Russia has cautioned both sides in libyas conflict ahead of a highly anticipated summit in berlin on sunday acting foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urged the wall orderly to have to Prime Minister the un backed government fires out to come together in berlin without adding conditions after counting greece ahead of those talks which are aimed at ending the 9 month conflict globality the most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the Security Council supports the conclusions from the conference the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other so as of now the relationships between them are very strange they dont even want to be in the same room let alone speak or meet each other. Well jason founder of the consultancy Libya Analysis he explained why the conflict nongold so many countries including greece ever since after attack tripoli in april 29000 the nature of the
Meat on river drop bringing severe consequences for those who depend on it. So donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate and there are some familiar faces among them ken starr he led the last impeachment investigation to president bill clinton and was part of the legal team for convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein as well as other high profile lawyer is the former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz and he is also represented epstein with other clients including o. J. Simpson and Harvey Weinstein so i corresponded elizondo in washington is following this one and says President Trump isnt taking any chances with this legal team. Trump is taking this very very seriously i mean these 2 lawyers that he brought in to be part of this team are celebrity lawyers that are very very well known in washington and have a long history in this city and really in the nation 1st looking at Alan Dershowitz a long time a law professor at harva
A bill to limit the President Trumps ability to attack iraq. In the libyan war Khalifa Haftar rejects a call for a cease fire going against a plea by turkey and russia. And the top stories including. Trying to cash in on celebrity status public shock and anger part time. And in sports the tennis world number one makes a losing start to the new year actually barty sapper is a shock to a dinner opening match the brisbane national. So we begin this news with breaking news u. S. President donald trump says that he has suspicions about the crash of a ukrainian airliner outside tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board were killed when it came down shortly after takeoff u. S. Intelligence sources of concluded that it was shot down accidentally by an Iranian Missile a view that donald trump shared with reporters. I have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could
we are less than a week of nate from entering a presidential election year. and if i had to choose just one thing the republican front runner said this year, i think we should carry over to the next year, just one thing from 2023 that tells us everything we need to know about the upcoming election, well, it would probably be this. under normal circumstances you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except on day one. he s going crazy. except on day one. meaning? i want to close the border and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quip that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself has continued to promote t
tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. lawrence, i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and while he