The New York Times published its first article on the pentagon papers. Reflecting on the significance of the history it created, the New York Times writing today, quote, the lies revealed in the papers were of a generational scale. And for much of the American Public it seeded a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. Remember a few years later came watergate, a scandal that forced a president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. And now, along with a republican assault on Voting Rights, we are learning more about efforts to dig up dirt on Congressional Democrats and others by Donald Trumps Department Of Justice. We have learned the current doj is revealing the ordeal. But today this New York Times article, trump subpoenaed apple about an account that belonged to don mcgahn. Apple was barred from telling mcgahn about it. Apple has not responded to the times. An attorney for mcgahn and the doj declined to comment. The Senate Majority leader wants an
Hello, welcome to the programme. Military leaders in myanmar have staged a coup and declared a State Of Emergency for at least a year. Hours earlier, they detained the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several of her fellow leaders in the National League for democracy. The military says its in response to alleged Election Fraud in novembers General Election which saw aung sang suu kyi returned to power by a huge majority. Lets speak to our South East Asia correspondentjonathan head. Just a few hours ago, elected politicians were about to convene a new parliament and just a couple of hours later it is now a Military Coup. An extraordinary sequence of events in a very short time period. What have the military been saying . Been saying . Well, they have siml been saying . Well, they have simply announced been saying . Well, they have simply announced that been saying . Well, they have simply announced that this i been saying . Well, they have simply announced that this is| sim
In support Ofjailed 0pposition Leader, alexei navalny. The Eu Commission president tells Pharmaceutical Companies that problems with the supply of Coronavirus Vaccines must be addressed. Military leaders in myanmar have staged a coup and declared a State Of Emergency for at least a year. Hours earlier, they detained the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several of her fellow leaders in the National League for democracy. The military says its in response to alleged Election Fraud in novembers General Election which saw Aung Sang Suu Kyi returned to power by a huge majority. 0ur South East Asia Correspondentjonathan Head has the latest on the military s announcement. Well, they have simply announced that this is indeed a coup, they didnt call it that, but that they have seized alljudicial and legislative power, meaning parliament will not convene. The first Vice President who is a military appointee, under a constitution which does give the military still very significant pow
sources, the grand jury has voted to invite daniel penney, the marine veteran will now face trial for the choke hold death of jordan neely, 30-year-old homeless mentally ill man that witnesses say was threatening passengers aboard the new york city subway last month. we don t know the exact charges that he is being indicted on y yet, but he was facing a second-degree manslaughter charge. this grand jury had been hearing evidence and witness testimony on this case since may 31st. they weren t considering whether penney was guilty or not guilty, but rather whether there was enough legally sufficient evidence and reasonable cause to believe that a crime had been committed here. the bar for indictment is low, he only needed 12 of the 23 grand jurors to vote yes to indict, and they have, there will now be a trial. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg said they believe there was enough evidence. witness interviews, photos, videos, in this case, to prove that penny recklessly
law in the united states or trying to conceal bribery in london or anywhere else, if you falsify a financial record in new york, in order to commit a crime to conceal a crime somewhere else, that is a felony in new york and new york has the right and the obligation to protect integrity of its financial system by prosecuting crimes like this, whether they are committed by the banks or by former presidents of the united states. so this is a serious crime, it was committed a while back, in 2016, but alvin bragg, the da, is right to pursue this and to file this indictment. i would emphasise this is by far not as most serious crime but donald trump probably committed. he has expulsion of sedition and insurrection, crimes underfederal sedition and insurrection, crimes under federal law, but he could be indicted by the united states department of justice when the special counseljack smith wraps up his investigation and those crimes would disqualify him from public office, ever havin