over new claims that he broke lockdown rules during the pandemic. he denies any wrongdoing. the independent police watchdog is to send investigators to cardiff following monday night s riot which started after two teenage boys were killed in a crash. the racism row in spanish football real madrid star viniciusjunior has his red card rescinded, as people protest in his native brazil over the racial abuse suffered by their star player. good morning. iamon i am on the roof of the bbc in london, where the sun is beating down. for england and wales we are looking at it day of sunny intervals, variable cloud. for scotland and northern ireland, cloud and spots of rain, but brightening up. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 24th may. our main story. inflation in the uk is expected to fall below 10% for the first time since august, when official figures are released injust over an hour. economists have predicted the current rate of 10.1% could drop sharp
irs. and with less than two yearsd tl to go until the twenty twenty four election, democrats are once again shockingle y playing the race card. this time, they re trying to vilify the entire sunshine. state of florida. but first tonight, all eyes areh on the biden white house where joe is still refusing to come ta to terms on a debt ceiling that is , well, pretty imminent.t ist according to democrats, the sky. is falling. the american economyaccordin, the world s economy is about to collapse. and it s all kevin mccarthy s fault. when in fact, it s anything but kevin mccarthy s fault. so why didn t democrats care so deeply about this issue? over. one hundred days ago whens speaker mccarthy was all but begging the white house, you know, weekly, monthly, dayy after da y to sit down and negotiate this? take a look. we have to negotiatek. overtiat. the debt. our whole government is designed to have compromise. our governrepublican control. the house democrats have a small majo
biden impression is so accurate, forgotten how to tien his own shoes. fox news contributor tom shalu . sh].e goes against the grain lie something someone with celiac disease. deputy opinion editor at newsweek , botchy hungar, gar-a sargonrg when he asks women for their numbers, they they only give them one for the suicide hotline. e hoactor, writer and comediance jamie lizzo and her meltdowns brought a trademark bean suit from chernobyl. fox news contributorl. tim. all right, it s friday. so before we get to some news stories, let s do this. greg s leftovers. mm-hmm.t s it s leftovers where i read the jokes we did not use this week and just like greg does it, this is my first time reading these. so here we go . donald trump has announcediz a contest where the prize is a free dinner at his new jersey golf course. sounds good. former governor chris christie called itthen grandstandin askg, then askedhen how many times you re allowed to enter the contestte to visitm
world, we know news organizations take on enormous risk when they publish things they know to be false. they risk their representations. in the rare instances where actual malice can be established, they also face legal exposure. this knowledge of falsity on fox s part was established through mountains of internal communications that prove that the producers, the executives and the anchors knew that claims of massive voter fraud were false ahead of time and they broadcast them anyway. the case dominion had against fox was so strong that by the time the trial commenced, the only thing the jury was going to have to determine was whether fox met that really, really high legal bar of acting with actual malice when it knowingly published falsities about dominion. now, as we all know, instead of standing trial, fox decided to settle for close to $800 million. what we know from that discovery process is dominion established from the top of that company to the bottom, from ruper murd
before we move on to events in ukraine, the importance of that meeting injeddah. it is the first time in more than a decade that the syrian president is in attendance. these are pictures coming to us for a few minutes ago. president bashar al assad, who was frozen out of the regional body 12 years ago in relation to that war, the civil war that engulfed the country. these pictures are of him meeting with the saudi crown prince, mohamed bin salman, who is hosting this event in jeddah. this in itself is a very important moment. he was suspended from the regional body 12 years ago after the devastation caused by the civil war in his country. we are expecting to hear from the syrian president a little later. we will also hear from the president a little later. we will also hearfrom the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, who has made that trip tojeddah. two very important speeches and very important moments that we will bring to you live here on bbc news. but we will return