with president biden and putin today bolstering their respective alliances with nato and china. their pitches come just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. global tensions between the superpowers highlighted on a day of diplomacy in both warsaw and moscow. acidity many times, i ll say it again it s absolutely clear. article five is a secret commitment the united states has made. we will defend every inch of nato. meantime, as trace pointed out, with respect to joe biden s 2024 presidential campaign prospects, typically the question has been, should he or shouldn t he run again? however, now, increasingly democrats are wrestling with a very different and indeed pressing question. it will he or won t he? tonight, politico reporting that democrats are quietly preparing for the possibility that the 80-year-old simply won t be up for the task. and the longer he waits to officially declare his intentions you guessed it, a growing number of would
long-time trump adviser steve bannon is back in court. this time awaiting sentencing after he was found guilty on two counts of contempt of congress. we ll take you live outside the courthouse and explain what happens if the appeals court decision goes one way or another. and with just 18 days to go until the critical mid-term elections, president biden continues his mid-term push. next hour he ll give live reports touting his economic plan. plus, we ll head out west on one of the key races that could decide control of the senate. the biden administration now says it has evidence iran sent troops to crimea to train russian soldiers to use those iranian-made drones. we ll bring you a live report from kyiv. and we begin this hour with the sentencing hearing now underway for former trump adviser steve bannon as he arrived at the federal court house in washington this morning. bannon spoke briefly thanking the press before attacking the biden administration who was convicted
yasmin. if you are joining us, welcome and if you are still with us, thank you for sticking around. we are following the latest developments in the wake of the bylaw tile assault on nancy pelosi s has been. police saying the man was second for the speaker of the house, bringing back memories of these chants from january 6th. [inaudible] we are going to be looking at the rise and violent political rhetoric that is only grown since that day on january 6th. and later on this hour, i will be joined by senator sheldon whitehouse to talk about the increasing dangers that lawmakers are currently facing, especially ahead of midterm elections. and also this hour, the president casting his ballot and democratic heavyweights hitting that campaign trail just ten days out before the midterms. i have been reading up on some of these candidates on the other side. lord have mercy. and as republicans hammer away at inflations, we are going to look at what economists are saying about the
is among several injured in a stabbing in italy which left one person dead. and in sweden, resesarchers say they re close to completing the first crash test dummy based on an average woman. and in sport, england s progress at the men s t20 world cup match looks precarious as rain delays their match against australia in melbourne. the world s richest man, elon musk, has completed his long running £38 billion takeover of the social media company, twitter. the entrepreuner tweeted the bird is freed, in an apparent reference to the deal closing. mr musk also posted a longer statement on twitter, saying he didn t buy the firm to make more money. i did it to try to help humanity, whom i love . there are reports that a number of senior executives have been sacked and escorted out of the company s san francisco headquarters by security. elon musk has previously been critical of twitter s moderation policy. twitter has not yet confirmed the takeover, but an early investor in
it feels really warm, we will continue to do so until the weekend, staying mild, windy with rain at times. now, we have already seen very heavy rain in places today. the radar shows that, it has been driving northwards and eastwards, it is clearing just about all area, lingering in northern scotland. we will see rain in the northern isles, elsewhere spells of sunshine, one or two shower, particularly in northern ireland, we will stay windy out there, the wind only slowly easing through the rest of the day. these temperatures for some a little down on where they were yesterday, but still, well above where they should be, at this time of year. now through this evening and tonight we will see more rain pushing up from the south. the wind will continue to ease a little. largely dry across the northern half of the uk, temperatures generally between eight and i2 temperatures generally between eight and 12 degrees as we start saturday morning. this low pressure has been with us for