welcome to the programme. iraq s president has said an early election could resolve the political unrest gripping the country. to those who have taken their eye off iraq, the violence that broke out in baghdad yesterday, might have looked like a sudden eruption of rage. in fact, the sectarian anger has been simmering for years. the country is riddled with corruption, it has not had a functioning government since the october elections and the spiralling cost of living is pushing iraq towards an existential crisis. the spark that ignited these protests yesterday was the sudden announcement by the shia cleric, muqtadr al sadr, that he was withdrawing from political life. sadr has been a major player in iraq since 2003, when his supporters known then as the mehdi army, began attacks on coalition troops. in october, the sadrists won the most seats in parliament but refused to form a coalition with the mostly shi ite iran backed parties. injune, sadr asked all of his mps to resign
to the other people, the shady characters who actually bought some of that artwork and what influence it got. all right, john , we re going to pick it up. i have a great show where you how are you left off? good to see you. i m laura ingram . this is ingram angle. thanks for being with us tonight. redefining failure. that s the focus of tonight s angle. today was one of the worst days the bush administration has had since its inauguration. now two things have now become undeniable for everybody, but slavish biden apologists no. one , americans are getting poorer. no to america is getting weaker . yes, the white house, of course, is trying to spin gold out of goose after they been all week trying to redefine the term recession. the gdp number came out and naturally it s worse than expected. additionally, two successive quarters of negative economic growth has been deemed a recession and confirmation of that ugly reality came today. looking back on this, we probably may say tha
dame deborahjames, who has died aged a0 after receiving end of life care for bowel cancer. she challenged taboos and change the conversation around bowel cancer. a 29 year old man has been charged with murdering zara aleena in england s capital, london, as she walked home from a night out in the early hours of sunday morning. a former white house aide gives damning testimony about donald trump s actions during the storming of the us capitol building last year, saying he knew people in the crowd were armed but he didn t care. ghislaine maxwell is jailed for 20 years in a us prison for recruiting and trafficking teenage girls for her then boyfriend jeffrey epstein. and a bbc investigation finds the number of holiday lets in england has risen by 40% in the past three years, with concerns some residents are being pushed out of areas as a result. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we start with the nato summit in madrid, where president biden has a
release. as we have seen, just because trump says it doesn t mean it s true. he had the documents since monday. he could have released them at any point himself. he hasn t. so as of now his attorney says it doesn t appear that they would object to the release. attorney general merrick garland says he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago home. also developing overnight, potentially significant, very significant reporting by the washington post, this is what it says, quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president trump s flores dense on monday. that s according to people familiar with the investigation. now, this could elevate the concern over these documents in an enormous way. joining us now is washington post intelligence and national security report er shane harris part of the team that broke this story. explain more what you and your team found
Right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicole, thanks so much. Today marks a serious, even grim day for defendant donald trump, who of course, was indicted, booked, and had his mug shot taken very famously in an election case regarding possible crimes in the 2020 race in the georgia rico case. He was also indicted by federal Prosecutor Jack Smith in two cases which carry serious charges but, like the georgia case, are actually not currently on track to go to trial by the election. But for trump, the only case where it now matters that he is a criminal defendant is in new york, where trumps trial reached its Inflection Point today as d. A. Braggs team has just told the judge today that the d. A. s office has proven its case based on the evidence and ethus intoning the well known phrase, quote, your honor, the people rest. Thats today in the only case that looks to be going to trial by the eelection. That means the prosecutors literally rest their case and take the position theyve supplied enough evide