a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the western w
safe passage for drugs. empty food shelves in the uk. why are some supermarkets having to limit sales of fruit and veg? live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we have a tale of two presidents for you this hour from the us and russia. we ll get to the american president joe biden in a moment but first russian leader vladimir putin. he s announced he s suspending russian participation in the last major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. in his two hour state of the nation address, mr putin accused the west of starting the war in ukraine and seeking to destroy russia in a global confrontation. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility - for fuelling the ukrainian conflict, for its escalation, and for the growing number of victims lies fully with the west and, of
hunt is live with us with the breaking news. good evening, trace. we learned the balloon is just one of a fleet operated by the chinese military. with a significant game of spying on the u.s. in this game, many other countries in many other cases and the balloon shot down by a u.s. fighter jet on saturday was laden with sophisticated equipment to gather intelligence and possibly to transmit that intelligence directly to beijing. the tool package, the equipment package on that balloon, was enormous. we were not able to jam the transmissions. we don t know the extent of the program. as the u.s. navy continues to collect debris from the waters off south carolina where the balloon was brought down, it s emerged that some of the recovered parts were western made and had english writing on them. officials have not pickly name the manufacturer of those parts, but they have said they believe that manufacturer has a direct relationship with the people s liberation army of china.
rights next. can the court do that. joyce vance is here. on the defensive, several gop lawmakers panicked dropped following revelations that they strategize with donald trump to help him overturn the 2020 election. later, president biden is on the cusp of citing this morning in decades.rst gun legislatio this is after is a cream court ruling brought in gun laws and strengthened the second amendment. all of the and more is coming up. in a not so good at saturday morning, in my opinion. i am katie fang. american women are working off today in a different world than they did on friday morning thanks to the conservative super majority. many women live in states where abortion is now illegal. the number will grow larger in the coming weeks. overnight, thousands of people filled the streets across the country, as well as the space around the supreme court, to protest the justices decision and rally for rights. the protests remained remained peaceful and we want to see more to
army style. bent over just shooting at people and i saw three people laying down. officials say that peyton gendron, a white 18-year-old man was wearing body armor and military-style clothing when he pulled up yesterday at the top s friendly market, and began shooting. he picked that spot specifically for its demographics, according to officials. they say he drove more than 200 mile ace way to carry out the attack in an area that had a significant black population. he was very heavily armed. he had tactical gear. he had a tactical helmet on. he had a camera live streaming what he was doing. the suspect was immediately arraigned on first-degree murder charges and more charges are expected to follow. federal agencies are now investigating the shooting as a potential hate crime and a case of racially motivated domestic terrorism. they are reviewing a 180-page manifesto, reportedly written by the shooter, where he describes his perceptions about the dwindling size about t