mykolalv. critical infrastructure including power facilities have also been hit. part of putin s reply after an explosion hit a bridge. our reporters and guests are standing by to bring you the latest. let s begin this morning with if he had drinkfred pleitgen in uk. i know you went out to see some of that destruction firsthand. what did you see? reporter: hi there, bianna. it was several hours of blasts we witnessed and heard ourselves. it happened or started happening in the early morning hours, i d say about quarter past 8:00 local time which is about 1:15 in the morning where you guys are. there was a big blast sort of quite close to our location as we went out there were several other explosions that we were able to hear. we went to one of the locations where in the vicinity of there a playground had gotten hit by a missile, luckily there don t appear to have been any children there at that time. but then we also got to an intersection that was also hit by a russian
conventional, he said going forward his program is the only program allowed in this country. competing programs are not allowed anymore. they re illegitimate, they re dangerous, a threat to the republic itself. joe biden declared that his political opponents are enemies of the state, terrorists, in fact, comparable to al qaeda on 9/11. now biden and harris said this. they didn t say it in private, grousing bidderly to aides in the oval office, they said it in public on television, and didn t flinch as they did. so you have to think about the implications of this. the united states is a two-party political system. has for our whole lifetime. if the leader of one party, who happens to be the president, redefines the other party, not as a political party, but as criminal organization, what is he doing? of course he s demanding a one-party state. that s what biden is doing. he s using federal law enforcement to make it happen. so the question is, how is he getting away with it? h
4095, that is how many lawsuits former president donald trump or his organization, has been involved in, according to usa today. and they cover everything from defamation, contract disputes, personal injury, and more. and they spanned three decades. donald trump has been the defendant in almost 2000 of those civil suits. but the former president has never been a defendant in a criminal trial. if that changes, the trump playbook we have grown so familiar with, the path he nears, the vengeful outbursts, the dangerous lies, they will have no power there. the former president is connected to criminal investigations on multiple fronts. there is the justice department s investigation on trump s handling of classified documents, which most recently was a federal judge says he is inclined to unseal parts of the search affidavit and has ordered the justice department to make redactions. then, there s trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. his former white hous
the first hosepipe ban in wales for 30 years comes into effect, as drought is officially declared in parts of the country. apple has released an urgent security update for its iphones, ipads and macs after two serious vulnerabilities were found that could allow attackers to gain access to someone s device. good morning and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. four out of ten young people in the uk signing up for new private tenancies, are spending an unaffordable amount of their income on rent, new figures suggest. housing experts say spending more than 30% of income on rent is unaffordable, and the proportion of young renters grappling with high housing costs is at a five year high. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. no one likes paying rent, but right now, people under 30 like mia are paying through the nose. my tenancy is ending soon and looking for new tenancies is just more and more expensive. it s disheartening because it feels like you
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 19th. friday, folks. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the federal judge deciding whether to unseal the affidavit in the unprecedented search of mar-a-lago appeared to stake out the middle ground yesterday. saying he is inclined to unseal it, the magistrate judge gave the justice department until next thursday to submit redactions. in a written ruling, the judge stated, the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. the judge said he would review the proposed reactions and then, redactions and decide if he agrees. he could not give a time line beyond next thursday saying quote this is going to be a considered careful process. the the government had argued against unsailing the affidavit laming it would jeopardize its investigation, and because it contains quote substantial grand jury information with national security over