a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. just ahead time that the president announce a declaration of a national emergency. we re working within the constraints of a broken immigration system. i have not seen from there is a seriousness of the white house that they want to deal, seems like they want to default. he knows what happened, what, where, when, who, why and how. he knows the answers. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 12, 9:00 a.m. in london and 2:00 a.m. in el paso where a landmark change in u.s. immigration policy is now in effect. the controversial rule known as title 42 expired just a few hours ago. that means harsher consequences for those entering the u.s. illegally. thousands of migrants seeking asylum made their way to the border ahead of the deadline. while things appear quiet right now, one official says that it will get worse. head of
rising death toll. we are all hunker down praying. praying to god. russian police have arrested a female suspect in a bombing that killed a prominent supporter of russia s war on uke. plunnouncests flashing worldwide production. nasa names that accrue for a history making mission to the moon s orbit. this is our crew. this is humanity s crew. norah: mcdonald s temporarily shudders its u.s. corporate offices ahead of reported layoffs. lsu has captured its very first national championship. norah: good evening thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight at this hour, donald trump is meeting with his new legal team as he prepares to be the first former president to see the inside of the courtroom as a defendant. on tuesday he will travel down to lower manhattan terror surrender to the new york district attorney and tonight we are wondering, will there be cameras in the courtroom? trump s lawyers opposing them, arguing it would create a circus
idea, nato expected to invite finland to negotiate. and sweden also 1kexpected to announce its intention to join the alliance a. russia has warned both countries saying that there would be consequences. let s go live to helsinki and bring in nic robertson. put these developments into context for us. reporter: huge developments. rapid change in public and political opinion here about nato membership as you have when russia invaded ukraine. fins no longer felt safe. they felt threatened by russia. saying that the country should join. good for finland. good for nato the next steps and they are fairly low hurdles, if you like. the prime minister discussing over the weekend. the foreign affairs committee to put their paper forward and the parliament to vote in the session. i spoke yesterday with one of the prime minister s and they said look, already over 180 of the 200 are ready to vote yes to join nato. this is all but a foregone conclusion. the nato secretary-general saying f
itf t idf saying that was the result of a malfunction of their dome system. and we ve been speaking about remembering the american journalist shireen abu akleh and israel is finally apologizing for her death. reporter: that s right. in an interview with cnn yesterday, the rear admiral, who is the chief spokesman for the israeli defense forces, he took the opportunity to say sorry. this was the first time that the idf or anyone in authority in israel has said as much. i think it is an opportunity for me to say here that we are very sorry of the death of the late shireen abu akleh, she was a journalist, very established jour journalist. in israel we are a democracy and in democracy, we see high value in journalism and in free express and we want journalists to feel safe in israel
with his russian counterpart, urging moscow to release the reporter, who works for the wall street journal. today, a moscow court said gershkovich is appealing his detention. evan is a journalist. everyone you talk to knows avenue and is a jour journalist. he s not a spy. reporter: pjotr sauer is a close friend of gershkovich and a fellow journalist. is it possible he is essentially being used as a hostage by the russian government? yeah, it s hostagetaking. we don t know why they re doing it at this point but we know that the spying charges are complete the absurd. reporter: russia s invasion of ukraine has had many unforeseen repercussions. tomorrow, finland will become a member of nato, a move prompted by russia s attack on its neighbor. norah. norah: holly williams, thank you. gas prices could soon be headed higher, after opec plus countries announced a major