then next week there is temperatures high teens across the north and west, 21 and 22 across east anglia, then next week this ridge of high pressure moves in closer, milder air comes off the atlantic and although it will probably be quite cloudy for scotland and northern ireland, england and wales given the brakes on cloud and sunshine, it is set to get warmer with temperatures climbing on friday in london to reach highs of 22 degrees so summer has not gone away yet. and that s bbc news at six. i will be back with the news at ten but it s now time hello and welcome to sportsday. i m chethan partak. all come along to wimbledon this friday night. coming up on the programme. heatherwatson programme. heather watson continues to programme. heatherwatson continues to wow, as she secured her place in the fourth round of this year s championships. it meant so much to get over the line there at the end and i was just really proud of myself and just grateful for the sport out there. sti
afghanistan s capital city to show you what life is now like under taliban rule, and asking afghan leaders about a known terrorist who lived in their midst. plus, what may be a silent spread of polio. the virus detected in new york city waste water. why health officials fear hundreds of cases may be out there. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start today with our politics lead and an avalanche of major developments when it comes to trump s attempt to overthrow democracy. giuliani has been informed he s a target of whether trump and his allies tried to break the law and overturn the election in georgia. he s scheduled to appear before the grand jury on wednesday. this news comes hours after a federal judge ruled lindsey graham of south carolina must testify before the very same georgia grand jury. graham s legal team had been arguing that graham did not act inappropriately when he phoned georgia election officials after the 2020 election. georgia secretary of
71,954 people were criminally charged by the fed, only 290 of those went to trial and won. if you were donald trump s team, would you like those odds? when you look at it that way, one percentage that you missed there is what percentage of those who went to trial were acquitted. the vast majority of people that are arrested or charged, they are guilty. they plead guilty. those that go to trial, the acquittal rate is much much higher than that .04. tim parlatore, thank you so much. it s good to have you. hope you come back soon. absolutely. thank you. and get ready for big disruptions. 340,000 ups workers could walk off the job in one of the largest labor actions in u.s. history. i ll speak with teamsters union president shaun o brien about what his workers want to do to avoid another chain supply
they say there s a mechanism in place, and they certainly don t want to get any details out in the public. they say if any details get out, exchanges can t take place, jake. does griner s appeals process stand in the way in any way of any potential swap? i was talking to her legal team about that today. they certainly don t believe that it does. they were the ones who originally said they believe a verdict needed to be in place against brittney griner. that s happened. she was sentenced to nine years in a russian penal colony. they also say with the appeal they filed today, that could be withdrawn at any time if there s some sort of exchange. they also say they re not part of any prisoner exchange talks. they don t know whether or not those talks are going on, but they hope they re going on because the appeals process can still take a very long time. can take a month or two, and there, like in general in russian courts, the acquittal rate or the reverse rate of verdicts certainly i
her in her luggage. she has been held since for about four and a half months in a russian prison. there have been negotiations behind the scenes. we have heard very little from the usa department, the white house, but what we do know is snippets from russian state media and today her trial began. not a lot of information. she was reported as saying she understood her charges, but i think on the american side we are all hoping she can be brought home before she is convicted. yes. home before she is convicted. yes, there are difficult home before she is convicted. yes, there are difficult to home before she is convicted. yes, there are difficult to assess with there are difficult to assess with the lack of information out there, but is there any way of knowing what the possible outcomes aremean, i have been reading today that in russian trials, there is about a 1% acquittal rate, so don t think many people think her odds are good in this trial and that she will be convicted in this r