he is the reason that the oath keepers were in washington, d.c. on january 6th. that was what the judge found today. and he also believes that stewart rhodes poses an ongoing threat to democracy. rhodes made no attempt to try and dissuade the judge of believing that. and the judge certainly did say that explicitly after stewart rhodes expressed no remorse in court today and continued to be very far right in what he said to the judge and not saying that he believed that he had done anything wrong at all. now, the other thing, with kelly meggs, that was the second defendant sentenced today, kelly meggs was much more remorseful. and judge mehta looked at him and reminded him how serious of an offense this is, seditious conspiracy. and then spoke about how he found it so astonishing that american citizens who had been upstanding average americans before january 6th then became criminals. and i want to read for you one of the last things that judge mehta said after this marathon d
our aeroplane contrails. the water that aeroplanes check out the back makes controls. sometimes when there is a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, seven miles up in the sky, where the aeroplanes fly, they can persist for many, many hours, going the spectacular sunrise and sunset pictures. you get a sense of these contrails starting to work away, these lines of cloud you can see on the satellite picture. and they are, because we are starting to get drier air moving in across england, seven miles up in the atmosphere. you are less likely to see those contrails hanging around quite as long. weather wise today we have a bit of patchy cloud across south west scotland and northern ireland, may be an odd light shower. otherwise, the vast majority of the uk having dry weather with plenty of sunshine stop the sunshine, of course, is stronger this time of year. we have high levels of uv. the temperatures are widely reaching the high teens or low 20s. probably peaking at 23 celsius this
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a late morning commute with a twist rail passengers in newjersey are delayed due to a bull on the tracks. just a couple of lines of breaking news. we have just heard from the la department of medical examiner that the friends star matthew perry s death has been ruled an accident from the effects of kata mean. you will remember his body was recovered from the jacuzzi in his la home. the examiners are saying that he was suffering acute effects of ketamine. he long talked about his drug problems and addiction, very open about that. we heard from some of his co actors on friends, they said they d spoken to him in the morning he died and he was in fairly good spirits. so something obviously went wrong between that moment and when he was found the next day. and he seemed to have ketamine in his system. and from the bbc, question of sport which has been running for 53 years has been axed due to funding challenge
case, but what we know is this, the irs whistle-blower s lawyers have written to members of congress saying that the whistle-blower and his entire team have been removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistle-blower disclosures to congress. the whistle-blower previously alleged political interference in the investigation of that high-profile, controversial subject who fox has been told is hunter biden. as for the whistle-blower s removal from the investigation, his legal team says its client, was informed the change was at the request of the department of justice. the move was condemned as retaliatory action by house speaker kevin mccarthy who said by a twitter that republicans on the house, weighs and means committee, will expose any possible cover-up at the irs and republicans will protect the whistle-blowers who shine a light on government misconduct. congressman richard nea