election goes to a runoff after the closest vote, in two decades. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the uk where ukraine s president has made a surprise visit to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. prime minister rishi sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence missiles and long range attack drones but stopped short of sending jets. rishi sunak tweeted this picture welcoming president zelensky when he arrived at chequers the prime minister s country residence the pair in a bear hug, with the caption reading: welcome back . volodymir zelensky had earlier described rishi sunak as his friend . there were then handshakes on the doorstep before the pair held bilateral talks, lasting around two hours. uktraine s president says the pair discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . rishi sunak pledged long term support for ukraine to ensure that it s abl
all. i look forward to bull durham s report. that s the one i look forward to. what happened to durham? where s durham? and by the way, where s durham? he disappeared. the long awaited durham report is now finally out, but it fails to prove the deep state conspiracy against donald trump that the former president and his allies claim that it would. we ll explain what it actually says just ahead. plus, an update on the progress of debt ceiling talks ahead of another high stakes meeting today at the white house. also we ll look at the latest on ukrainian president volodymyr you len skae s european tour aimed at restocking his arsenal. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. after four years of investigating the fbi s investigation into possible collusion between the trump 2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham finally released his findings yesterday. in a 300-page repor
this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzling case. and from his ex-wife. i thought he was very intelligent, funny, very charming.
fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
legal system is off the rails when it comes to donald trump. do you have a response to president trump being found liable for sexual abuse? that s the reaction or lack thereof from a few republican lawmakers after a new york jury found donald trump liable for sexually abusing the writer e. jean carroll. we ll have legal analysis on the case and what it could mean for the former president s 2024 campaign just ahead. plus, we ll go through yesterday s high stakes debt ceiling meeting at the white house and what could be next in these contentious negotiations. and also ahead, proposals in the texas state legislature are pushing the legal limits of border enforcement as a pandemic-related immigration restriction expires tomorrow. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 10th. i m jonathan lemire and thanks for starting your day with us. it s a busy day, and we begin this morning with donald trump, now the first former president to be found liable f