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one billion us dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian and ukrainian forces are still fighting in the streets of bakhmut — which russia has been trying to capture for several months. the deputy mayor of the city has told the bbc that the 4,000 civilians still living there — out of an original population of 75,000 — have no gas, electricity or water. thousands of russian troops have died trying to take the eastern city. if it falls, it would be the first russian victory of...

james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode. this is bakhmut, or at least whats left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, as the bbc has reported, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught. but now russian commanders are growing increasingly confident, including the leader of the mercenaries known as the wagner group, which have been at the heart of the assault. translation: we have - almost surrounded bak...

trillion could soon approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in, neil. president biden is calling for more taxes on the rich. he speak recently in virginia beach. >> i want to make it clear, im going to raise some taxes. any of you who are billionaires out there, youre going to stop paying 3%. not a joke. >> biden met with kevin mccarthy just once since he became speaker and with a debt of over $31 trillion, many republicans are concerned about potential cuts in national ...

secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for...

we are hours away from his sentencing. the hearing will be this morning at 9:30. >> brian: took the jury less than three hours of deliberations to convict murdaugh in the murders of glinchtsd watson is live outside the court house in water borough, north carolina. >> convicted of the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. he was remanded almost immediately after the verdicts were read and led out of the coal tap county courthouse facing 30 years the jury came back with the unanimous ...

former president donald trump officially kicking off his 2024 campaign with his first rally in waco, texas. that is expected to get underway at any minute. do not worry. we will not be bringing it to you live. tonights event comes after a tough week for trump, as a multiple criminal investigations have been intensifying. learning his top aides will be forced to testify against him, trump exploded. on friday, a federal judge ruled ex chief of staff mark meadows and many other trump offi...

band, and not just smaller gloves the entire school is here for him, we all miss him, is he means the world to us. >> this hour ill speak with the mayor of kansas city, missouri, about the growing calls to charge that suspect with a hate crime. plus, a historic and shocking settlement. fox news agreeing to a massive payout to dominion voting systems, averting a high stakes defamation trial at the 11th hour, the andominion ceo saying fox has admitted to telling lies. s 21-year-old ac...

eastern time here on msnbc katy tur reports right now good to be with us im katy tur on monday, kevin mccarthy was in new york city trying to get wall street on his side as he plays a game of chicken with the white house on the debt limit. today its president biden who is making his case this time he is speaking to union workers in maryland. the president is arguing a clean raise of the debt limit is the only good option at the same time hes pitching his own plans on the economy some...

with lesley paterson — the triathlete whos in the running at sundays oscars — for her screenplay of a german first world war epic. i went iwent up i went up to tom cruise, i said high, iam leslie i went up to tom cruise, i said high, i am leslie patterson, writer of all quiet on the western front. he said i know your story. western front. he said i know yourstory. how western front. he said i know your story. how many hours a day have you trained? i said, no way! the director gener...

the president is cooperating fully. hello, everyone, this is a "outnumbered" and im emily compagno. joining me is ainsley earhardt, kennedy, cassie smedile, and kevin walling. now, we began with david spunt live at the department of justice who has more for us, david. >> good afternoon, good afternoon to everyone. fbi agents will be searching rehobeth beach home as long as it takes. the hunt is defined in the classified documents and the search began just a few hours ago. as we mention...