hello this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines borisjohnson arrives back in the uk as speculation grows he lljoin the conservative leadership race it s expected the former chancellor, rishi sunak, will announce his candidacy shortly. the leader of the commons, penny mordaunt, is the only person to formally announce her candidacy so far. in other news, at the china congress, president xi s predecessor hujintao is mysteriously led out of the hall by officials. giorgia meloni has been sworn in as the head of italy s latest coalition government. she s the nation s first female prime mnister and its first far right leader since the second world war. now on bbc news.click this week, shona has been to sweden to see how new organs could be printed in a lab. meanwhile, lara has been creating body parts of a different kind. what s happened to my ear? nick talks to a man in a box. and the man hunting the missing cryptoqueen explains how to find someone from a single selfie.
nearly 7,000 people in the uk right now need organ transplants. sometimes the wait for these lifelines can be long and agonising, and not everyone survives them. we clearly need more donors. but 3d printing might be able to offer a solution. yeah, scientists are developing a method to create organs from living tissue, which can then be translated into patients who need them. shiona mccallum has been to gothenburg in sweden to find out more. it s been more than 70 years since the first successful organ transplant a kidney. the chances of further operations of this kind being conducted. people who want to donate their organs can have their names put on a computer by using, for example, a new type of driving licence application form. and thanks to the donor register, heart, lungs and livers are now among the 100,000 organs replaced every year. when you lose someone and they ve given that gift, that huge gift, you are immensely proud of them. but even now, it remains a difficul
more missing text messages, the washington post reporting tonight that text from trump s acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and his deputy can cuccinelli are missing. they tell the post that the textbook from a key period leading up to january 6th. we have a new cnn exclusive reporting tonight that prosecutors are getting ready for a court battle to force former trump white house officials to testify about conversations they had with the former president. joining me now to discuss all of this, senior crime and justice reporter caitlin pollens, and john wood, former senior investigator for the january six committee. also with us evening, mr. marc mackinnon, the executive producer of the emmy nominated the circus and former adviser to george w. bush. good evening one and all. have to admire the hat. you gotta, mark mckinnon. you guys gotta get your hat game on. caleb got her glasses game. i don t know. i got nothing. john, you got a good luta. good evening one a
trump s old cabinet. the west wing was broken. it was not functioning properly. the problem hesident has a l history with president xi. we re adversaries, we re competitors with china right now, no doubt about that . welcome, it is friday, july 29, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where flash flood warnings are up right now as more storms and heavy rains move through the region. that is after catastrophic flooding already claimed the lives of at least eight people and the governor warns the death toll will go higher. and he said that it could take years for residents to rebuild and called it the worst flooding disaster of his lifetime. overnight residents near a dam were ordered to evacuate due to the fast moving water and the area has gone through this before, but not quite like this. we ve seen water in the streets before, but we ve never seen water, you know, waist deep in the streets or chest deep in the streets. never seen this in all the year
also tonight, there s growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i ll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department s criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest sign yet that justice department is honing in on trump s efforts to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. walk us through your exclusive reporting. well, wolfe, evan perez and i are learning from several s