If you go after me, im coming for you. Those are the words donald trump posted in all caps on truth social yesterday, just one day after his latest arraignment for election interference. Saturday, august 5th, im ali velshi. We begin today with the very latest its criminal indictment of donald trump. In a court firing late last night, we have proof that the Justice Department is taking this language from defendant trump very seriously. The special counsels team cited trumps truth social post in request for the judge to impose a protective order to prevent the former Vice President from making public any Sensitive Information turned over by the prosecutors. Quote, such a restriction is particularly important in this case, because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him. In response, trump spokesperson put out a statement claiming that the post is quote, the d
of iran are not backing down their efforts to gain rights and dignity that they ve long deserved. coming up, i will speak to two activists about the ongoing defiance still being seen to this day by millions of iranian women. later on this hour, failing to comply. why so many hospitals around the country are not following a new federal law forcing companies to be transparent about charges that patients are receiving. we begin this hour with the shocking release of sensitive footage from january 6th to fox news host, tucker carlson. top democrats are speaking out about just how dangerous it is. here is congresswoman, madeleine dean, earlier on msnbc. it is revealing of where the capitol police are in different staging. what was going on. it would give access to bad actors to try to do it again. it is extraordinarily irresponsible how irresponsible of the speaker of the house to live up some campaign promise to the fall right, and tucker carlson, to release the tapes. she is
you have shown absolutely no remorse and it appears that you are in complete denial as to what you did. rail passengers face severe disruption after transpennine express axes more than 50 of its services in a single day. and in sweden, resesarchers say they re close to completing the first crash test dummy based on an average woman. elon musk, the world s richest man, has finally taken control of the social media platform twitter, in a deal worth £38 billion. he tweeted that the bird is freed , and is reported to have fired a number of the firm s top executives. it brings to an end an on/off takeover saga that has gone on for months. mr musk, the boss of tesla and spacex, says he believes in absolute free speech and there s speculation that some people who ve been banned from twitter, including former president donald trump, may now be invited back. here s our north america technology reporter, james clayton. when elon musk made a surprise entrance into twitter this week,
change must be a priority again. as russia conducts drills by its forces president putin is on hands to personally observe them. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1:30 in the morning in iran, where security forces have opened fire on protesters in several cities, a0 days after the death of mahsa amini in police custody. our correspondent reports. chanting. day forty of iran protest and forty days since the death of mahsa amini, the young iranian kurdish woman who has become a symbol for iran s protest movement. this is the city of saqez, her birthplace. the authorities did everything to stop people attending her memorial day. they blocked the roads and closed all the schools and universities of kurdistan province. but they failed. and thousands of people marched to her grave. the violent crackdown of the protests have failed to stop them. videos show demonstrations in tehran, the capital and at least another 30 citie
To communicate online. So im happy to be in my neighbourhood. Im still now hyper conscious of how great it is to be here. So, gloria, were sitting here, its 2023, almost 50 years after you founded the womens action alliance, which was a group that helped women fight sexism in the us. How do you feel about where the Feminist Movement is today . I feel proud of the amount of invention and rebellion and humourand. She chuckles. Community among us. At the same time, im living in a country where a female human being has never been president , when that could and should have happened long ago. So i feel proud of the movement but aware of how much it takes for a Movement Really to succeed, whether its the civil Rights Movement, the gay and lesbian and transgender movement, the womens movement, i mean, and all these movements are connected. When you want to measure progress, when it comes to womens rights, what are the key markers that you look for to say, ok, weve moved forward, not backward