relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant shapps
night for the former first family s protection detail. hearing aids over the counter. help is here for the tens of millions of americans with hearing loss. cbs roxana saberi shows us the benefits and drawbacks of the new program. and we ll introduce you to someone guaranteed to lift your spirits. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we begin a new week together. we want to begin tonight overseas with the war in ukraine, where russia is inflicting a new type of terror on several major cities, using iran-made kamikaze drones. the unmanned aircraft are small but pack a heav punch and explode on impact. today, raining down from the sky during the morning rush hour and rocking residential buildings. ukrainian president zelenskyy said his military was able to shoot down 37 drones, but the wave of attacks killed at least four, including a woman who was six months pregna
the way here. we will be joined in a moment. john: but first, a fox news alert, a furious china and military on high alert. house speaker pelosi s trip to taiwan is now over, as the world awaits the fallout promised by the chinese government. good wednesday to you. gillian: pelosi met with taiwan s president and other senior leaders during her 20-hour stay in taipei. reaffirming the commitment to taiwan s democracy and supporting the island militarily. critics say it does more harm than good in an already unstable region. john: communist regime planning a series of live fire exercises tomorrow. ten miles off the coast of taiwan. tennessee republican senator bill haggerty has expertise as a former ambassador to japan. gillian: aishah hasnie joins us this afternoon. how is the white house responding to china s plans? hey there, good afternoon to you, gillian and john. the white house is really trying to get china to not increase tensions any more, to not escalate the
gallon nationally. what an lists are saying about where those prices are headed ass we move into the summer travel season. are headsed as we move into the summer travel season. good morning, welcome to this monday morning on monday, january 13th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. following the massive spate of shootings across the united states, a bipartisan group of senators says it has reached a deal for the framework on a new set of gun violence prevention laws. after weeks of negotiation, the ten democrats and ten republicans announced a break through yesterday writing in part this. families are scared. and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore the sense of safety, and security in their communities. while sources say the final bill has not yet been done, the agreed-upon proposal would provide democrats with many of the gun safety measures they have long sought fof, those include significant funding for states to implemen
this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. president biden last week addressing thursday s primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and we re hours away from the committee s second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be the most significant gun safety legislation in decades. we ll tell you what s in the deal and how soon it could get to the president s desk. one of the leading negotiators, senator chris murphy, will join us live right here on morning joe. we re also keeping an eye on wall street, as the markets are tanking ahead of the opening bell. looks like a bad day ahead. good day to go to the track. we ll get some insight on what is fueling this latest sell-off. plus, the average price of gas hi