a british man freed after being held by russian backed forces in ukraine describes how he was stabbed by a russian officer and thought he was going to die in captivity. and from a dead rat to an exploding martini glass. the bbc gets rare access into the cia s secret museum where thousands of exhibits and artefacts mark the agency s 75 year history. hello and welcome to bbc news. voting is under way in italy s general election. polling stations opened two hours ago. opinion polls taken during the campain suggest the country will get its first ever female prime minister, and its first far right leader since mussolini, in giorgia meloni. a win for her party would be expected to see the return of silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini to government, two men who ve had ties to russia s president putin. our rome correspondent mark lowen reports. there are some things that italians agree on they ve got the best coffee and food and many they don t. politics is one of them, and it s
beenin relationship with europe, she has been in favour of continuing to amp you have, but she has two coalition partners to arm kyiv she has two coalition partners who have sided with vladimir putin. what kind of challenge do think she will face internal and within her coalition? yes, she will face pressure. they are very much against sanctions, and they are also against sending weapons to ukraine. so whether this means they will continue to send weapons to ukraine or sanctions is debatable, but it still means that there would be a debate, but we do not know what the italian position would be was an international system. it is still possible that these discussions. atlantic alliance and our international position will be damaged by this. professor, thank you very much indeed for your thoughts the zoom in. momentous night for italy, it looks like they have elected their first ever female leader and their first ever female leader and their first right wing far right l
natural asset. why, you ask yourself, would putin do that? well, because because well, no one has explained why putin would do that. bad people do bad things. that s the idea. former cia director john brennan showed up on cnn the other day to add his version of the story, and it was clear right away that this was no ordinary cable news segment. brennan was instead conducting a scientific experiment designed to determine just how stupid cnn viewers are. these are the people that believe joe biden who told them covid was a pandemic of the unvaccinated, that men can become women just by saying so. clearly they have highly credulous, but the question remains just how credulous are they? what won t they believe? well, in the name of science, john brennan decided to find out. watch. do you think russia is behind the sabotage of the pipelines? i think all the signs point to some type of sabotage. these pipelines are only in 200 feet or so of water. russia has undersea capabi
there it is expected to explode into an intense, powerful category 4 storm. then ian will likely weaken a bit before charging ashore somewhere along florida s gulf coast. florida s governor saying the storm s massive size means the entire state, the whole state wail be impacted. and he has activated the florida national guard. cnn meteorologist tom seder has been tracking all this in the weather center. what is the latest? well, it continues to look a little disorganized, really. it is a tropical storm. it s not moving very quickly, alex. only at 12 miles per hour, but it s getting ready to enter some of the warmest water in the entire atlantic. higher elevations, winds are light, so once it starts to feed on those warm waters, all cylinders are going to be firing up. now, the last few frames of this animation if you look near the center here, so deep convection is starting to occur. this could be the beginning. we ve been watching this since last thursday off the coast of
watching in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, former president trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6 committee. we ll break it down. and plus we re live in london with a look at the top contenders for the next prime minister and whether boris johnson could attempt a comeback. and ukraine warns russia is setting its sights on a critical dam. we ll have a live report from kyiv ahead . the select committee has made good on its promise to subpoena former president donald trump. that subpoena was formally served on friday. compelling the former president to testify under oath is extremely rare and it could test the limits of the law as it applies to trump in this circumstance, but the committee says it need to say hear from him to bring its long investigation to a close. the panel writes, quote, we have assembled overwhelming evidence that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn