menendez. as we begin this hour, action in the face of distraction. the bluster and bombast of donald trump s new reporting shows jack smith is relying on the facts, not the fury. also this hour, departed to pardon trump or not. a new witness tests in the republican quest for the nomination. we ve pardoned a president before, but doing so again presents a further danger to democracy. we are going to ask historian, michael beschloss. and my sit down with actress eva longoria, making her flamin hot directorial debut. this is american voices. we begin this hour with donald trump and his allies, trying to deflect attention away from his decision to keep government secrets after his presidency. we ve heard these excuses before. trump is relying on the same old script, distract with baseless claims of a witch hunt, to stopped stop his political witch hunt. on his knockoff version of twitter, calling special counsel jack smith, quote deranged, saying the indictment is fake.
two other people are also being questioned. the head of the catholic church, pope francis, has urged people to pray for his predecessor, pope emeritus benedict, whose health has worsened. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for review 2022. the death of her majesty the queen and accession of king charles created headlines around the world in september. just three months earlier, the royalfamily had marked queen elizabeth s platinum jubilee. daniella relph reports on a year of upheaval and transition in the royal year. a year the world mourned queen elizabeth ii. # i am the resurrection #. her funeral a show of pomp and precision like few had ever seen. # he that believeth in me #. thousands joined the queue to see the queen lying in state. for the new king, his was a public grief. just three months earlier, the queen celebrated her platinum jubilee. with herfamily, the nation. oh, dear. ..and paddington. perhaps you would like a marmalade sandwich? i always keep one for
similar control measures. hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine has been struck by a fresh barrage of russian missiles targeting several major cities. ukrainian authorities said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure. several cities from kyiv in the north, odesa in the south, kharkiv in the east and lviv in the west have been hit. the mayor of lviv says the city has lost about 90% of its electricity. earlier, ukraine s military intelligence chief said fighting is at a deadlock with neither ukraine nor russia able to make significant advances. and we can speak to hugo now. over to you. yes, the head of the ukrainian military intelligence agency said the situation of the ground was stuck because neither russia nor ukraine can make significant advances, and for weeks we been talking about have how fighting has been concentrated around the eastern city of bakhmut in the donetsk region, but across the front line we have not seen maj
no change in two of the big offices of state james cleverly remains foreign secretary and jeremy hunt stays at the treasury, suella braverman returns as home secretary less than a week after she resigned, and dominic raab is deputy prime minister. it comes as new figures show the task in hand with the price of some household basics soaring. you can see on the shelves when you go into the supermarket you have got to really think about making better choices. . , . , choices. ultimately the costings come down choices. ultimately the costings come down and choices. ultimately the costings come down and our choices. ultimately the costings come down and our peoples - choices. ultimately the costings - come down and our peoples income needs come down and our peoples income needs go come down and our peoples income needs go up. hello and welcome, whether you re watching on pbs, in the uk, or elsewhere around the world. we start here in london, where it s been another m
from prosecution based on their official acts in office. many legal scholars have speculated that one route the supreme court can take is they decide if there s some level of immunity, perhaps it doesn t apply to the conduct charged against donald trump in this election case brought by jack smith, and that could cause further delays in that case because it would require it to be tossed back to the judge to decide which of these things were presidential acts and which weren t. there s another case that could potentially involve the prosecution of donald trump, has to do with a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against many january 6th defendants, and it s also a part of that washington, d.c. election suppression, trump indictment, and the question whether that has been properly applied to the conduct at issue. and then as you said, there are many other very important decisions we re watching for including a potential gun rights case involvin