it s eight in the morning in singapore, and eight in the evening in baltimore where officials say there is no longer any hope of finding survivors after a bridge collapsed when it was struck by a container ship. officials have confirmed that two bodies have been recovered and the operation is now one of recovery rather than search and rescue . these are live pictures from baltimore you can see how the ship, the dali, remains lodged in the wreckage of the bridge. its data recorder is being examined. but the waterway and consequently the port of baltimore will remain closed for what officials say is an indefinite amount of time. that will hit global trade by some measures, it s the 11th biggest port in the us, and last year, 50 billion dollars of goods, including nearly 850,000 vehicles, went through it. let s bring you now the latest details from the news conference which took place a short while ago starting with that confirmation that two of the victims had
and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started is donald trump finally abou to face accountability for his crimes we have the latest on th possible indictment of forme president trump for allege hush money payment to an adult film star. they lied, again and again and again. more details on what was going on inside fox news as they peddle conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. my question is, how much wil those lies cost them and later, tennessee man and drag shows on public property? what one of the votes famous drag performers has to say about it, and how we can pus back against anti-trans hate all of that and more, coming up and the good saturday morning to you, i m kati phang. we begin today s show with a mixed bag when it comes to the economy, with the doubters focusing yesterday more than 300 points in the red, but a better than expected job report, surprising a lot o people 311,000 jobs added much more than the 225,000 economists were expecting. the unemp
russian military forced the others to shut down and it lost its main connection to the nation s power grid and atomic safety experts are extremely worried. cnn s melissa bell has the latest from ukraine. reporter: there s been good news from the ukrainian counteroffensive tonight according to officials here in kyiv with an aide to president zelenskyy of what he says is the ukrainian flag. this town has been the center of battles for some time and we are getting some confirmation of the fact it may be now in ukrainian hands and also on the russian side, with some talk of the retreat of russian forces around the town. it is of course a counteroffensive now going on for just about a week and about which ukrainian authorities have been remaining pretty tight lipped insisting this is about degrading russian military capabilities, trying to take out infrastructure that allows them to resupply their troops around kherson. not really aimed at fast territorial gains. of course this
end of all military operations. a prominent critic of the president we ll be speaking to the human rights advocate, bianca jagger. a show of solidarity for salman rushdie authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life in prison, by a court in virginia. el shafee el sheikh, who s 3a, was among a group of british is members, who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria, and became known as the beatles, a name given to them by their captives. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. el shafee elsheikh had always described himself as a simple iis is but that wasn t true. a trial lasting two weeks here a part of a cell of the nicest beetles due to their english accents. isis beatles the group rain of terror left the world reeling in nara. he was convicted of his part in a hostage murder plot
hostages are released. israeli forces went into rafah on monday night in defiance of international pressure, seizing the border crossing with egypt. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has warned that a full scale assault on rafah would cause a humanitarian nightmare. qatar has called for international intervention to prevent the city from being invaded. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. we know that for weeks now the us has been warning israel against a full scale offensive of rafah. this really because of the high numbers of displaced people who are living in that city, crammed up next to the border with egypt. and the us had been talking to israel about more limited options for going in there to tackle the hamas presence. now, this does look to be a really significant development, the idea that a us shipment has been halted to israel. it s the first time we ve heard of such a thing in seven months of war. and it really does reflect, i th