and smooth erbil essences

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based journalist jeremy deacon from the royal gazette on the line now so jeremy, if you can hear me, just give me a sense of what you're seeing right now good morning, everybody is paid stock, so it's quite difficult to see it on the whole island's is out of power. >> i think almost 26,000 customers without power so it's kind of a way of feeling amendment is strangely quiet. i think we must be in the eye of the storm, which it's been going on for quite a long time. i haven't been able to see satellite images, so i don't know if the eyes quite disorganized, but it is certainly being down for a long time, but we got problems overnight absolutely pummeled. i think the weather forecast is here. we're saying we're going to get sustained winds 50 mile an hour or so plus, for about 36 hours. so it's not over by any means. we're just waiting for the win now to pick up

again and obviously, residents of bermuda, u.s. >> two, hurricane are they prepared for this one? you get a sense that the mood is extraordinary. well to pass these things very, very strict building houses. i fills out block reinforced by rebar and concrete. the roads are totally solid the meeting about dobbs, they take these things extremely seriously most people let work or were told to leave work on friday that have gone home, that accept that things tied stuff down. >> but there's put the blinders down stocks up and luter in food, et cetera. i hadn't yet extremely well prepared nna buildings. so hopefully fingers crossed, the damage will be pretty minimal. >> all being well, i think the main thing is, as i mentioned before, a power outage most of

our electricity cables are overhead. so we will be without power either. by anywhere from like 24 hours to some polls souls several days or even weeks okay yeah but the regimen here, which i suppose he's all equivalent to deal with national guards. >> the embodied three ounce anytime today, as soon as it's safe. >> i hope in the police to clear up the city crews would be out as soon as they doing so and getting power back on everything prepared, everything's well-drilled, were very lucky actually compared to other places yeah. >> let's let's hope it stays that way. jeremy deacon in bermuda. wish you and everyone there. all the best as you battle this hurricane. thank you so much. >> an april, them take care off for the latest ernesto forecasts. i want to bring in cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. so allison, interesting we heard from him, things seemed relatively calm

right now. maybe you can, you can tell us, i mean, is the eye over bermuda, is that why it seems calm at least from his vantage? which point the center of the storm? >> yes. is directly over the island right now because you can even see from this map the location zero miles north of bermuda. it is literally centered right over the island. and yes, you've got some areas on the western side where you've still got some of those really heavy winds are really heavy rain and some gusty winds. but areas on the he side or even the north side of the island likely getting at least a little bit of a break at the moment, but it will return right back again as more of those wraparound showers come back and we've already had some significant wind gusts. >> the airport reporting an 84 mile per hour wind gusts. that's about 135 kilometers per hour. and also some pretty significant rainfall already we've had 165 millimeters. that's basically 6.5 inches of rain. the forecast cold for six to nine inches. so we're already within that window, but likely going to end up on the high end of that because another one to three inches of rain is expected as we go

through the rest of the day today, the storm is expected to weaken even a little bit more back down to likely about 80 miles per hour. but once it fully it gets back out over open water. it's actually expected to re-intensify back up to 90 miles per hour before it continues its trek up toward atlantic canada, likely either skirting are coming very close to newfoundland and labrador by the time we get to like very late monday or very early tuesday, you can see a lot of the wave heights. obviously the most significant again of those wave heights are going to be focused right there across portions of bermuda. but notice even those darker shades of green, how close they get to the u.s coastline. that's why we have the concern for very high surf and life-threatening rip currents up and down, pretty much the entire eastern seaboard. it stretches from essentially stewart, florida all the way up into portions of massachusetts it's an even maine and again, also looking at some of these high surf advisories that you have here, take a look at this portions of south carolina. you're going to have some of those breaking wave heights up around four to six feet, areas of north carolina could top out as high

