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.
With me are journalist and broadcaster rachel shabi, and deputy Political Editor at the telegraph, ben riley smith. Tomorrows front pages the metro leads with news that the British Public have helped raise more than £75,000 for the family of the murdered polish lorry driver whose vehicle was hijacked and used in the berlin Terror Attack. The times says the queen is apparently disappointed with theresa may, after the pm declined to share plans for brexit during her first stay at balmoral. The Financial Times says china has warned donald trump that co operation is the only way forward, after the us President Elect appointed a china hawk to run a new white house trade policy office. The Daily Telegraph highlights claims that some of britains leading universities are becoming no go zones forjewish students, due to anti semitism. The daily mirror leads with the story of shoppers diving for cover, as e cigarette batteries blow up inches from a pram. The guardian says violent and abusive men
With me are journalist and broadcaster rachel shabi, and deputy Political Editor at the telegraph, ben riley smith. Tomorrows front pages the metro leads with news that the British Public have helped raise more than £75,000 for the family of the murdered polish lorry driver whose vehicle was hijacked and used in the berlin Terror Attack. The times says the queen is apparently disappointed with theresa may, after the pm declined to share plans for brexit during her first stay at balmoral. The Financial Times says china has warned donald trump that co operation is the only way forward, after the us President Elect appointed a china hawk to run a new white house trade policy office. The Daily Telegraph highlights claims that some of britains leading universities are becoming no go zones forjewish students, due to anti semitism. The daily mirror leads with the story of shoppers diving for cover, as e cigarette batteries blow up inches from a pram. The guardian says violent and abusive men
calling for a mission to investigate what happened there, but he has said that that will need the signoff of russia, that russia will need to sign off on the terms of any investigation. so i think the hopes of getting clarity from the killing of those prisoners of war, many of whom are from the azov battalion, last holdouts in mar pal several months ago, taken prisoner and held there, prisoners of war, i think the hopes of trying to get to the bottom of what happened and get clarity is going to be very difficult and it will be a long running narrative, if you will, certainly for a good while longer that ukraine firmly believes that russia did this and is blaming it on trying to blame it on ukraine. now, release of those pictures of himars weapons parts may actually work against the russians because forensically there will be serial numbers put in the public domain that may
npr says this: republicans are going after democrats with a three-pronged strategy that includes attacks on crime, the economy, particularly rise in inflation and border security. what damage is this because internally for the democrats any of a member of congress out there saying, make no mistake, i meant defund the police when i said it. it is certainly problematic, and of course, this is a running narrative in down ballot races. and donald trump lost the white house, we lost a lot of congressional districts because of this issue. representative bush does not speak for me, i don t think she speaks for a majority of democrats in this country, and she certainly does not speak for the president, who has been in the front of this his entire career in terms of providing more resources for law enforcement, including in the american rescue package that delivered $350 billion to states and local municipalities to fund the police. that is what we believe in. to gianno s point, i know some