By the court of arbitration for sport, but russian teams will still be banned from the Tokyo Olympics and dozens of other global competitions. More former Rugby Union Players havejoined legal action against the games authorities, accusing them of negligence over head injuries. And coming up the west end performers staging virtual Christmas Concerts in care homes. Hello to you, welcome to bbc news. Two thirds of the population of england or 38 Million People will be living under the tighest coronavirus restrictions by this weekend. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, told mps that following a review, most of the areas already in the toughest tier 3 level will remain there. He said a 46 increase in covid i9 cases in the past week in south east england and cases up by two thirds in the east of england meant it was necessary to apply tier 3 measures across a much wider area. Bedfordshire, buckinghamshire, berkshire and hertfordshire will be subject to tier 3 rules, as will parts of surrey,
I will take this as a testament to how people are interested in the court, not necessarily in may. Me. Maybe i should start off by orienting people to let this little book is. Its part of a series called a very short introduction and they are really short. They have about 300 titles and they asked me to do a Supreme Court titled. I guess it was about three years ago in the book came out this spring. It came out really on the eve of the health care position, so who knew three years ago that we would be faced with the Supreme Court dealing with the most closely watched and maybe the most contentious case and many many years and i would be happy, of course in the book doesnt say anything about the health care so in the q a i would be happy to share some conversation about that with you. I thought i would just kind of step back and give a little bit of my take on how the court has gotten to where it is, not so much Current Events but really looking back. The book starts with a little histo
Abandon its nuclear ambitions. The threat of the north Korea Nuclear threat on seoul or tokyo is real, and it is likely only a matter of time before north korea develops the capability to strike the u. S. Mainland. We call on countries to suspend or downgrade diplomatic relations with north korea. North korea exploits its diplomatic privileges to understood its Illicit Nuclear programs and constraining its diplomatic activity will cut off a flow of needed resources. We must increase north koreas isolation. We must have sanctions on dprk entities and tighten those already in place. All options for responding to future provocation must remain on the table. Diplomatic and financial levers of power will be back up by willingness to counternorth korea aggression with military action if necessary. These comments come just hours after President Trump made that startling remark about the possibility of a, quote, major, major conflict with north korea in a interview with reuters. He warned ther
A guilty plea in the muller probe the 11th hour gets underway. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. This is day 397 of the trump administration. News on the mueller front, the Mueller Investigation of russia and a matter involving the president s soninlaw and chief of staff. First off tonight, Robert Mueller has obtained a new guilty plea as he investigates russias interference in the 2016 election. Before today, three people have already admitted their guilt to the special counsel. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and a california man richard pineto. Now alex van der zwaan, the soninlaw of one of russias wealthiest men has pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi. Well have an explanation of this prong of the story for you just ahead. Today, we also saw the white house answering questions for the First Time Since muellers extraordinarily and extraordinarily detailed indictment of more than a dozen russ
Reporters. Msnbcs Garrett Haake is on capitol hill and juan hillyard is in birmingham, alabama. Thank you, gentlemen, very much for being here. Garrett i want to start with you. Lets talk a little bit about Mitch Mcconnell. Those remarks that came out today. He was very direct in answering that question that i know you and i have both been asking of these senators. Do you believe these accounts . Mcconnell saying pretty much straight out, yes, i do. Yeah, kasie, you know as well as anybody Mitch Mcconnell doesnt say a word he doesnt intend to. He is the most careful speaker of any lawmaker up here on capitol hill. So, when he does decide to make a comment on Something Like this, you know the words have been carefully chosen for a specific reason and Mitch Mcconnell answering the outstanding followup question here for everybody. A lot of these senators when they left town on thursday and friday were saying if these allegations were true, then it would be inappropriate for moore to be se