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and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when ....
and a once in a decade flyby, as an asteroid passes between the earth and the moon. hello and welcome to bbc news. security forces in france remain on high alert, after legislation to raise the state pension age caused massive protests. the dispute, and outbreaks of violence, forced the authorities to postpone a planned state visit by the british monarch, king charles. separate demonstrations are expected on an unrelated issue in western france, linked to concerns about water usage by large scale agricultural producers. it s feared the disputes could converge at a time of growing tensions. our correspondent simonjones reports. sirens wail police patrolling the streets of paris last night, trying to prevent a repeat of scenes like these. commotion on thursday, what had been largely peaceful protests against the president and his pension reforms turned violent. that night, piles of uncollected rubbish in the capital were set alight. the french authorities say almost 1,000 ....
preparations the president of the united states met with ukraine s president just four days short of year that russian forces invaded. with reminders that continuing threats quite literally sounding all around, the two leaders. many american presidents have made dramatic trips before, nixon to china, reagan to the berlin wall and president xi visited u.s. troops in war zones but never like this. this was the first trip ever by an american president into a worn zone without the protection of u.s. troops on the ground or american warplanes controlling the airspace overhead. american air assets were active on ukraine s border and moscow was told about it in advance. as for the presidents own message, here is some of what he had to say we know, it was one year ago this week. that we spoke on the telephone with the president. it was very late at night in washington, very early in the morning here in kyiv. russian planes were in the air and tanks were rolling across your bo ....
with us tonight. that s going to do it for us for now. but now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i m going to do something i don t think i ve ever done before. on tv. you and i have both done it in the privacy of our offices. i m going to read the pool report of this trip to ukraine which is as traumatic as pool reports get. you and i have seen a bunch of them. this one so far is better than anything i ve read in the actual newspaper accounts of the strip. how it came together. the two reporters who are traveling with the presidents all the way. really fascinating stuff. anytime in the first act of some sort of drama, you get a swearing to secrecy, then you know that you re actually dealing with something that s got excellent dramatic potential to it. i know exactly the full report you are talking to. i completely support this decision. thank you, rachel. lengths a lot. they couldn t use air force one. they couldn t t ....
here tonight, that will do us without for now. but now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel, i mean i don t have ever done before. on tv. you and i have both done it in the privacy of our offices. i m going to read the pool report of this trip to ukraine which is as traumatic as pool reports get. you and i have seen a bunch of them. this one so far is better than anything i ve read in the actual newspaper accounts of the strip. how it came together. the two reporters who are traveling with the presidents all the way. really fascinating stuff. anytime in the first act of some sort of drama, you get a swearing to secrecy, then you know that you re actually dealing with something that s got excellent dramatic potential to it. i know exactly the full report you are talking to. i completely support this decision. thank you, rachel. thanks a lot. they couldn t use air force one. they couldn t to use the ....