Midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where injust two hours donald trump will address a joint session of the us congress for the first time. Its a much anticipated event with ramifications for policy and politics. Lets go straight to washington and speak to our correspondent Laura Trevelya n. Speak to our correspondent Laura Trevelyan. We know this president ial address to both houses of congress is not a State Of The Union but it sounds and looks like one. What are we expecting . It is in effect a State Of The Union, were expecting an optimistic speech from the president. He was widely criticised for the dark apocalyptic tone of his Inauguration Address when he talked about American College but tonight the white house says he will be upbeat and lay out a vision for all americans despite interest groups, but this will be a uniting speech, this is what the white house is aiming at. Republicans in congress are saying they dont want to hear about the president s twitter account or fa
Going on for years, but thats exactly what police say. They also tell us it took the mans wife getting her skull fractured for her to sneak here to this hospital, Einstein Medical Center in montgomery. Heres the man arrested, police saying he abused his wife, son, and daughter for six years, beating them each hundreds of times. He is 44yearold joseph myree. Accused of using a long list of items as weapons on his family including sticks, lancets, pvc pipe, shoehorn, and a dog shock color that the daughter said would leave burn marks on her skin. The children were home schooled. It wasnt until the mother had her skull fractured that she snuck out while her husband was sleeping and drove to the hospital for help. Just outraged. To see someone could live like that and that would be their morals in a development with this with kids all around. Its horrific. Reporter coming up in the next hour, well share from you the exact words from the son about the abuse he endured from his father. For n
Heard of. One of the most notorious sinner of war camps in the history of modern warfare. It was a confederate prison for Union Soldiers in the southwest of georgia. We will talk about hanging henry wirz. He was executed for perpetuating mistreatment and murder at that can. He was one of the first individuals in the modern era tried for war crimes. Of 1865l in the fall set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the allied prosecutors preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg actually studied the wirz trial and his defense so they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be. They called it the wirz defense, basically i was only following orders. That was the typical defense. They used his trial to prepare for that in 1945. Ins is an important moment world legal history. We are going to be thinking about the prison andersonville it self and what led conditions to be so horrible and what led
Email server, today fbi director said there was not enough evidence to show the former secretary of state committed a crime. We cannot find a case that would support burning terminal charges on these facts. Investigators scrutinized tens of thousands of clintons emails send and received on a private server that she used to secretary of state. The fbi used 110 of those contained classified information. The director said the agency couldnt edit up headed up had a lackadaisical approach. There is evidence to support a conclusion that anybody anybody any reasonable person in her position should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. Her president ial campaign has been hit by questions about her private email server. Today a spokesman reiterated it was a mistake for her to use a personal email. While her public republican rival was outraged by the decision treating this. Fbi director said cricket hillary come from ice our national security, no charges. Wa
Introduction of vicepresident candidate mike pence. The delegates from texas argued at their own breakfast whether cruz behaved badly. All he was doing was helping Hillary Clinton. Because of what donald trump did you cannot blame him reporter campaign faced the question should it let cruz speak knowing he wouldnt endorse trump. I think the speech wasnt bad, it wasnt good, the fact was that this whole Convention Hall, we had 25,000 trump fans in here. Reporter even more questions, after a New York Times interview quoted trump saying that the u. S. Might not defend nato allies against russia if they dont contribute enough to nato. Saying that i think trump has to have a very serious conversation about being us the people who deeven if people who wont defend themselves. Reporter as protesters marched outside the Convention Hall ivanka check out the stage where she will introduce her father, he promises a peach that will bring a party together. Now, all this is, of course, happening as de