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wants a long sentence for his son. he claims he did not see a lot of signs of his son s troubles, but police reports prove otherwise. but first, moments from now, president biden will present the medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor, to 17 recipients. the prestigious list includes olympians, actors, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, and the first american to receive the covid vaccine. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now from the white house. what do we expect from today s ceremony? reporter: it s a buoyant moment to some degree. this is a particularly difficult moment for this white house, but the opportunity to present the highest civilian honor to an array of individuals from former lawmakers, olympic athletes, civil rights kind of people at the highest level of the civil rights movement, is something i think the president enjoys and i think the white house looks forward to, to some degree. yes, there are definitely celebrities here. denzel washington will b
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine s president says russian forces have completely destroyed the eastern donbas region, accusing moscow of senseless bombardments as it intensifies its attacks. in another development, the international red cross says it s registered hundreds of ukrainian prisoners of war who ve left the besieged azovstal steelworks in the ukrainian port city of mariupol. russia says all those who have left will be treated in line with international standards, but there are fears that some could face prosecution by president putin s courts. from moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. tired and wounded. moscow released these images of ukrainian fighters leaving the steelworks they d been defending in mariupol, giving themselves up to the russians. ukraine is hoping for a prisoner swap, but in russia there are calls to put some of the soldiers on trial for war crimes. they are killers, they are criminals, but we g
and early years is where that cut s going to be. the football association investigates an incident allegedly involving crystal palace manager patrick vieira at everton. and eight towns celebrate their elevation to city status as part of the queen s platinum jubilee. and coming up on the bbc news channel, arsenal keep their woman as star striker vivienne miedema signs a new contract, extending herfive year, goal filled stay. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. bbc news understands that the senior civil servant sue gray intends to complete her report on lockdown parties at downing street this weekend. those expected to be named in the report are being given a deadline of 5pm on sunday to respond to herfindings before the inquiry is published. it follows the news that the metropolitan police has closed its inquiry into the matter. a total of 126 fixed penalty notices were issued to 83 men and women, including the prime minister borisjohnson and the chancellor ris
reported across 11 countries. there will be a full roundup of the day s news at ten o clock. first, it s newscast. welcome to the newscast studio this week. and we re going to bejoined by all sorts of interesting people who will be popping in and out throughout this episode. but first, chris, you ve had a busy old day covering what you could describe as maybe the beginning of the end of the downing street party story. yeah. so the metropolitan police today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! so who is the party animal? i ve