general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
welcome to the programme. we start with the stark warning from the united nations that the next five years will almost certainly be the hottest since records began. they say it is now more likely than not that a key target to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees will be breached with far reaching repercussions. let s break all this down for you. according to this report there is now a 66% chance that we will pass the 1.5 degrees threshold for at least a year. three years ago, scientists estimated there was less than a 20% chance of that happening. there is a 98% chance of seeing the warmest year on record before 2027. arctic heating will likely be three times higher than the global average. i have been speaking to the vice chair of the ipcc s working group, and she explained to me the scale of the issues the planet is facing. the roblem issues the planet is facing. the problem is issues the planet is facing. the problem is that issues the planet is facing. tue
bret: the death toll from a massive earthquake that shook turkey and syria today continues to climb. it stand injured. the world health organization estimates the death toll could climb exponentially. countlessbodies are believed to be under the rubble and some survivors have been texting or tweeting out calls for help from underneath the debris. today in southern turkey, a second earthquake or aftershock 7.6 within 12 hours of that first quake. correspondent alex hogan has the story. it s turkey s biggest earthquake in nearly 100 years as rescue teams there and in northern syria search through mountains of rubble for survivors. thousands are dead and missing or wounded. more than 20 countries, including the u.s. pledging support. the president authorized an immediate u.s. response in addition to the u.s. personnel currently on the ground. this hospital s plead for international aid. the situation is too bad. we need urgent help. millions of people throughout the
opponents. the source of embarrassing allegations about his son s personal affairs as well as a figurative side dish to main course what could be serious legal trouble. the potential legal and political fallout. first, jessica schneider. for years republicans have been going off about this laptop and hunter biden never publicly acknowledged that it was his. why is he taking legal steps now? they are ramping up their approach here. it s coming at the same time they are girding themselves for this real fight with congressional republicans. so what they are doing tonight, they are fighting back against a number of people they say allegedly got into hunter biden s laptop, that was left at that delaware computer repair shop, and they are fighting against the people who disseminated the contents of that laptop. these contained business documents, emails and photos and some potentially salacious materials purportedly belonging to hunter biden. what biden s team is saying is that t
as you, know the laptop has become the focus of president biden s political opponent, a source of embarrassing allegations about his son s personal affairs, as well as a figurative side dish to a main course of what could be serious legal trouble for the younger biden. at the moment, the potential legal and political fallout, i news itself and see cnn s jessica schneider. for so four years, now republicans have been going off about this laptop, and hunter biden never publicly acknowledge that it was his. why is he taking legal steps now? yet, the really ramping up their approach here, anderson, and it s really coming at the same time that they are getting themselves for a real fight with congressional republicans. so, what they re doing tonight, they re fighting back against a number of people they say allegedly got into hundred biden s laptop, that was led to that deliver computer repair shop, and they re fighting back against people who allegedly disseminated the contents