as five to eight feet. so again, a lot of folks may be headed to the beach this weekend. lot of schools in south carolina, virginia, even some schools in maryland actually go back to school this upcoming week for the new year. so a lot of folks may be headed to the beach for the last final hurrah of summer vacation, but please be careful if you are along any of these beaches, pay attention to the signs and any information that the lifeguards are expected to give later today and tomorrow, forecast wind gusts. now for the rest of the storm, it is still expected to be very wet wendy, for the rest of the day to day. so i know that gentleman mentioned lots of power outages. they're not likely to come back anytime soon. they've got to wait for that system as a whole to really begin to push away from bermuda and allow those winds to calm back down from there, it will strengthen and intensify a little bit more once it moves out over open water. and again, we talked about this, some areas of atlantic canada likely to end up seeing some very gusty winds from this storm as well. here's a look at that system as it continues to make its way into sunday. and eventually into monday. so again, also looking at some areas, even some of those outer bands could potentially make it to places

like nova scotia as we head into monday, as well as tuesday, kim. >> all right. appreciate your giving us the lead. >> it is update there. allison chinchar. thank you so much and meanwhile, in the pacific, the worst of typhoon ampil is over for japan, the storm brush the country's eastern coast, triggering evacuation advisories for a hundreds of thousands of people with some homes losing power on many flights being canceled and pull is now weakened to the equivalent if a category two atlantic hurricane. and it will continue moving away from japan and into the open waters of the north pacific economic plans were the focus friday for vice president kamala harris as she took her campaign's the u.s. state of north carolina won more on that straight ahead plus a battleground state emerges in the deep south. kamala harris and the democrats look to turn north carolina blue know donald trump republicans are scrambling to hold onto a state. they'd previously won on that coming up, please stay with us cnn is

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to the cold war invoking communism and likening harris's plans as something from the soviet union or venezuela the economic plans harris revealed on friday included a variety of tax breaks aimed at helping the middle-class she says she wants to create an opportunity economy. harris wants to help homebuyers tackled price gouging, and work with states to cancel some medical debt. she would restore some popular provisions of the american rescue plan, like the expansion the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit. and she touted recent gains, but said there was a lot more work to do as well. here she is new numbers this week alone show that inflation is down under 3% still, we know that many americans don't yet feel that progress in their daily lives. >> costs are still too high and, on a deeper level for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to

just be able to get ahead during her visit to north carolina, harris also visited a market that supports small businesses in the raleigh area. >> if visits by both sides show how north carolina is, once again being viewed you'd as a battleground state. since biden ended his reelection bid and endorsed harris trump has made two trips to the state and invested millions of dollars in new ads. trump beat hillary clinton here in 2016, getting over just 50% of the votes on his way to winning the white house that year he won north carolina again in 2020, lived much narrower margin over president biden, just 74,000 votes. the state hasn't backed the democratic candidate for president in 16 years so for more on this among a live now to charlotte, north carolina and stephen harrison, political reporter for wfaa. thank you so much for being here with us. so just give me a sense of of what the mood was like there in north carolina with camilla's visit. and do you feel that her

populist economic message resonated? >> i think that north carolina is again, we're really excited to be on the map. the harris campaign or first the biden campaign, should i say, had been campaigning here when joe biden was running for reelection. but the polling in the energy, it seemed like the state was out of reach for the democrats this year. now, that kamala harris is running for president, there's a lot more energy among the democratic base people are excited, there are more people volunteering and so i think there's a sense now that north carolina is a true swing state in 2024 and maybe a month or two ago. it just wasn't the case yeah. >> we've seen the polls tightened since harris became the democratic candidate as i mentioned in the introduction, the democratic track record in the state isn't great. so except for obama in 2008

republicans have won every contest there in the last what, 20 since since 1980, it was so you think the state is now in play, is that just because of the sort of the common law feel good factor she's kind of riding this wave. do you think things might settle down in the months to leading to the election? >> yeah. >> i mean, i presume after the democratic convention in chicago this week that vice president harris will get a bump in may even be polling even better in north carolina. in a week or two than she is now. but i do think things will settle down. north carolina is a state. i think that has a slight republican lean like you said, it is only the democrats have only one at one time for the presidency since 19 1976 the key for the democrats will be they have to turn out their voters at a greater number than republicans. >> just because like i said,

