kidnapped in mexico. look at the video. you can see a man with a gun as people are being loaded into the back of this pickup truck. you also see a second man in a black shirt. you can see him in the video. he appears to be pulling the people into the bed of that truck. now the fbi says unidentified gunmen abducted the victims friday, shortly after they drove into the mexican border town southeast of mcallen, texas. cnn s kylie atwood joins us live from the state department. mexican authorities are expected to give an update any minute now. what are you hearing from u.s. officials, though? reporter: as you guys were saying, this happened on friday in northeast mexico. it s four americans who were kidnapped and assaulted in this area. now, according to one u.s. official, this was a case of mistaken identity. the folks that attacked them didn t know who they were, presumably, possibly didn t know that they were americans. but according to that u.s. official, they were visiti
here he is being greeted on the tarmac at dublin airport by the irish tee shock leo varadkar. the pair then left in a motorcade, heading for county lowth where they re expected in the next half an hour or so. president biden has urged northern ireland s political factions to resume power sharing, during a visit to mark 25 years of the deal that ended the conflict. he is in northern ireland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the good friday agreement. the president won t be visiting the northern ireland assembly in stormont during his trip. it was established as a result of the good friday agreement, but it s currently not functioning since the democratic unionist party withdrew its support in protest at post brexit trading arrangements. biden acknowledged the differences but said he hoped power sharing would resume. thousands of famliies have been affected by the troubles, the pain was real. every person killed left an empty chair at a dining room table and
any moment now, president biden will pledge to add american battle tanks too. that prompts a dramatic warning from russia. red lines are a thing of the past. plus, he did it too. the president s allies see a classified discovery at mike pence s house as a political gift to defuse a three-week-long white house crisis. and retribution on capitol hill. the house speaker kevin mccarthy refuses to seat a pair of democrats on the house intelligence committee. next up an attempt to remove another democratic lightning rod from the panel that oversees foreign policy. eric swalwell would be in the private sector and can t get a security clearance there, we are not going to provide him with the secrets to america. hakeem jeffries has 200 other straight to the white house and the president of the united states. yesterday marked 11 months since russia s brutal full-scale invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of th
calls, loved ones on the front lines. they sar their training just for the cameras. they re sitting ducks treated just like pigs. tonight after an arrest republican kari lake is not going to let it go. and world affairs expert ian gram an why he thinks the chinese president was escorted from that meeting. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight hell on the front lines. new video just into out front from an independent russian news organization. it s a jaw dropping reporting of a russian woman speaking to her husband on the front lines in ukraine. listen for yourself. translator: my love, how are you? translator: i wasn t listening to all the bull [ bleep ] people were talking about, but now we don t know where we re going. we don t have anything to eat and we don t know what our objectives are. translator: it s [ bleep ] hell here. translator: they re [ bleep ] us with rockets. we re in some village under constant shelling not far from where people
live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 7pm in washington where the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle for the first time in 100 years the house failed to elect a speaker in the first ballot. the house has now adjourned until wednesday after three rounds of votes. the latest saw the republican kevin mccarthy fall 16 votes short of the 218 majority required. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected. here is the moment when the latest result was announced. the honourable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. honourable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no persons have received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. 0ur correspondent on capitol hill, will grant told me more about the significanc