a $54 billion aid package for ukraine has finally been approved after being held up for months because of objections from hungary. the deal comes as us military aid for ukraine the largest provider of military support for kyiv is being held up by congress. police are searching for a man who s believed to have thrown a corrosive substance at two young children and their mother in south london last night. they re searching for 35 year old abdul ezedi from newcastle he is thought to have significant burns to his face caused by the substance. we begin tonight as us officials say plans have been approved for a series of strikes against iranian personnel and facilities in iraq and syria but not in iran itself. they told cbs news that the action would be carried out over a number of days. washington has been preparing to hit back at iran backed militias after three us troops were killed in a drone strike injordan. here s our chief international correspondent lyse doucet. wha
the conditions exists for the return of the northern ireland power sharing executive and indicated he expects the assembly to sit on saturday. we ve seen just a number of moves through the last couple of days. we saw legislation late in the house of commons. now the dup leader says he s written to the dup leader says he s written to the speaker of the stormont assembly, saying the conditions now exist for the return power sharing in northern ireland, expected to start on saturday. we ll have a full live coverage of that. i really significant moment with the return of power sharing in northern ireland. more on that breaking development here in the next little while. let s head to the us. the defence secretary lloyd austin has called on iran to stop supplying weapons to the houthi rebels in yemen. speaking at the pentagon, he said the us does not want a wider middle east conflict, but it reserves the right to respond to iranian backed attacks on american personnel in the region
no one could explain. then, across town, another scare. i felt a gun to the back of my head. a teenager in danger. he said, you have to come in the room or i m going to kill you. two young lives, strangely length. had police put the two things together? i said i will do whatever i can to help find your son. can they help unravel this mystery in time? don t you understand, every minute counts right now? hello, and welcome to dateline. it s a story of young dreams interrupted, a talented drummer who was aiming for rock and roll stardom finally disappeared. his parents immediately since he was in danger, and they were forced into a race to find him in time, here is dennis murphy with taken. matt landry from the detroit suburbs was a regular guy. i can t who delivered the pizza that you ordered, he was on the skateboard, and cracked up his friends with jack ask style stunts. it was never a dull moment, he always had something crazy to do. but if you want to
and that s in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and honest, it s an uphill battle. i don t think it s a winnable battle but clearly donald trump is the runaway front-runner in the first four states which matter tremendously. polls are tighter. we re clearly still down. we have work to do and wood to chop. it does seem like a bad sign when one of your top surrogates has to admit that but it s true at least and a lot of reasons the desantis campaign is doing so poorly. one reason is what some are calling a lack of charisma which seems to be alienat
he was a sweetheart a drummer with big rock and roll dreams. but the music stopped the day he suddenly vanished. i can t believe i m doing this right now. searching through dumpsters for my boyfriend. didn t want to deal. i curious disappearance that no one could explain. then, across town, another scare. i felt a gun to the back of my head. a teenager in danger. he grabbed me and said, you have to come with me or i m going to kill you. two young lives, strangely linked. had police put the two things together? i said i will do whatever i can to help find your son. can they help unravel this mystery in time? don t you understand, every minute counts right now? hello, and welcome to dateline. it s a story of young dreams interrupted, a talented drummer who was aiming for rock and roll stardom finally disappeared. his parents immediately since he was in danger, and they were forced into a race to find him in time, here is dennis murphy with taken. matt landry