there is a slight republican lean in the state it's something they haven't done since barak obama in 2008, that same energy hasn't been there. >> but like i said earlier, you can now feel this excitement that just didn't exist back in the spring turn turnout is the key for you. >> you don't think it be convincing those undecided voters, are there any sort of issue? susan, that are key there in the state that might sway those undecided from one camp to the other well, we talked about turnout. >> i'm in charlotte, north carolina, the state's largest city it has the most democratic voters of really any city in north carolina. it's crucial to kamala harris is hopes in recent election charlotte has been really lagging in terms of getting it's voters out in the 2022 midterms, it was one of the worst performing places in north carolina in terms of issues that we are such a closely divided state and there are so few voters, true swing

voters i'm not sure there's going to be one key issue that speaks to north carolinians more than people in georgia or more than people in pennsylvania i just think it's an issue of both sides mobilizing their basis. >> now speaking of mobilizing bases, maybe feeling the threat republicans of suddenly up pumped lots of money into the state for ads. there what are you getting the sense from the republican side that something that maybe they took for granted suddenly is in play. >> yeah former president trump was in asheville on a wednesday campaigning he was in charlotte a couple of weeks before that and like you said, there was a period in this election when the republicans were starting to talk about maybe we can win minnesota, maybe we can win new jersey, virginia. you don't hear that talk as much anymore. and i think they are kind of

retreating a bit and focusing on must-win states like north carolina. because for the democrats, if kamala harris wins north carolina it's kind of a cherry on top of the sunday she will have won the election. they are this is the one place they can go on. offense. but for trump, this is a must-win state. there's really no path to 270 electoral votes without it finally, a very tight race for governor, which i expect is adding extra incitement, excitement, what role that is playing into sort of overall voter enthusiasm may, may bring more voters out to the polls yeah our governor's race features the democrat josh stein, the attorney general, and the republican lieutenant governor mark robinson robinson has made a number of extremely controversial comments, inflammatory comments. >> some people say hateful comments and the democrats believed that the governor's race is so important and is going to captivate voters that

it's one reason why they're focusing a lot on north carolina. they think that a lot of democrats are going to be concerned about the possibility of robinson winning this down-ballot race will drive people to the polls. we'll see if that's the case so far of stein, the democrat has a decent much a sizable lead over robinson, less than it's been fantastic tapping into your knowledge of north carolina, steven harrison in charlotte. thank you so much for being with us. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me ukraine says it's making more progress in its cross-border incursion into russia. >> still ahead, why a form of world leader believes the offensive could be turning point in the war, say what he said. >> scott you're talking about revolution hi, or shipping rates may be the cost of doing

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miles from the key city of pokrovsk, which is northwest of avdiivka. the statement says fighting is underway around the clock and the situation is getting worse. but ukraine says it's also pressing ahead with its surprise incursion into russia's kursk region reportedly advancing up to three more kilometers or about two miles. meanwhile, russia claims ukraine has likely use the u.s. made high mars missiles to destroy a bridge in the region u.s. officials say kyiv has used those weapons in its incursion, but they appear to have been fired from from ukraine alright, we want to give you a look now at the aftermath of that ukrainian cross-border assault, cnn was among the first news organizations to go into the parts of russia's kursk region that are now controlled by ukraine. we were accompanied by ukraine's military, which reviewed the video. you're about to see for operational security reasons. but the military didn't hear the sound and had no editorial control. here's cnn's nick paton walsh

all around us. >> the signs of intense biden has been raging inside harris. very surreal to be inside russia. again ukrainian forces leading the way we're not even the statue of lenin is unscathed. hear this cranial assault. so persistent and russia, despite its sense of history, it's sort of passed as being some impregnable, completely unable to push for ukrainians out here. a sound of small arms fire. we can still hear so clearly there is a bid for the russians to push back, but simply isn't working and humiliation for putin and jurors plus see. the damage has been done to the street here from the intense fighting rages still clearly active fighting happening here and there's still the question is, where are the drones where the russian drones that have made you? cranes life hell on the front lines for months, simply nowhere to be seen whether

there's constant artillery as well. clearly a fight still underway for this this has become deeply symbolic for ukraine's totally surprise assault into russia normal last hour i spoke with former swedish prime minister carl bildt, now co-chairs the european council on foreign relations, and he recently wrote that the incursion into russia is a turning point. >> he said that proves why room putin is wrong and things that ukraine can be ground into submission. i asked him if he was surprised by ukraine's advance i think a lot of people are surprised that because if we go back a year in time, we had the much much hype we have to say your credit attempted the counter offensive and everyone expected the ukrainians do something rather radical to change situation on the battlefield that failed mr. byrne and what we've seen since then is that element of pessimism concerning the ukrainian military abilities, shades the situation on the battlefield.

