we're joined live by josh letterman. what came out of blinken/xi meeting? >> reporter: well, the biggest thing that came out of this meeting, frances was the fact that it happened. it was not certain that secretary blinken was going to get any time with president xi during his visit to beijing. and the fact that they met, had that chance to really exchange views is being seen as a sign in the u.s. that this visit was able to stop the downward spiral in relations between the u.s. and china, that both countries have really been worried about. but it did not yield any major breakthroughs on the most contentious issues from trade to taiwan and the fentanyl crisis. in fact, secretary blinken came away without something he said very publicly he had been seeking, which was an agreement from china to reopen conversations and diplomatic channels between the u.s. and chinese military, something the u.s. feels is extremely important to avert any potential conflicts in the future. secretary blinken telling our colleague, janis mackey frayer that that is a work from pro

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let's go now to josh letterman who is following the latest on this what can you tell us about that village? >> reporter: this is an up to in the zaporizhzhia region, close to that nuclear power plant that we've been speaking about for months and one of the four areas of ukraine that russia has claimed that it has illegally annexed in this war so far. that russian-installed local official saying the ukrainians had entrenched there and despite suffering what he described as colossal losses, acknowledging that the ukraines now control that village this is one village but one sign of progress for ukrainians as they embark on this counter offensive for the past couple weeks. president zelenskyy in his overnight address really describing this effort as something that is incremental, saying step by step, inch by inch ukrainians are taking territory. last week ukraine's mailitary estimating at 38 the number of miles they've been able to take in the offensive >> we've also learned more details about the kakhovka dam >> reporter: this comes from colleagues at the associated press who obtained drone

thank you, josh letterman, thanks >>> and in ukraine, that could be one of the topics that antony blinken discusses with chinese officials as a second day of meetings gets under way in beijing this morning we want to show him with china's top diplomat yesterday he met with the chinese foreign minister for nearly eight hours the state department called those talks candid and substantive but did not announce any breakthroughs. the secretary has no scheduled meetings with president xi jinping. blinken is set to leave for london later this morning. >>> and in india, a scorching heat wave quilkilled at least 96 people over the weekend. the highest temperature was 113 degrees in one city on saturday. most of the dead with over 60 and had health ailments from before eld a elderly and sick residents were warned to stay indoors the extreme temperatures are expected to stay in effect through today at least the hot summer months have been lethal at times. in april, 13 people died during a heat wave in mumbai. >> the south is expecting record heat this week michelle grossmann is tracking those temper

let's go to josh letterman what do we know about these pows >> reporter: well, good morning, these three released pows were part of a group of 1 1 ukrainia p.o.w.s about two weeks ago. there's been some information released by the russian orthodox church indicating they may be of hungarian ethnicity and coming from an area where there's a large hungarian minority that may explain some of the connection there meanwhile, hungarians have said, look, they were released freely into the country, they came here of their own volition and are free to to whatever they want. they're not under surveillance, they're not under lock and key the ukrainians say that is false, that they have been trying for weeks to make can't with them. they were unable to do so. that the communications of these ukrainian p.o.w.s were being monitored in hungary ukraine working fever ishly to get the rest of that group of 11 released as soon as they can >> were ahy are they sending prisoners of war to hungary? >> reporter: there's not a clear answer other than the fact that hungarian prime minister viktor orban has mainta

local time we want to bring in josh letterman following this story for us what is the latest on this search and rescue? >> reporter: well, the suspicion at this point, jessica is that this was a gas explosion now the police and prosecutor's office in paris say it's too early to say that for certain, but a deputy mayor in paris has said on social media that it was a gas explosion and there have been witnesses to the fire who told french tv that they were able to smell a strong gas smell prior to the explosion and we know that paris was the home just back in 2019 to a major gas explosion that killed four people. but, in the meantime, the search and rescue operation has been continuing with investigators overnight using sniffing dogs to try to find anyone who might be still in the building. there are reports in the french media this morning that two people who were brielieved to hv potentially still been in that building now have been found and are counted among the injured. the good news, no reports of fatalities yet, but this is an explosion that took place in a very touristy area of