there will likely now be multiple investigations. paula newton is joining us live from halifax. and what will investigators focus on now? reporter: they will focus on whether or not this was a catastrophic event that entailed just one thing going wrong or if this was multiple things given the strain on that vehicle. remember, we had heard that there were quite a few successful expeditions to the titanic wreck, was there stress put on the titan which then because it was largely unregulated wasn t tested going through the motions. you ve had so many people weigh in on this and one is james cameron who he himself has been to the wreck of the titanic and other deep sea explorations. listen to him now. i think there is almost a surreal irony. the titanic sank because the captain took it into an ice field on a moonless night with poor visibility after he had been repeatedly warned by telegram, by are a during t b are a during the day that that is what was ahead. and so a p
right now, the nations in the midst of reflection, the second federal observation of the black freedom struggle, expressed by the holiday known as juneteenth. it comes at the start of a potentially dizzying news cycle. starting this week, as the senate holds out hope that a tenuous bipartisan deal, on guns cannot get a quick vote. while the momentum is there after weeks of mass shootings. and one bracing for the supreme courts spending public to take decision on the future of the federal abortion rights, to come down within days. as the white house weighs its options to protect those rights, possibly through executive order. and then there s what will be the third week of public hearings in the congressional probe into january six. the next round, centering on donald trump s pressure campaign put it election officials in georgia. to overturn the 2020 election results in that. state and we re also waiting a hard confirmation that ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice, cl
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%
Offences in 2020. The new York State Court of appeals ruled that the original trial made a mistake by Hearing Evidence from women who claimed they had been assaulted, even though their allegations were not part of the charges being heard. He was jailed for 23 years. The judges have ordered that a new trial be held. He has also been sentenced in california to 16 years in prison for raping an actress in los angeles, and that conviction is not directly affected by this ruling. Lets speak to our North America correspondent nomia iqbal is not going to be walking out of jail because of the other conviction in los angeles, but talk is through the 2020 case that was so huge in terms of the Metoo Movement. The harve terms of the Metoo Movement. Tue Harvey Weinstein terms of the Metoo Movement. Tte Harvey Weinstein conviction case was almost the founding case of the metoo, one of the most important social media movements in modern American History where people spoke out against Sexual Violence a
and behind your back. stop twisting my arm. put your hands behind your back. the couple was cited and released, although it s not clear what they were cited for. they say that both deputies had been reassigned from field to duty pending investigation. still to come, torrential rains and flooding led to some dramatic waters in china. those details, ahead.