| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Thursday, October 20, 2022 by Hani Richter | Hello Here's what you need to know. Ukrainians try to conserve electricity after Russian strikes, Trump is set to face a criminal trial on tax fraud charges, and Hyundai investigates child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  People shop in a supermarket as Kharkiv suffers an electricity outage, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne WORLD NEWS Ukrainians conserved electricity and some went without running water to try to ease pressure on the grid and give engineers a chance to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by Russian strikes as Kyiv's forces advanced towards the city of Kherson.
Here's what you need to know about the war in Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss battled to retain her grip on power, a day after a second top minister quit and rowing and jostling broke out among her lawmakers in parliament in a dramatic breakdown of unity and discipline.
Two days before a fire ripped through a section of Iran's Evin prison and killed at least eight people, a riot police unit arrived at the compound and began to patrol the corridors, shouting "God is Greatest" and banging batons on cell doors, six sources told Reuters.
People wade through fast-flowing water, holding one another to avoid being swept away. The torrent was, until recently, the East-West Road in Nigeria's Rivers state, the gateway to the nation's oil and gas. Now parts of Rivers, along with large swaths of 32 other states, are inundated by the worst flooding in 12 years.
China's capital, Beijing, has dialed up measures to stop COVID, strengthening public checks and locking down some residential compounds after a quadrupling of its case load in recent weeks, just as a key Communist Party congress entered full swing.
|  Former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Mesa, Arizona, U.S., October 9, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder U.S. NEWS Donald Trump's family company is set to face a criminal trial on tax fraud charges in New York starting next week that could trigger fines and further complicate the real estate firm's ability to do business as the former U.S. president's legal woes mount.
Harvey Weinstein, currently serving a 23-year sentence for sex crimes in New York, is back on trial on criminal charges in Los Angeles. Weinstein faces 11 charges of rape and sexual assault involving five women in the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area between 2004 and 2013.
An 80-year-old Georgia man illegally parked on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, saying he wanted to deliver documents to the Supreme Court, was arrested after three guns were found in his van, police said.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman of Pennsylvania released a doctor's letter that said he was recovering well from a stroke and has no work restrictions.
U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian. | | | | | | | | | | | Video of the day  Zelenskiy says he will never get used to war Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he is still not used to the war in his country, nor does he ever want to be. Speaking in an interview with the Canadian broadcaster CTV, Zelenskiy said he does not allow himself to get used to the pain and killing. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
