A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
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nothing as windy as we saw earlier on in the week. that hello. ukraine doesn t deny shooting down a russian plane inside russia, killing we re told, ukranian prisoners. 700 days in how dangerous a moment is this? our defence editor, mark urban, is here to explain the significance. ukraine nears the second anniversary of russia s invasion full of uncertainty has western commitment faltered? and how much more can they send even if they want to? we ll ask a ukrainian mp and the former us ambassador to nato. coming up. what do the post office scandal, me too, newsnight s investigation into university hospitals birmingham foundation trust and the tavistock gender identity clinic have in common? all featured whistleblowers and some of them weren t protected by the law that s supposed to keep them safe. time for a new whistleblowers bill, say these two women. we ll talk to the chair of the parliamentary group on whistleblowing and the head of whistlebowers uk in ten minutes. a
weather where the national weather service has said is dangerous and life threatening. if you stay out longer than ten minutes, there s a risk you might get frostbite even if you are layered up. i think the weather is one of those issues that people like to talk about more than politics. it has dominated conversation. when it comes to the issues at play, what are the different candidates talking about and how are people in iowa specific the responding? here in iowa, donald iowa specific the responding? here in iowa, donald trump iowa specific the responding? haze: in iowa, donald trump is iowa specific the responding? flee: in iowa, donald trump is by iowa specific the responding? hee in iowa, donald trump is by far the most popular candidate. the bull by the des moines register, the most prodigious full shows that he has a very commanding lead. all three candidates there are others as well seen as outsiders they all have these different messages. ron desantis s messa
Back in december, the optimism of the Ukrainian Forces was fading. There were fears it would be a bad winter and the russians were targeting Generating Stations and heating plants. But ukrainian engineers worked like crazy to restore power. And anyway, the winter wasnt that bad. Now some Military Experts in the west are even daring to suggest that the russian army might simply collapse over the next few months. Who knows . President xi jinping of china has presented himself as a deal maker in the war, but his proposals have so far been pretty vague and, perhaps not surprisingly, much more favourable to his friend Vladimir Putin than to ukraine. Theres less noise about a chinese invasion of taiwan, but many taiwanese leaders think itll happen by 2029. In the us, since december, ex President Trump has been accused of various crimes and been sued successfully for one of them. Yet his popularity with the Republican Party has soared, while his main rival, ron desantis, has faded. Now trump