sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
level the right to an abortion. it is about to happen here. you will see it live. with vice president kamala harris expected to preside. what can and what will democrats and president biden do next? and on wall street where the inflation report is top of mind for a lot of folks including the president who just spoke with farmers in illinois about the economy. also happening now, donald trump versus lettisha james. over whether the former president has to talk to the new york a.g. we have a pair of nbc news exclusives this hour including a one-on-one with the man running away with the senate primary in pennsylvania who says he s just a democrat. just a democrat, rejecting the progressive label. what else john fetterman is telling our team and who he says he ll disappoint if he makes it to washington. i m hallie jackson. let s start here at the capitol. allie is there. chief white house correspondent peter alexander is posted up on the north lawn for us. it is fair and safe t
All right, where do you want me . Bouncing on my knee where do you think i want you . And David Beckham makes his Big Screen Debut in king arthur but his cameo gets mixed reviews. Good morning. Its thursday 11th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A draft of labours 51 page General Election manifesto has been leaked and seen by the bbc and a number of other news organisation. The leak came as the document was due to be formally signed off today. The document contains a number of eye catching policies including bringing the railways back into Public Ownership as franchises expire and repealing the 1993 railways act which privatised the network. Plans to reverse the privatisation of royal mail at the earliest opportunity. The reintroduction of Maintenance Grants for University Students and a pledge to abolish University Tuition fees. 0n energy the document includes a policy of creating at least one publicly owned Energy Company in every region of the uk, with public con
why didn t you connect the dots, and we want to make it wider, broader, more access and there s a pendulum and there s a happy medium somewhere. you know, hallie, nothing that was leaked was stuff that we didn t largely know you know, meaning like, we knew egypt had a history with russia. look, there were some specifics that were embarrassing to these other countries. in some ways it s nice to know that the intelligence you know, that this is what it is, and this is what it looks like, and apparently this is what it is i think the sense in talking with a couple of folks close to the white house on this they re pointing to what, of course, president biden said that there was nothing contemporaneous and not the fact of the leak itself, but the underlying information that was released here the sense is hey, they think people in the country largely support what the biden administration is doing on russia and ukraine and that this is not going to be a game-changer there politically, h
think narrative that was going on that has since been proven to be somewhat fallacious. jacqui heinrich, we look forward to the briefing later this afternoon. sandra: steve hilton, host of the next revolution. steve, great to have you on today. as we await the white house press briefing we know john kirby will speak as well as karine jean pierre, and china responding to a department of energy report accusing the u.s. of a smear campaign. how should the white house respond a few moments from now. that s completely ridiculous. lab leak, as it were, it s a chinese lab, the lab is in china, it s clear now that the chinese regime should be held accountable for the leak itself, the biosecurity and the cover-up which continues to this day.