this is bbc news. the headlines. climate records tumble like dominoes , as european scientists confirm that 2023 was the warmest year on record. britain s foreign secretary lord cameron says he s worried that israel may have taken action in gaza that breached international law. a legal scandal in which hundreds of british post office managers were wrongly prosecuted for fraud has forced the former head of the post office to hand back an honour she received from the late queen. and the former us president donald trump is in court for a landmark legal case about whether he should be immune from criminal prosecution. this is the scene outside the courthouse in washington. more on those stories coming up in the next half hour. time for a look at the business news now. lovely to have you with us this afternoon. we start with the latest on the boeing 737 max planes because united airlines says it had found multiple loose bolts on door plugs during inspections of its fleet of max
are deciding whether donald trump is immune from prosecution. in other words, can a president do whatever he wants to in office? even order the assassination of a political rival? trump s team argues a qualified yes. what does that mean? and what did the judges say in response? plus, after the door plug blew on that alaska airlines flight, is it safe to fly? investigators now find there are major problems across boeing s 737 max 9 fleet. what went wrong on the assembly line and what s the fix? and does voting matter? what michelle obama says she is terrified of this election year. let s begin in washington because for the first time in our history, a federal appeals court is tasked with ruling on whether a president is above the law. you might say of course now, but donald trump s team argues actually yes, that congress has the primary authority that if congress doesn t impeach and convict first, then any official action is golden. can a president order seal team six to a
because there s much more news coming up on msnbc. this hour, if you blink, you might have missed them. in the past 24 hours, new headlines proving the 2024 campaign season is already out for a frenzy s start. plus, donald trump s big day in court tuesday. whether he can pull the same antics we saw at his new york civil trial appearances. plus, the whole in a plane that has a lot of this country talking. new information from investigators, and had. and a very good day to all of you from nbc news here in los angeles, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the countdown to the iowa caucuses, now eight days away, when temperatures in des moines are expected to be a frigid zero at degrees with a wind chill of minus 16. and new today, after trump spent time meeting voters in iowa, a stunning declaration from a republican congresswoman on certification of the 2024 election results, and a possible hint of what s to come. what about 2024? what about 2024?
attacks on schools and hospitals. so we don t know the accusations that the israeli military is facing, but obviously, thousands of children have been killed since this war against hamas started, as the result of those attacks on the 7th of october, and we have seen that thousands more are in desperate need of aid. there is a huge humanitarian crisis going on in gaza. we saw days ago a school being used as a shelter by displaced palestinians in the same refugee camp in central gaza that was hit in an israeli air strike. the israeli military said it was targeting hamas members who were using it as a base to plan and carry out attacks. but critics of the israeli military say that even though the military claims that many of those facilities are being used by hamas as bases to carry out attacks, they say that this cannot be used as a justification for attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties. so again, we see today that this huge rescue operation has resulted
talking about after, well, nothing has today with after, it was during the time, and that is what they focused on today during the appeal. and they concede that, everybody concedes that, and if it is during that time, you have absolute immunity. we will see how it works out. we have a great argument, we have an argument in which they conceded two major points today, in fact, i think it is a concession. we will have to ask the lawyers. they conceded two points that i think where by normal standards, if it was not me, the end of the case, but sometimes they look at me differently and they look upon others, and that is very bad power country. we had an event yesterday in georgia where the district attorney was totally compromised, the case must be dropped. they went