Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
Of wales. None of the rain particularly heavy and quite a mild day at 12 or 13 degrees. Tonight heavier rain moves east across the Country Clearing from scotland and Northern Ireland were some blustery showers to follow. Very mild across a good part of england and eastern wales with temperatures in double figures over night. Tomorrow all change again, some colder air moving in across the vast majority of the uk behind this cold front. The front itself dragging its heels across east anglia and Southern England where it will be waning for a good chunk of the day. Sunshine and showers again for scotland and Northern Ireland, some of those showers having a bit of help mixed in. Ifeeling day. On into the forecast for friday, a low pressure set to move in. With this we get an occlusion somewhere around here and along that particular Weather Front were looking at the risk of seeing some hill snow. The greatest risk across the high ground of north wales, Northern England and the Southern Uplan
morning joe. it is wednesday, march 29th. we have a lot to get to this hour, including a major development in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a federal judge has ordered mike pence to give testimony. meanwhile former trump ally chris christie appears to be willing to play the anti-trump role if he gets into the 2024 race. we ll have more on that new reporting. and we re still on so called indictment watch since the president announced, the former president, that he was going to be arrested. we ll have the latest on the manhattan grand jury s investigation into the hush money payments to a porn star. plus, an update on the continuing protests in israel, and what president biden is saying about meeting with the country s leader, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, just ran over. how does he do that? and member of
remains under seal but according to two sources familiar with the matter, trum is facing around 30 charges as a related to documents rob security in and around the men hat and court house who is bee beefed ever since trump bega making intimidating post o truth social directed at the manhattan district attorney office for weeks now, the twice impeached ex president has bee vigorously attacking alvin bragg online also attacking virtually the entire american justice system as the grand jury an prosecutors in manhattan get closer to indicting him. and in his first official 2024 campaign rally in waco, texas, last saturday night. his supporters held up posters that said witch hunt as he delivered a speech tha contains many baseless accusations that the prosecutors currentl investigating him ar politically motivated to tak him down given though he has been s previously occupied with the idea of being indicted, th news on thursday coming that h was actually going to be indicted sti
drop, a diligent search was conducted and removed from the white house of florida i swear, or affirm that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. well, we now know that that wasn t the case, at all and prosecutors want to know why. the fbi found more than 100 classified documents when they searched the premises two months later. prosecutors later asserted to finding the documents that called into serious question the representative made in the june 3rd certification. and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. and other, words perhaps obstruction of justice. an appeals court ruled this week that evan corcoran must provide as well as documents and reporting mr. corcoran s expected to appear before the grand jury as early as tomorrow. though jack smith with a one-two punch today. not everyone s blessing about alvin bragg, the stormy dallan s hush money, probe donald trump s legal headaches when it comes to the special counse