at the inception each of these investigations in the same way. by bringing in a special counsel to review the biden side of this document saga, i think the attorney general has done exactly that. he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special counsel, he needs to step away from it. not subjected to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you have given maybe two u.s. attorney. that seems to be the way he s treating jack smith. i have no doubt he ll do those things. but from this point forward, laura, these cases will go, i suspect, in very different directions. they will follow the facts in the law, and so far, from what we ve seen, the facts of these two situations are very different. john, i m really interested, based on your prior role in particular, about the idea of why it is biden was tightlipped about the investigations. obviously, from the doj perspective, there is a level of gravitas that must be assigned, and you don t really want transpar
despite doctors insisting he is brain dead. the israeli prime minister is to step down and dissolve parliament triggering a fresh election. the mountain guerillas of central africa, once on the brink of extinction, now their numbers are rising, are there other lessons for conservation? good evening and welcome to bbc news. britain is facing its biggest rail strike in 30 years with significant disruption to services across england, scotland and wales. last minute talks between unions and rail bosses failed this afternoon. the dispute between the rail, maritime and transport workers union, and the companies which run britain s railway centres on pay, job losses and changes to workers terms and conditions. the strike action begins tomorrow, and will continue on thursday and saturday. most major lines will be impacted by the strikes. there will be a limited service running, but many areas will have will have no services at all. distruption is also expected on non strike da
has voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women s elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty. as the conflict in ukraine continues the new head of the british army tells his troops they should be prepared to fight in europe once again . it s two hours until voting closes in the final round of parliamentary elections in france, with president emmanuel macron facing an alliance of left wing parties. good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt, saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm . the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammatic
Check before you take the train. Remind us of the background to this dispute because it has been going on for months and months . It dispute because it has been going on for months and months . For months and months . It has, and ou would for months and months . It has, and you would be for months and months . It has, and you would be right for months and months . It has, and you would be right in for months and months . It has, and you would be right in thinking you would be right in thinking there was a deal a few months ago. But that was the rmt union, aslef s Pay Dispute continues. The government said pay rises would be dependent on changes to Working Practices to be agreed. But aslef said this sacrifices to working conditions is not acceptable. It is a very long time since those proper progress talks. It was last april that aslef rejected the latest offer from the train companies, which the prime ministers official spokesperson described today as fair and reasonable. 0ne described
in the uk specifically england thousands of doctors will go on strike for an unprecedented six days, the longest ever strike in nh has history. starting sunday and tomorrow wednesday all over it dispute over pay. let s go live now to. live now tojohn puntis co chair of the national campaign group keep our nhs public and a retired consultant paediatrician. thank you for coming on to the programme. there has been some pretty stark warnings about potential risks and hardship caused by a strike at this time of year, of this length. what are your thoughts? people who work in nhs don t talk about a winter crisis any more because they say it is bad all year round so that is my first comment. another thing is that there are awful things happening in nhs due to