of midnight mass at the nativity church. and in his first christmas message as monarch, king charles is to pay tribute to his mother, queen elizabeth ii. you are watching bbc news. bend it like beckham: 20 years on. it s not fair, the boys never have to come home and help. i wonder if i had an arranged marriage, would i get someone who d let me play football whenever i wanted? who are you talking to? move on up by curtis mayfield plays. bend it like beckham was a huge success and it made history as the highest grossing film about football. # hush now, child. my mum probably hates the film because we ve watched it that many times. there are so many elements of it that are still true today. - i was like, this is me on screen. she s found her people. maybe i can find my people. the film actually gave me a bit of clarity on where i wanted to go with my life. # though you may find. people from marginalised communities can find themselves in it, even if it s not their own cul
plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. welcome to the lead. i m cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trump s legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the d orc j went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents were moved from a storage room at the florida resort and possibly hidden in an effort to obstruct the fbi s investigation. the doj also filing included a signed letter from a trump lawyer swearing no classified documents were left at the former pred s home. that we now know was a lie. given that fbi teams seized more than 100 documents from mar-a-lago during the august search. c
toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
russian military forced the others to shut down and it lost its main connection to the nation s power grid and atomic safety experts are extremely worried. cnn s melissa bell has the latest from ukraine. reporter: there s been good news from the ukrainian counteroffensive tonight according to officials here in kyiv with an aide to president zelenskyy of what he says is the ukrainian flag. this town has been the center of battles for some time and we are getting some confirmation of the fact it may be now in ukrainian hands and also on the russian side, with some talk of the retreat of russian forces around the town. it is of course a counteroffensive now going on for just about a week and about which ukrainian authorities have been remaining pretty tight lipped insisting this is about degrading russian military capabilities, trying to take out infrastructure that allows them to resupply their troops around kherson. not really aimed at fast territorial gains. of course this
the department of justice reveals it has already complete its review of documents seized. in other words, they re now finished with what a special master would be designed to accomplish in the first place. they say that a privileged review team, quote, identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client information and is following the procedure set forth in paragraph affidavit for disputes if any. that filing, and it started a classification review of all of the materials seized at mar-a-lago. in the second, the odni, the office of the director of national intelligence is indeed leading an assessment, basically an evaluation of threats to national security associated to trump s decision to keep whatever it is that he took and kept. remember, the affidavit released on friday showed the government s concern with how those important documents were stored at mar-a-lago. in addition to the room we ve all heard so much about these past few weeks, the ne