opponents are sure acting like he is. we re following the major developing stories coming in right here to cnn news central. a surprise visit to the g7 summit in japan. president volodymyr zelenskyy will arrive in hiroshima this weekend to meet face-to-face with president biden and other world leaders. remember, the g7 used to be the g8 until russia was expelled. the impact of these talks, that could be effective. the u.s. now primed to let nato allies sent those fighter jets to kyiv. and a sweeping list of new sanctioning. nic robertson is in ukraine. he s made a lot of international visits before, but this one happening right now on the cusp of this widely anticipated counter-offensive. how important right now? it is important to zelenskyy. he s on the record as saying the country is not quite ready for the counter-offensive, but when you and go into the conversation recognizing what they tell you would be spin to send a counter-narrative, a propaganda to the russia
the republican nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. we will have more on what disney just naturally. but on desantis s run sources of telling cnn he will file paperwork next week. medical today were donors and supporters. a new york times report or listened in. i m going to read you a quote from that new york times story. it begins with something ron desantis said on the call. quote, you have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis told donors on the call, organized by the super pac supporting him, never back down. quote, biden, trump and me. and i think of those three, to have a chance to get elected president. biden and me. now, according to the times he went on to say that he s basing that on swing state data which he described as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable, because people are not going to change their vie
a book is this popular, it s always very difficult doing an adaptation. yes. there were moments in this in which i could almost hear the book behind it, thinking, ok, i can sort of see what the text would have been. the performances are good. i mean, it s a very good cast, it s very well done. the production design is really beautiful. but it all feels very safe. it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in here, there is an earthier, grittier version of this story, but it s kind of got a touch of the nick sparks about it. itjust felt oddly bland. that s not to say it s bad, and it may well be that if you have read the book, you get more out of it. but i did think, ok, it s kind of. like i said, despite that swampy setting, it had a very lukewarm feeling and i didn t get emotionally involved in the way that i had expected to, so. because reese witherspoon options some interest
hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week s releases is, as you see, mark kermode. hi, mark. hi. what have you been watching? well, as always, a very mixed bag. we have where the crawdads sing, which is an adaptation of a very popular novel. we have she will, which is the feature debut from charlotte colbert. and kurt vonnegut: unstuck in time, a documentary about the american writer. good old mixture there, yes. yes. so, where the crawdads sing, which is an adaptation of the deep south novel which became a publishing sensation millions and millions of copies sold. this is adapted by lucy alibar, who is best known for beasts of the southern wild. one of the producers is reese witherspoon, so very, very good pedigree. yes. daisy edgar jones is kya, who is called the marsh girl . she grew up amidst the marshes of the deep south, fending for herself, understanding nature. at the beginning of the film, we see her being arrest