supreme court is deciding whether to weigh in on the federal election subversion charges. the special council urges the judges to put the case at a fast track after trump asked them to stay out of the dispute for now. also tonight, rudy giuliani files for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay more than $148 million in damages to two election workers he defamed. we re getting a new window his troubled finances and legal peril. and residents flee in terror as a gunman killed at least 14 people in the heart of a major european city. we re learning more about the shooter who opened fire at a university in prague and how he was quote eliminated. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the urgent question before the u.s. supreme court right now. should the justices agree to an expedited review of donald trump s claim of immunity for prosecution for crimes he allegedly committed while in
a rush to judgment. the special counsel jack smith urging the supreme court not to wait to decide a critical question concerning donald trump. is he entitled to immunity for crimes he may have committed as president? and growing influence. two months of war brought on by hamas s attack on israel hasn t hurt the terror group sway over gaza. in fact, maybe the opposite. and under fire again, harvard s president now facing questions over whether she committed plagiarism, this after avoiding calls for her to resign over her testimony on antisemitism. can she survive another controversy? following these major stories and many, more all coming in right here to cnn news central. the special counsel prosecuting donald trump wants to fast-track a key dispute in the case right to the supreme court. today, jack smith again urged justices to weigh in now on whether a former president can be prosecuted for alleged crimes committed while in office. it is an issue that has never been test
the united nations secretary general, antonio guterres, has asked the security council to urgently consider haiti s request for deployment now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi from south africa where my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. william kentridge is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. he is william kentridge and this is a major exhibition of his work in cape town. in 2020 i travelled to his studio and asked how south african politics influenced his art. william kentridge in johannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio injohannesburg. you were born in johannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware of and involved in legal questions around the anti apartheid struggle, from a young
top fill the shot, body rock rock it the ballots that are fraudulent. and if we re wrong, we will be made fools of. but if we re right, a lot of them will go to jail. [cheers and applause] so let s have trial by combat. [crowd clamoring] - when giuliani appeared alongside donald trump on january 6th, what came to my mind was the riot at city hall. [crowd yelling] - [whistling] - they marched around city hall park in a peaceful and orderly fashion, but then, minutes later, thousands of cops stormed through the barricades and ran on top of cars as they charged the stairs of city hall. [crowd cheering and yelling] - people called it at the time the riot of the oppressors. [crowd yelling] a riot of policemen. [crowd yelling] - you have a bunch of off-duty cops. [crowd yelling] - took over the roadway of the brooklyn bridge. jumped on cars. stormed city hall. - saying that their jobs had become too difficult and that they didn t have the support that they needed and