to hear her first here outfront. plus, the collapse of the second largest bank in american history that happened in the span of 48 hours and is affecting the entire banking industry and perhaps beyond. i ll speak to the ceo of a company whose money was with that bank, got a call from a panicked investor to get out now. you ll hear what happened. and the president of a little known group of islands calls out china s xi jinping accusing china of bribery, personal threats to his safety, all over xi s potential invasion of taiwan. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, executed by russian soldiers. her son s death was seen around the world. she had to watch it herself, and the mother of that ukrainian soldier is now speaking out for the first time. the video of his death difficult to watch, but important to show the depravity of what s happening on the front lines. it sparked global condemnation. the ukrainian was executed after he said glory to ukraine. an
residency and other rights of an attacker s family members. the memphis police department has disbanded the so called scorpion special unit whose officers are accused of murdering tyre nichols. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello, and welcome to political thinking. he s the man who leads the organisation which represents britain s biggest employers talking the country down. or is he simply speaking up for the policies needed to get the country growing again? my guest on political thinking this week is tony danker. he is the director general of the cbi, or what we used to call the confederation of british industry. he s gone from selling menswear on the shop floor in his home city of belfast to being an adviser, first for the chief rabbi and then a treasury minister during the banking crisis. it is thejob he does now, though, which led the times to argue in an editorial this week that he, as the leader of the cbi, should n
moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didn t air biden s speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris. he used the word, war, a number of times and folks who pay close attention will know that s usual for putin. he calls the invasion of ukraine his special military operation and described this as a war with the west. a war for russia s survival. suppose you could say in that one respect, one word, there was agreement between president biden and putin. the word war. and i suppose you could also say some agreement that this is more now than a conflict over territory. it s a conflict over ideas.