there for the first one. i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the words, let freedom ring. president biden with some age jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house. meanwhile, his campaign is facing calls from democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we have a lot going on this morning. we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. plus, republican senator tommy tuberville s latest outlandish reason for blocking oh, my gosh. hundreds of military promotions. he can t help himself. he intellectually degrades himself every single day. stop him before he humiliates himself again. please, don t double down on dumb. also ahead, we ll have the latest on the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appears to be centered on the pause in fighting in gaza. we ll have the very latest on that
president zelensky is being more frank about the chances of losing in an attempt to restore a much needed sense of urgency. nato is continuing to posture with sea and air drills along its eastern european flank. its members are still promising military aid. wejust had an important and timely discussion on how to step up further our support to ukraine, in particular on how to provide more air defence systems to ukraine. because the situation on the battlefield remains very difficult, and we have all heard ukraine s clear and urgent appeal for more air support. what kyiv is really hoping for is a £49 billion package to be signed off in the us congress. after months of delay, that s set to be voted on this weekend. if it passes, ukraine might do more than hold on. if it doesn t, the talk may shift to compromise or defeat.
armoured vehicles coming under heavy artillery fire as they moved across fields, and what kyiv has said it is, do not rely on information coming from russia s defence ministry. if you want up to date details, come to us, it isjust an attempt to undermine our actions. i think the russian defence ministry would say the same, but for moscow to be putting out this kind of messaging, it is clearly trying to seize control of the narrative and that usually happens when there are developments on the ground. we saw it last year with the liberation of the southern city of kherson, where we were drip fed information, access would follow and then we would realise that liberation was taking place and what was uncovered where the familiar marks of russian occupation. i expect that to happen again, albeit over a longer time line because russia have had time to prepare and there are no guarantees that ukraine will make the gains it daily wishes to. daily wishes to. that was james waterhouse. the si
a record low. norah: david marchant the pentagon, thinking. to the side of the partially collapsed apartment building in davenport, iowa. today authorities say the bodies of three men who had been missing since last week s collapse have all been recovered. no one else is believed to be missing. this is one of the injured residents has filed a lawsuit against the city of the buildins current and former owners, alleging they knew of the buildings conditions and failed to warn residents. turning overseas to the war in ukraine, there are science tonight the ukrainian forces may have begun their much anticipated spring offensive to take back territory seized by the russians. the fighting is mostly taking place in eastern ukraine. cbs s debora patta is there. reporter: brushes ministry of defense claims this video shows its troops repelling a major ukrainian advanced in the eastern donetsk region. we can t verify this and kyiv has denied it, doing its best to
keep the kremlin off balance, sending mixed signals instead. the latestass a video with the taglinepls sile ationalred lk of theerofnsive. but just ten days ago, at different video showed ground troops preparing for battle, armed with western weapons under the banner it s time to take back what is ours. what kyiv will say is that ukrainian forces have advanced once again on bakhmut and retaken territory on the outskirts of the city. while just across the border in russia, on a new frontline has opened up it it and take moshe back by ukraine have stepped up on villages in the belgorod region. kyiv s silence on