correspondent ben wright. good to see used to talk us through what is going on here. i see used to talk us through what is going on here- going on here. i think the main event today is going on here. i think the main event today is still going on here. i think the main event today is still the - going on here. i think the main event today is still the fact - going on here. i think the mainj event today is still the fact that the government are bringing a review against the inquiry, the covid 19 inquiry because it does not want to hand over unredacted whatsapp messages, diaries and it looks as demanded by inquiry route has been going on for weeks as baroness hallett gave the government till 4pm today to hand over the material but the government digging in and now wants it settled at the high court. it does not feel the remit of the inquiry stretches to secure the unredacted, unedited documents the baroness is asked for savannah will go off to the high court. separately bor
welcome to the program. in iceland european leaders are talking about how to support ukraine and how to manage migration. we ll have the very latest live. also on the programme. we look at the threat of ai artificial intelligence. politicians in the us are trying work out what to do about it. also in the us president biden is in talks right now to try to make sure the country can pay its bills, the so called debt ceiling looms. and five men are found guilty of a huge jewel heist in germany. we head into the world of art theives and priceless artefacts. first to the summit in reyjavik in iceland. these are live pictures that you can see the crowd there for the playing music, it seems a musical interlude right now for the over the last hour we have seen european leaders stand up we have seen european leaders stand up and give speeches and crucially give ongoing commitment to support and stand by ukraine. the technicalities, this is a meeting of the council of europe and h
ahead. it was a busy night and you are waking up to history. america waking up to the historic news that president donald j. trump has been indicted. he is the very first president. we ve never seen this before in history. so here s the latest on this friday, march, 31st 2023 sources tell cnn trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud. this case prosecuted by the manhattan district attorney centers around the accounting of hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. as of now, this is how it s supposed to go down because multiple sources say trump will turn himself in next tuesday. he is expected to appear in court for his arraignment in new york. the nypd getting ready for any sign of trouble. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform people prepared for deployment today. meanwhile republicans in the house senate and even some 2024 rivals are rushing to trump s defense, calling the case political and outrage and even one of them
unredacted notebooks and whatsapp messages without witnessing to resist the review. he says there is no reason one that cannot happen but he says if they wish to have the material forthwith, please let me know where and when you wish me to send it to you. that sorta repeats something a spokesperson said for him yesterday. the former promised or is trying hard to say that he is not trying to conceal anything in his far is he is concerned, he wants the inquiry to have all of this stuff. but there was another very interesting life in the documents to government released a few hours ago where they said that the documents that they had from mrjohnson did not go back before may the 20 of 21. they did not have his whatsapp messages before then because in a well publicized event, borisjohnson changed his phone number because his old number was publicly available on the internet. so there is now a separate wrangle around the historic
democrats came out as well, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries and cues that republicans are being extreme and saying they wouldn t take default off the table. we will see what comes out of this meeting. bear in mind, president biden is due to go to japan tomorrow in order to attend the g7 summit and then he s heading to australia. he won t be back until around about may the 20 7th. it s really close to the deadline for the huge pressure on the congressional leaders and the president to come up with some sort of solution if not today certainly by the end of the week. just the olitics, by the end of the week. just the politics. we by the end of the week. just the politics, we will by the end of the week. just the politics, we will come by the end of the week. just the politics, we will come onto - by the end of the week. just the politics, we will come onto the l politics, we will come onto the economics of it in a moment with our guests coming up. just on the politics of it, this i