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right now in buffalo a blizzard warning is in effect until tomorrow morning. all the impacts and when we ll see some relief coming up. the january 6 it committee lays blame squarely at the feet of former president trump. what s next in the investigation? ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back home after a historic visit to washington, and he s warning ukrainians they could see more russian missile strikes over christmas. the next phase of this war and how the just passed u.s. government spending bill could help. plus from heartbreaking tragedies to shocking courtroom revelations, we ve got a look at the top ten crime & justice stories this morning on cnn this morning. yes, it is saturday, december 24th. merry christmas eve. thanks for waking up with us. merry christmas to everyone. sorry, martin. i was going to say merry christmas to everyone. i m sure santa is working very hard to get those presents wrapped, ready to go. it s good to be with ....
a total of thirty seven people including 23 children were killed in an attack that has shocked the nation. those are the headlines. now on bbc news it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. lebanon is experiencing one of the most disastrous economic collapses of the last 100 years. the national economy is less than half the size it was just three years ago. one powerful symbol of the catastrophe, people are holding up banks in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanes ....
in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanese people, and indeed with the international community as well, about the scale of the economic catastrophe that your country is currently living through? absolutely. stephen, let me tell you, it has been quite a challenging year since our government took office and we started really working on a very tough mission to recover the economy in lebanon and to fix all the mess that the past two decades have left lebanon in. our government came with a big ti ....
her death last week means that this is now the home of king charles but the late queen will make one final visit to her old home, before the state funeral next monday. outside the palace, in the surrounding streets and parks, and at royal residences in other parts of the united kingdom, the tide of flowers and messages is a vibrant illustration of the nation s affection and respect for her late majesty. many of the tributes in central london have been gradually moved to nearby green park, as final preparations are made for the first ceremonial formality of the days to come. the air in this part of the city is heavily scented by thousands of floral tributes, as people from all parts of the united kingdom and overseas come to pay their respects in person. in the city of edinburgh it has been a period of 2a hours that few will ever forget thousands of people gathered to see the silent royal procession to st giles cathedral, and then queued patiently throughout the nig ....
the strategy is to blame people, his advisors called, the crazies, for what donald trump did. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. donald trump cannot escape responsibility by being willfully blind. nor can any argument of any kind excuse his behavior during the violent attack on january 6. that is the public narrative, but for the legal case, a congresswoman liz cheney dropped a bombshell. she said that trump tried to call an unnamed witness not yet seen in the hearings. whatever details the committee has on that, they have been turned over to the justice department. the question is, how might that, or any of the new revelations on tuesday, help the doj build a criminal case? among the stunning revelations, the unhinged white house meeting in mid december was screaming, insults, and nearly, apparently, a physical altercation. details on how the infamous tweet by the former president galvanize the ri ....