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to what we have witnessed in the knesset today, right wing politicians in a shouting match with the families of the israeli hostages. also on the programme, the decision to sack sam altman has provoked rebellion at openai. more than 2 thirds of staff threatened to quit today unless the board resigns. and happy birthdayjoe biden. the us president turns 81 today — a number that seems to be moving in the opposite direction to his polling — his approval rating today slumped to the lowe...

passed away. the life report in just a moment. and, new remarks from president biden. plus, former president donald trumps revenge tour. ill speak with democratic congressman greg azar about the ex presidents radical plans for a second term. and, new details on a possible hostage deal between israel and hamas, what were learning, and the palestinian death troll tragically continues to climb in gaza. tonight, we begin with the breaking news that former first lady rosalynn carter has die...

with special counsel jack smiths prosecutor arguing that the gag order is needed to ensure a fair trial. in the israel/gaza war new you are general ski about a potential deal to release a large number of women and children hostages in exchange for an equal amount of prisoners being held in israel along with several days long pause in hostilities. >> when will more hostages get out? >> im not in a position to tell you that. plus, stunning new lows for president bidens approval ratin...

both sides about gagging donald trump. now, jack smith did win the first round in the d.c. coup case, but that gag order has not been am place. indeed, it was held for this review today. the special counsels team says donald trump has clearly shown in his violent rhetoric and his calls for violence and his calls for other things that sounds like witness intimidation means he has to be gagged. trumps lawyers say the gag order, first of all, is overly broad. second of all, they think the...

we shouldnt cut taxes. its been that we could only cut taxes once we have controlled inflation and debt. first cut inflation, then cut taxes. and thats why i made a promise to have inflation and the official statistics show that promise has now been met. so now that inflation has halved, and our growth is stronger, meaning revenues are higher, we can begin the next phase and turn our attention to cutting tax. we will do this in a serious, responsible way, based on fiscal rules to deliv...

hours, it is because of issues around skills. are our university sector is stronger than germanys but 50% of school lovers who dont go to university, the germans have a better system of technical education and we need to learn from that and thatis and we need to learn from that and that is what rishi sunak is talking about in terms of people doing math to 18. part of that is we have less capital investment. germany, france and the united states between them average about 2% more invest...

thing is we have heard this morning is that sir patrick vallance was suggesting that the scientists put a lot of time into working out when the best moment was to put those interventions in place, that we saw, and then he said, by the time they got to that weekend of 14th, 15th of got to that weekend of 1ath, 15th of march, they realise you could not predict in that precise a way, and they should have potentially gone earlier with that. it was interesting, quite a big issue at the time...

arriving in north—east scotland later. details throughout the programme. good morning. its monday, the 20th of november. our main story. its the start of a big week for the covid inquiry, which will hear evidence from the high—profile doctors and scientists who helped to shape and explain the governments response to the pandemic. the former chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, whose diaries from that time accused boris johnson of chaotic leadership, will appear today, fo...

coming on to talk about _ say possibly a few days. we will be coming on to talk about later- say possibly a few days. we will be coming on to talk about later in - say possibly a few days. we will be | coming on to talk about later in the year, september, second lockdown and so on. the premise of my question so far has been that there was going to be a lockdown in march or thereabouts, it was just a question of when it happened and could it have been imposed earlier. adopting the same ...

this case is all about, this period after the election. some of those, of course, go through today. we talked about, of course, the threat to judge chutkan, and then we have threats to the district attorney in new york, the district attorney and the sheriff of fulton county, threats to the former -- judges chambers providing over the ongoing trial. these are all from the last few weeks, so the notion that there was some dynamic that existed in 2020 that has since abated or gone stale i...