vladimir putin showing an increasing reliance on drones that russia is said to be getting from iran. or clarissa ward the only reporter seeing what ukraine has shot out of the sky. plus, roe v economy? president biden s midterm pledge today, if democrats can keep control of congress. he will get an abortion rights law on the books. but the reality check on that may rely on what is on the minds of most voters. and hunting the injured. protesters shot and breaten in iran. fear of going to the hospital, where police could be waiting to capture them. the desperate mrlengths some demonstrators are going to to get treatment. welcome to the lead, i m john berman, in for jake tapper. and we start with our world lead. today, a top ukrainian intelligence official predicted an end to putin s war. quote, russia s loss is inev inevitable. by the summer, everything should be over. that despite putin s attacks on ukraine s power plants. nearly a third have been destroyed. some of th
crowds gathering outside buckingham palace all day to mourn the loss of their beloved icon. prince charles is now the king of england, the king consort with the official title of king charles iii. charles calling his mother s death a moment of great sadness for him and the royal family. newly installed british prime minister liz truss met with the queen two days ago m addressing the nation. it is a day of great loss but queen elizabeth ii leaves a great legacy. today the crown passes as it has done for more than 1,000 years to our new monarch, our new head of state, his majesty king charles iii. we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country. exactly as her majesty would have wished. by saying the words, god save the king. the news breaking this morning, judge, around 8:00 when her doctors issue add statement saying we re concerned for her health and the britt haves a way of understating things and that set off every to know this could be it and unf
tonight. a walkout by 60,000 workers could derail the u.s. economy. the biden administration is considering executive action to avoid a shutdown. let s get the latest from cnn s pete muntean. reporter: it is the latest effort to put the brakes on a possible rail worker strike that could deal a major blow to the economy. bosses representing unions and railroads met with the labor secretary in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal by midnight thursday. that s when 60,000 workers could walk off the job in solidarity with train engineers fighting for sick time. a strike will mean freight rail, which makes up 40% of all freight in the u.s., will grind to a halt impacting everything from parts for cars to fertilizer for farming. transportation is a big part of the cost to the consumer and i don t believe there s one person in the country that it won t affect. reporter: starting thursday, some railroads will stop accepting shipments of grain critical to feed livestock and drivin
back side of the declaration of independence. and so he has to deal the declaration of independence. not just because he wants the treasure map written in invisible ink on the other side. not just because of that. but because the bad guys have followed the same set of clues that he followed. they have figured out the same secret as him and the bad guys are going to steal the declaration of independence for bad reasons so the good guy has to steal it before they can get to it. that s the plot. at least i think that s the basic plot. there is something about freemasons and pyramids, too. i don t know. probably other parts i missed. honestly, in a movie like this, it doesn t really matter what you miss. trust me, you ll be fine. don t you get it, ben? the treasure is a myth. i refuse to believe that. what he thought was the final clue. 108 years of searching and i m three feet of away. the declaration of independence. you think there is a treasure map on the back of a
in the middle. also on the programme: a us judge unseals some documents that authorised the fbi to search donald trump s florida home. we ll get the latest from washington. we speak to the former australian prime minister kevin rudd on the tensions in the pacific between the us and china, and beijing s relationship with taiwan. japan launches a nationwide competition to try to enourage people in their 20s and 30s to drink more alcohol. that was fantastic. you can t buy that feeling, frankly. and striking gold: we hear from one of the british divers who helped locate a us world war i shipwreck that s been missing since 1917. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday. singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday- singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in ukraine, where explosions have been reported at a military airbase in russian occupied crimea. the authorities say there s been no damage, and that a u