greg: that is true! happy thursday, everybody. thank you. so disney has announced that the next star wars movie will be directed by a woman. you heard that right. disney admits they can define a woman. but the new director s not just any woman, no, she s a pakistani canadian feminist activist. exactly the kind of person the star wars franchise needs. the kind who s idea of fun is lecturing you about oppression while combing dandruff out of her armpits. not her, somebody like that. see i saved that one. it s no secret that the star wars audience is mostly male. and by mostly, i mean virgin. so here s charmeen in 2015 talking to jon stewart about how she interacts with that horrible gender with the y chromosome. i like to make men uncomfortable. i enjoy making men uncomfortable greg: see that explains why jon stewart looked so comfortable. well, no doubt she s made plenty of men uncomfortable especially the ones that own disney stock. because this movie promises to be a
rain. sunny skies on saturday. saturday will be the best day of the weekend, so mother nature has it right. come sunday, the rain will reach liverpool. so we just about get away with it. but it will be a nice day. back to the here and now. right now, we have high pressure building across scotland and ireland. to the east of the country, though, we have a breeze off the north sea. there is thick cloud. we have had some rain in the south and south east from a weak weather front crossing us. this is where the cooler conditions are, ten, 12, 1a degrees further east. at the moment, temperatures are in the high teens and will probably hit 20 degrees for western scotland, northern ireland, wales and in the south west as well. tonight, we will have thick cloud across eastern and southern and central parts of england. in the north and west, as well as northern ireland, clearer skies, and where we have clear skies overnight, sunshine will greet us first thing on saturday morning. so a
and defamation case brought by author e. jean carroll. court resumes this hour. and a man accused of a shooting rampage inside a medical center is about to appear in court. what we re learning about the suspect and what his mother is blaming today. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming up right here on cnn news central. this morning the white house is pushing back hard on russia s baseless accusation that the u.s. directed ukraine to carry out an alleged attack on the kremlin. moscow claims it was an attempt to assassinate president vladimir putin. the white house calls the allegation the u.s. was behind that ridiculous, and ukraine is also strongly denying any involvement in that attack. after making that claim with no evidence, russia ramped up its attacks on ukraine. at least 23 people were killed by russian shelling in the kherson region wednesday. and kyiv s military chief said the city was hit by the most intense air strikes so far thi
fleeing limitless misery and throwing themselves into a place where they will find great courage and sacrifice. more than 87,000 people tried to to cross through in the first three months of this year. the u.s., column whbia and pana said they would try to open up other ways for people to migrate. next week, we will meet extraordinary people helping the earth to cut down on carbon, includiing a new technology tha relies on the behavior of whales. tonight, the showdown in washington. the president can no longer put the economy in jeopardy. republicans and democrats battle over raising the debt ceiling. this maga wish list has no chance of moving forward. as president biden announces he is running for a second term. let s finish the job. s we will talk with supporter bernie sanders. welcome. about biden s chances, the issue of his age. is age a factor? yeah. the looming x ing economic c. would you let the country go into default. later, carol burnett.
we ll explain what the ruling says. ahead, both lawmakers expelled from the tennessee statehouse for protesting gun violence have been reappointed to their seats we ll explain why this is not the end of the partisan turmoil in tennessee. and louisville police released a chilling 911 call from a woman who told the dispatcher she was the mother of the old national bank shooter. we ll play for you her frantic call and have the latest in that investigation. plus, donald trump is back in new york this morning for a different legal issue. this one with the state s attorney general we ll take you through what s happening today in that case meanwhile, there are new developments in the investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents we ll look at the reporting on a map trump may have taken with him to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news ckatty kay.