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. . welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. we could be in the final hours of the writer s strike as both sides will return to the negotiating table today. but the news out of washington isn t as promising, where a government shutdown is looking more likely as lawmakers have yet to reach a deal. and later, president biden is reaching out to young people worried about the environment. we ll take a look at the newly created american climate corps. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. and we begin with new developments in two major strikes affecting thousands of u.s. workers. the hollywood writer s strike and the one by united auto workers, one could soon come to an end, while the other is expanding. so let s start with the writer s strike. a source tells cnn that the major film and television studios sent their best and final off ....
good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it be ....
welcome to bbc news. america and japan have strongly condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such launch since donald trump entered the white house. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said it was intolerable, while mr trump said the us would back japan 100%. the missile flew for about 300 miles, eventually falling into the sea of japan. this report from our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes contains some flash photography. this is the launch of a musudan ballistic missile, the same type that was fired from north korea into the sea of japan earlier this morning. today s launch was almost certainly timed so that north korea s dictator, kim jong un, could crash a weekend party taking place on the other side of the world. president donald trump and japan s prime minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend golfing in florida. mr abe was not amused by the north korean intrusion. translation: north korea s recent missile launch ....
that s part of wanting to believe in something against all odds and trying to hold on hope. and creativity, even when it seems impossible. when was the first moment you knew this film was something special and really hitting a nerve with audiences and critics? when we went to the venice film festival, that s the first time i saw it with an audience and i sat next to damien chazelle comedy writer and director, and it is a special, overwhelming and hot moment, because there was no air. damien chazelle, the writer and director. it was very special. have a good time at the ceremony. thank you, good night. the baftas are in progress as we speak, and there is a special programme starting at about nine o clock, so if you don t want to know about any other winners apart from the ones we have mentioned so far, please look away now. turn the sound off or indeed leave the room, because i m about to leave who has won best supporting actor, and it was indeed dev patel. he got bes ....
has suffered a major defeat over one of this biggest campaign pledges. this vow to reform the system of america and repeal obamacare. he was facing a position notjust from democrats, but from this own party. he had issued an ultimatum saying he would drop it altogether if they did not back him. he was forced to abandon this plan after being told he simply did not have enough support. mr vice president, do you have the vote? a day of truly frantic meetings and phone calls, as the vice president, mike pence, went to the hilt to try to secure the votes needed to pass health care reform trumpcare. and the usual tools deployed, a mixture of menace and flattery. but it wasn t going well. my vote is still a no. my vote has not changed. if anybody tells you for certain they know what is going to happen, they are lying. the situation is still very fluid. and if concessions are made to the right of the republican party, you lose the moderates, and vice versa. at the white house ....