that is an attempt to have a fix in. the pushes of the big lie reach full throttle. we are not gonna have 2000 situation in these boxes. tonight, marc elias on the multi-front fight against the anti-democratic threats across the country. then, how the georgia senate race got somehow crazier. i want the biggest night for the herschel walker campaign to be tonight. plus, did sarah palin just endorsed her opponent in alaska? maybe it is kind of that alaskan chick thing, you know. and david wallace dwells on the new climate reality coming into view. and why there may actually be a case for optimism. when all in starts right now. joining from new york, i m chris hayes. today, a january 6th insurrectionists, a violent one, was sentenced to the longest prison sentences yet for someone who did for his role in the violent attack on the capitol. his name is albuquerque head, he is a tennessee resident. and he was sentence seven and a half years in prison after
the pushes of the big lie reach full throttle. we are not gonna have 2000 mules situation in these boxes. tonight, marc elias on the multi-front fight against the anti-democratic threats across the country. then, how the georgia senate race got somehow crazier. i want the biggest night for the herschel walker campaign to be tonight. plus, did sarah palin just endorsed her opponent in alaska? maybe it is kind of that alaskan chick thing, you know. and david wallace dwells on the new climate reality coming into view. and why there may actually be a case for optimism. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today, a january 6th insurrectionists, a violent one, was sentenced to the longest prison sentences yet for someone who did what he did, for his role in the violent attack on the capitol. his name is albuquerque head, he is a tennessee resident. and he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading gui
welcome to bbc news. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collasped but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions of ukraine in red it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. the blast there is another humiliation for the kremlin, as our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built, steve rosenberg, reports. and it was under attack. steve rosenberg, reports. an explosion at dawn. steve rosenberg, reports. this was the result. steve rosenberg, reports. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread to a fuel
about the significance of the bridge being hit. it depends how quickly they repair the bridge. it is a huge symbolic setback because this bridge was mr putin s personal commitment to crimea. it opened in 2018, cost $3 billion, massively overpriced. one of his friends was in charge of the construction and he identified with this because this was a way of uniting the mainland of russia with what he took to be the mainland of crimea which was now going to be russian forever so the bridge is symbolically hugely important. in terms of logistics, the fact is, one carriageway seems to have survived this blast although it may only take light traffic and we don t know how bad the damage is to the railway grid above it. my guess is that although the russians will have a big motive to say that the bridge is reopen soon and all is fine, it will not reopen to military traffic which is very heavy so we will see how long it is before they can start to use the road and particularly the rail
the us federal reserve ona charge! uk sales of electric cars overtook diesels last year for the first time. but it s still a long road to recovery for the auto industry. a wave of strike action, a growing cost of living crisis and huge pressure on health services just some of the problems mounting up for the uk this winter. so on wednesday prime minister rishi sunak used his first major speech of the year to promise to fix the uk economy. alongside pledges to tackle long waiting lists for medical treatment and stop illegal immigration mr sunak said he d slash the rate of inflation, restore growth and cut government debt. first, government debt. we will halve inflation this first, we will halve inflation this year to ease the cost of living and give people financial security. second, we will grow the economy, creating better paid jobs an opportunity right across the country. third, we will make sure our national debt is falling, so that we can secure the future of public ser