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hello and welcome. the former chief executive of scottish national party peter murrell has been released without charge by the police, pending further investigation into party finances. mr murrell, the husband of former first minister nicola sturgeon, was arrested on wednesday morning. a police search resumed on thursday morning at the couples glasgow home. our scotland correspondent james shaw has more details on the investigations that is being conducted at the glasgow house of peter...

Meeting in new york. Live now to my colleague Caitriona Perry in new york. We arejust we are just awaiting the arrival of President Joe Biden and if you hear a loud noise coming past me it is his motorcade. World leaders have been arriving in the General Assembly got under way an hour ago. Weve heard from the Secretary General and the first world leader, the brazilian president , is addressing the semi. Oncejoe biden has arrived he will take the stage and we will bring that life to you on bbc ne...

The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now t...

As the investigation into Segalmex continues, President López Obrador's government remains steadfast in its dedication to upholding transparency and accountability in public institutions.

Zelenskyy is always wearing this kind of military khaki green, hes out in the field or in his office which is a little different than putin being in the office. because hes showing the russians, here i am, im in my office, knowing a russian rocket can hit it at any time. >> we have to talk about the full-circle moment for zelenskyy. he was at the center of former president trumps first impeachment and now look where he is. >> from this secure figure in the impeachment that no one has ever heard ...

Expressed his shared commitment to, quote, root out corruption, unquote, president trump in fact did not mention corruption at all on this call, just like he did not mention corruption on the july 25th call. shortly after this call, president trump asked vice president mike pence to attend president zelenskys inauguration. but on may 13th, president trump did an about face and directed vice president pence not to attend. an adviser to vice president pence testified the inauguration had not yet b...

The white house said that mr. trump told the ukrainian president that he wanted to "root out corruption," but those words are not anywhere in the summary. tonight, the white house is blaming the discrepancy on lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security councils ukraine expert. a source tells cbs news vindman signed off on that language before the president actually made the call. today, vindman is not commenting, but, norah, he is set to testify in public next week. >> odonnell:...

People to implement reforms that strengthen democracy, and root out corruption. not one word is true. president trump had more to say about miss universe than he did about corruption in ukraine and didnt say one word lat that he cared about the sovereignty and integrity. so the transcript that was the big surprise at the beginning of of the hearing simply proved what anyone could have guessed, which is donald trump cared more about miss universe than he does corruption in ukraine and that transc...

In may. so yovanovitch will take center stage tomorrow. shell talk in detail about her duties as u.s. ambassador to ukraine since 2016 where she really led the call on the ukrainian government to do more to fight corruption. but in may, of course, she was unexpectedly recalled from her post. despite the fact that she was a diplomat, has been a diplomat since 1986 serving under numerous presidents. her tough treatment is something george kent and bill taylor touched upon in their testimony yester...

Is being described as this shadow dip loamac diplomacy. >> how about the foreign policy impact of rudy giuliani and donald trump? george kent said a couple of times yesterday, look, for the 28 years that ukraine has been an independent state, all of the four previous presidents counseled the ukrainians, follow the rule of law. root out corruption. dont act like authoritarian thugs. and thats what president trump and giuliani asked the ukrainians to do. investigate one of our presidents political...