welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we begin in the us, where the reasons behind monday s fbi search on the florida home of former president, donald trump, and a list of items seized during the raid, could be released to the public. that s after the us department ofjustice broke with custom to ask a court in florida to unseal the documents. the former president has until friday afternoon to object to the release which was requested by the us attorney general merrick garland. i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such decisions lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. a search warrant was authorised by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause. the property receipt is a document that federal law requires law enforcement agents to leave with
our house and coming our way really quickly. forced to flee. thousands of acres burn outside yosemite park. firefighters try to beat back the flames. and deadly heat continues to punish the country. 90 million people are suffering in scorching temperatures. many areas hitting the triple digits. newsroom starts now. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with new developments in the january 6 investigation. today republican liz cheney, the vice chair for the committee, not only put ginni thomas, the wife of u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas, on notice that she could be subpoenaed to testify but cheney also accused former president trump of serious misconduct and dereliction of duty and says the committee is not ruling out recommending criminal charges against him. do you believe that your committee has successfully made the case that donald trump committed crimes and, if so, which ones? we
Series, has died. From the 1960s tv series. Hello and welcome to world news today. Theresa mays efforts to form a Working Government despite losing her majority in the uk General Election are gathering pace. A minor party from Northern Ireland is reported to have agreed to help her party get their programme through parliament. According to Downing Street, they have reached the outline of an agreement with the democratic unionist party, or dup, who are pro brexit and socially conservative. A Downing Street spokesman said earlier, it was announced that the Prime Minister theresa mays two top advisers had resigned, following pressure from members of her own party. Theyve been replaced by one of the losing conservative candidates, the former housing minister gavin barwell. Our Political Correspondent alex forsyth reports. They were at the heart of power, the Prime Ministers closest advisers for years. But nick timothy and fiona hill were accused of having too much control over policy and t
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. A source familiar tells us that weisselbergs interview happened weeks ago and that it focused on Michael Cohen and the Hush Money Payments to two women who said they had affairs with trump, which trump denies. Weisselberg is a major player, in the secret reporting from a few weeks ago, cohen says he consulted with weisselberg, and in the plea deal, hes referred to as executive one, who arranged 420,000 in payments to cohen to pay him back for the payment he made to stormy daniels. He wrote please pay from the truth, post to Legal Expenses when he forwarded the invoices to another executive. Its very clear that hes played a key role. Athena how big a there et to President Trump is it that prosecutors are talking to weisselberg . This is certainly a big deal. Were talking about a person who has been working for trump for decades. He is the chief finance officer
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officials in canada s northwest territories calling the wildfires burning for days there unprecedented and today is the deadline for nearly 20,000 residents to evacuate their homes in the capital of yellowknife. southern british columbia also on high alert as several fires rage in the west cologna area, that s where thousands of residents are under evacuation orders as well. it s about 175 miles east of vancouver. parents aren t the only ones racing to get ready for the school year. got their amazon orders and boxes and class lists and books they were supposed to read. the districts themselves, they are also in that process right now struggling to find bus drivers to fill out the routes to bring students to classes. low pay, off hours, increased