are trapped beneath rubble after monday s powerful earthquake. ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine s air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n terrified today, has the government creo the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coast guard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passenger jet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic tv pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, before the plane was completely engulfed in flam
good morning. it is the start of the meteorological some this thursday. the weather this week is looking settled. at times there will be some cloud. there will also be some sunshine. mostly dry. but also at times a chilly breeze in the far and east of england. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, the 29th of may. our main story. turkey s president, recep tayyip erdogan, has secured another five years in power after winning the country s most important election in years. mr erdogan appealed for national unity as he celebrated victory last night over his opponent kemal kilicdaroglu, who declared the result unfair. our correspondent aruna iyengar has this report. cheering. ecstatic erdogan supporters outside the presidential palace in ankara last night. earlier in the day, the president had sung to the crowd and recited a poem. this erdogan supporter says, bye bye mr kemal. thank god, islam has won. translation: we are very happy. full ofjoy- - i can t ev
good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. could we be on the verge of the first ever criminal indictment of a current or former president? the signals coming out of the manhattan d.a. s office say yes, but how strong is their case? plus, the february job numbers blew by expectations adding over 100,000 more jobs than economists had forecast. will that help the markets? and the bad week on a good note. and the fda s brand new guidance designed to give women a better chance of detecting breast cancer earlier. but, at this hour, we are waiting for a decision by donald trump, will he make the unorthodox move of agreeing to testify before a grand jury investigating potential charges against him? the simple fact that manhattan district attorney alvin bragg invited him to testify is being seen by legal experts as a sign his investigation into hush money payments made to stormy daniels may be wrapping up, and that an indictment could come soon. i
the dutch government says it will restrict the export of some equipment used to make microchips, citing national and international security concerns. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to be within uk and abroad. we begin in georgia, where large crowds have been protesting against new laws which critics say will limit freedoms. the biggest demonstrations have been in the capital, tbilisi. police have been using water cannon and tear gas to try to disperse crowds. our correspondent, rayhan demytrie, is in tbilisi and sent us this report. every big moment in history has its iconic image. this may be georgia s. on tuesday, thousands of protesters stood for europe, and stood their ground against water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray. and they even fought back. 55 police officers were injured. protesters have been outraged by what s been happening in parliament pro government mps spoiling for a fight with the opposition, and then backing a controversial foreign agents bill. th
over 1 million people are without power. from texas, to the east coast as bone chilling temperatures are kicking in. more than 200 millions americans are currently on no warnings or advisories. this massive winter storm is causing holiday travel chaos. transportation secretary pete pete says it is going to be days before this gets sorted out. yesterday, about 10% of flights were canceled. now of course that means 90% of flights were not canceled. but you know, for goes about 2% would consider that a lot, so 10% means just a lot of disruption for a lot of passengers. now it will getting back to normal but we are seeing again over the middle of the country that that extreme cold in the east that that wind and snow is coming. and is going to be rough or certainly, the next couple of days when it comes aviation. so far over 26,000 flights have been delayed, nearly 9,000 canceled since wednesday. mike tobin is at o hare airport in chicago at the latest. jaime. hello there