with the eu on possible membership. last year it became an official candidate. butjoining the european union takes years, if not decades. it also takes the approval of the 27 member states. but the very subject of the european union for ukraine is so loaded because it's about ukraine demonstrating its sovereignty despite it becoming under continued attack. and it's also about ukraine's political will to lean further to the west and further away from the clutches of moscow. the long running inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and 80s will hear closing statements later today. it's been called the biggest treatment disaster in nhs history, with 30,000 people thought to have been infected with hiv or hepatitis c. 0ur health correspondent, jim reed, has more. nobody in the threackall household thought that they could be affected by aids. in 1991, the bbc broadcast this landmark documentary
on the former president whose finances he handled for decades. off the heels of that news, "the times" is out this afternoon with a preview of a new book that could have devastating consequences for alvin bragg and his office. the book is written by mark pomerantz, he is a prosecutor who resigned from bragg's office last year after bragg chose not to indict trump at that time. "the times" reports this. quote, for months beforehand mr. pomerantz had mapped out a wide ranging possible case against the former president under the state racketeering law. the "people vs. donald trump," that broader approach based on a theory that trump presided over a corrupt business empire for years, a previously unreported aspect of the long running inquiry. mr. pomerantz and his colleagues cast a wide net examining trump enterprises, trump university, his education venture and his family charitable foundation.
are growing the libyan government is warning of a new wave of refugees with europe as their goal. and i u.s. attorney general william barr is expected to release today more revelations. from the so-called miller report it contains the findings from a long running inquiry by special counsel robert miller into allegations of collusion between donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign and the russian government now in late march barr released a four page summary of the report to congress his summary said that the mother investigation did not find any coordination between trump's campaign and russia democrats are now hoping that the release will shed more light on trump's alleged attempts to quash the investigation. well for more let's bring in our salad who is standing by with the latest from washington oliver we just heard there the attorney general due to give a news conference shortly ahead of the release of this report what can we expect