>> and then suddenly the kursk operation comes which demonstrates that they are really capable of rather impressive offensive military operation. so that's changed is the entire strategic political picture of the conflict there is no doubt about that right? >> and among the people, perhaps surprised by this, putin as well, right? so when you say it might be a turning point in the war, you mean politically. so explain to us why exactly yeah, i put it to get what it means militarily other experts can probably go into more details about that. >> but it's clearly changed is a political calculus. it is profoundly, profoundly embarrassing for mr. putin to a ukrainian port she spent reading fairly deep into ukrainian into russian territory and while he said when it's sorted, he said than his chief of staff, they're not get master upset. we got to throw them out very quickly we are now more than ten days into this operation and we have no sign whatsoever. well then is serious russian response so it

shows that what he's been building up as his narrative of brad you to grinding down the ukrainians or ukrainians having no capabilities doing things there. suddenly, we have the ukrainians going into russian territory profoundly, profoundly embarrassing for mr. putin the organization of american states has adopted a resolution calling for the publication of venezuela's presidential election records specifically the results from each polling station resolution comes two weeks after the failure of a previous draft and falling widespread protests questioning the legitimacy of the recent claim by president england maduro. >> the resolution calls for the national electoral council of venezuela to quote, respect the fundamental principle of popular sovereignty through an impartial verification of the results that ensures the transparency, credibility, and legitimacy of the electoral process. >> we'll be right back work

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finally the end of this saga wow, no cam because the u.s. >> said they are going to continue to appeal this all the way to the swiss tribunal. will that be successful out to wait and see, but in the meantime, ana barbosu was officially given that bronze medal for the floor routine by an official from the international olympic committee in a reallocation ceremony in romania on friday, the 18-year-old also given flowers by the prime minister. now the metal barbosu received not the one that was given to jordan chiles in paris nearly two weeks ago, chiles was reportedly still has her bronze and she said in a social media post this week, she hopes that the people in charge will eventually make the right decision in the end here but after. receiving her maddow barbosu said she's looking forward to just turn the page on this whole controversy. >> is gasoline the resolution of the case was possible thanks to the federation and the law firm that did not give up on us. >> the sportswomen. i'm very happy to have this medal and i hope to continue to represent romania at the highest it's

level and bring back as many medals as possible all right. >> elsewhere, caitlin clark and the indiana fever returning from the olympic break taken on the mercury last night, it looked like a break agreed with clark. she came out on fire scoring 13 of her 29 points in the first quarter. clark also did stout ten assist in this one, clark, the first rookie in league history, that 450 points in 200 assists in a 27 games span fevered win that 198 at nine. afterwards, clark talked about getting back in the swing of thing thanks for some six months and i was like, holy cow like around seven minutes and i call for isa. >> i was like i need a quick minute. here we were playing fast and i can, you know, that might be pence isn't as good, so it's kind of a liability for my teams so you've just got to get a second to breathe all. >> right baseball another day, another home run for aaron, judge, he got a hold of this, one of the eighth inning against the tigers last night is his league-leading 44th home run of the season. yankees were

doing that ones buried and nothing right now, judge, on paper 58 words this season i'm finally rough day at the office for carlos alcarez at the cincinnati open and third set, he doesn't get to this ball from gael monfils. edges, loses it destroys his racket alcarez lost that match and resets. he called it the worst match. he's ever played in his entire career. >> kim he'll have little, little time to think about that for the u.s. >> open starts august 26 than new york or no, my gosh, i felt like doing that before, but i can't afford to replace my my racket andy scholes. thank you so much. appreciate it all the 76th emmy awards will be a comedy family affair when an era's on september 15 canadians eugene and dan levy will become the first father and son team to host the broadcasts, which honors the best in us television. >> eugene levy, of course, roasting freeman movies and on tv where it with dan their

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