top of a brand new hour here on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. strong economic indicators after a volatile week on wall street. employers added 428,000 jobs in april. the unemployment rate is staying right there at 3 p.6%. an hour before the closing bell, the dow is down about 300 points. this has been a turbulent week. investors had their worst day of the year yesterday. stocks fell more than a thousand points after the feds interest rate hike, and live this hour, the president is in hamilton, ohio, right outside of cincinnati. he s about to meet with manufacturing leaders and promising to make inflation a top priority. joining me now, cnn s matt egan, and cnn s john harwood who s traveling today with the president. let s start with matt. the number, 28,000, higher than what was expected. what does this mean for the recovery? today s report paints the picture of a hot jobs market that continues to defy expectations of a slow down. 428,000 added this
scotland becomes the last place in the uk to remove the legal requirement for people to wear face masks in indoor public spaces. jordan s new war against syria s narco traffickers how the army has seized huge hauls of class a drugs smuggled across its border. it is a great view from here, you can see everything beyond the fence, that is syria. and this is a new front line in the war on drugs. russia has stepped up its air assault on targets in ukraine, including a missile attack on the western city of lviv, normally regarded as a relatively safe haven. the latest reports say seven people have been killed, including a child, in a city which, until now, has largely escaped unscathed since the russian invasion. smoke was seen rising from the outskirts and residents spoke of hearing five explosions. footage later emerged of the impact on residential areas. multiple cities and towns across ukraine targeted by russian airstrikes and shelling. russia says it hit more than 300 targ
ruins by russia s merciless invasion refising to back down. the city rejecting an offer by russia to surrender as the fighting wages on. the prime minister saying mariupol has not fallen and ukraine s forces digging in to defend 100,000 civilians still surviving in the city. president volodymyr zelenskyy saying he is open to negotiations with russia but adds the assault on mariupol makes that less likely. zelenskyy also insisting he will not give up any territory to end the war. atrocities piling up as the fighting drags on. search teams recovering bodies of over 40 innocent civilians killed when russian shelling hit a high-rise apartment building near kyiv. and today uaustria s chancellor giving events about his face-to-face meeting last week and warning about his mind-set. i think he is now in his vault watching. you know, he thinks the war is necessary for security guarantees for the russian federation. he doesn t trust the international community. he blames ukrainians t
bucha, borodyanka, mariupol. so i don t have, you know, it s not about me, it s more about russia. the first asylum seekers could be flown from the uk to rwanda in weeks, according to the british government. the scheme aims to deter people crossing the english channel, but critics say it is inhumane. more than 150 palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police at the al aqsa mosque compound injerusalem. three police officers were hurt at the historic site. joe root has stepped down as england test captain, after his side s defeat by the west indies. appointed in 2017, he holds the record for the highest number of matches and wins as captain. the russian defence ministry has warned it will intensify attacks around the ukraine capital, kyiv, after accusing ukraine of targeting russian border towns. moscow also claims its sea based cruise missiles have struck a factory outside kyiv which produces anti ship missiles, including the type which according to ukraine
moms and dads, neighbors, friends, rescue workers who tried to save them, such as a 6-year-old girl in mariupol, the coastal town that russia has been pummelling for seven weeks. we should warn you these images will be disturbing. an associated press photographer captured the final moments of this girl s life. her mother weeping outside the ambulance, her father covered in blood at her side as an emt desperately tried to revive her. doctors and nurses crowding over her tiny body in the hospital, still wearing her unicorn pajamas. a doctor pumping oxygen into her lungs, turned to the a.p. journalist and said, quote, show this to putin, the eyes of this child and crying doctors. that girl could not be saved. consider the countless ukrainians killed or maimed by russian land mines and booby traps. ukrainian fighters unable to find them all in town. oleg minko worked as a driver outside of kyiv according to the new york times. he was a whiz at repairing cars. when neighbors sho