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Hello, i'm maryam moshiri. you're watching context on bbc news. russia says it will stop supplying gas to european countries it deems �*unfriendly�* — unless they pay for it in roubles. vladimir putin has signed the decree which will take effect on friday. european states are calling it blackmail. the financial system of western countries is being used as a weapon. the assets in dollars and euros are frozen so it makes no sense to use the currencies of these countries. meanwhile, president biden orders a major release of oil from america's strategic reserves in a bid to bring down prices...

Spent three months collecting this information, which is really, really hard to do. it also sheds light on the fact that many people who work for us weren't hired for us. >> how close are you defining agenda? >> we are hoping to have a resolution on that this week. when we find the person or persons, it's likely to be a career staffer. you will learn about how hard it is to fire federal workers. >> harris: of the president is defending his use of executive time over the weekend, saying he probably works more hours than almost any past presidents. and that he "generally it is working, not relax...

Heart problem in the future. >> sanjay, thanks very much. >> you got it, thank you. still ahead tonight, a letter threatening to reveal embarrassing private photos jeff bezos was meant to quiet the amazon billionaire and had the opposite effect. now federal investigators are looking into any possible wrongdoing by the david pecker-controlled "national enquirer." was a crime committed? was it blackmail or an extortion attempt? we'll talk to former federal prosecutor shannon wu and carl bernstein. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that th...

Heart problem in the future. >> sanjay, thanks very much. >> you got it, thank you. still ahead tonight, a letter threatening to reveal embarrassing private photos jeff bezos was meant to quiet the amazon billionaire and had the opposite effect. now federal investigators are looking into any possible wrongdoing by the david pecker-controlled "national enquirer." was a crime committed? was it blackmail or an extortion attempt? did you ever notice that the very first bite of every great meal is always the potato?

Not consider him a star witness. they were prepared to make this case without gates. they indicted manafort and gates together initially. they have two dozen witnesses and hundreds of documents. their position is, look, this is -- documents prove this case. gates is nice to have to lead the jury through this because he was paul manafort's right-hand man. he's admitting he participated in some of these fraughts. the prosecution is seeking to rebut this argument that it was all gates' fault. and he was responsible for the tax evasion, the bank fraud. in fact, most of the evidence we've seen so f...