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text in a dramatic departure from previous amendments sought to bring justice to millions of formerly enslaved black americans and to insure that the formerly elected officials who waged war against the united states would not be allowed to serve in elected office again. that is the purpose of section 3. now, knowing all that, at issue today before the court were some key questions. one, do states have the right to enforce section 3 or can only congress do that? two, did the drafters i...

unspun world withjohn simpson. hello. its good to see you. were here in the bbc�*s central newsroom for another edition of unspun world. in todays programme — how is it that russias economy is doing so well in spite of the ukraine war and western sanctions? a quite extraordinary transformation of the russian economy into a war economy, with massive defence spending, with the reorientation of its industrial base towards its war machine. irans client groups around the middle east get...

phones and tvs go to die, well, every year our planet generates over 50 million tonnes of electronic waste. the problem is thingsjust dont last as long these days. take phones, for example. the entire industry seems geared around us replacing our handset every couple of years or so. but only about a quarter of that e—waste is properly recycled. and thats really bad because our devices contain potentially toxic chemicals. well, michael kaloki has been looking at how one company is try...

this is american voices. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, theyre attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members...

. today marks an historic day at the supreme court. youre looking at some of the footage and some of the protesters there this morning. if trumps conduct for alleged engagement in insurrection bars him from the ballot as colorado has decided, that was the question before the court. the justices at times considered implications. home in a physical sense how the high court operates. the justices referred to that attack at times but careful to avoid pre-judging the other prosecutions fr...

Now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. Hello and welcome to unspun world. Its exactly two years since our programme launched, and the anniversary comes at a critical moment in the ukrainian war, which is also exactly two years old. Russias gaining ground, and President Putins only serious political opponent, alexei navalny, is dead. Sudden death syndrome, the Prison Authorities informed his family. Well, theres been a lot of that about where mr putins enemies are concerned. So, is putin...

time when prosecutors for jack smith were really, really active in interviewing witnesses around trumps mindset, appeared to be trying to get at just that. they were trying to determine whether trump knowingly based his actions on a lie in claiming widespread fraud that impacted the outcome of the november 2020 election. now, as we understand it, kushner has insisted that it was his impression that trump genuinely believed the election was stolen, according to a person familiar with wh...

republicans are expected to torpedo a bipartisan immigration and foreign aid bill. well, democrats arent entirely on board either with that bill. fail to go pass immigration reform is especially embarrassing for republicans who have been screaming for decades that the border is in crisis, and needs to be fixed through legislation immediately. but now that a once in a multi-decade opportunity to do something about it is in front of them, theyre about to decide that chaos at the border i...

hemmer. welcome to the program today. >> dana: this is "americas newsroom," im dana perino. a liberal commentator who said what a year this day has been. it felt like it. it started yesterday. special counsel robert hur released his report on the presidents mishandling of documents. charges werent warranted but the defense of that decision ignited a firestorm. >> bill: here is part of what set it off. it reads we have also considered that a trial mr. biden would likely present himself ...

its eight in the morning in singapore, and 3am in baghdad which has been struck by a us drone attack which killed a senior leader of an armed pro—iran group. three people were killed in the attack, including a commander of the group that us officials say was behind recent attacks on us bases in iraq and syria. this was the scene in baghdad earlier tonight. angry crowds surrounded the burnt out vehicle — chanting "america is the biggest devil". our senior international correspondent...