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international condemnation from around the world as iran executes british iranian, dual national, alireza akbari, on charges of spying for the uk which he d denied. britain s prime minister calls it, a callous and cowardly act . a further five classified documents have been found at the delaware home of us president, joe biden relating to his time as barack obama s vice president. his lawyers says they were immediately handed to thejustice department. at ten o clock, lucy will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, reporting iran: inside bbc persian. here we go in ten, nine, eight, seven, six. - thank you very much, everybody, thank you. lovely, good stuff, well done. that was the toughest interview of my entire career. we didn t know that we were going to get him. i had no idea that we might get him. so just literally five seconds before the interview, the producer shouted in my ear, saying that we have mahsa s father on the line. i just didn t kno ....
a jury in new york clears the actor kevin spacey of making unwanted sexual advances towards a 14 year old. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the governing conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its next leader following the resignation of liz truss. she stepped down on thursday afternoon, afterjust six weeks in the job. it s the shortest prime ministerial tenure in british history. this report from our political editor, chris mason. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister, she was back too this time, to resign. i came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills. putin s illegal war in ukraine threatens the security of our whole continent. and our country has been held back for too long by low economic growth. i was el ....
law. but what caused this search now? what triggered the apparent approval of attorney general merrick garland and fbi correct director christopher ray, what can we read into this? searching the home of a former president for possible crime would require approval by the justice department and a federal judge would have to agree probable cause has been committed. we have not heard from the doj, that s not unusual, of course, the news is drawing a surge of criticism from republican backers with house minority leader kevin mccarthy even vowing revenge against attorney general merrick garland. cnn s leilayla santiago begins coverage. live outside of mar-a-lago with the latest. leyla. reporter: brianna, if you think about it, it was this time yesterday that fbi agents were going into mar-a-lago. and what exactly they re looking for, what exactly came out of the home. here s what we know so far. we know according to sources familiar with the investigation this was related ....
have a written statement in due course . attorneys for trump compared the documents to an overdue library book, marveling at how the records dispute that has suddenly been transformed into a criminal investigation. trump and his team tried all kinds of defenses, frump falsely saying the top secret documents were his, to then saying that he declassified them. in court today, the doj lawyers were blunt, saying he is no long for president, and because he s no longer the president, he had no right to those documents and that ends the analysis. but we might be seeing a lot more from the search. the judge saying she will unseal the detailed inventory list that was prepared by the doj. and prior to the hearing, trump out on right-wing media attacking the doj once again. they took documents and they put them all over the floor. then they deceptively put out that picture. a lot of people think when you walk into my office i have confidential documents or whatever it may be, c ....
and houston rushes out. the country that put the first man in space is quitting the international space station. the impact on future missions just ahead. but first, your money and cnn business reporter matt egan is here with us. today s consumer confidence report was the first major data point in this critical week for the u.s. economy. what did it show? simply put americans are not happy with this economy. consumer confidence dropping for a third month in a row in july. to put this into context, the lowest level for consumer confidence since february of 2021. not only is confidence well below the peak of last year, it s not even close to the pre-covid levels, closer to the covid lows, which is pretty amazing. this is a telling stat despite the very strong jobs market, just 17% of consumers said business conditions were good. 24% say conditions are bad. now this is a big deal because consumer spending is the biggest driver of the economy. if people slow their spend ....