branded him a threat to american democracy. he s an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth? the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. nasa calls off the planned launch of its new moon rocket for the second time in a week. officials say it s likely there won t be another launch attempt for several weeks. and police in the us have charged a man with theft and terror offences after he threatened to crash a plane into a supermarket. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has called for greater european unity in response to russia s use of energy as a weapon. speaking a day after moscow said it would not restart gas exports through the nord stream one pipeline, mr zelensky said russia aimed to intimidate and weaken all of europe and was trying to inflict poverty and political chaos in places it can t yet strike with missiles. ukraine s first lady, olena zelenska, has been speaking to the bbc s laura kuenssberg. in an interview recorded in kyiv, m
the former conservative cabinet secretaryjustine greening, the is chief political commentator paul waugh and the republican political analyst doug heye. good evening, welcome to the programme. by the 5th september we will know who is to become the next prime minister of the united kingdom. currently, we have 11 candidates, the hope is that by next week, 11 will become two. in the last hour, the 1922 committee of conservative backbenchers has set out the rules by which they will eliminate candidates. here is the chair of that committee sir graham brady. we tried to find a balance where we are not making it impossibly difficult for serious candidates to enter the contest but we don t want to have a cast of thousands of people who don t really have great prospects of progressing in the election. so the first round will be held on wednesday, by which time candidates will require the support of 20 mps. a second on thursday, in which they will need the support of 30. another round
mid-terms. that trump leads the gop and his extreme supporters are essentially poisonous for the country. watch this. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. the maga republicans believe for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail. maga republicans look at americans and see carnage and darkness and despair. they spread fear and lies. martha: okay. you get the idea. the white house feeding several questions today about the appropriateness of this speech given the military backdrop there, the red lights that were up against that building and how the white house can deny that the effort here last night was not a presidential prime time address of the nation, but political. so the president was asked about that today by peter doocy. here s how that went. watch this. mr. president, do you con
Earlier in September, 2022, the pipeline connecting Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea were hit by unexplained blasts which Moscow called an act of international terrorism .
The United States should try to prove it was not behind the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines that connected Russia to Western Europe, the Russian embassy said to the United States on Thursday.