Technology boss frank hester who donated £10 million to the Party Last Year is said to have made the comments in 2019. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made comments that the Prime Ministers spokesperson has described as Racist And Wrong. Its like trying not to be racist. But you see diane abbott on the tv, frank hester is reported to have said in 2019, and you just want to hate all black women because shes there, and i dont hate all black women at all, but i think she should be shot. Mr hester has apologised and said that he abhors racism. In a statement he said that he accepts that he made comments that were rude about diane abbott, but said his criticism had nothing to do with her
global where we will be bringing you the top stories from around the world. we start with donald trump because charges against him have been unsealed in the last few minutes, by a us federal court. there are 37 criminal counts that include conspiracy to obstructjustice counts that include conspiracy to obstruct justice and counts that include conspiracy to obstructjustice and retaining a classified government documents. documents include information on foreign states to make defence capabilities and weaknesses, as well as the us nuclear programme. if found guilty, donald trump potentially faces years in prison, and mr trump, who potentially faces years in prison, and mrtrump, who is potentially faces years in prison, and mr trump, who is a frontrunner for the 2024 republican presidential nomination says he is innocent. we go straight to our correspondent jessica parker in washington for us. they have just been released, and expecting that you are still looking at the document
actually happens at the dam that collapsed? we will investigate the new evidence. we are going to start, though, in the us with donald trump. and the indictment against him. this document tells us the story of him taking documents away from his time in office, back to maxi where he lives and storing them there. let s take a look at some of the pictures. there we go, that is some of the documents that are being stored in a bathroom, that is a ballroom their. boxes and boxes of documents. what is in them? documents potentially classified, and the indictment talks about him taking them from the white house, showing them to people, talking about them and potentially concealing them from investigators. there are 37 counts, most of them, 31 of them for the wilful retention of national defence information. also others about conspiracy to obstruct justice. also others about conspiracy to obstructjustice. i want to give you a heads up, we do have our political expert standing by to gi
killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. and we begin in the us where the department of defence says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. the pentagon press secretary brigadeer general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defence website saying the balloon is being tracked. he added: he also said: our north america correspondent peter boes joins me now. we heard from officials say it isn t a threat but what more do we know about the story? this is unusual we know about the story? this is unusual but we
a convicted italian mafia killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories. we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. and we begin in the us, where the department of defense says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. these are the first pictures we have received, which are believed to be of the baloon. the department of defense says the baloon was most certainly launched by china, but there s been no word yet from beijing. the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defense website, saying the balloon is being tracked. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has been follow