Fiona, hello. Hi there, how are you . Im very well, thank you. And welcome back to newscast. Thank you. In previous episodes, we have had about 15 minutes. We have now got about a0 minutes, so. Good job the world is quite chaotic at the moment. There is plenty of Trouble Spots that we can look at. Before we go on a kind of tour around the world, ijust wanted to do a bit of your personal history. So what was happening in County Durham in the 80s when you were a teenager and he decided that russian was the thing that you wanted to get into . Well, that was the period that actually, it is the subject of a Netflix Series at the moment about the Cold War and the bomb where we had the War Scare with the Soviet Union. The 1980s, there were several but the most memorable, at least from my perspective was 1983, when you just could palpably feel the sort of tension internationally. Even as a kid, teenager, in school in County Durham, it is thanks to the bbc, which we were watching religiously e
and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
twenty first, an israeli intelligence firm, isi, noticed something unusual at olenka air base. satellite imagery detected a , quote, unusual presence of forty one sixty russian strategic bombers there on sight. now, these are strategic supersonic bombers that are designed to carry nuclear weapons. you re seeing the satellite images from owling air base on your screen right now. then just days ago on september twenty fifth, israeli intelligence spotted three more russian strategic bombers at alinea. these were two ninety five turboprops. they re one of the oldest nuclear capable missile platforms in russia s arsenal. prior to august. the jerusalem post reports there were no strategic bombers at alinea. now, as of this week, there are at least seven . ukraine is now well within the range of both bombers. in related news, the deputy head of ukraine s intelligence just determined that there s a , quote, very high risk of imminent tactical nuclear strikes on ukraine. now,
and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
mass shootings are shining a spotlight on the issue of mental health. our manual including dr. janette nesheiwat is standing by to discuss. in detroit, a police officer had been shot and killed. fox news cameras capturing this group of hundreds of migrants crossing legally into texas wednesday. crews tell us the sweltering heat is not slowing things down at the southern border. we begin with what we are learning about monday s tragic parade massacre. matt finn tracking the latest development. good evening. police revealed that the alleged fourth of july parade shooter, robert crimo iii was considering a second attack. police say he shot and killed seven people in highland park, illinois, and injured nearly 40 others using more than 80 rounds from a smith & wesson rifle. prosecutors say that gun fell out of his bag at the scene and in helped investigators identify him. authorities say crimo iii fled wearing women s clothing and makeup to conceal his tattoos. crimo drove to m