democracy. the president made the comments against an eerie blood red background complete with marines on guard at philadelphia s independence hall. critics say it is the hyper divisive president and his progressive agenda that are the real threats to the country. now the president seems to be backing off a bit. white house correspondent peter doocy takes a look at the address and the fallout. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, mike. the president s argument is basically that he thinks the united states can have a democracy or maga republicans. but not both. so i asked him today whether or not that applies to all 74 million americans who backed trump in 2020 and his answer was very revealing. this is not unusual, right? to have a to have a speech like this. peter: that speech a warning about so-called maga republicans. they promote authoritarian leaders and fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights. peter: but the preside
and her husband are being held on an immigration charge. and coming up this hour. the 17 year old solo pilot who s broken two world records. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. 25 people, including two children, are now known to have died in a russian airstrike in eastern ukraine, according to authorities in kyiv. the ukrainian president, volodmyr zelensky, said that a railway station was hit and several houses and cars were destroyed, in a series of attacks in the dnipropetrovsk region. 31 people were also wounded. the strikes came exactly six months after moscow s invasion began. our correspondent hugo bachega has this update from kyiv. search and rescue operations are now over in the town of chaplyne, in the east of the country, following those russian attacks. a train station was hit, and pictures from the scene show destroyed passenger trains, cars. several houses were also hit. this attack happened yesterday, as ukraine marked independenc
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, sir ed davey, says the party is considering scrapping some of their House Building targets because the current approach is leading to the wrong houses being built in the wrong places. The lib dems had pledged to build 380,000 homes each year if they come into power, but its expected that will be abolished tomorrow, at the partys annual conference in bournemouth. Live now to our Political Correspondent helen catt. What are we expecting to be announced . What are we expecting to be announced . ,. , announced . This is about the issue of housin announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. Announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It is announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It is quite announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It is quite a of housing targets. It is quite a contentious issue, particularly in the sort of areas that the Libe
Of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticised kyiv s peace plan as not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and iti has long been to reject the principle of equality and their total inability to reach an agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. The bbc spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weakness on ukraine that he couldnt even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion
The United States and ukraines other allies are, quote, Directly At War with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv s peace plan as, not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and its long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, written ones and legally binding ones, and then they just dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. My colleague Samantha Simmons spoke earlier to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. You cannot mention the ukrain