a review of london s metropolitan police is expected to heavily criticise the force for racist, sexist and homophobic behaviour. uk passport office staff are to strike for five weeks, which could have a major impact on holidaymakers booking summer holidays. and making waves a former professional surfer breaks the world record for the longest surf session in australia. the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for president vladimir putin and the head of the russian children s commission for alleged war crimes in ukraine. they are accused of forcibly deporting children from ukraine to russia. the icc says there are reasonable grounds to believe mr putin bares individual criminal responsibility for such deportations, which it says started soon after moscow launched its full scale invasion nearly 13 months ago. the warrant means mr putin could be detained if he leaves the country. the kremlin has denounced the move, calling it outrageous and unacceptabl
alleged plot to assassinate former president george w. bush. the suspect was even planning on driving to bush s home in dallas. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. it is election day in america. voters now headed to the polls in five states. georgia, alabama, texas, arkansas, and minnesota. a number of the contests today will test donald trump s grip on the republican party, and there is no race that matters more to the former president than georgia s gubernatorial primary. it s a race that pits his choice, former senator david perdue, against the incumbent governor, david kemp. trump went all in on perdue. he begged him to run. his organization poured $1.5 million into his super pac. he wants to take brian kemp, the incumbent governor, down, because kemp refused to overturn the 2020 election. but as we have seen oftentimes, it is hard to beat an incumbent, especially one who is independently popular with his base, especially one that ha
position where it is acting from a position of strength. it still has his ambitions to reabsorb taiwan, and russia s behaviour, frankly, is and russia s behaviour, frankly, is a nuisance for china as it tries to pursue more strategic agendas. irate pursue more strategic agendas. we have heard from the united states. it is worried that china may be thinking about sending weapons to russia to help with the work in ukraine. do you think that is possible or likely? irate ukraine. do you think that is possible or likely? we cannot rule it out. of course possible or likely? we cannot rule it out. of course it possible or likely? we cannot rule it out. of course it is possible or likely? we cannot rule it out. of course it is possible. - it out. of course it is possible. they do have weapon systems and ammunition that are compatible with what russia has. but frankly i don t think it is in china s own interest to do that. i think china wants to avoid coming under any kind of sanctions fr
any kind of, you know, magical outcome from this, though and you made mention of taiwan earlier. i m wondering how you think the president might handle that issue. because china is still not very happy with house speaker nancy pelosi s visit there. well, that s right. not only that but, you know, again, biden, when the president of the united states repeats something four different times, no matter how many times they say, no, it s not a policy change, i m sure beijing thinks the president was speaking quite clearly. that is a flashpoint that is really hard to see any constructive way past for xi and biden. one question is whether ukraine s strong resistance might make china think twice about the plans that it had or xi s desire to reabsorb taiwan. i think this is where you see events influencing each other in
covid policy. it s an extremely important meeting. but the course of these two countries as being adversaries is already set. xi, in securing a third term and potentially being china s leader for life, has made it very clear that reabsorbing taiwan is a key part of his goals for the his tenure. but what is the timetable. how long to prepare. there have been very alarming comments suggesting the timetable may be much shorter than previously expected. that s one thing i know will be foremost for president biden who, as you know, has repeatedly four different times said the u.s. would come to taiwan s