prosecutions into thousand 15. if we are to make sure that escande like this can never happen again, we need to look at the way in which private prosecutions like these have been undertaken. any company can bring private prosecutions in this way. this is not a special power of the post office, i know my right honourable friend the lord chancellor wants to give this issue proper and thoughtful consideration and i am sure he will report to the house about this issue in due course. getting justice for the victims of this candle and ensuring that such a tragedy can never happen again is my highest priority as a minister and has been throughout my 15 months in office. when we talk about compensation, we have to remember that the lives of postmasters and their families caught up in this scandal have been changed forever. they face financial ruin, untold personal distress and a loss of reputation that no amount of financial compensation can fully restore. the government recognises h
by stating he d already given the cabinet office all relevant material. here s our political correspondent ben wright our political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster. whether all the documentation as for has been handed over yet. do we know yet? an hour after that deadline we still haven t heard from the government or the inquiry itself as to whether any of the documents ask for have been handed over. so, we are still in a bit of a waiting game to understand whether the deadline was met or not. just to recap, for viewers about this. the covert inquiry is the big inquiry been doing and lots of work behind the scenes. it hasn t held public hearings yet but is has been after official records from the government as part of its work and it does ask for borisjohnson what s up messages and diaries during the course of the pandemic during the course of 2020 and 2022. in order to be able to assess the governments handling of the endemic. the cabinet office has resisted the
pair of dueling decisions, creating a flash point in the fight for abortion rights. in texas. a federal judge is halting the fda is more than two decades old approval of the drug medford pret zone, one of the main medications used to provide abortions. but less than an hour later. conflicting court ruling out of washington state the federal judge, they re protecting access to the drug in 17 democratic led states and the district of columbia, which suit to protect the medication. the two decisions are the most significant on the on abortion since the supreme court overturned roy roe v. wade last summer here with us now is cnn senior supreme court analyst joan baez. cubic joan. good to see you also, you re the author of the new book, nine black robes. so two rulings now two very different decisions. what happens next? well, this puts the abortion issue right back on the path to the supreme court. attorney general america ireland last night that the government is going to app
of the national school shooting gets underway soon. the first lady jill biden, is set to attend, as police revealed the shooter may have had weapons training. also, tonight, we ve learned that the new york grand jury investigating donald trump will take a break for most of april. how might that impact the decision on whether to indict the former president? and the crisis unfolding in israel right now is testing relations big time with the united states. we re tracking the tensions after president biden criticized prime minister benjamin netanyahu s divisive judicial overall plan. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and let s go right to nashville. right now. we re mourners are gathering to honor the three children and three adults shot dead at the covenant elementary school there . cnn s carlos suarez is joining us right now. he s just outside the school. carlos this vigil is being held tonight
new job protecting some of the very same children who survived the shooting. plus, one thing the vast majority of americans can agree upon the nation is facing a mental health crisis. so what can we done about it? we will get some answers. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. her to have you with us. we begin with growing tensions around the korean peninsula. right now, a u.s. navy aircraft carrier is reportedly moving into waters off the korean peninsula after north korea fired two more missiles thursday. seale says pyongyang conducted two missile tests in less than two weeks. the latest came after the un security council held a meeting on pyongyang s weapons program, and the beijing indirectly accused russia and china of enabling north korea. for more on these developments, we turn to who joins us live from south korea. so what is the latest on these escalating tensions on the region? well, to start off with, that un security council