former president trump heading back to court today. secretary of state antony blinken speaking now in da boats. and the call that sparked an fbi investigation into roger stone. what he allegedly said about assassinating two democratic lawmakers. we ll let you hear it for yourself. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s wednesday, january 17th. it s 5:00 a.m. in washington and also 5:00 a.m. in new hampshire. republican candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are scrambling to keep their presidential hopes alive after donald trump s decisive win in iowa this week. the gop front runner made a de detour to a courtroom and he s going to be back there again today where e. jean carroll is expected to testify and a jury will weigh how much trump owes for defaming her. trump also touched down in new hampshire, where he took aim at his rivals. she came in third. she lost to somebody that beat her by. desantis campaigned in
i m sally bundock with the top business stories. and we begin here in the uk where, as you ve been hearing, the nhs in england is braced for six days of strike action starting in an hour and a half, so 7am. and this marks the longest stretch of industrial action in the history of the national health service. junior doctors have been pushing for a 35% pay rise, which they say would restore their earnings after inflation to 2008 levels, but the government says this is unaffordable. for many decades, healthcare spending in western economies as a share of gdp has always risen, but recent research carried out by the economist claims that is no longer the case. so what is the cost of providing healthcare? an issue that will dominate in the run up to a general election here in the uk and a headache for most governments around the world. let s unpack this. i m joined by dr rocco friebel assistant professor of health policy at the london school of economics. good to have you on the
in southern virginia. i am jon scott and this is the box report. let s get right to lucas tomlinson at the white house with the latest. prince jon, we are learning that took off from elizabethan tennessee that north tennessee not far from the border of rigid and affluent all the way as far northeast as long island before mysteriously turned around coming back and crossing over restricted airspace above the nation s capitol for crash landing i to have our drive from here. for the d.c. national guard were scrambled. there clear to respond supersonic over mach 17061 miles per hour which caused a large sonic boom and rattled windows all the way from outside the nation s capitol pass annapolis to the eastern shore of maryland in response. right now virginia state police are trying to access that wreckage and figure out are there any survivors on board? and just what caused this business to go down. jon: a very strange situation have they located the crash site? have you been able
january 6th, i issued a tweet demanding that people leave the capitol and end the violence. i said that those that failed to do that should be prosecuted to the fullest exat the present time of the law and i continue to believe that today. we cannot ever allow what happened on january 6th to happen again in the heart of our democracy. and i ll stand by the decisions and the due process of court in our laws. and i have no interest or no intention of pardoning those that assaulted police officers or vandalized our capital. they need to be answerable to the law. former vice president mike pence with one of the ways he is differentiating himself from his former boss. we ll have more from his campaign launch just ahead. it comes as the department of justice confirms what we all suspected. trump is the target of the classified documents investigation. we ll get expert analysis on what it means for an indictment moving forward. plus, one of the pga s top players blasts the organiz