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Haiti, Trapped Americans begging to get out as we await an update from the State Department. So begins a thursday afternoon. Sandra a developing situation at this hour. Im sandra smith in new york. This is america reports. We are following it for you. Violent gangs are attempting to seize control of haiti led by A Brutal War Lord known as barbecue. John barbecue, a former Police Officer, got the nickname from his penchant to eliminate his opponents by burning them to death. Believed to be respon...

sooner, rick scott, president biden is being favored over president trump, says congressman jim jordan. well, they also said that theyre going to investigate. the party will. and that theyre going to do it themselves if they have to. thats republicans. but now ten days later, republicans find themselves in the same flas house that democrats did. thanks to the other most recent, vice president mike pence, many of those who up in arms of joe bidens document discovery are changing their d...

commentator since the 1970s, michael goldfarb, actor turned journalist, foreign correspondent for pbs radio in the united states, now host of the podcast the first rough draft of history, steve richards began his career as a westminster correspondent just as margaret thatcher was ending hers. coincidental! his blog is called rock and rolls politics, his most recent book about the talented politicians who failed to make it to number ten. steve, we can leave the question unanswered, whoe...

he built his reputation in large hotels across the world before he was hired by first lady rosalynn carter in 1979. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best—known british commentators and correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, britains elusive prime minister turns up in ukraine, as the country marks six months since the war began. we now know i...

of potential security risks from classified materials recovered from donald trumps home in florida earlier this month. a spokesman for mr trump accused the democrats of �*weaponising the intelligence community. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best—known british commentators and correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, britain...

wheres it going in the united states? and in australia, how come much of it ended up in the hands ofjust one man? and even his his friends arent happy about it. to discuss all of that, in the studio, we have latika bourke, a correspondent for the australian newspapers the age and the sydney morning herald, a writer who has been writing a weekly column for the guardian since 1987, polly toynbee, and michael goldfarb, who was a foreign correspondent for national public radio in the unite...

equal right to the poor and the rich. and that i will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me. as an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. >> meet the newest member of the u.s. supreme court, history was made on thursday. in a moment, i will speak with former democratic -- who guided jackson through her tumultuous senate process. but first, let me take you back to 1998, when president bill clinton appeared before a grand ...

hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. this is bbc news. we start with breaking news. less than 2a hours after a grain supply deal was signed between russia and ukraine to guarantee the safe passage of cargo ships, the ukrainian port city of odesa has been hit by a missile attack. reports suggest several long—range missiles were fired by russia — some were shot down but explosions were heard and smoke was seen rising. this is the region where it was hope...

spending. nave got better with two people, claiming the thatcherite mantle. in very different ways. so it is a battle on the right of the tory party. the focus is on tax cuts. when is the debate but not should there be. there is no focus on the role of the state as demands on the role of the state as demands on the role of the state as demands on the state are growing. and so it is a return to that sort of 1980s thatcherism, that very erratically the tory party have been trying to move...

focus. the january 6th tour taking pictures of hallways, tunnels and staircases inside the capitol complex, clearly not normal tourist fare and theres more. the committee has also released video of that same man you saw there near the capitol on january 6th issuing violent threats against house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck shumer and other democratic members of congress. >> were coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. were coming t...