finland s conservative leader petteri orpo wins a nail biting three way election race, defeating prime minister sanna marin. hello and welcome. i m ben thompson. russia s investigators have detained a 26 year old woman, darya trepova, in connection with the murder of the pro war blogger vladen tatarsky, who was killed by a bomb in st petersburg on sunday. media reports said the explosion occurred shortly after he had been given a statuette by a woman at an event in a cafe. russia s security service has accused ukraine of being behind the blast, but ukrainian officials have denied this. a short time ago russia s anti terrorism committee said it believes the attack was planned by ukrainian secret services, jointly with people cooperating with jailed opposition leader alexei navalny s anti corru ption foundation. our correspondent will vernon in moscow has more. i m just seeing a short statement that has come in from the russian investigative committee, which is russia s versi
australia s prime minister leads tributes to one of the country s most influential aboriginal leaders, yunu pingu, who has died at the age of 7a. hello and welcome. the killing of the russian military blogger is being investigated as a high profile murder , authorities have said. the blogger vladlen tatarsky was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. he was killed in an explosion at a cafe in saint petersburg. it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack. in the last hour, russia has detained a woman named darya trepova in connection to the killing. our correspondent will vernon in moscow has more. i m just seeing a short statement that has coming from the russian investigative committee, which is russia s version of the fbi who have been investigating the blasts last night in st petersburg. a short statement saying that in connection with the explosion in the cafe in st petersburg, employees of the. i m just translating this, sorry. employees of t
don t know if you will heed that advice. he s still lashing out at the fbi, and any legal file demanding the already seized material. more on that ahead, also this hour, after a string of bold actions and policy victories the president unleashed going on the defensive. trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate, and division. but maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, there are a threat to our very democracy. the question is, is that a sign of what is to come in the midterm election, just a couple of months and from now. i ll be talking to robert gibbs. also to those coming up this hour the parents of those killed at the uvalde shooting. they take the message to the texas governor. just days after the police chief finally lost his job. plus teenagers on the front line fighting for abortion rights, fed up with weather school has not been telling them. they ve started
peers, is here to discuss the most famous role in american theater. would it were a black salesman trying to navigate in a white capitalist world? welcome to the show. i m mehdi hassan. we start with that big news from the january six committee. they have finally issued subpoenas to their house republican colleagues, including the top house republican, kevin mccarthy. you know, the one who said he would urge donald trump to step down because of his role in inciting the riot, but then fell in line and has worked to undermine the 16 investigation, ever since. he s being subpoenaed. subpoenas also went out to alabama congressman moe brooks, who urged rally goers on 16 to kick it as, just hours before the riot began. and to jim jordan, who had a ten minute phone call with president trump on the morning of january the 6th. also on the subpoena list, scott perry of pennsylvania, and andy biggs of arizona. now, it s hard to imagine that any of these people of comply with the