reporter: what impact would a rail strike have on already high inflation in this country? o donnell: surprise trip: ukraine s president zelenskyy visits a newly liberated city, and our own debora patta is there with the latest on the lightning offensive. we are coming back, and we are on the way to the end. o donnell: and boston bomb scare. the f.b.i. investigates after a reported explosion on a college campus. cbs jeff pegues has new details. 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 on this historic wednesday night. tonight, the general public began saying its final good-byes to queen elizabeth ii in london. the late monarch will lie in state until her funeral on monday. you can see mourners inside westminster hall tonight, the queen s coffin surrounded by royal body guards. hundreds of thousands are expected to pay their respects over the next four days. at on
tonight with the context, political analyst dahlia schneidlin, and the former federal prosecutor joe moreno. hello, welcome to the programme. under the united states constitution, everyone has the right to the fifth amendment. but for many years, donald trump held a particular view of those who invoked it. so, they have five people taking the fifth amendment, like you see on the mob, right? you see mob take the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? fifth amendment, fifth - amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible! but today in new york, he refused to answer any questions under oath, pleading the fifth. the former president had been deposed in a civil case brought by new york attorney general, letitia james, who is investigating whether the trump organisation inflated then deflated the value of its prized assets, its golf courses, its skyscrapers, to deceive the lenders and the tax authorities. in a statement soon after, mrtrump said. joe,
two developing stories at this hour. one is this ongoing new secretive investigation into what happened in the hallway when 19 officers stood outside during the killing at robb, a congressman explaining his reasoning why this is all so secretive. one person s truth may be different than another person s truth. i think we know this from an investigative process and judicial process. before this committee is willing to announce what we believe is to be factual information, we want to hear from all sides. martha: we know ultimately there s one truth about what happened in that hallway. remember this moment? you re doing nothing! martha: did that moment make the texas governor s race tighter than it was before? in other words, did it help beto o rourke? we ll break that down. lawrence jones host of lawrence jones cross-country saturday at 8:00 p.m. he reported from his home state of texas following that shooting. good to have you with us today. first of all, tell me what
we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%
The, the power is out on the country. Its a black mountain. Like, oh it is. It was, i know the blackouts are serious. We hope they never happened, but they could my boss, the on the, its a blackout house that you over last year. We have for a long time, more and more people in germany, fee of this, alexander holland, housing has noticed. He sells backup generations. Demand has been growing, and not just since the start of the war and ukraine. We had some light. Its like under the state in the past 2 years, this has been increasing steadily. But in the past few months, its going up shop late on the growth of more than a 100 percent. The demand is definitely the compared to the previous year. Its going up by more than 100 percent. And which the a lot of people that are worried about such horace scenarios. So is that the, preparing for a complete collapse, the Electricity Supply via christine tops into all these all into niema. Weve got the dentist, the veterinarian and company. Oh no. So