taiwan in six different locations opening fire. so what is the cost/benefit analysis of this trip here? live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 4, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where closing arguments are expected in just a few hours in the trial of u.s. back star brittney griner. it is the second hearing so far this week for griner who was arrested at a moscow airport back this february. she is being held on drug charges after being caught with cannabis oil in her luggage. griner pleaded guilty to the charges against her in hopes of securing a lighter sentence. the u.s. has attempted to broker a prisoner swap with moscow, but so far no agreement. fred pleitgen isle following the developments for us from moscow. and this could be the final day, we could get the result. reporter: we could indeed. certainly something that is not set in stone and isn t necessarily on the official agenda.
and china ramps up military drills and raises fears of a dangerous stand-off with the u.s. after house speaker nancy pelosi wraps her risky visit to taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. we begin with a powerful message sent by kansas voters on the issue of abortion. with the critical midterm election around the corner. jeff zeleny reports on the conservative state s surprising vote to protect abortion rights and other results from a big round of primaries. reporter: a surge of kansas voters sending an overwhelmingly message to protect abortion rights. it was the biggest sign yet of the backlash to the supreme court s decision to send the question of abortion back to the states. and here in conservative kansas, voters delivered their answer loud and clear. we don t want the government m making our reproductive health decisions for us. reporter: sharice davids
how is the world going to move 3 millions tonnes of wheat a day through a war zone and the shipping channels now infested with mines? and spot the resemblance? the ukrainian croissiant that was made in honour of the british prime minister. tonight with the context, former conservative cabinet minister justine greening and the political satirist and host of the web series oh my world, hagar chemali. welcome to the programme. time to draw the line was the prime minister s message for his cabinet this morning as collectively they try to steer the conversation away from the obvious split within the conservative party. but is it that easy when 40% of your mps have rebelled? history tells us, no, it s not! in 1990, margaret thatcher won a leadership contest by a similar margin against michael heseltine, 208 votes to 152, though rules at the time meant she would face a second vote and two days later, she stepped down. in 2018, theresa may won a vote of no confidence amid a rebelli
weeks of horror. three mass shootings. the latest hours ago in tulsa, oklahoma. police say a gunman burst into a medical building on a hospital campus and killed four people including the doctor he blamed for his post surgical pain. we also learned from police that that killer bought an assault-style rifle less than three hours before the attack and a handgun only three days earlier. we are also letting new details about last week s horrific school attack in uvalde, texas. the mayor says a negotiator tried and failed to reach the killer as he was barricaded in a fourth grade class room. today two of his 21 victims will be buried. and next hour, in buffalo, new york, the teenager accused of killing ten people in a racist attack at a grocery store will be in court. he faces more than two dozen charges including counts that are terror, and hate crime related. 223 mass shootings, already this year. more mass shootings than days so far. and cnn is on top of all these development
maga actually belongs to the people. a nationwide shortage of baby formula sending the white house scrambling. it s terrifying, it s terrifying when that s the only true source of nutrition your baby gets. will voters blame president biden if back to normal is still beyond their reach. putin s worst nightmare. an expanded nato. will finland and sweden joining the alliance spur a wider war? inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. racially motivated violent extremism. that is what the department of justice is calling saturday s mass shooting in buffalo, new york. according to a statement from the u.s. attorney general merrick garland. police say an 18-year-old man who was dressed in tactical gear and protective armor drove for hours to reach a predominantly black area of buffalo before opening fire on shoppers at a grocery store yesterday. ten people killed, and