solo headliner, at the age of 80. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian forces are now said to be fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk, a key location in the war, in the east of the country. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins and ukraine s army has now pulled its troops out. saturday also saw an upsurge in russian missile strikes across ukraine. in his nightly address, president zelensky said the war had entered an emotionally difficult stage, and that air defence systems held in storage in allied nations were needed more than ever. shelley phelps has the latest. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal as severodonetsk falls, ukraine says this is a technical withdrawal. it is to fight from higher ground in neighbouring lysychasnk, which has also come under heavy bombardment. elena hasjust arrived from there. it was a horror, the last week. we could not take it anymore. thank you to the soldiers who evacuated us from there, otherwi
Cnn is learning about a new agreement in the works right now to set critical guidelines in the search for flight 370. Standby for exclusive new information. Also this hour, the air search is expected to resume after being disrupted by a tropical cyclone. And the bluefin21 is now on its tenth dive. Its almost finished scanning the current under water search area. Cnn has a major presence in perth, australia, the base of the operations for the search, and we have our team of experts here in the situation room to break down all the new developments. Lets bring in our justice correspondent pamela brown with the latest information. Pamela . Thats right. Were learning malaysian and australian officials are working together to come up with a longterm game plan if nothing turns occu s up in this targeteh area. The bluefin21 is almost done searching here. The underwater sixmile radius zone considered the most likely area where the plane went down. If they were thinking, if you remember, this wa
Very serious in the white house, in the west wing, in the oval office. he had a list of 100 promises he made to the american people. one of those was committing to nominate conservative justices. he was committing to nominate conservativejustices. he did that, it obviously shaped the court with their very conservative justices, and court with their very conservativejustices, and he conservative justices, and he was conservativejustices, and he was able to appoint three of them. what is so interesting about this, and i have had a lot of conversation with liberal women over the last 2448 liberal women over the last 21148 hours. they say this isn t the americana, the country i want to live in. well, this is the system that is in place. democrats have control of the white house withjoe biden, they have control of both houses of congress with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, and they have a supreme court that actually does have radical, liberalfeminists on it, from alanna kagan to others. th
A criteria in college admissions. let s discuss what s going on. joining us, our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and laurie borger. jeff, is this an end to affirmative action on college campuses? well, it s the end of it in michigan. we ll see about the rest of the country, because, you know, the university of michigan said, we want to have affirmative action. we want to have race be one factor in admissions, but the voters of michigan voted that policy down. they said we don t want any affirmative action, 58% of the voters in michigan in a referendum said get rid of affirmative action. the supreme court said the voters had a right to do it. so, this could be a road map for other states, voters, state legislators, that want to get rid of affirmative action because now the supreme court is giving it the okay. it was a 6-2 decision, alanna
Give you this bulletin. nbc news is reporting we have not yet confirmed the story nbc news is reporting the president, president barack obama is about to nominate the solicitor general alanna kagan as his pick to replace john paul stevens on the united states supreme court. ms. kagan would be the fourth woman to be nominated to the supreme court. she is dean of harvard law school. she is the lawyer for the united states and the action it is brings before the board of the united states. she is interestingly never been a judge. she is graduated from princeton, ox por oxford and harvard law but has never been a judge. if the report is correct and i say we have not yet confirmed it the president is about to nominate make a second nomination second woman elena kagan current solacer general will be the next associate general of the supreme court of the united states.