of 46 weeks after the british band announced a comeback tour. coming up, we speak to a pioneering sri lankan author who has written a memoir tracing herfamily history, beginning with her great grandmother being allowed to go to school. we start with reports on russian state media that an american journalist has been formally charged with spying. evan gershkovich, who works for the newspaper the wall streetjournal, was arrested last week, taken to court and detained. the kremlin said at the time he d been caught red handed . gershkovich has denied he s done anything wrong. with me is sergei goryashko from bbc russian. mac this is deeply worrying bring us up to date on the situation. the? up-to-date on the situation. they have been up-to-date on the situation. they have been formally up to date on the situation. tie: have been formally charged up to date on the situation. ttez1. have been formally charged today up to date on the situation. tt3:1 have been formally charge
another beating, the dow sinking into the bank that set off the crisis, silicon valley, not cut like goldman sachs. the banks work from hold culture is partly to blame for the collapse? or not. a story you see first out front. the chinese president xi jingpin facing record unemployment and unrest, how could this figure into a potential invasion of taiwan? it a good evening. out front tonight, new video just in. these are ukrainian soldiers shooting down a russian fighter jet. what i am about to show you i think will stand out to you, for the fact that the act appears to be so easy for ukrainians to take out a russian fighter jet that it almost takes him by surprise. so, here it is. what you are looking at is a ukrainian using a surface to air missile. so, shooting from the ground here, takes about three seconds to reach his target and the white circle, you see it, then the clash or explosion there, the soldiers reaction is total shock. it hit the plane. [ bleep ] as i sai
at 10pm we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, serbia: the russia dilemma. there is something strange happening in serbia. a shadow hanging over the balkan nation. rumours of the wagner mercenary group recruiting. russian propaganda spreading. symbols of war being sold as souvenirs. do you get a lot of people buying these? yeah, is the most selling t shirt. the biggest seller? we sell that t shirt, and this z, most of them. everything we sell, these two is amazing. biggest seller. and it is everywhere. rising out of the serbian countryside, green and gold domes a physical monument to russian influence. they call this putin s church. inside, a double headed eagle, a russian flag, and for sale, just under a pound, key rings bearing a z, the symbol of russia s invasion of ukraine. we ve come to belgrade to try and unravel the mystery as to why so many people here support russia s invasion of ukraine. it is thought that more than 70% backed moscow over tha
very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
at this hour also, a ruling on a pivotal abortion rights case could come at any time. we ll talk to the president of planned parenthood about the new wave of restrictions plus, four americans recently kidnapped in mexico were found, but hundreds more are still missing in mexico. we ll talk to one mother who s desperately trying to find her son. in florida, ron desantis is going of a miami hotel after a drag show. we ll explain what s behind it and we begin this hour with china s new show of support for russia overnight, we re learning that next week, china s xi is expected to make his first visit to russia since putin s invasion of ukraine in the past month, china has attempted to portray itself as a peacemaker after releasing a 12 part peace plan, but concerns are growing china could provide weapons to russia. this morning, slovakia joined poland in announcing they, too, will provide ukraine with soviet era fighter jets the kremlin warning that planes sent to ukraine w