the top name in speculation right now judge katanji brown jackson, joe biden recently appointed to the d.c. circuit court of appeals to replace merrick garland. jackson is a former clerk of justice breyer, confirmed in a 53-44 majority by the senate. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, chief legal correspondent and host of the beat ari melber, kelly o donnell and slate legal correspondent dahlia lithwick. pete, you broke this news. justice breyer himself has not announced it or made it official but can you tell us anything about the decision-making process behind his decision to retire? well, our understanding is he came to this decision within the last several weeks. he s obviously in good health. he is 83. he s the court s oldest member but that apparently did not his age or health did not play a part in this. we re told he s well aware of the current political climate. in the past supreme sort justices did not time their decisions in terms o
to visit since the invasion. japan says ten people have died off the northern island of hokkaido after a sightseeing boat went missing on saturday. hello, and welcome to bbc news. good afternoon from clichy in the northwestern suburbs of the french capital, paris. this is an area that generally had more support for the that means that marine le pen who scored 7% in the first round and emmanuel macron are battling it out for votes. let s have a look where emmanuel macron left home, went to the polling station and cast his vote as he seeks a second term in office, anotherfive vote as he seeks a second term in office, another five years. successive presidencies have been very hard to come by in recent years so that in itself would be regarded by his team as something of a success. marine le pen it is in similar country in the north, she has also cast her vote and the expectations from opinion polls would be she would get the best score ever for her party whether in its previous
russia s invasion. meanwhile, intense fighting continuing across ukraine on this orthodox easter sunday. major bombardments in mariupol. ukrainian forces surrounded, and ukraine says a humanitarian corridor expected to open in the besieged city today could not because russia would not guarantee a cease fire. in odesa, new video emerging of a russian missile strike on an apartment building. eight people were killed including a three-month-old baby. and president zelenskyy says he is meeting with top u.s. officials in kyiv today. the secretary of state and secretary of defense. zelenskyy pulling no punches about what he expects from that visit. translator: why is it for leaders to come to us? i will give you a pragmatic answer. because they should not come here with empty hands now. we re waiting not for just presence. we re expecting specific things and specific weapons. let s get to matt rivers who is live for us in kyiv. matt, heavy shelling again today in russia. ram
international correspondent clarissa ward. i want to begin with the situation in mariupol. you have putin now seeming to back off for now saying he doesn t need to assault this steel plant there that has become something of a lifeboats for those remaining. we have learned throughout this war to take the words of vladimir putin with skepticism and to assume he s misleading. what do you think his game is here now for mariupol, his intentions? reporter: well, i think, jim, it is looking more and more like this might be the small victory that russia hopes to be able to proclaim ahead of may 9th, which is victory day in russia. people have been speculating furiously as to how they were going to try to construe anything in this war as some kind of victory. mariupol may provide him with that opportunity, which may be why he is seemingly trying to appear as magnanimous in this moment, even though we know that the according to ukrainian commanders and people inside the city that t