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Ukraine's President Zelenskyy Blames Russia for Fires Near Nuclear Plant. Aired 11:53p-12a ET
Aired September 05, 2022 - 23:53 ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm John Vause at the CNN Center with the top stories we are following right now. A Trump-appointed federal judge has granted the former president's request for an independent review of documents and evidence seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
This is a big win for Trump's legal team. Part of the ruling means investigators will not have access to the documents while they are being examined by a so-called special master.
Both sides must head now to submit a list of potential candidates for their job. The judge cited allegation of bias and media links as one of her reasons for ruling in favor of Trump.
More than 11,000 government documents were removed from Mar-a-Lago during the FBI search last month. We'll have a closer look at all of this in just a few minutes right here live on CNN NEWSROOM.
Well, two suspects in a deadly mass stabbing in Canada's Saskatchewan Province has been found dead. The manhunt continues for the other suspect with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warning local residents to be vigilant, describing Myles Sanderson as dangerous, possibly seeking medical attention for an injury. On Monday, Sanderson was charged with murder and attempted murder in the stabbing that killed 10 and wounded 18.
In the coming hours, Liz Truss will be invited by Queen Elizabeth to form a new government and serve as prime minister after winning a leadership battle for the ruling conservative party.
Truss defeated Rishi Sunak, the former finance minister, with a narrow victory in a vote among rank-and-file members of the conservative party. She has promised to cut taxes, grow the economy, ease the burden of record-high energy cost for both families and business.
The former foreign secretary takes over for Boris Johnson. And a break with tradition, he will fly to Scotland formally under his resignation to the queen who has remained (INAUDIBLE) on a summer holiday.
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VAUSE: After Johnson's resignation, Truss will then fly to Scotland in a separate jet for an expected 30-minute orientation with the queen. Just hours after that, she will deliver her first speech to the nation as prime minister. Ukraine's president says Russian shelling caused a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It disconnected the last working reactor from the power grid.
A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency says the reactor should be reconnected once the fires are out. An IAEA team was given access to the nuclear plant last week, expected to report on safety conditions at the facility.
President Zelenskyy says the continued Russian shelling around the plant has proved that Moscow is not concerned by the prospect of causing a potential nuclear disaster.
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY (through translator): Shelling the territory of Zaporizhzhia means that the terrorists, they do not care what the IAEA says, what the international community decides. Russia is interested only in the fact that the situation would remain in the works and as long as possible.
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VAUSE: More details now from CNN's Sam Kiley reporting in from Odesa.
SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For the third time in 10 days, the Ukrainian authorities are deeply concerned about the disconnection of a nuclear reactor at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is 20 miles south of the city of 700,000 people because they say that it has been disconnected, forcing the use of the backup power, the diesel generating system, in order to cool the nuclear reactor. Now, this has happened three times in the past, and every time it happens, the concern is over a nuclear meltdown increase.
Now, there are two U.N. inspectors still on the site. They're supposed to be there permanently or at least for the foreseeable future. So, it will be interesting to see who they'll blame or whether they go public with what's going on there.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has been claiming relatively limited success, saying that at least two villages in the south during the southern offensive here have been captured, and one village in the east.
Now, these villages frequently change hands fairly often during these campaigns, but there's no doubt that here in the south, the Ukrainians' counteroffensive still means that they have the initiative using a lot of NATO-supplied firepower to overwhelm superior numbers of artillery and men that the Russians have here on the ground.
Sam Kiley, CNN, in Odesa.
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VAUSE: A Moscow court has sentenced a former journalist to 22 years in prison on charges of treason. Ivan Safronov, who covered space and military, was also an adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency. Prosecutors say he passed military and technical secrets to NATO. Critics say Safronov is being punished for independent reporting with Amnesty International calling his sentence absurd.
A suicide bombing has killed six people, including two Russian embassy employees in Afghanistan's capital city. Russian officials say the bomb exploded near the (INAUDIBLE) section of the embassy in Kabul. Security forces shot the bomber but not before his explosives detonated in a crowd of people. ISIS-Afghan affiliate is claiming responsibility.
I am John Vause at the CNN Center in Atlanta. CNN NEWSROOM starts after a very short break. Please stay with us. I will see you in a few minutes.
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