ellen d generes says her long running talk show is to end. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. hello and welcome. the deadly conflict between israeli forces and palestinians has continued well into the night, with palestinian militants firing waves of rockets into israeli cities. anthony lincoln has called the palestinian president and contaminated rocket attacks condemned the rocket attacks. presidentjoe biden spoke to the israeli prime minister in a similar call. 67 palestinians and seven israelis have been killed since the latest flare up in violence began on monday. our middle east correspondent tom bateman, begins our coverage, you may find some scenes in his report disturbing. the world s asking if the region is on the brink of war. people who woke to this feel it s already here. palestinians in gaza faced the fiercest israeli bombardment since the last all out conflict. israel says it s going after militant leaders. some were killed in the
expert we talked so much about from the prosecution s side, if he if hints there are test results that the jury hasn t heard, there will be a mistrial. yes, the judge is very clear. there is no question about that. as a result of the late information coming in, it is really hard for me to believe anticipate certainly not an attorney that in awe case like this, especially as high profile as it is, that, you know, you would go through it so thoroughly that every single item of evidence, every single test that could be conducted would be conducted. so that you really had everything at your disposal that you needed to have. i mean, this could cause some confusion among the jury. i certainly got confused just list listening to the discussion. again, will that plant a seed of doubt in the muind of a juror? hopefully it doesn t. laura, i mean, yesterday when we spoke briefly as this was raised really for the first time on the stand, we heard from dr. fowler, when we heard abou
cyber attack, publicly acknowledged in september. you might recall that was a massive cyber breach of u.s. companies and different u.s. government agencies. the united states, for the first time today, formally named the russian foreign intelligence service, svr, as the perpetrator of the solarwinds attack and the biden administration revealed new details about russia s interference in the 2016 election. the u.s. now disclosing what has long been suspected but never stated outright by the u.s. government, that russian agent constantin kilimnik, that he gave that information to russian intelligence services. former president trump, you might recall, denied and downplayed russia s actions and pardoned manafort for separate offenses. a very different approach regarding russia than that of biden s predecessor. reporter: harsh and wide-ranging punishments from the biden administration against russia, an aggressive response to russian interference in u.s. elections and their rece
national polls showing strong approval numbers, all north of 50% for a president looking to push more sweeping legislation through a divided congress. joining me now msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board and jeff bennett. steve, first to you with the numbers and the numbers from the first nbc news poll, much better than his predecessors and not hitting the heights president obama enjoyed. the 53% approval rating in the new nbc news poll. the benchmark we were always looking at with donald trump for the fur years of his presidency, could trump break a 50% approval rating and the answer is no. for four years as president he was never able to get above 50%. biden is there now and he s been there consistently for the first hundred days and if you are comparing biden and trump on the poll numbers and biden has consistently been out of the gate, when you compare to other modern president, non-trump modern presidents and biden would be a tick or so
considering what additional steps may be useful to mitigate any potential disruptions to supply. the group is called dark side. they re cybercriminals reportedly separate from the russian government, but as national security experts are quick to point out, nothing of this scale happens in russia without a push, or at the very least, a blessing by vladimir putin. more on that in a moment. meanwhile, the company who says they own the pipeline said they took much of their efforts off line to contain the threat. they did not say if they paid a ransom. but segments of their pipeline is being brought back online slowly. the plan includes an incremental process which would ld includ a they ve been tracking local police departments. what s different about this attack is its sheer scope. it is the largest attack ever. goose could hit a 7-year high in the lead-up to memorial day. but experts are asking people not to go out and panic. if everybody goes out and fills their tanks up