formerly head of the british army, the ukrainian mp oleksiy goncharenko, and michael koffman, director of russia studies at the centre for naval analyses. good evening. welcome to the programme. a special edition tonight as we look towards the one year anniversary tomorrow of the war in ukraine. on this night a year ago, we were still largely guessing at what president putin had in mind. the russian troops had been massing for weeks along the ukraine border, though most ukrainians still doubted the intelligence that was coming from washington. but then just a few hours after the programme came off air, this. the first bombs had begun to fall. the air raid sirens wailed across kyiv for the first time, as russian tanks rolled towards the capital. and at that point, most people expected a quick russian victory. it hasn t turned out that way. the war waged by vladimir putin has been a disaster for his country. the resistance much stronger than he d anticipated. for ukraine it has
tonight on the reidout i was asked by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district to stand down on our investigation, which had commenced involving the trump organization and i was somewhat surprised after mr. cohen pleaded guilty that the federal government did not proceed on the areas in which it asked me to stand down. former manhattan d.a. cy vance revealed why it has taken so long to get to this point just hours from the fingerprinting of the first criminally indicted former president. and as we have been seeing all day, trump s strategy is to turn this humiliating event in his life into a media spectacle. omarosa, who knows a thing or two about trump and spectacle, joins me tonight to discuss. and that is where we begin tonight, on the eve of a legal reckoning for donald trump in new york city. trump made an ignominious return to his former hometown today ahead of his history making day in court tomorrow. as the first american president ever charged
to broadcast the hearing and whether trump s indictment will be unsealed before it begins. we re also tracking the massive security operation underway right now, as officials prepare for the former president s movements. through the city and the courthouse. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story tonight. we re less than 24 hours away from the arrangement of former president donald trump had a new york city courthouse. cnn correspondents are on the ground in manhattan with new information about the case. we also have a team of experts ready to break down this truly historic moment from every angle first, let s go to our senior legal affairs. correspondent paula reaches just outside the courthouse for us. give us the latest paula great. we learned that trump s lawyers are opposing having cameras in the courtroom for tomorrow s historic arrangement. a media organizations, including cnn,
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday s incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with paula newton. what do we know about this latest shootdown? obviously significant enough for the canadian prime minister to tweet about this in the last hour or so. and given the week we ve had with these objects, it is pretty predictable that he would want to be fully transparent about it. we were talking about norad, the north american aerospace command observed this high altitude object, confirm
british gas suspends its force fitting of prepament meters following a report that it was imposing them on vulnerable customers. its chief executive, chris 0 shea has apologised. there chris 0 shea has apologised. is nothing that i can 5 can there is nothing that i can say that can express the horror i had when i heard this, when i saw this. it is completely unacceptable, that language is completely unacceptable. the largest ever outbreak of bird flu is now infecting mammals in the uk. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe s biggest energy firm, shell, has reported record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, more than double what it made in the previous year. the profits are the biggest in the firm s history boosted by higher energy prices since the start of the ukraine war. shell has already said it will pay tax in the uk for the first time since 2017 as a result of the government s windfall tax. let s take a closer look at t