and china ramps up military drills and raises fears of a dangerous stand-off with the u.s. after house speaker nancy pelosi wraps her risky visit to taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. we begin with a powerful message sent by kansas voters on the issue of abortion. with the critical midterm election around the corner. jeff zeleny reports on the conservative state s surprising vote to protect abortion rights and other results from a big round of primaries. reporter: a surge of kansas voters sending an overwhelmingly message to protect abortion rights. it was the biggest sign yet of the backlash to the supreme court s decision to send the question of abortion back to the states. and here in conservative kansas, voters delivered their answer loud and clear. we don t want the government m making our reproductive health decisions for us. reporter: sharice davids
taking asylum seekers to rwanda. the government is taking on the courts at home and facing accusations from abroad of breaking international law. and a world first in biology, mapping the genome sequence of every species in the british isles. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. tantalisingly poised england set up a grandstand finish against new zealand as james anderson breaks yet another record. welcome to bbc news at ten. we start tonight with a special report revealing the slow but steady progress of russian forces in eastern ukraine. president zelensky has called again for western allies to provide advanced missile defence systems for the ukrainian army. the russians now control almost all of the strategic city of severodonetsk. the last remaining bridge was destroyed by the russians today, making it impossible to bring out more civilians. the ukrainian government says russia is able to keep up its military offensive because it s still earning huge amoun
finally, the sun leads with model kelly brook s engagement to her now fiance, jeremy parisi. we will not trouble you with the jeremy parisi, kelly brooks, story i think, for now. kevin, if we can, let s begin with the ft any rather ominous warning from the oecd that our growth is going to be pretty pathetic next year. our growth is going to be pretty pathetic next year. yeah, that s a re fair pathetic next year. yeah, that s a pretty fair summary, pathetic next year. yeah, that s a pretty fair summary, i pathetic next year. yeah, that s a pretty fair summary, i think. - pathetic next year. yeah, that s a i pretty fair summary, i think. yeah, out of the 620 countries, the only one worse than the uk on growth is russia, and i think it is safe to say there are some extenuating circumstances there, the sanctions the rest of the world has imposed on russia which might explain their economic troubles, but the oecd will see zero economic growth in the uk, complete stagnation, i
wow. americans heard and responded with a resounding ew. bizarre. president biden whew. on defense. over high consumer prices. there you go, inflation in the morning. he says inflation is a top domestic priority. and, again, takes aim at maga republicans. we re going to play for you his new comments and have the new inflation report when it crosses later this morning. plus, a mixed night for trump-backed candidates, with a win in west virginia, but a loss in nebraska. boy, that nebraska loss, statewide, it may show again, it may be easier for donald trump to win in smaller congressional races, much harder, statewide, in states like nebraska. maybe pennsylvania, we ll see. we ll discuss what this says about the former president s hold on the republican party. and ukraine reports new gains in kharkiv, saying it has managed to recapture villages. and is pushing back russian forces. we ll have the latest on the counteroffensive in a region that has come un