message to could-be candidates, particularly women, as she gears up for a tough midterm election season. today, president biden is ready to announce his plan to lower consumer prices. we ll take a look at what he s expected to say and how the markets are responding. there s also a remarkable story in this morning s washington post that details the lengths former president trump s chief of staff mark meadows took to keep trump in power after joe biden won the electoral college. we ll dig into that new reporting. we re also following the latest from ukraine and the new assessment from the pentagon on why the russian military is still not making much progress. they re a third grade army. there s that. plus, french president emmanuel macron dashes ukraine s hopes of an expedited path into the eu, while also proposing a, quote, new european community that ukraine could join. you know, he should if he s uncomfortable with zelenskyy coming to eu meetings, i guarant
murder suspect on the run now for custody, amazing story how they were tracked down. let s go outfront. and good evening, welcome to special edition of outfront live in kyiv tonight. i m erin burnett and we begin with the breaking news, explosions rocking the ukrainian city of odesa tonight. witnesses say a large shopper center has been hit. russia pounding the crucial port city in recent days and in mariupol this hour, russian forces we understand are storming the steel plant where ukrainian soldiers are holed up. as ukraine s ministry of defense releases this video, they show ukraine s flag flying tonight over that steel plant and cia director bill burns says putin is stepping up his assault in ukraine because he does not believe he can afford to lose this war. it all comes as putin gives a defiant message to the world during his so-called victory day speech, putin referred to new nazi threats in ukraine, again, making the baseless claim this invasion is meant to de-n
i digress. tonight, i would like to draw your attention to a rather telling footnote, just as samuels elitist on stripping worth of have our population by overturning roe. it caught a bit of online attention this weekend. in this footnote, it cites a report from 2008 that notes, quote, nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002, whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life, and available to be adopted, had become virtually nonexistent, unquote. the domestic supply of infants. that line caught twitters interest as kind of creepy. in fact, the citation backs up and argued that was pushed by ultraconservative justice amy coney barrett during her questioning in the case last december. after varied noted both roe and casey emphasize the burdens of parenting and focuses on the consequences of parenting and obligations of motherhood, she asked, why don t the safe haven loss take care of that problem? safe haven law
and 21st century time lord a brand new face for one of science fiction s best known characters. i feel very great to have had the baton handed over and i promise to do my very best. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning here in singapore and in the philippines, where the polls have opened in the most divisive presidential election for many years. there are several candidates hoping to replace the current leader hardliner rodrigo duterte but just two clear frontrunners. leading in the polls is ferdinand bongbong marcos, jr. he s the son of the former president, ferdinand marcos. critics say he s used his wealth to whitewash the history of his father s brutal dictatorship. bongbong marcos was also convicted in 1995 for tax evasion while serving as a public official. his running mate is sara duterte the daughter of the current president. the main challenger to them is leni robredo. she is the current vice president
russia is to stage its annual victory day parade but it s hello and welcome. vladimir putin is to attend russia s annual victory day parade in moscow this morning as he attempts to rally public support for the war in ukraine. the event commemorates the anniversary of the soviet victory over nazi germany in 1945 and will feature 10,000 troops and an air display. but president zelensky said russia had forgotten everything that was important to the victors of the second world war. frances read reports. what had been a place of shelter now a burning ruin with 60 dad, and air strike, school in bilohorivka in the east of ukraine, another reminder but nowhere here is off limits. 60 nowhere here is off limits. 60 dead. in the south, the azovstal steelworks in the europol under intense shelling by russia. the plant is the only area of the city not controlled by russian forces, 2000 ukrainian soldiers our thoughts to still be in there. president says his does not have the heavy w