[ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction, gracious ever lasting god as we depart this ceremony inspired by the courageous actions of colonel davis. may our participation in today s ceremony coupled with the strengthening and shaping with your spirit to let us live life in integrity and valor for the good of our nations, our families and the good of human kinds all around the world. bless and protect our armed forces as they preserve our frefre frefreedom. grant us ale to meet the challenges ahead, the strength to overcome every obstacles and impart us the wisdom and the will to do justly and walk humbly. it is in your holy and precious name i pray, amen. distinguished guests, please remain in your seats as the president departs. thank you. what a beautiful ceremony. we started in prayer there as we dipped into that a few minutes ago and they ended in prayer, at the center of it all, after the president made his comments and awarded the meda
maggie and i would never hurt my son paw paw. murder of your wife maggie murdaugh, i sentence you to a term for the rest of the natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. john: convicted double murderer alec murdaugh set to spend the rest of his life and after life behind bars after a south carolina judge handed down two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. john roberts in washington. good friday to you. gillian: good friday, that s an awful long time, two life sentences. i m gillian turner, i m in for sandra, this is america reports. so in this fairly dramatic sentencing hearing, judge clifton newman admonished him, called the defense not credible and assault on the integrity of the judicial system. john: murdaugh repeatedly claimed he did not murder his wife and son. his conviction capped off a stunning fall from grace for his family which the judge described
president. his attorneys found them while cleaning off an office at the penn biden think-tank. he used the office from 2017 to 2020. it immediately handed them over to the national are chives. the day after. the discoveries prompted an investigation. merrick garland traveling with the president in mexico today has tapped a trump-appointed u.s. attorney to handle this. dana: months after the f.b.i. raided president trump s mar-a-lago estate in response to the alleged mishandling of classified documents by the former president. is the f.b.i. taking it easy on president biden? documents that are classified are not under protection and they re being accessed and do they know? do d they get all the documents? how come the f.b.i. isn t looking at all the documents to make sure there aren t more there? that s why they did a raid on trump and should be doing the same thing on biden. dana: alexandra hoff is covering the story from the white house. a lawyer for the president
seaborne russian oil are significant. they underline the european chief said they will cut 90% of europe s russian oil imports by december. the discussion of some interim status for ukraine on the way to being a full member of the european union is important. i wish they would find some speedy transition plan but it is not there. so, they re trying to find ways to keep faith with ukraine and in a period where i think the pressure on ukraine is growing. i think your right to express some concern about europe. they ve got their own economic troubles and political splits. but this last weekend that they held together more strongly than i might have feared. i was going to say, pretty remarkable that they held together even pulled hungary along when they had to know this inflation number was coming out. they have the same problem on the other side with nato. but do you remain optimistic like so many observers that when it comes to nato, turkey, at the end, will back down and a
Is planning to buy some of those apartments, relax the rules on Mortgage Borrowing and step in to put the finishing touches on unfinished units. Separately, one of those big developers, Country Garden holdings, was today given another four weeks by the high court in hong kong to sort out its 190 billion of debts before hearing a petition from debtors to wind the company up. Duncan wrigley, Chief China Economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics joins us. What do you make of what weve heard today . Is it enough to contain the chinese Property Crisis . Yes, i think what weve heard today is from various officials, its helpful, but its probably not a panacea. So, you are right, there are moves to boost Housing Demand through easing mortgage terms, allowing people to borrow more, lowering Interest Rates and that should boost Housing Demand but a lot of that will go into the second hand Housing Market where there is a big overhang. The second big policy is allowing governments, especially local gov