making up your minds? we d like to hear from you, do get in touch at @annitabbc using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions a million off peak rail fares are being cut some by as much as half in a bid to boost train travel and it s 100 days to go until the start of the commonwealth games we ll be hearing about the athletes who are hoping to shine ukraine says russia has launched a large scale offensive in the east of the country, signalling the start of the second phase of the war. according to president volodymyr zelensky, a large part of the russian army is now focusing on the donbas region. moscow s forces already occupy large parts of the territory. this attack had been widely predicted as russia focuses its efforts on the east of ukraine. ukraine s national security council says russia has already tried to break through the whole front line in the donetsk, luhansk and kharkiv regions. but officials at pentagon are reporting that the besieged port city of mariupol still h
a 9mm handgun, shooting indiscriminately inside of that card, sending riders running for their lives. to be two people were shot in more than a dozen others were injured in the chaos and confusion. among the evidence recovered at the scene, the key to a u-haul van. bill: that van led investigators to frank james, now named as the lone suspect. investigators say that he is a prolific poster of online videos, they call the content of his clips concerning. dana: meanwhile, the city is in the grips of an all-out manhunt. police using every available resource to find the suspect that they say was hell-bent on bloodshed. speak of this individual boarded the train and was intent on violence. he then fired that weapon at least 33 times, striking ten people. this is a sick act on innocent new yorkers. we want to thank those new yorkers who posted videos, if you look at that video you will see what really makes our city a great city. he saw passengers helping each other. trust
hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, great to slide into the weekend with you. sandra: feeling good on this friday. let s check out the numbers john just mentioned, adding 467,000 jobs, unemployment rate, the big headline number, did tick up to 4%. john: the job market is up and running, economy not so much. sandra: inflation running rampant, the fed is responsible for trying to get a handle on it. john: peter doocy is live in maryland where the president is scheduled to visit an iron workers union for a big announcement. officials in biden world have gone from having to brace for a bad report to bragging it was such a good report. our country is taking everything that covid throws at us and come back stronger. i m pleased to report this morning, many of you already know, america s job machine is going stronger than ever. strong recovery and opportunity for hard working women and men across this great country. america is back to work. counter from the r.n.
this is the story. today we re live in our nation s capitol ahead of tonight s consequential state of the union address. you re going to see a very energized president says his chief of staff. still some democrats said to be nervous about the stakes for this evening. the washington post put it this way. the goal is not to give up old man vibes. it could be the last time that he in front of such a big tv audience until at least the convention. voters will no doubt be weighing whether or not he s held up to this promise from the beginning of it s presidency. watch this. i m a man of my word. america is back. i speak to you today as president of the united states at the very start of my administration and i m sending a clear message to the world. america is back. martha: a lot has happened since then. the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. attacks on our troops in the middle east, the explosion of the border crisis, which is a huge issue to name a few. we kick things o
as journalists, we have a duty to bear witness when our nation is in peril to shine a light on the dark path that donald trump and his enablers lead us down. that is the moment at which we find ourselves this morning. i ll admit to being a little surprised late last night that anything donald trump can say can surprise me anymore. but this is some nasty stuff. last night s speech was dangerous for the truths that donald trump told as it was for the lies. there were lies, but the truth is that we are dangerously close to donald trump rising to power again and finishing what he s started when he tried to overturn the results of the last presidential election, and take over the government in contravention of the will of the american people. and if you listen closely, to his 90-minute speech from last night, he was basically openly plotting how it was going to weaponize the government by cleaning house and firing anyone that his administration considers an enemy, or insufficientl