Newsroom with robin curnow. Begin with what some describe as quote, act of state terrorism. Leaders in europe, uk and u. S. Blasting belarus for forcing commercial flight to divert and arresting opposition activist on board. On a flight from greece to lithuania, the airline pointed to potential threat on board but reporting that president ordered the fighter jet to escort the plane to minsk where the passenger was detained. A passenger on board described what he saw. It was announced we re going to land in minsk, so stand up, open luggage door, take the luggage and was trying to split things like computer, gave to girlfriend or iphone, whatever it was. I think he made small mistake, around 90 people so he could give things not to the girlfriend which was also i think arrested. Founder of two channels critical of the government, classified as extremist in belarus and been on wanted list for terrorism. Lithuania s president is slamming belarus and plans to speak with european council in
jets to the region and they will reduce staff at the american embassy in kyiv, because of quote, continued threats of significant russian military action. so let s begin with kaitlan collins. so what is the plan for the video call next hour? well this is a call that has about nine leaders on there from europe. ukraine is not on this call. we just asked the white house about that. they poipnted to other conversations the biden administration has had with them, and including tony blinkent, but this is not on this call that will happen this afternoon from the situation room and a call scheduled as we know president biden is considering sending more u.s. troops in the sense of deterrence as they wait to see what the russian president is going to do and they don t know what move the russian leader wants to take next and they are watching. there was a report over the weekend after they believe russian was trying to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. all of that is on agenda
minute, but we begin with gary. good afternoon to you. prosecutors are hashing out what instructions the judge will give the jury before monday s closing arguments, those instructions will tell the jury what they need to consider for each of the charges and today as you mention, prosecutors are asking for lesser included offenses on some of the counts which would give jurors the option of finding kyle rittenhouse guilty of a lesser charge even if they don t believe prosecutors proved all of the elements needed for the primary charge, one example today prosecutors asked for the jury to be able to consider a second-degree reckless homicide charge for the shooting of joseph s rosenbaum with the the judge denied. they are going to say it was self-defense or they are not. we are talking about the defendant s mind in this regard. no, we are talking about how obvious was the danger, and i m still struggling with, what is the basis upon which the jury could acquit of the grea
areas that were hit by these five missiles. at least missile strikes according to the mayor here, what those targets were. we re also told by the city officials that emergency crews are responding to the areas that were targeted in this latest attack. they are now on the scene. we have no word at this point on casualties. we don t know what was hit. we do not know if anybody has been killed. those details, we ll get them to you as soon as we know them. at this point what we can confirm is that there were five loud explosions which were heard i heard them, i counted them. one after the other. within the last 40, 45 minutes. and now we have plumes of smoke rising over a number of locations from the city. this is an area which has been spared the worst of the russian military assault for the most part. the last attack as i said being march 26th. there was another missile strike, russian air strike on a military facility not far from here and close to the polish border you abou
all right, hanako montgomery, thank you for being there. the news continues, the sort starts now. see you tomorrow. tonight, straight from the source. donald trump, formally challenging the decision in maine to remove him from its primary ballot based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. and we expect other legal challenges from his team any minute now. plus, a senior leader of hamas, killed an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah warning is released this kind of action inside lebanon s borders won t be tolerated. could this lead to another front in israel s war? and is officially out as harvard s president. her resignation following mounting accusations of plagiarism that began after her controversial testimony on capitol hill about antisemitism on orbits campus. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by mains secretary of state to remove the former president from