russia continues to send waves of troops into the eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut. so, there is a lot of incoming and outgoing here. margaret: the acting head of the faa in the hot seat. can you just, right now, assure the american people that flying aircraft in the united states of america is still the safest way to travel? yes, sir. margaret: court documents show that fox news chairman rupert murdoch was worried his k went too far with 2020 election denial claims. margaret: and on this international women s day. toni morrison, nobel laureate, acclaimed novelist, former professor, immortalized on a new forever stamp. margaret: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i am margaret brennan in for norah. tonight, what the fda is saying about a nationwide shortage of adderall and how it is impacting patients. plus, ahead of march madness, meet the rutgers player who traveled halfway around the world to live the american dream. but firs
of excessive force. britain s government is accused of utter failure over its plans to stop migrant boats but the prime minister says they re the people s priority . and australia looks set to become the first country in the world to totally eliminate cervical cancer. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the former soviet republic of georgia, where large crowds have been protesting against new laws which critics say will limit freedoms. the biggest demonstrations were in the capital, tbilisi, where police used water cannons and tear gas to try to disperse the crowds. our correspondent rayhan demytrie is in tbilisi in the last hour, she sent us this report. every big moment in history has its iconic image this may be georgia s. on tuesday, thousands of protesters stood for europe and stood their ground against water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray. and they even fought back. 55 police officers were injured, but pro
welcome to the programme. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has been in kyiv today hoping to shore up a deal struck that was between ukraine and russia in the summer to allow for the export of grain from both countries. the agreement, which was brokered in turkey and is overseen by the un, must be renewed by 18 march, but there s concern, moscow will refuse to renew it. the deal also aimed to facilitate the export of russian food and fertilisers. moscow says those shipments are still being disrupted by us and european sanctions. exports of ukrainian, as well as russian food and fertiliser are essential to global food security and food prices. i want to underscore the critical importance of the rollover of the black sea grain initiative on 18 march, and are working to create the conditions to enable the greatest possible news of export infrastructures through the black sea, in line with the objectives of the initiative. this really matters. ukraine is one of the to
his speech writers use rhetoric like that because ever since donald trump s election it s been effective but now the democrats have embraced total government, now that they re arresting their chief political opponents, rivals and advisers does the rhetoric work still? in 2023 how to be americans respond to authoritarianism who pretend to be fighting it? do you get it? if you get a moment go on youtube like i did today and look at some of the comments on joe biden s speech from yesterday. they re all negative. some are very funny. for example. it s nice that he was able to have every person that ever showed up at one of his rallies fed into a 3 minute video said one viewer. another quote, i wish youtube would turn back on the dislike vote count and set another that we might see 81 million votes. get it? all in? the video got fewer than 400,000 views. that is not much. that is not very good for a presidential candidate who happens to be president of the united states. this coul
the justice department has just issued a scathing and disturbing report on the louisville police department nearly two years after a nearly two year civil rights investigation. now, attorney general merrick garland launched this probe in the months after the louisville police shot and killed an unarmed black woman, breonna taylor inside of her home. a short time ago garland explained that that botched raid in march of 2020 was part of a practice of abuses by the city. the pd leader told the department breonna taylor was a symptom of problems that we have had for years. the justice department s findings in the report that we are releasing today bear that out. and listen to this, these are just some of the very ugly examples that garland cited today. the justice department has also identified deficiencies in lmpd s response to and investigation of domestic violence and sexual assault. lmpd has relied heavily on pretextual traffic stops in black neighborhoods. some have vi