you read books. you read books there was a great va, author of the book how the garcia girls left their accent. joining me tomorrow night six pm eastern for our special year end meeting of the velshi banned book club and we are going to feature some of my favorite conversations with authors and scholars from 2023. don t miss it. but i will speak with a man who was one of the first introduced the idea that donald trump could be disqualified as a 2024 presidential candidate because of section three of the 14th amendment. the federal judge joins me just a few moments if another hour of velshi begins right now. and good morning, it is saturday, december 23rd. i m ali velshi. the start of a crucial presidential election season is right around the corner, but a few key constitutional questions remain unresolved, which could directly up in the 2024 race. with the iowa caucuses just 23 days away, some of those issues are finally reaching the supreme court s purview, setting up
baseball bat at the office of congressman gerry connolly. threats against members of congress continue to rise. this is just the latest. at the white house, we re just hours away from another high-stakes meeting between president bidened and top lawmakers to negotiate a detd ceiling deal. we ll play for you a brand new warning from the treasury secretary about what could happen if the country goes into default. overnight, a massive wave of russian attacks targeting ukraine s capital. the biggest in weeks and come as more european allies pledge new support. we begin this hour with that deadly rampage in new mexico. three people were killed, six others were injured after a gunman appeared to open fire at random on a residential street, according to local police. authorities say the suspect shot at least six houses and three cars with an ar-style weapon. the 18-year-old gunman was confronted and killed by law enforcement. according to the gun violence archive, there hav
In the last few weeks and water levels have dropped alarmingly. Spain has also suffered from the drought. Now on bbc news, ukraine a year on the frontlines. Over the past 30 years or so, ive covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. This is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in ourtime. There was a sense that the Security Architecture that we knew, the safety, the security that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. I was here injanuary and february of last year, counting down to the invasion. I was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. We were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. Its only 30 miles from the russian border. But inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. And i remember we went to film in a supermarket. There was no panic buying. The shelves were full. We met a lady called tatiana, who was 7a, and ve
The bombing is relentless. Explosion. Shallow trenches offer the barest of protection from russian fire. Come on this way. Down. Down, down, down, down. Get in, get down. We follow closely in their daily life and death struggle to halt their enemy. Outgunned and outmanned, they refuse to give ground. Explosion. They are the defenders of donbas. First light on the Eastern Front. And the opening battle of the day for Ukrainian Forces heading forward. Is with the mud. War has left donbas ploughed and churned. This is their Second Spring since russia invaded, their Second Season of muck and misery and their second year in their struggle to keep their country free. Ukraines Eastern Front stretches for nearly 1,000 kilometres, mostly across the luhansk and donetsk regions that make up donbas. Capturing here is now russias principal war aim. We met up with ukraines 1st Tank Brigade on the zero line just outside velyka novosilka. Few know how to handle this heavily contested ground better than
over the past 30 years or so, i ve covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans, and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. this is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in ourtime. there was a sense that the security architecture that we knew, the safety, the security, that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. i was here injanuary and february of last year counting down to the invasion. i was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. we were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. it s only 30 miles from the russian border. but inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. and i remember we went to film in a supermarket. there was no panic buying. the shelves were full. we met a lady called tatiana, who was 7a, and very feisty. and, i remember, she almost seemed angry that we had dared to ask the question, will the russians invade all? maybe it was denial. ma