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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Asking you questions about this criminal matter, you dont have to be sworn under oath. The second that you talk to them and that you lie to them and they can prove that you lied to them, in other words, that you knew what you were telling them was in fact a lie, then they can charge you with that. So thats something thats also been included here in this case. Overall, a 30page indictment, this is a pretty significant step f...

Major victories in the donetsk region, five sediments that were taken and now you have ukraine forces completely surrounding lehman, which is really a major russian standing point. it is where they have house a lot of their logistics, a lot of their transportation. that is an area that is surrounded right now by ukraine fighters. 5000 or more russian fighters are in that circle, so they are moving and there is a lot of battling going back and forth. it looks like ukraine is going to take that. w...

Among multiple groups of conservatives right now is how to bring a case that could survive court scrutiny, but this is likely to be a potentially lengthy process. we could see, as you described, some sort of temporary pause that allows the court to take a look at this, you know, potentially preventing some of the forgiveness from taking place as quickly as president biden would like to see. suffice it to say, republicans dont like this and they are going to do as much as they can to stop it. >> ...

And pensions said they had already restricted the total amount of deductions that could be taken to 25% of payment, and doubled the amount of time people have to pay money back to two years. asjodine braces herself for higher bills, that doesnt feel like enough, but she thinks that pausing deductions would help. it would at least give me a standing point to kind of put myself back on an even keel. colletta smith, bbc news. lets speak now to sir stephen timms, labour mp and chair of the work and ...

And the deductions are making those problems very much worse. the committee also want to see the benefit cap raised for everyone, but the department for work and pensions said they had already restricted the total amount of deductions that could be taken to 25% of payment, and doubled the amount of time people have to pay money back to two years. asjodine braces herself for higher bills, that doesnt feel like enough, but she thinks that pausing deductions would help. it would at least give me a ...

Deductions taken out of their benefit at the moment who are having to choose between heating and eating and having to skip meals to make sure that their children get a meal, those kind of things. and the deductions are making those problems very much worse. a committee also want to see the benefit cap raised for everyone, the committee also want to see the benefit cap raised for everyone, but the department for work and pensions said they had already restricted the total amount of deductions tha...

Of deductions that could be taken to 25% of payment, and doubled the amount of time people have to pay money back to two years. asjodine braces herself for higher bills, that doesnt feel like enough, but she thinks that pausing deductions would help. it would at least give me a standing point to kind of put myself back on an even keel. colletta smith, bbc news. a day ahead of the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games, the queens baton is due to arrive in the host city of birmingham. more th...

Thats what anyone can do, is try their hardest, but its like our hardest is just not enough. and shes not the only one. more than 2 million people have money deducted from their universal credit each month to repay debt, overpayments or advances. they did it in the pandemic. i think theres a very, very strong case, which i hope the government will accept, to do it now as well. were a cross—party committee with a conservative majority, this is a consensus view of our committee, and i hope the g...

Committee with a conservative majority, _ committee with a conservative majority, this is a consensus view of our— majority, this is a consensus view of our committee and i hope the government will take forward what we are proposing. the government will take forward what we are promising-— are proposing. the government say the have are proposing. the government say they have already _ are proposing. the government say they have already reduced - are proposing. the government say they have al...

Alignment, if you will? >> reporter: well, youre exactly right to point out that in covid he has and its been sort of a real standing point of the scheduling of the white house he has been out there every week talking about covid. as much as voting rights is a consequential issue right now, this is a white house that also knows hes going to be judged ultimately based on how he handles covid. so that was the high priority. but what was number two on that list? it was infrastructure and build back...