This report. Distant Artillery Fire the situation in Soledar Depends On who you ask. Its under control as of this morning according to this ukrainian commander. They will never break us, says his injured comrade. We are winning. But if you ask these two, wagner are clearing the city, they say. Russian, yes, but not from the regular army. Theyre from a private Military Group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russias fighting. Its boss, yevgeny prigozhin, has recently recruited convicts from russianjails, and theyve been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. We chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if thats the case. Dont believe russian propaganda. Its not true. Bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. Kyiv has described the Battle For Soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. And thats all we can say with real certainty. Small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over and the human cost is huge. B
jansing in new york city. warning signs in the economy as worries about a recession, interest rates and the debt limit shave hundreds of punts points off the dow. now with a standoff over how to pay the nation s debts, will things get worse before they get better? and why wait until next week to find out? plus, no chief justice, no problem. senate democrats slam the supreme court as they push ahead with a hearing on ethics, even after john roberts declines to show up. chairman dick durbin arguing the justices ethical standards shouldn t be acceptable at a local city council, let alone the highest court in the land. and as the texas manhunt stretches into a fourth day, haunting new questions from family members about whether the police could have caught the suspect at the scene or stopped him before he started the massacre. i ll talk to a former police chief about what should have happened once those 911 calls started coming in. but we begin with congress and the white
with just a week to go until the king s coronation, preparations for street parties across the uk are well underway. now on bbc news, extreme conservation: the maldives. i m michaela strachan, a wildlife presenter with a passion for conservation. for the past 35 years, my work has taken me all over the world and in that time, i ve seen huge changes many due to climate change. in extreme conservation, we travel to different countries, meeting inspirational people. hello! ..with new ideas. this time, i m in the maldives. this seems like paradise but behind all the beauty and the luxury lodges lies a very real and looming threat, and that s climate change, which is literally washing these stunning coral islands off the map. as soon as they realise i m from the maldives, they re like, oh, when is it sinking? i got to get there before it sinks. the maldives needs solutions, and it needs them fast. our islands are eroding at an alarming rate. we depend solely on our coral reef
machine company dominion several weeks ago as fox news lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with dominion voting systems, they presented tucker carlson with what they thought was good news. they had persuaded the court to redract from a legal filing the time he called a fox news executive the c-word mr. carlson, fox news most watched primetime host was not impressed. he told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about that executive in a private message the people said mr. carlson said comments he made about former president donald trump, i hate him passionately that were in the court documents, were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his dislike of the executive was deep and enduring. the tensions between tucker carlson and fox news leadership had been simmering for some time the wall street journal also reports within fox s management, reservations had been mounting about risks mr. carlson presented for the network. some of the
a war zone as president. he and zelensky walking through the streets of kiev. you can hear the sirens ringing through the country as the two leaders were leaving a church a few hours ago. [sirens blaring] bill: quite a shot there biden and zelensky undeterred by those alarms above. unannounced visit comes after ukraine marks a year of fending off russia. the fighting only expected to intensify in the coming months with that spring thaw. according to the president s america s support will go nowhere. president biden: i m here to show our unwavering support for the nation s independence. we know there will be very difficult days, weeks and years ahead but russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. russia s military has lost half its territory it once occupied. dana: president biden getting a look at the devastating toll of russia s invasion that s ravaged the country for the last year. the fighting has killed thousands of troops and