The babies were attacked Betweenjune 2015 and and june 2016. She was charged with 22 counts of attempting babies in her care. Some were injected with air. Others were force fed milk. The Crown Prosecution Service announced on the steps that they weapon eyes to her craft as a nurse. The trial has considered harrowing evidence from. They watched that children die and often harrowing circumstances. The families are very much at the forefront of peoples mines here at court today. Lucy letby was herself in the Court Building was not present in the dock to hear the final verdict delivered. When the first vertex work delivered several days ago, she was present. She sobbed at the dock at one point put her head on the desk and cried. But for the last couple of days, even though she has been here in the Holding Cells at Manchester Crown court, she refused to come and sit in the dock for the conclusion of her trial. She will be sentenced on monday in thejudge her trial. She will be sentenced on m
song all day. we begin in egypt where officials insist traffic is flowing normally through the suez canal despite recent attacks further south in the red sea. iranian backed rebels in yemen have repeatedly targeted commercial vessels, leading some of the world s biggest shipping firms to suspend routes in the area. with more context, here s our business reporter david waddell. let us have a look at the situation. there are where the attacks occurred. at the northern end is the suez canal. you can t make your way unless you first pass this checkpoint. two companies. maersk, the container company and hapag lloyd another big shipping container company have both announced that they would not be making that passage. you have to pass the cape of good hope in south africa. that adds nearly 11,000 nautical miles to thejourney. adds nearly 11,000 nautical miles to the journey. there is another separate issue for the ships trying to traverse through the atlantic ocean and the pacific o
business reporter david waddell. let s have a look at the geography of the situation. right here is the bab al mandab strait. it s right next to yemen, from where those houthi attacks originated. it s at the southern end of the red sea. at the northern end is the suez canal. now, ships cannot pass through the suez canal from the south without first passing through this choke point. a couple of days ago, the maersk shipping container company and hapag lloyd both announced they wouldn t be making that transit. they ve since been joined by other shipping companies. now, if you re a ship master trying to get your vessel from the indian ocean to the atlantic ocean and you cannot or will not traverse through suez, you need to pass by the cape of good hope. that adds an extra 3,000 nautical miles to thejourney. and there are other issues for ships trying to traverse from the atlantic to the pacific ocean through here. the panama canal is accepting many fewer ships right now because
the world. a i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. four weeks from today, we ll be waking up to results from the iowa caucus, so this is crunch time in the land of cornfields and presidential politics. donald trump holding a rally there tonight while nikki haley is going on offense. i ve done well over 120 something, 140 town halls. and i never talk about my opponents. but today i am. the former u.n. ambassador and south carolina governor is sharpening attacks against her opponents calling out donald trump last night for his persistent praise of dictators. also the haley campaign and super pac both releasing new tv ads knocking ron desantis and president biden. i ll just say it, biden is too old and congress is the most exclusive nursing home in america. in a world consumed by chaos, ron desantis is another disaster. the desantis campaign, a dumpster fire. his style always trying to outtrump trump. phony and failing. a weaker nominee than trump. armed with those new ads
have a longer interview soon. we really appreciate it. and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. chris jansing starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing, live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. for donald trump, it has been a winning strategy his entire life. when you re in legal trouble, go on the attack. so, can a criminal court judge convince him to change course, keep quiet and play by the rules? that question at the heart of a court hearing less than 90 minutes from now. plus, a missouri teenager charged with threatening to kill or harm president biden after plowing a u-haul into security barriers near the white house. the latest on what the secret service says the 19-year-old was trying to do and the disturbing evidence they found inside that truck. and speaker mccarthy reportedly telling house republicans they re nowhere near a deal on the debt limit. that as a sense of pessimism begins to take hold among some lawmakers and the cale