good evening, i m mehdi hasan. we begin tonight in florida. land of endless sunshine, citrus fruit and senior living. welcome to the villages. the florida retirement community is so big it s the same size as the city of gainesville, florida, just off the interstate. also its biggest waco texas and the village is a big deal politically as well. it s a regular stop on the campaign trail for right-wing republicans. donald trump spoke to supporters there in the final stretch before election day. he signed an executive order on medicare there in 2019. while matt gates and marjorie taylor greene took their traveling gave a gifts act there in 2021. when ron desantis said he was stripping disney of his self governing power in the state when he sought to control higher education and when he briefed people on his coronavirus response in 2020, he did it all from, you guessed it, the villages. if something major and conservative politics is happening in florida, and chances are it s happ
illegally annexed in 2014. similar to crimea, u.s. officials believe that russia will soon host bass sham referendum in kherson, which has been occupied since the early days of the war. to the bottom of your map. pressure continues attacks on nearby nikolai of, a key strategic city which has been under siege since the start of the war, yet remains under ukrainian control. a u.s. official sideways that russian continues to pose no threat of a man of salt on odessa, by either land or sea. intense artillery fighting continues in the donbas, notably near the towns of severodonetsk and is ian. yet despite him with a monthlong campaign, russia has advanced since previously held territory which continues to be extremely slow with little success, according to u.s. officials. all the while suffering, quote, significantly high level of troop and equipment losses. according to uk ministry. it has been said that russia has lost one third of the combat force in under 90 days. the uk defen
in person classes this week due to a rise in illnesses among staff and students. school officials said the drop off in attendance was due to a mixture of viruses including covid 19 and influenza. and france s education minister announced the country will ban schoolchildren from wearing the abaya, a loose fitting full length robe worn by some muslim women, in state run schools when classes begin this month. my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke this week with us education secretary miguel cardona to discuss the challenges facing students and teachers heading back to school. secretary, thank you very much forjoining us again on bbc news. i want to start with affirmative action, because the supreme court s ruling effectively ended race conscious admissions in colleges and universities. and if you look at the state of california, the uc system hasn t been able to meet its racial diversity goals despite having ended race based admissions more than two decades ago. so how do you make
do the dishes as much as i can. and i m sure she was happy to be shoveling the dirt on you. she would have been, yes. thank you so much, both of you. i really appreciate it. thank you. thank you. and by the way, quick aside, cover crops, you can plant them to improve your soil. radishes, peas, and lentals all count. thanks for joining us. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, new and dangerous language from the once and possible future president of the united states. also tonight, new details on the fatal car crash involving the then-girlfriend, now-wife of bob menendez. and a live report from ellie reed about book bans. we begin tonight keeping him honest, by taking a step back, a step back from what seems like a flood of words lately that the former president has said, followed by a flood of stories about those words and subsequent outrage that one side or another has about those stories. before
tonight on 360, new and dangerous language from the once and possible future president of the united states. also tonight, new details on a fatal car crash involving the then-girlfriend, now-wife of new jersey senator bob menendez. and a live report from elle reef about how some students and parents are bushing back against the book bans in that state. we begin tonight keeping him honest, by taking a step back, a step back from what seems like a flood of words lately that the former president has said, followed by a flood of stories about those words and subsequent outrage that one side or another has about those stories. before the whole cycle repeats itself and the latest outrage is forgotten because it s old news by then. his former strategist steve bannon had a phrase for this. he called it flooding the zone with excrement, though he used a different word for excrement. it never gave anyone time to stop, take a breath and take stock of what just happened or what s