we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released the tax returns, covering a six year period, for the former president donald trump. some 2,700 pages of documentation, which mr trump had battled for years to keep secret, stretch from 2015 through 2020, covering mr trump s candidacy and time in the white house. the fight went all the way to the us supreme court this year, and last month the justices refused to block the release of the tax returns to the committee, thereby paving the way for their release. i m joined now by our washington correspondent gary 0 donoghue. this is the end of one long road but there is a huge amount of documentation, this is not a straightforward case of having a look and making a judgment i presume. m0 look and making a “udgment i resume. ., , ., ., ., presume. no it is not although the committee presume. no it is not although the committee has done presume. no it is not although the committee has done some - presume. no it is
we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until the supreme court approved their disclosure last month. the returns show that in two years covered by the release, he and his wife paid just 15 hundred dollars in federal income taxes. the former president has released a video statement, condemning the release of the documents. although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand they are extremely complex, the radical democrats behaviour is a shame upon the us congress. joining me now is adam davidson, a contributing writer to the new yorker. he has long covered trump s finances for the magazine. thank you very much indeed for joining us. if i could start by picking up on the point made there by donald trump, a lot of people will neither be able to make head or tail of
more military cooperation. and more than 20 years in the making how a group of retired aviation enthusiasts built a first world war plane from scratch hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world hello and welcome. the uk looks set to become the latest country to impose covid screening for travellers coming from china as cases in the country surge. the chinese government has said it would fully reopen its borders next week for the first time since march 2020. but a number of countries, including the united states, india, spain and italy have said passengers arriving from china will need will need a negative covid test before they travel. our political correspondent helen catt explained why these measures are being taken by the uk as well as by other countries around the world. well, there s been a lot of concern about the reliability of the information that s coming out of china, about the situation there with covid. and that s wh
prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has insisted that his country will press on with its fight against hamas. translation: i want to be clear, translation: i want to be clear. the translation: i want to be clear, the war translation: i want to be clear, the war is translation: i want to be clear, the war is ongoing, l translation: | want to be| clear, the war is ongoing, it is ongoing, we will continue it until we achieve all our objectives. we will eliminate hamas and we ensure that the day after hamas, there will be no factor who will continue educating their children to hate and eradicate israel, so we will continue eliminating in hamas, in the north, by the way and in the south, we will continue the effort. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has the latest on the deal and the ongoing conflict. just a warning, some of the images in this report are distressing. a reminder of how all this began on october 7th, hamas gunmen storming across the borderfrom
meanwile the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has insisted that his country will press on with its fight against hamas. translation: i want to be clear, the war is ongoing, l it is continuing. we will continue it until we achieve all our objectives. we will eliminate hamas and we ensure that the day after hamas, there will be no factor who will continue educating their children to hate and to eradicate israel, so we will continue eliminating in hamas, in the north, by the way, and in the south, we will continue that effort. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has the latest on the deal and the ongoing conflict. just a warning, some of the images in this report are distressing. a reminder of how all this began on october 7th, hamas gunmen storming across the borderfrom gaza, hunting israelis to kill or capture. around 240 were taken hostage. among them, shiri bibas, trying to shield her two little boys from the horror all around them ten month old kfir