on cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i am jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news out of the middle east as israel welcomes home four hostages rescued this morning from gaza during a special military operation all for kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the a6 october 7 attacks eight months ago they include 22-year-old oman, admire john, 25-year-old noa argamani, twenty-seven-year-old, andre kozlov, 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andrii in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks we also heard screaming as hamas fighters drove away with her on a motorbike. we know her boyfriend was also kidnapped and it s still being held captive israel says this morning s rescue mission took place it to separate locations in central gaza, your refugee camp palestinians, they re described the raid as how on earth is heavy shelling and artillery fire bombarded. tha
Has hope. Well tell you what his victory means for us in the uk. And these are some of the 82 freed Chibok Schoogirls whove been hello. Welcome to the programme, this morning let us know youre experience of giving birth in a Maternity Unit and also your experience if you work in one. Our Excluisve Investigation on errors recorded in Maternity Units at quarter past 9. Use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Frances new president elect, Emmanuel Macron, has promised to heal the countrys divisions, following his resounding victory over the far right leader, Marine Le Pen. The pro european candidate secured 66 percent of the vote in yesterdays election and atjust 39, he will become the countrys youngest ever president. Addressing thousands of supporters in paris last night, he said he respected those who backed ms le pen, and would reach out to them. Our europe correspondent, Damian Grammaticas was at the macron
South of france and corsica fight huge forest fires banned by high temperatures and strong winds. Close to the Tourist Resort of saint tropez, nearly 2000 Fire Fighters have been put into action as dozens of homes are evacuated. And britains adam peaty has broken his own 50 metre breast stroke world record, in the heats of the World Swimming Championships in hungary. Good morning. Its tuesday the 25th ofjuly. Im ben brown. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Builders could be banned from selling new houses as Leasehold Properties in england under proposals put forward by the government today. It comes after it emerged some Housing Developers have been selling the leasehold on to Investment Firms without always telling homeowners, leading to extra costs or rising charges. The government says there is a particular problem in the North West Of England where houses were being sold on leasehold although its not clear why. The communities secretary, sajid javid, has said enough is enough as he set
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Theyre speaking from the same playbook. But this is a tough line to walk, andrea. Ken dilanian, you had dan coats, head of national intelligence, questioned about the dissonance there. Lets watch. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said that the president would raise the issue of malign activity with the president. Im not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. Ken, it does seem that dan coats and the rest of the team have still not been briefed on what happened during that private one on one. And thats remarkable, andrea. Dan coats is the nations top intelligence official. He needs to know these things, he needs to understand where the russians are coming from, and what potential negotiations took place between the president and the russian leader. This News Conference was such a fascinating mixture of cynical
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. That she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a Gun Rights Group in the u. S. Tonight, the same reporter who had the Breakthrough Scoop about the Steele Dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. Did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a Leadership Shake up at the nra . The backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president , into russian attempts to inf