nicaragua has freed more than 200 opposition political prisoners and deported them to the united states. they were greeted at the airport by a crowd waving flags and singing songs. now on bbc news, click. this week. ..as we re working towards the metaverse, we re at interpol to see how they re planning to keep it safe. we look at new software that s helping doctors perform delicate brain surgery. lara s thrown her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base your business in any one of them, depending on whose laws you want to adhere to. and it s opened up more ways for us to cause each other harm. disinformation, bullying, fraud. you name it, and you can do it online. so when
as assistant to the secretary of state, and the international trade economist rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. if at first you don t succeed, try, try and try again seems to be the game plan for kevin mccarthy in his bid to become the speaker of the house, after failing three times yesterday to get enough support from his party. but 2a hours on, the stalemate continues. he s lost twice again already today and now we are heading to a sixth vote, all because a small group of right wing republicans are blocking his path. some of them say they will never support him, no matter what concessions he gives. but mr mccarthy isn t backing down. this is the scene live in the house now, where that sixth vote is expected. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, no bills can be debated, no decisions made. so, it has to be resolved, no matter how long it takes. it could go on and on until some sort of deal is made behind the scenes. to give you a bit of history if you
relatively easy time passing its rules package, its first order of business, but the rules package includes provisions like the motion to vacate, which makes it easier to remove the speaker, kevin mccarthy. it also gets rid of pandemic era changes like proxy voting, it imposes rules and limiting spending and blocking tax increases. house republicans also passed a pair of disingenuous and deceitful antiabortion bills that were designed to push propaganda rather than addressing real concerns about women s reproductive rights. their decision to pass these bills during the first week of that new term, and despite the overall unpopularity of their antiabortion positions, demonstrates how they seriously are about governing in general. republicans made it clear months ago that they intend to use their tenure to investigate democrats. the rules package includes a provision that allows the house to create a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of covid and to scrutinize the wor
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the us state department has called for a demiliterized zone to be set up around the station in zaporizhia. tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello, welcome to the programme. it is three days since fbi agents executed a search warrant on the florida home of donald trump. there are reports today the feds removed 11 boxes of documents, on top of the 15 boxes they took away in december. there are also reports within the us media today that the raid on mar a lago was based largely on information from an fbi source. someone from within who was able to identify what classified documents the former president was hiding and where they would find them. so unprecented was that search that some within thejustice department have been calling for the attorney general to give an explanation. and in the last hour, merrick garland called an unscheduled press conference to announce he will make the warrant public. the dep