hello, good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of the house of unions, mikhail gorbachev lay in state. a steady stream of mourners filing past his open casket. there was a guard of honour, but the last leader of the soviet union had not been honoured with a full state funeral. a sign that today s kremlin has little interest in guarding mr gorbachev s legacy. many russians blame gorbachev for the fall of the ussr, the collapse of their superpower. yet out on the streets muscovites were queueing up to pay their respects. gorbachev had given many here their first taste of freedom and democracy. in
in the next three to five hours. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. a £2 cap on bus fares across england for three months from january is announced by ministers in the hope it will help people cope with the rising cost of living. a to me, it is a no brainer. there is no point taking the car and then paying for parking fees and everything. it is costing me £15, normally, for a trip, for a day ride for myself and then a day ride for my children. it is extortionate. this will help with millions ofjourneys through the toughest months of the winter, when we know things are going to be tough. and i think it will help attract people to the bus, particularly at a time when fuel costs are so high. russia s main pipeline transporting gas to europe through germany will now not reopen as planned. russian state energy firm gazprom said it had found an oil leak in a turbine on nord stream 1, meaning it
good morning. welcome to way too early. this is friday, september 23rd. i m sam stein in for jonathan. special master appointed a review the document that s the fbi seized from president donald trump s mar-a-lago home has given the former president s lawyers until a week from today. they gave them that line to back up trump s allegation that the fbi planted evidence during the august 8th search. trump and lawyers have publicly insinuated multiple times that acts planted evidence during the search without providing any proof of that claim. special master also told trump s legal team they must state by september 30 if they belief the seized items were incorrectly described in the 11 page inventory list which stated some of the documents were highly classified. trump claimed he declassified the documents he found that were found in the search that were marked classified and highly sensitive. however, lawyers have not made the assertions in actual court. yesterday s filing ju
plus, 700 and counting, that s the latest number of classified documents that donald trump had at mar-a-lago. we ll explain why there s likely many more to come. also ahead, president biden is expected to announce a decision today on a controversial plan that could impact millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 24th. i m sam stein, in for jonathan lemire. results are pouring in this morning after key primaries in new york in one of the most closely-watched races this primary season, nbc news projects that congressman jerry nadler has won the democratic primary for new york s 12th congressional district. he defeated his fellow encouple bantd, maloney. third candidate in the race was patel, former staffer for president obama who ran on the platform of generational change. and new york s 17th district, democratic congressman sean patrick maloney beat back a fierce primary challenge from progressive state senator biaggi