a president who vowed to be different. president biden is about to kiss the ring. remarkable. it s going to be awkward. is now just another patron of a prince. paying a visit to a country he once called a a dictator renown for a very brutal act. brought a bone saw into the chopped up into small pieces. why would you bring a bone saw to an interrogation. who was at the same time a reformer. this man is extremely popular. revolution nicing his nation. a new era. the kingdom s power lies under the dessert sands. just keep your pumps open, your prices low, and you can do whatever you want out back. liquid gold. oil. is america betraying its values? or swhrewdly coming to terms wih reality. to understand this relationship, you need to understand the very unusual country that is saudi arabia. good evening. i m fareed . this dark kingdom that spawned osama bin laden that for years formed to most extreme of islam is now in the midst of a striking tra
in the next hour, before conservative mps go into that committee room, and place their votes in a secret ballot we will be talking to some of them in the run up. good afternoon. the prime minister borisjohnson has addressed conservative mps to try and convince them to back him in a vote of confidence this evening. in an hours time, tory mps will start voting on whether they want mrjohnson to be replaced. he s been under increasing pressure following the publication of a report which looked into parties at downing street which broke covid rules. a vote of confidence was triggered after some conservative mps handed in letters calling on the pm to resign to sir graham brady, the chairman of an influential group of backbench mps, called the 1922 committee. for a vote to be held, at least 15% of conservative mps need to write a letter that works out at 5a. let s cross straight to college green in westminster now and my colleague victoria derbyshire: it s been a dramatic day and it
the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall in come down. police weren t going to help. and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow. over and over again. finally one official told him simply, moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basements at a furnace shoveling documents as he hears demonstrations