Aus north korea as a brutal regime after a us student that was imprisoned there guys. Stay hydrated, as the uk heatwave continues. Imprisoned there guys. Imprisoned there has died. Good morning. Its tuesday 20th june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Serious Fraud office has charged barclays and four former executives including former chief Executivejohn Varley with fraud over the banks dealings with qatar at the height of the financial crisis. Barclays raised Emergency Funding from qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bail out. Now barclays has become the first bank to Face Criminal Charges for actions during the financial crisis. With me is ben thompson. The first Senior Executives to face charges over alleged activities in that period of the financial crisis. Tell us more period of the financial crisis. Tell us more about what the charges are. You have two turn the clock back to 2008, the height of the crisis. Three of the biggest banks said they we re three of th
biden s attorney, chris clark, made i believe on the 20th june when the plea deal was first announced. legal side of thshgs of this, and the political side, and blend together. announcement of two agreements, between hunter biden and the united states attorney s office for the district of delaware, it s my understanding the five-year investigation into hunter is resolved. on the surface that looks like political spin, it may look like he s trying to put pressure on the u.s. attorney to not undertake this investigation anymore, maybe sending a signal to the department of justice. but in court today, we learned that was much more than a political statement, that they believe there was going to be broad-based immunity given to hunter biden if he pled guilty to these two misdemeanors. what do you make of that aspect of it? well, it s mind boggling. and look, you give immunity in return generally for assistance