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tonight with this really weird moment that happened last week at a house hearing. transportation secretary pete buttigieg was testifying before a house committee and as you woulde expect, for several hou, theyfo discussed infrastructure roads, railway, electric vehicles, energy prices, all of the usual stuff until one republican congressman on the committee suddenly took the transportation hearing off the rails. and that joke was for you, transport nerd, youre welcome. have a watch. >>...

independent, a news organisation committed to reporting from ukraine without fear or favour. but is there room for independentjournalism on the ukrainian battlefield? olga rudenko in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. well, stephen, thank you for having me. its a great pleasure to have you on the show. just a short time ago, you reflected with time magazine on the impact of what is now a six—month—long war that you have lived through, youve experienced. you said, "none of us are the same p...

the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agents most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted th...

for decades to the american people. >> tonight actual reason for hope and optimism as a hey stork climate and health care bill becomes law. then, team trump sets its sights on confidential sources. >> i understand the witness protection issue but at the same time, its not going to be concealed for very long. >> ill talk to george conway over the fight of unsealing the fbi affidavit. plus >> we are facing very difficult and challenging times. we are facing a moment where our democracy r...

we start with the soaring cost of living because theres a warning home energy bills here in the uk could rise even higher than previously feared this winter. wholesale gas prices have jumped back to near record highs after a further squeeze on europes gas supplies by russia. our global trade correspondent dharshini david has the details. this is being claimed as the first truly global energy crisis, the result of moscow weaponising fossil fuels in europe has been the key target. this i...

health care bill becomes law. then, team trump sets its sights on confidential sources. >> >> i understand the witness protection issue but at the same time, its not going to be concealed for very long. >> ill talk to george conway over the fight of unsealing the fbi affidavit. plus >> we are facing very difficult and challenging times. we are facing a moment where our democracy really is under attack and under threat. >> robert draper on the anti-democratic forces advancing state by s...

army. his speech this week was a shot across the bow is to politicians attending to national and international talking events, the negus summit in madrid and before that the g7 in the bavarian alps. both promised to support ukraine for as long as it takes. general saunders was arguing for deterrence, the not very surprising deterrent for russia as being, do you want prime ministers to remember you want prime ministers to remember you as being like neville chamberlain, who appeased hitl...

it. also this hour, president biden talking with brittney greiners wife. well talk about how the president is getting ready to respond to greiner herself today. and an interview with the d.a. running the investigation with possible election interference in georgia. what shes saying about more subpoenas, including whether to issue one to donald trump. >> my job is to make sure that we get all the facts, that we get the information, that the grand jury can do their job and that i can mak...

the shooting of nine—year—old olivia pratt—korbel — merseyside police say the suspected gunman has not handed himself in despite repeated appeals. we will not rest until we find you, and we will find you. a police chief in uvalde, texas is sacked after failing to send officers in to stop the gunman who killed 19 pupils and two teachers. how bad is flying for the planet? google is accused of airbrushing the answer. england make a great start to the second test against south afri...

rain. this is what happened through the small hours, these thunderstorms developed to the south, pushed northwards. weve seen around 5000 lightning strikes so far today and a lot of rain as you can see from the radar picture. in some places but not in all places. however, where it has been wet, take this figure, bury saint edmonds, above 70 millimetres of rain so far, that is more than that place would normally expect in the whole month of august, so it has been an exceptionally wet da...