rnc meeting which shows the maga elitism problem the party faces. this is behind the closed doors. the r fl rnc meeting has a behind the doors closed meeting. this is a departure from the past. you can see how it used to look in the old days. take haley barbour, 94 rnc chair or michael steele who so many people know from the similar meeting they held when he was chair to the closed press secret meetings. this is a file photo that shows the contrast over the years, the tightening secrecy. why is it a secret? the rnc is clearly trying to duck any further pressure, scrutiny or efficacy to end the employ primaries which would have tried to declare the primaries over and trump the nominee. the rnc said haley should drop out, trump has to be the winner. this morning nikki haley did something unusual, something trump hasn t done, which is face questions from a different and more adversarial set of interviewers. she went, just like biden has, to the breakfast club and took the que
is one of its camera operators was killed by an israeli air strike in southern gaza. italy s prime minister giorgia meloni is hosting a four day right wing festival. british prime minister rishi sunak and elon musk are among those attending. now on bbc news it is time for newscast. chris, the prime minister was at a primary school today. he was. a disappointing lack of embarrassing moments, though. there was, but there was detailed scrutiny from the pupils, wasn t there? rapid fire questions. i was thinking i need to be quicker when i m interviewing the prime minister. you know, they kind of, you know, allow five seconds for an answer and they re in with the next question. let s have a listen. what do you want for christmas? what do i want for christmas? yes. oh, gosh, i haven t really thought about that, actually. i d like to have a day off. what s your favourite ice cream? what s my favourite ice cream? my favourite ice - cream is probably. it s quite boring. it s vanilla
to the breaking news tonight. now, former president donald j. trump has been indicted by a criminal court in new york city . he will be arraigned ink that wl manhattan at some point next week. we are told will likelyke new be tuesday. fake news. cncnn is reporting that he coull face over 30 charges. in a statement, trump is saying, quote, political persecution and election interference at the highesution ant level in hit from the time i camehe down the golden escalator trump tower, and even before i wasfore sworn in as your president of pt the u.s., the radical left t democrats, the enemy of the hard working men and women of this country. they have been engaged in a a witch to destroy the makey th america great again movement. now, you remember it just like i do. russia, russia, russiae , the muehler hoke s, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment, hoke s one impeachment hoke s to the illegal and unconstitutional mar-a-lago rage. and now this. he s right after years ofn partis
this is ukraine s water fight. the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that war. ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. in the end their victory is inevitable. now you are very familiar with these points because you have heard them every day since last february. you have heard them repeated by every power center in the united states. the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both parties in congress, ceo and celebrities. and most consistently of all you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet along the entire spectrum of our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine. and both of them are lies. we know that they are lies because late last week leaked intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media. briefing slides prepared by the u.s. government began to show up among other places on twitte