and how could ted cruz embarrass himself in hearing he didn t even attend? we ll explain, all in starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. if you re watching this show, probably the kind of person who gets fundraising emails from politicians and groups. we need your help to fight for something you care about, click here to donate now. email and text donation messages are to reach and and touch your emotions. pressing buttons to see what gets reaction to measure it. explains a lot of what happens in politics, particularly on the right. conservatives pioneered this. for decades a huge part of the movement, a breakthrough discovery, is beefed up direct mail marketing grift in which they pump people full of rage, then take their money. i will never forget visiting my beloved grandfather, a staunch republican, rock conservative whole life, and on the kitchen counter a stack of mail how bill intonas turning the country into a marxist hell and you had to write a che
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one is in luhansk, where a top ukrainian official is pleading with anyone left to, quote, evacuate now, saying residents of the fallen town of kreminna are now hostages. moving about is dangerous. ukraine says there are no agreed-upon humanitarian corridors in the entire country. a top adviser to president zelenskyy telling cnn, quote, not a single place, a town, a city or a village is safe right now. in kharkiv, three people are dead, another 16 wounded. that after russian shelling at ukraine s second largest city. in the south, another surrender deadline has passed in mariupol as ukraine digs in, desperately hoping to hold on to that key port city. ukraine says russia is bombing a steel vactry where ukrainian forces and civilians remain encircled, including willingly firing on a plant where hundreds of civilians are sheltering. it appears to show some of the civilians hunkering down, hoping to survive. our cnn correspondents are deployed across ukraine. matt rivers is in lv
we begin with what some are calling a humiliating defeat for vladimir putin s military. the sinking of the moskva, russia s flagship guided-missile cruiser in the black sea. sources tell cnn u.s. and western intelligence believe ukrainian claims that it hit this ship with then neptune anti-ship missiles. russia said it sank after a fire on board ignited munitions. ukraine s national security adviser called the attack a very important mission, vowed there would be more to come. cnn s math crew chance toured the moskva when it was deployed in syria in 2015. reporter: the now-sunken flagship of russia s black sea fleet, the moskva, was always about intimidation and delivering a blunt message from the kremlin, whether to ukraine or elsewhere. well, this is an extremely impressive bit of military hardware out here in the eastern mediterranean. when we went aboard this once-powerful symbol of russian naval power off the syrian coast in 2015, the ship s captain told me they deplo
here in kyiv, on day 50 of the war with russia, i meet the man leading this country s defence. president zelensky tells me the war is utterly pointless. they can destroy us, but we ll answer. they can kill us, and they will also die. i can t understand for what. and the nhs in england under mounting pressure another rise in those waiting for hospital treatment and the poorest performance yet for a&e. it is expected to be a very busy weekend on the road network, and engineering works mean some trains want to be running. and coming up on the bbc news channel, west ham attempt to make the semifinals of a major european competition for the first time in 46 years. they re in lyon tonight, with rangers also in action. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. in a major change to uk immigration policy, the government plans to send thousands of people arriving here illegally to rwanda in central africa. the prime minister said the policy was possible because of what he call