This thick white smoke indicates what ukraine says is a successful strike on the headquarters of russias black sea navy in crimea. Russia illegally annexed the Southern Ukrainian Peninsula of crimea in 2014. This month, ukraine has carried out several attacks on the region, destroying a Russian Air Defence system and damaging a ship and a submarine in a dry dock. Kyiv is also trying to cut off russian supply lines as it continues with its Counter Offensive further north. 0ur Senior International correspondent 0rla guerin is in kyiv. Kyiv could hardly have picked a more high profile target than the headquarters of russias Black Sea Fleet in crimea and a source in the Ukrainian Air force told the bbc that the type of missile used was a storm shadow Cruise Missile and those are supplied by the uk and france. We have seen footage showing a massive impact on the building and tonight they have been claims in the past half an hour on social media that the commander of the Black Sea Fleet was
Continued occupation in a place that seems a cornerstone of its invasion from as far back as 2014. There is also a connection between this Missile Strike and ukraines continued counteroffensive further north. What they are trying to do is frustrate russian supply lines and isolate swathes of occupied territory in the hope that troops will run out of supplies. Now, president zelensky has just completed a visit to the us. Hes in canada currently, and i think what were seeing now is Battlefield Progress increasingly getting linked to the politics of it all. Because, yes, he is being warmly welcomed by both countries, but there are political corners that are growing increasingly sceptical as to what the ukrainian victory might look like and as for how long western allies should be pumping billions of dollars into ukraine. So its becoming increasingly high stakes for president zelensky, whos now having to do a fair bit of negotiating in his foreign policy. As james mentioned in his report t
the new cross london elizabeth line railway will open on may the 24t. the capital s newest railway will run from reading in berkshire to shenfield in essex and abbey wood in south east london. it had originally planned to open in december 2018. but it was hit by numerous problems including construction delays. it s gust £18.9 billion the budget originally set was £14.8 billion in 2010. the headlines on bbc news. the ukrainian city of lviv is hit by a number of russian missile strikes the first in the west of the country in more than a week. the eu proposes a ban on russian oil imports as part of a fresh package of sanctions more protests have been taking place over a leaked document, which suggests millions of women in america could lose the legal right to abortion. the governor of the us state
welcome back to velshi & ruhle. markets talki ining the stoc market has been down, and they continue to slide today. this market dip comes specifically after china announced retaliating with tariffs. china s tariffs are targeting soy, energy, and a total of 818 chinese imports could have devastating effects on the very people who voted for president trump. let s take a look at who specifically stands to lose the most off china s recent announcement. president trump won the ohio vote by 8 percentage points in the 2016 election. yet, ohio, the state of ohio, could be the hardest hit by the looming trade war, with americans biggest trading partners. 2017, 38% of ohio exports went to canada. a total of $18.9 billion. mexico is ohio s second largest market. a total of $6.5 billion in in 2017. with president trump threatening
run away executive any more. it is calling into question whether congress will pay the bills it has already chosen to incur. like buying a tv then taking a family vote on whether or not you will pay for it when the check comes due. but this is not like grandfather clocks. this is like bleeding someone you suspect to be a witch. the global crisis probably would result. even if we return back to sanity and begin paying our bills again, america s borrowing costs would be forever higher and the market s confidence would be permanently harmed. the bipartisan policy sector estimates the near miss we had in 2011 cost us $18.9 billion. billion with a b. that is 18.9 billion. we lost for no reason. it didn t buy us any government services or lower anybody s taxes by even a dime. it is time to get rid of the debt ceiling. and don t take it from me. take it from the policy makers