British street artist banksys political statement, is sold for 12 million. In washington, the row over the democrats impeachment inquiry for donald trump has reached a new level. The president appears to be doubling down, calling openly notjust for ukraine to investigate the democratic president ial candidate joe biden, but for china to do so as well. The democrats are describing it as repugnant, and a fundamental breach of the oath of office. But mr trump sees it differently. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with, uh, with ukraine so i would say that president zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend that they start an investigation into the bidens because nobody has any doubt they werent crooked, that was a crooked deal 100 . Our correspondent in washington, chris buckler, has more on the president s new comments. It seems remarkable that donald trump would first President Trump is trying with a
Shia muslim clerics. In washington, the row over the democrats impeachment inquiry for donald trump has reached a new level. The president appears to be doubling down, calling openly notjust for ukraine to investigate the democratic president ial candidate joe biden, but for china to do so as well. The democrats are describing it as repugnant, and a fundamental breach of the oath of office. But mr trump sees it differently. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with, uh, with ukraine so i would say that president zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend that they start an investigation into the bidens because nobody has any doubt they werent crooked, that was a crooked deal 100 . Our correspondent in washington, chris buckler, has more on the president s new comments. It feels like donald trump is trying to make normal what the democrats say is simply extraordinary. A us president essentially asking a
Just released this photo on x, formerly known as twitter, Showing Natalie and judith on that call with biden. Mr biden also released a statement after their release was secured saying, i am overjoyed that they will soon be reunited with their family, who has been wracked with fear. From the earliest moments of this attack, we have been working around the clock to free american citizens who were taken hostage by hamas, and we have not ceased our efforts to secure the release of those who are still being held. Earlier, us Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken said the us is relieved about the hostage release. Our correspondent Barbara Plett usher has more. The release of the hostages disrupted the day here at the state department. We were sitting down for the Daily Briefing and then we were told that it would be delayed for two hours because of Breaking News. Now, they didnt say what the Breaking News was, but we knew what it was. And so when we returned to the briefing room, there was anot
Is the normal midterm blues, but on steroids. What were seeing here is partly because of that mood of the nation, partly because the brand, the tory brand, the conservative party brand was damaged in September 2022 and earlier through partygate as well, and that is still feeding through into the public psyche. So, yes, to some degree, theres a pattern and its feeding through to the by elections. But patterns can also be broken by unexpected events. All change in a land normally wary of the new. Tories will be hoping there will be limits to these new habits. Thats all from us. Im back on monday. Until then, have a good weekend. Goodbye. Breaking news from Around The World 2a hours a day, this is bbc news. Rabbi meir hecht knows bothjudith and Natalie Raanan personally. He spoke to me just after the news of their release. Judith prays every week in our congregation, for every sabbath, every holiday, and we miss her and shes been a part of our congregation in such an important way, and as
For the aide s arrival. Israel earlier said it wont get in the way of food, water, and medicine getting to civilians, as long as the assistance does not reach hamas. Mr biden says there are a few more things that need to happen before the aid can come in. This has been a very blunt negotiation i have had. And so want to get as many of the trucks out as possible, i guess there are about 150 there. Not all will go. The first tranche, if there is a second tranche we will see how it goes. Lets look at some of the other top headlines from the war at this hour protests across the middle east erupted over the explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital in gaza, tuesday, that left at least a71 people dead. Arab states and the main palestinian militant group, hamas, have continued to blame israel for the explosion, even as mr biden backed israels claim that it had nothing to do with it. And the United States vetoed a Un Security Council vote calling for humanitarian pauses in gaza, a move that was condem