this is the middle of the loire river, but you can see how barren it s become. locals say that the water has never been so low at this time of year. and the iconic japanese fashion designer issey miyake has died at the age of 8a. his innovative collections earned him global acclaim for breaking the boundaries between east and west. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, where senior republicans have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home on monday as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. our north america corre
but within hours of the search, donald trump released this video. but soon, we will have greatness again. he hasn t yet officially announced a 2024 presidential bid, but this is now a man increasingly looking to be in full campaign mode. we need back up! as the investigations into his attempt to cling to power continue, there s a danger here a danger here for his opponents. the more serious the congressional committees or criminal inquiries become, the more republicans can claim he s being persecuted. the fbi, when it comes to trump, has lost their way. this unending desire to destroy trump and his family is frustrating. the legal implications are farfrom certain. even if he s charged, it may not bar him from office. the political implications seem clearer, though. if anything, it s galvanising him to run again. john sudworth, bbc news, washington.
mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. our north america correspondentjohn sudworth reports from washington. save america! the trump bandwagon is fuelled by conspiracy, and news of the search brought supporters to his florida resort even more convinced of their theories of stolen elections in deep state plots. you feel like you might be in venezuela or china, russia, we feel the fbi s doing a political hitjob on president trump. it s a two tiered justice system, so we re out here just gathering, showing support. the american people see the state of this country. | they see what s going on. so, yeah, this is all. about stopping trump from running in 2024.
they are views that match the former president s own. in a statement, he spoke of his home being under siege, raided and occupied by the fbi, describing the action as prosecutorial misconduct and the weaponisation of thejustice system in an attempt to stop him from running again. there s been no comment from the fbi here, but their search is thought to relate to official records and the possibility that mr trump, who s already been forced to return some documents since leaving office, may have squirrelled away more. but it s worth pointing out, of course, that to execute that, they will have needed to convince and obtain a warrant from a federaljudge. now, the authorisation did not come from the department ofjustice. it came from a lifetime appointee, federaljudge, a third branch of government, and that s the huge difference, and that the checks and balances that we have in our united states constitution that are so important. we are a nation in decline.
strong. infact, internalto both the fbi and thejustice department. the guidelines require that in any case of a public official being investigated, that s from a city councilman from the president, for various levels of approval that have to be reached. the higher the office or the former office held, the higher the approvals. the approvals would ve gone at least two the deputy attorney general level before this application was made to accord. likely the attorney general himself gave the go ahead to make the application to the court. there s a process within the fbi, and once those approvals are met, it goes to thejustice department s processes for ultimate approval. processes for ultimate approval- processes for ultimate auroval. ., , i, ~ approval. todd hulsey seeking to me are approval. todd hulsey seeking to me are there. meanwhile, the federal appeals court has ruled a house of representatives committee has the right to see former president trump s tax returns. the three judg