Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, the United States

pauses student visa interviews and promises additional social media vetting, causing more disruptions

for colleges and universities. The CDC's abrupt changes to COVID vaccine recommendations

spark concerns among some health professionals.

And in a turn of fate, the site of America's worst nuclear accident

gets another chance to become a power hub.

For many years after the accident, the industry kept their head down,

and now we're standing at the top of the hills shouting, nuclear is clean energy.

Welcome to the news hour. We begin with the war in Ukraine and new developments on defense, diplomacy, and accountability. First defense. Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, was in Berlin today, appealing to his country's biggest military backer in Europe. Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Meertz, offered to help Ukraine

build its own long-range missile systems that could strike deep into Russia, a move Moscow

called provocative. Zelensky said the military muscle is necessary.

You can all see what Putin is doing every night. Massive drone attacks, hundreds of drones.

In order to protect lives in our cities, we need constant support.

Ukraine said that Russia's latest strikes on the city of Kharkiv overnight killed one person and injured seven others,

including a child. That comes as a United Nations panel today found that Russian attacks on

civilians in Ukraine's Kherson province amounted to crimes against humanity. Its report concluded that,

quote, these acts were committed with the primary purpose to spread terror among the

civilian population in violation of international humanitarian law.

Meantime, back in Washington, President Trump expressed frustration at the timing of recent attacks.

I'm very disappointed at what happened a couple of nights now where people were killed in the middle of what you would call a negotiation. I'm very disappointed by that.

That frustration comes as Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, pushed a new round of talks for next Monday in Istanbul.

Ukraine has not yet committed to taking part. A judge in Vermont today

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