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Managed to fool hsbcs Voice Recognition Security System, designed to prevent fraud. Good morning, its friday, 19th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Breaking news this morning. Swedish prosecutors are ending their seven year long investigation into the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been accused of rape. Mr assange, whos a5, has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london since 2012, claiming asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. Scotla nd Scotland Yard says ...

That somehow this is going to deter putin from the objectives that he feels that he intends to achieve here in the ukraine. >> martha: the white house has said diplomacy and deterrence were two avenues. right now diplomacy has failed. the deterrence wont be useful in terms of stopping the activity that theyre undertaking and who knows how much further theyre going to go. >> one more point, martha. the biden administration threatened serious sanctions after an invasion and they used that basic pr...

Bob mueller is not shutting down anytime soon. >> absolutely not. and julie is right that this is part of what this does is sort of give some concrete information and proof behind the idea that this was not a free lansice lancing effort by michael flynn, but in fact, a campaign-wide to make these overtures to russia or improve relations with russia and to talk specifically about sanctions. what those k.t. mcfarland e-mails do show there wasnt just a policy imperative behind that, but a political...

Controversial. deplorable migrant conditions remained there, including mass graves. the nation was upgraded to keep it eligible for the trans pacific partnership. also a top obama policy imperative. a letter signed by at least 170 members of congress last month read malaysia has earned its place on tier three. were left to conclude malaysias upgrade has been driven by external considerations. just as this report was airing we did receive this from mark toner, the deputy spokesman of the state de...

Team. he says romney is the beneficiary of a broken tax system, and he wants to keep it that way with things like evading the buffett rule. what do you say to that? >> heres the problem, bill. weve got an economy thats in crisis, a saw in march, and the presidents policy imperative is to raise taxes. thats all hes talked about for the last two weeks, is raising taxes. and thats the last thing this economy needs. governor romney would take a different approach. he would lower taxes across the boa...