More charges could be on the way, but for now, three white men have been charged with assault in the third degree for allegedly attacking a black boat cocaptain in a fight that quickly morphed into an Ugly Riverside Brawl in alabama this weekend. Videos of the incident went viral. And it showed fighting broke down largely along racial lines. But last hour, police in montgomery said, none of the actions they have investigated so far have met the threshold for hate crime charges. Heres cnns ryan young who was at the Press Conference where we just learned a whole lot. And, ryan, i know that you have been speaking to officials there. Youve been speaking to witnesses. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, absolutely. After talking to mayor reed, its pretty clear here everyone in the city was shocked. This is obviously a place a lot of people like to enjoy on the weekends. The video has obviously shocked the nation as its gone viral. We do believe the suspects theyre looking for are in
six other employees face felony convictions for their involvement, facing all warts even putting tracking devices on the steiner s car and putting ads for sexual encounters at the couple s home. a bunch of people got fired. insane story. the lead with jake tapper starts now. is the u.s. on the brink of war? iran backed forces vowing revenge after u.s. and uk strikes against them in yemen. firepower after repeated attacks on commercial ships in the red sea. will last night s retaliatory strikes keep the groups at bay? and is president biden ready for what be next? in moments, we talked with spokeswoman from the pentagon. les, a blizzard creating a wideout in iowa three days before the republican caucus is how candidates are going with the backup plans to reach out to voters and try to get those voters to the caucuses on a very cold monday. and the brother of an israeli hostage told to leave this week and when his parents talk to the red cross to try to get the daughter
politicsnation. tonight s lead, multi tasking. last week, the biden administration reminded its republican detractors and the nation white voters overwhelmingly shows president biden and democrats. president biden as diplomatic chief wrapped up his successful east your pm trip marking the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine with a surprise visit to kyiv. a renewed pledge of solidarity as the war drags into its second year. here at home, top biden officials were underground and east palestine, ohio responding to that trans trained around the disaster. the epa and fema worked hand in hand with local officials to clean up the mass and hold no for southern accountable for their accident. whether it was ukraine or ohio republican politicians could only offer photo ops and bad faith criticism threatening u.s. support for ukraine as another aid packages unveiled. run to the cameras in east palestine ohio to lay blame directly at president biden s feet. even as local of
It can become law. Its likely to be vetoed by georgias president , but parliament can override the veto with an additional vote. Critics are dubbing it the russia law. They say that its similar to legislation russia uses to suppress certain opinions and silence critics of the kremlin. Those who oppose the bill also argue that the legislation could negatively affect georgias chances ofjoining the european union. He bbcs Rayhan Demytrie has been on the ground in tbilisi and sent this report from. They marched in with a warning against the protesters who have been demonstrating outside parliament for weeks. Protesters stood defiantly, refusing to move away. And then violence. All in the name of a contentious law, which protesters fear will mark the end of georgias democracy. You get a sense, now, they are moving more intensely, and the protesters are beginning to boo. Theyre being pushed away from the square. We will be in the eu. We will be in the eu freedom to the georgians georgian peo
hello. i m brianna keilar with boris sanchez, wolf blitzer is in tel aviv and we re tracking multiple developments in israel s war in hamas. rescue efforts under way following an israeli air strike, a strir strike the idf say was ordered to take out a hamas leader. reports are still coming in, dozens confirmed dead, many more injured. those numbers are expected to rise. officials in hamas controlled gaza say 0 h20 homes were destrd there. just moments ago, i spoke with an idf spokesperson who confirmed that israel was involved in the blast. listen to this. we ll be coming out in the next hour hopefully with more data. i can give you there was a senior hamas commander in that area. sadly he was hiding, again as they do, behind innocent civilians. that s all i can say. we ll be coming out with more and what happened there. can you confirm it was an israeli attack that destroyed a big chunk of the jabalia refugee camp? yes, i can. we were focused again on a target, a s