queues to get through security during the easter holidays. the former olympic and paralympic athlete, oscar pistorius, applies for parole after serving half his sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend. hello and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has become the first former us president to face a criminal prosecution. the charges relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a pawn star, stormy daniels, before the 2016 election. in a statement, mr trump said the democratic authorities in new york were doing joe biden s dirty work accusing them of interferring in next year s presidential election. john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own imminent arrest. the news was confirmed in an angry statement from the former president, blaming his political opponents. the democrats, he said, have done the unthinkable. the case against hi
the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
his green energy policies are endangers our national security and increasing america s reliance on china for critical raw materials. and still biden is forging ahead on a radical proposal to crack down on gas powered cars with insane new environmental regulations. meanwhile, a new report from nbc news found that china did in fact gather sensitive intelligence from the spy balloon that it piloted over nuclear sites and military installations in the continental united states. china was able to control the balloon to make multiple passes over some of the sites at times flying figure eight formations and transmit the information it collected back to beijing in real time. of course it did. keep in mind, biden refused to shoot down the balloon for more than a week when it was not over the continental united states. in the middle east, after two years of placating iran, four separate a tax from iranian backed militants killed a u.s. contractor and left many with severe brain injurie
[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] pete: good morning and welcome to fox and friends on saturday morning. joey jones hanging out with us for four hours, two days on this easter weekend. joe: i was at disney world. rachel: that s not a vacation. joe: i brought my brother in law who pushed me around in my chair most of the time. i get the disability pass, just to bring everybody with me. rachel: you come in handy. joe: ila crippled old guy. will: needing a vacation from your vacation. glad to have you with us this morning. everybody smells wonderful on the couch. rachel: apparently to kathleen. will: happy to have you with us if this morning. we start in nashville, tennessee where vice president kamala harris made a visit. she didn t make a visit with the direct message for the covenant christian victims but made a visit in support of what is being dubbed the tennessee three, the three tennessee state legislators, two of which have been expelled from
are being instructed to shelter in place as western governments try to figure out a means to safely evacuate them. also tonight, scientific censorship in china. crucial genetic sequencing that could have helped with the fight against covid, was deleted, covered up or withdrawn under pressure from party officials. we will speak to the new york times investigators. what about the transition to clean power? nine countries meeting in belgium today have commited to building an entire electricity system in the north seas, based on renewable energy. and we will talk about the global addiction to cheap clothing 10 years on from the rana plaza disaster in bangladesh have we improved conditions for some of the poorest workers in the developing world. but first to sudan, a country fast coming apart at the seams. in khartoum it is now a stark choice between hunger and deprivation indoors and the risk of being killed in the street battles outside. there are tens of thousands of foreign