they say it most likely spread through an intermediate animal host, possibly a wild animal captured and raised on a farm or a direct transmission from an animal known to carry a similar coronavirus such as a pangolin or bat. the report says it s not likely to have come from frozen food, and the least likely source, they say, a laboratory leak. well, from more on what s in that report, let s turn now to cnn s kristie lu stout who joins us live from hong kong. so what else did this report reveal about the origins of covid-19, and how reliable are the findings given the restrictions placed on the w.h.o. team one year after the pandemic started? reporter: you re right, rosemary. a lot of concerns about the timing, about the access, the process and methodology that went into this investigation. cnn has obtained a draft of this 123-page report by the world health organization, looking into the origins of the novel coronavirus. there s a lot of detail in there as you can expect, b
the transgender people in public buildings it that use bathrooms to correspond with the gender on their birth certificate. the woke mob lost their minds and then the boycotts began. entertainers like bruce springsteen, big shock, pearl jam nic jonas refused to perform there. deutsch bank expansions in north carolina. the nba moved its all-star game from charlotte to new orleans. and the ncaa threatened to move march madness games to another state before lawmakers ended up getting rid of that the redickless stance cost north carolina $3.7 billion. and derailed temporarily mccreery s political career all of this because men were going to use the men s bathroom and women were going to use the women s bathroom. and then just last year, major league baseball boycott the state of georgia because they didn t like the state s new election law. so the all-star game was moved to colorado, a state with stricter voting laws than georgia and, according to reports, local businesses in atla
police in new york arrest the suspected gunman behind tuesday s subway shooting, bringing to an end a 24 hour manhunt. in the uk, a government minister quits, after borisjohnson becomes the first sitting prime minister found to have broken the law. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 3am in mariupol where russia is claiming more than 1,000 ukrainian troops have surrendered. but kyiv says the beseiged southern port city is still in its control. gaining full control of mariupol would be a major win for moscow, creating a land bridge between crimea which russia illegally annexed in 2014 and areas held by russian led separatists in the donbas region. it would enable thousands of troops to be deployed to the east, for a new offensive planned there. but caught in the middle is mariupol, its mayor says around 21,000 civilians have been killed, and a 120,000 remain trapped. 0ur correspondent tom bateman re
well, my guest is exiled russian economist sergei guriev. is moscow outmanoeuvring the west when it comes to sanctions? sergei guriev, in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen, for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. and if i may, i m going to start with some of your very own words because recently, you wrote, the only way to stop putin is to deprive him of the financial resources to continue this war. that s wishful thinking, isn t it? after six weeks, we can pretty much say that s not going to happen. well, that depends on the resolve of the west and, so far, the unity and resolve of the west has been unprecedented, and that means further steps need to be taken. putin cannot be deterred. he doubles down on his cause of continuing this war. and so, he, if he needs to be stopped, the west is to introduce new sanctions, oil embargo, oil and gas embargo in europe, or very high taxes on russian oil and gas to make sure that putin doesn t
resisting opposition calls to quit after being fined for breaching lockdown rules. a whole life sentence is handed down to the islamic state group sympathiser who murdered the mp sir david amess. outside court, police read a statement from his family. it breaks our heart to know that our husband and father would have greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship and would have been anxious to help. how sickening to think what happened next. it is beyond evil. the mayor of the ukrainian city of mariupol says 21,000 civilians have died there amid growing signs russia could be about to capture the key port. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the soaring cost of fuel and food has pushed inflation to a 30 year high. it stood at 7% in the year to march, up from 6.2% the month before. prices are going up faster than wages, and there s pressure on the government to do more to help people who are struggling. and the cost of living is expected to rise even further because these