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hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in poland where president zelensky of ukraine has made his first official visit to the country since russia invaded ukraine. the polish president, andrzej duda, has told his ukrainian counterpart that poland will urge nato to give kyiv additional security guarantees. ukraines leader has been welcomed by president duda at the presidential palace and hes expected to thank the polish people at the royal castle in warsaw later. poland has been one of...

nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything i...

good evening from new york. welcome back to "all in." im chris hayes. in four days the republican majority will be sworn in, and that includes george santos, the freshman congressman-elect from new york, a man who flipped a democratic seat in a biden plus eight district and has subsequently been caught fabricating much of his resume. from his past claims of jewish heritage to his job history, education, reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially ...

welcome back to all in, im chris hayes. in just four days, the new republican authority will be sworn into the house of representatives, that includes george santos. the freshman-elect from new york, the man who flipped the democratic seat in a biden district. and essentially has been fabricating his resume. hes currently under vessel gagen by federal prosecutors for his background and finances. from his past -- reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. es...

Understand the implications, so much so that the inquiry was exasperated by the end of it. Also the issue of Remote Access and we are likely to have questioning about what she knew and when she knew it. Yesterday she said she missed a key e mail about this in 2010 and all of this started with an apology that many of the victims i spoke to were not particularly satisfied with. I spoke to one victim who was a Sub Postmistress and was accused of stealing but was eventually wrongly convicted of Fals...

Police vans, there is a big tent in the garden and there it has also been some activity out in the back garden. this is obviously an ongoing police investigation, but i can give you some background context and this goes back to 2021 when police scotland launched an investigation into snp finances. the party had raised more than £600,000 and that was between 2017 and 2020 and the party had pledged to spend that on a new independence campaign, there was a referendum back in 2014, nicola sturgeon,...

People that make more than 10 million a year. so 20,000 families that make over $10 million a year, there are only 66 closed audits. a fraction of 1%, in the house in 2020 for their income group. >> that is a really fascinating background context as we look at this. jill, i was thinking about you today because we, richard nixon had a fair amount of financial sketchiness in his own world. and, another thing that happened is that a whole bunch of different reforms came after nixon, famously, to de...

>> you lead me to my next question which is isnt the kind of thing that could materially change the value of twitter being one of its biggest users and the guy who wants to buy it suggesting online its got big problems and he may not want to buy it? is anyone discussing the prospect of musk potentially interfering in his own deal in some way? >> well, it may be that he is attempting to, in fact, establish that there is some sort of material change to the value of twitter, something that perhaps ...

If that request is made. but chuck, it brings me to a point, the background context. you can pull out a law book about elementary criminal procedure, and that is important here. but the political social institutional realties of what were able to go over is enormous. it hasnt happened before. nixon was -- fords pardon. if youre sitting in the office, or cy vance or anyone making that case, rebecca, you know, youre about to bring -- if you can bring an indictment, the biggest criminal case in the...

Youve just said we shouldnt release any sensitive information. is this going to be enough to counter the narrative or are we already too far down the rabbit hole to where people look and say i cant trust anything anyone is saying in congress right now. >> i dont know if it is enough to correct the record, given how the waters are polluted, to mix that up. something strange has happened. distrust is no longer a kind of one of the background context for political engagement. distrust is become pol...