spanish league. this is the player, brazilian international, viniciusjunior, who reported what he said was racist abuse while playing for real madrid against valencia on sunday. the game was paused, before continuing. after the match, vinicius, who has been the target of racist abuse several times during this season, said that the spanish top division, la liga, belongs to racists. la liga s president responded by saying that the player had twice not attended meetings to discuss what the organisation could do saying. that comment led to criticism and an outpouring of support in brazilfor vinicius, including this moment, when the lights illuminating rio s statue of christ the redeemer were switched off as a gesture of support. brazil s government has requested urgent meetings with officials in madrid over the matter. well the episode has reverberated in football around the world. here s former england international micah richards speaking about it on the bbc a little earlie
a very warm welcome to the programme. i m sally bundock. we start here in the uk. allies of the former uk prime minister, borisjohnson, have condemned the cabinet office for releasing details about possible covid lockdown breaches to scotland yard and thames valley police. lawyers preparing the government s case ahead of the public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic have sent the police information about meetings held at downing street and the prime minister s country retreat, chequers. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. his team says. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more details. there is no investigation. what has happened here is that the lawyer through borisjohnson lawyer through boris johnson cosmic ministerial diary from the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for a forthcoming public enquiry which will examine th
and congressional republicans met again on capitol hill. the two sides have untiljune 1st, just over a weeks time, to come to an agreement on raising the govenrment s borrowing limit, or risk the us not being able to pay its bills. some analysts have warned a default could lead to huge job losses here in the us, a plunge on the stock markets, and even a global recession. in fact, stocks on wall street finished sharply lower at the close of trading on tuesday. despite this, optimism among leaders remains. white house press secretary karinejean pierre says a deal both sides can be pleased with is possible. negotiations are very hard, very difficult, both sides have to understand they won t get everything they want. we are trying to get a budget that is reasonable and bipartisan. that democrats and republicans in the house and senate will be able to vote on and agree on. this is the process, that s why we are moving in this way, to make sure it is bipartisan, but also reasonabl
we fail to pay our bills. we re going to come together because there s no alternative. we have to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. those were president biden s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations just before he took off for the g7 summit in japan. we ll have the very latest on the budget talks and the president s trip overseas. he has arrived. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. because right now these are indeed live pictures from hiroshima, japan, where president biden is meeting with japanese prime minister kishida ahead of their bilateral meeting. g7 leaders are gathering there where they will likely focus on the war in ukraine and tensions in asia. the president, of course, had announced he was cutting short his planned trip to the pacific, no longer visiting papau new guinea or australia in order to get back on sunday to continue those debt ceiling negotiate asians. we ll bring you
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho