to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize the cour
questions about the integrity of americans banks. she says americans are not on the hook for paying back the depositors. john: critics call it a bailout, the biden administration refuses to call it that. and why some think we are headed for a banking tsunami caused by woke obsessed bankers. sandra: but first, it s going to be a breaking news two hours ahead, waiting two separate briefings from the white house and the pentagon how the u.s. will handle russia. all this after dramatic new video showing moments a russian war plane downed a u.s. drone over international air space. hello, welcome, sandra smith in new york. john: happy friday eve to you. america reports. in the 42-second video clip, you can see the plane dumping fuel on the reaper drone before colliding with its propeller over the black sea, russian ships are at the crash site trying to obtain debris, the u.s. does not have any ships in the area. sandra: not only are we there, we are told they rushed ther
word from israeli officials that hamas has lost control of northern gaza. 50,000 palestinians have left gaza city after israeli forces opened the main road leading south. the route was kept open for about five hours and is affected to reopen again on thursday. the hamas one health ministries is almost half of those killed in gaza in the last day were killed in the south, an area meant to be safe. the health ministry also says more than 10,000 palestinians have now been killed. there is possible progress in the race of some hostages. a source of the bbc discussion are taking place for the release of 12 hostages. half of them are americans. in exchange for a three day humanitarian pause. 0ur international editorjeremy bowen has travelled with the israel defence forces into gaza. the bibs had editorial control of this next report, this action by the idf has been viewed by them. like young soldiers in many wars, israeli troops looked excited, not apprehensive, as they made their
bret? bret: gillian turner on the north lawn. thank you. hunter biden s legal team going after the owner of that computer shop where he allegedly left his now infamous laptop. they say the owner had no right to copy biden s private information and distribute it. so there are a lot of people asking does this officially mean that hunter biden confirms it is his laptop. this comes amid new information about other members of the biden family, possibly benefiting from business deals, including one with china. here is senior national correspondent rich edson. president biden s son hunter is staying on the offensive. filing a new lawsuit against computer repair shop owner john paul mac isaac. alleging, quote. by disseminating mr. biden s private and sensitive data to others that he came to possess, mack isaac aided and abetted their violations of mr. biden s right to privacy. this suit is in response to mac isaac s lawsuit filed last year n. against hunter claiming
hunter defamed him. mac isaac maintains that april 2019 hunter brought a laptop to his shop. mac isaac recovered the data as requested. called hunter to pick it up. sent him an invoice. reached out again and then hunter never returned. to that, hunter s suit responds, quote: mr. biden is without knowledge sufficient to admit or deny the allegations. they said there was nothing to the laptop. i don t think the white house ever thought that i would get my hands on those bank records. oversight committee republicans are intensifying their investigation into president biden s family. it s international businesses and payments received from a chinese energy firm. chairman james comer today sent a letter to biden family associate rob walker requesting a transcribed interview as, quote: the committee as identified you as a critical witness in this matter and has reviewed evidence showing you received millions of dollars originating from a chinese energy company and elsewhere. comer says i