than 40,000 south african miners employed by anglo american. in a statement, bhp ceo mike henry said. anglo had rejected bhp s previous offers, saying they undervalued the company and its prospects. speaking of deals, it s been a big week for consolidation in the energy sector. the latest development? conocophillips s acquisition of marathon oil in a $22.5 billion deal. erin delmore has all the details and more on this rising trend. think about the early days of the pandemic. people are stuck at home, not going out and not driving their cars. 0il at home, not going out and not driving their cars. oil prices crashed, but sent them, prices have come back then. back up. take conocophillips. the share price has nearly tripled and now it s acquiring marathon 0il worth $25 billion including debt. that will help conoco expand drilling in mexico, north dakota and texas and are to equatorial guinea. large and midsize oil companies have been competing to buy up the smaller rivals. a
thank you for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations in the first ever criminal trial of a us president. mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws, to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. those business records include entries in business ledgers kept by the trump organization. cheques and cheques stubs from a donald j. trump account. and invoices from his former lawyer, michael cohen, who testified that he paid daniels on behalf of trump to suppress her claim of an affair from 2006. well speaking outside the court mr trump took issue with the wittnesses that were called and the crimes he is being charged with. so it seems that there are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called and they didn t call. dating column obviously b
we re going to get our first public glimpse of princess catherine since christmas. what the palace said today about her cancer battle and her plans to try and resume some of her royalty duties. but leading this hour yesterday, today and for the next two weeks, the us supreme court will dominate the political conversation in this country. today, it s a major guns decision. the justices ruling six to three to strike down a federal ban on bump stocks. the ban was initially approved by donald trump 2018 after the massacre at a las vegas music festival, you might remember a gunman killed 58 people at the outdoor concert when he set up perch on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and open fire for at least ten minutes by the time police breached the room, they say the shooter was dead, but they found 23 weapons in the room 12 with firearms, with bump stocks attached. that attack, by the way, is the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. so i know some of you are p
seed.com to order. now news. night, with abby phillip week nights at term eastern on cnn you are in the scene and newsroom. i m jessica dean in new york, and we are following breaking news out of the middle east today as israel welcomes home, four hostages rest this morning from gaza during a special military operation. all four were kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the october 7 attacks. that was eight months ago. they include 22-year-old almog meir, jan, 25-year-old noa are argamani, 2020, 7-year-old, andre cause levin 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andre in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks, where we saw her screaming as a mosque fighters drove away with her on a motorbike israel saying this morning s rescue mission took place at two separate locations in central gaza near refugee camp palestinians. they re described the raid as hell on earth
Singapore, midnight in london and seven in washington, dc where President Trump is meeting the indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their first face to face meeting. Within the last few minutes, donald trump has said that ties with between india and america have never been stronger. The two have never been stronger. The two have been speaking to reporters and this was the scene earlier when the two met for the first time. Donald trump describing Narendra Modi as a true friend on twitter and mr Narendra Modi drew in the president for bear hug. The two president s hold different positions on issues such as immigration and climate change. Here is some of what both leaders had to say a little earlier. Not many people know it but both american and the Indian Constitution begin with the same three very beautiful words, we, the people. The Prime Minister and i both understand the crucial importance of those which helps to form the foundation of cooperation between our two countries. Relati