hello and welcome. donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since he was charged with 3a counts of falsifying business records saying the legal action is an insult to america. the former us president earlier pleaded not guilty to hiding damaging information during the 2016 election. speaking to his supporters, mr trump said his only crime was to fearlessly defend the nation from those who would destroy it. in a campaign style speech, he lambasted the biden administration and repeated the false claims that he d been cheated out of office in 2020 by voting fraud. nada tawfik reports from new york. a show of defiance just hours after his arrest. back at his mar a lago club in florida, donald trump slowly made his way through a ballroom packed with crowds of supporters, shaking hands and relishing their attention. in his first public remarks since being indicted, he said the justice system had become lawless. and i never thought anything like this could happen in a
it s after ministers were accused of using physical force on some conservative mps. an investigation has been launched. ukrainians are told to prepare for power cuts, after russian attacks on the country s energy infrastructure intensify. the full findings of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse will be published later today, after a seven year investigation. welcome to viewers both in the uk and around the world. liz truss premiership is under even more pressure, after extraordinary scenes at westminster last night, during which ministers were accused of using physicalforce on conservative mps to make sure they voted with the government. the commons speaker has launched an investigation into what happened in the voting lobbies. we now have at least seven tory mps calling for the prime minister and equipped, so let s get an overview of the story so far. earlier today the transport secretary told the bbc the government is still functioning and that the prime minist
deer the uvalde police district has suspended welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukrainian authorities say they ve located two burial sites in the eastern town of lyman which was recently liberated from russia. these images of the burial sites havejust come in. one site is believed to contain about 200 graves of civilians while another mass grave is believed to contain both civilians and soldiers. the discovery comes as president zelensky says the world must act now to stop russia s nuclear threat. speaking in kyiv to our world affairs editorjohn simpson, ukraine s leader warns that russian officials have begun to prepare their society for the possible use of nuclear weapons, although he does not believe the country is ready to use them. here sjohn s report. yesterday, president zelensky alarmed a lot of people by seeming to say he wanted a pre emptive strike to stop russia using battlefield nuclear weapons. today, he was keen to say he d just been
announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and