us as we take a moment to rest and reflect a bit. we here at deadline white house are thinking about the families in ukraine, and what this holiday season must feel like for them. christmas eve marked ten months since the start of a russian war that has not let up even though it s now in the thick of winter. when russia unleashed the air strike on december 24th, it was the largest attack on that state since world war ii and then putin s forces two weeks later laid siege to maripol. devastating, and yet the twice impeached disgraced ex-president continues to claim with no evidence whatsoever, if he were the president ukraine would be just fine. on the day russia invaded ukraine, russia released this gem. if i was in office this deadly situation in ukraine had never have happened. to think if only trump were our president there would be peace in ukraine it s laughable thanks to an exhaustive and riveting new piece in the new york times, we have reason to believe trump was s
and brett favre insists he is the victim of he insists now he is the victim of a smear campaign in mississippi. this is what we are watching at this hour. we begin with cnn s exclusive interview with president biden. the president responding for the first time about putin s war in ukraine since his warn about a nuclear armageddon. he told jake tapper he doesn t believe the st. putin will actually yew nuclear weapons, but the mistake he believes putin may upon invading ukraine. i think he s a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly. i think he thought he was going to be welcome with open arms. this is the home of mother russia, and i think he totally miscalculated. the conversation also touched on saudi arabia. brittney griner, the economy, even the possibility of criminal charges against the president s son hunter. more on that in a moment. let s start with m.j. lee. m.j., he doesn t do many sit-down interviews these days. what are you hearing from there to
for another referendum on scottish referendum? we want to hear from you. you can find me on twitter. i m @annitabbc or you can use the hashtag bbc your questions. a man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering 35 year old zara aleena in east london. police say she was the victim of an opportunist stranger attack . the song you ll be hearing a lot more of as the bbc picks the official track for its commonwealth games coverage. at least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of san antonio, texas. officials say a further 16 people, including four children, were taken to hospital suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion. san antonio is around 150 miles from the us mexico border and a major transit route for people traffickers. azadeh moshiri reports. emergency responders crowd together after dozens of bodies were found in an abandoned lorry. more than a dozen survivors, including children, were rushed to hospital. a worker who works in the b
that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words, after ten years, 100 percent real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom in texas, because his legal battles are actually far from over. the compensatory damages are supposed to make you hole in some way, bring you back this where you are before this all happened, well punitive damages, they are meant to punish. tomorrow, that same jury will begin considering just how much to financially punish alex jones. the judge said no to his claim for a mistrial
political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again come row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guess is someone whose life and career is based on your refusal to take sides in the political battle to stop it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyal as parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in the uk ought instead to be united with the rest of ireland. but does she and her party really represent anything more than simply none of the above? naomi long, from belfast, welcome to political thinking. hi there. do you everfind welcome to political thinking. hi there. do you e