following president tsai ing wen s trip to the united states. now it s time for click. this week we ve got plenty to whet your appetite. we re in singapore to test the future with a starter of pink gold, followed by your main course. this is my first ever taste of cultivated chicken. there is a special 50th birthday treat as we chat to the man who made the first mobile phone call. and for desert, an internet legend tells us what it was like to be part of the twitter takeover. i really did get to see what was happening right in the thick of it. it s hot, it s bustling, it s intense. welcome to singapore. i ve come to a citystate that is home to more than 5 million people and atjust 50 kilometres wide and less than 140k from the equator, this place feels like it in the centre of everything. east meets west here, nature meets future. this is a thriving financial hub that seems to be doing pretty well for itself. when you think of singapore you might think of the tropical climate
people that they are trafficking into america, how they enslave them in the sex trade and how the treat these people and leave them for dead in the deserts. we need to pick up the pieces of those families who lose loved ones to fentanyl poisoning. dana: mexico s president obrador rejecting claims that mexican drug traffickers are responsible for the fentanyl in the u.s. and saying it is u.s. problem. not mexico s. bill: bill melugin back at his post in brownsville, texas, where he has been most of the week. hello. good morning to you. it is well established fact that fentanyl is mass-produced in mexico by mexican drug cartels in their labs using chemicals imported from china. mexico s president said they have nothing to do with that and it s all the u.s. s problem. he said take a look. here we do not produce fentanyl and we do not have the consumption of fentanyl. why don t they, the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? fentanyl is pouring into the
following all of this for us. thank you. top of a brand-new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. i ll bianna golodryga. the supreme court just finished hearing oral arguments in two cases challenging president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the decision could affect 40 million borrowers. the program, which would provide up to $20,000 of debt forgiveness has been on hold after a lower court blocked it back in november. conservatives challenging the program argue it will have widespread economic repercussions. the congressional budget office estimated it will cost $400 billion over time, but justice ketanji brown jackson argued one of the largest servicers of student loans, mohela in missouri, is not a government entity. in fact, isn t that really as you say the most important thing if economic injury is the point? yes. i understood that the injury that was being asserted here was an economic injury, but if we look at mohela and we
of its kind, and if signed into law by the montana governor, will almost certainly face legal challenges. under the proposed law, apple and google would have to remove tiktok from their app stores orface the possibility of a $10,000 a day fine for violation. tiktok has denied accusations that it s a tool of the chinese communist party. the company has described the proposed ban as egregious government overreach . although the ban wouldn t take effect untiljanuary 2024, it would impact thousands of montana tiktok users and content creators, many of whom, with sizeable followings, depend on the platform to make a living. carly gotha rd carly gothard is one of these influences here, she posts lifestyle blogs, and i spoke to her earlier. festival, tell us what your reaction is to this move from montana lawmakers. i am just shocked. this is howl am just shocked. this is how i make my income, and i am able to help provide for my family, and honestly it really saddens me because i
was evacuated and is safe after a blast at a speech in wakayama according to reports byjapanese media. nhk is reporting that loud explosions have been heard at the western port where the prime minister was visiting. local media are also reporting that a person has been apprehended. report at the scene, at around 1115 on the 15th, he was visiting a fishing port, he was there according to this report to support the by election of the house of representatives for the wakayama district wine, and this reporter said an explosion sounded just before he began his speech, and it sounded like something was thrown in and exploded. that is the reporting from nhk, the broadcaster, it s a moving situation and we will bring you all the latest details on that story as they come into us, but at the moment, that is the information we have that breaking story from japan. montana has become the first us state to pass legislation imposing a total ban on the popular app, tiktok. the bill is the fi