hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. russia has criticised the visit to the united states by ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky. moscow says it s futher evidence the us is fighting an indirect war against russia. after ten months of conflict the ukrainian forces have regained some of the areas taken by russia. but on the new front lines it is the weather that is slowing the advance. but russia s role as peace keeper in the southern caucuses is much diminished. armenia accuses moscow of failing to prevent a humanitarian crisis, in nagorno karabakh. and yippee kay yay or nay? is die hard a christmas film or not?
the department of justice is largely symbolic in nature. the doj already has wide ranging criminal probes into january 6th. but if members stand up on monday and say that they believe that donald trump has committed a crime and they have evidence to support that crime, that comes out of more than 17 months of work, more than 1,000 interviews, that really is a powerful closing message, amara. and, an nay, obviously, the criminal referrals were draw the attention on monday. what else can we expect from the final hearing? this is the last public meeting of the committee. it s the committee s last word before it finance up its work. in addition to presenting its findings on criminal referrals, the committee is also going to be voting on its final report, which will then be released to
the latest. nay, what can you tell us? the seventh mass russian missile strikes on ukraine since october pre-dimension 98 missiles were fired at ukraine according to ukrainian officials which is more than what we thought it was. yesterday the set of 76 missiles only 60 of them got through. this time around they did not say exactly how many of the 98 were shot down. unfortunately were also learning to more people killed in yesterday s strike. take a look at this video for the death toll standing at four, 13 people are injured here in central ukraine including four children. and as you mentioned just heartbreaking hey one and half your boat was found underneath the rubble after being hit in his home or his parents were also killed. his older brother who survived is now an orphan. emergency crews also pulled the body of a 64-year-old woman from the wreckage overnight. her sister explains a kind of person she was, listen.
the u.s. also sent two medium ranges nay sam to ukraine recently. 100 percent success rate shooting down russian missiles so far. six more nastams have been promised to ukraine. the patriot requires dozens of crew to operate and teaching ukraines to use the nay sem in germany. bret? bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thanks. seen as test of acknowledgment the russian military s war gone badly and is wrong. this comes as russian attacks on civilian continue as dozens of countries pledge more than a billion dollars to help deal with shortages of power, heat, and food.
courts should factor in. so, the state legislature relying on the controversial independent state legislature theory has trump supporters cited during the 2020 election and challenges. the liberal justices warning of consequences if there are no checks on the state legislature. this is a proposal that gets rid of the normal checks and balances. legislators we all know have their own self-interest. nay want to get reelected. and so, there are countless times when they have incentives to press votes. okay, so we are back with john burman and ellie and david. ellie, make sense of all of this. we will make independent state legislature theory interesting. it is important. and it is one of the great