morning. today s thursday. i know today actually is don t rush time because it moves fast , right too fast too fast. but it is thursday. thank you for joining us. everyone caitlin is off a lot to get to won t we start with five things to know for this thursday, april 20th 2023. we re gonna start with the tornado outbreak striking oklahoma. at least two people are confirmed dead in the town of coal. significant damage, reported the supreme court, delaying its decision on myth of kristen until tomorrow, the justices seeking more time to assure ruling that could impact the accessibility of the abortion pill across the country and a judge here in new york, ordering mark pomerantz to testify today before june. jordan s house judiciary committee, pomerantz is a former prosecutor who once led the manhattan d. a s investigation into donald trump s business dealings also happening today, twitter says it s going to remove you know those check marks. we have one. with legacy blue check
bret: but breaking tonight, there are growing questions about the biden administration s policy on china. while the president talks tough, critics say president biden appears to be taking a kid glove approach in several key areas. we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. looks at how the american military is preparing for a conflicted with beijing possibly. we begin hour with white house correspondent peter doocy on the white house s north lawn and the president s reluctance to push china too hard. that s exactly right officials are putting out the word they are not trying to beat china economically or at anything. but they are trying to make things more competitive with china by taking some pieces off the board. mr. president, welcome. peter: as mr. biden talks colombia. key to the hemisphere. peter: and climate change. we are at a moment of great peril but great opportunities. treasury secretary teasing a move to move u.s. business to
We continue to provide assistance, this will, their victory will be assured faster with less loss of life if we dont provide the assistance, then the victory will eventually be in jeopardy. But there are a whole host of reasons why it looks like ukraine is winning. And so congress should do the right thing. Interesting argument, et and farkas, thank you so much. I appreciate it. The next hour of new central starts right now we are, standing by for the markets to open future for Donald Trumps social Media Company or down this after he lost billion dollars on paper yesterday. How much more could he dropped today Breaking News is real, says they unintentionally struck innocent people in a string right . The killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen. Were standing by for reaction from the organization. And then abortion on the ballot in one of the most important for his swing states, a Florida Court opens the door to a ban on abortion after six weeks, but now voters will decide i
Workers delivering food for the world central kitchen to starving palestinians. World central kitchen is the nonprofit started by celebrity Chef Jose Andres at the white house just yesterday is biden hosted several Muslim American leaders to talk about gaza. One of the leaders got up and walked out of the meeting and protest. He handed biden a letter beforehand from an eightyearold orphaned girl living in rafah, orphan in the last six months, cnns mj lee is at the white house. Four is now an empty were seeing yeah. A new level of anger and indignation inside the white house at targeted at metz and yahoo after this deadly idf strike on aid workers. Thats right, jake, President Biden himself, of course, said that he was outraged and im told that the frustration inside the white house has really reached new levels. Its one senior official describing the deaths of the seven workers as a standout incident. The president explicitly blaming israel for this incident, saying that israel is simp
Welcome to The World Today in International News from the bbc. We started this hour with the breaking news from gaza, three sons of the hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an israeli air strike. Do to israel confirming the attack. The vehicle that they were driving in was hit in the camp west of gaza city and he says the deaths of gaza city and he says the deaths of so many members of his family will not affect the demands that hamas is making in the cease fire negotiation. Lets get the latest from Bbc World Service middle east editor was injerusalem. Sebastian, what is israel and Israeli Military in particular saying about what happened . In particular saying about what hauened . ,. ,. , happened . They issued a statement in the ast 40 happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes or happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes or so happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes