six conservative justices, three of whom trump appointed. from looking at the 100 or classified documents taken from his beach club, but they are attempting to get the review of classified documents back before the court-appointed special master which could potentially throw some fan into the gears of the investigation. despite reporting that trump s legal team is looking to soften its tone in this case, the filing today by trump s lawyers are filled with more angry screams against the department of justice. they accuse the department of, quote, feigned concern about purported classified records in order to pin some offense on trump. it is the latest in a series of aggressive and bellicose moves by trump which he s employed for a very long time to move away from scandal of legal quandaries. and it s more evidence of the mind-set of which he approaches the powers of the presidency and the keeping of the nation s secrets. in a media website, trump told his follower, i want my d
results standing by with a new batch of election results from the key state of arizona whereas this moment trump-backed election denier kari lake has the lead as primary for governor and 80% of the vote is in and we do expect a big batch of votes coming tonight so we are awaiting this, lake leads karen taylor robson, she wins if she wins and she wins if she loses. there were a lot of shenanigans going on. we knew the shenanigans were happening. and lake s not alone. at least five trump-backed election deniers won their primary races last night. i want to play with you what four of these winners, these are people who are moving ahead, advanced, voters on chosen them. this is what four of them said about the last election. for those media outlets that claim there s no fraud, you are willfully ignoring the evidence. if you look at the evidence there is obviously something wrong with the election, okay? trump was robbed with the election. do you believe donald trump shoul
reporter: following the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade, the administration criticized by some for lacking urgency. of course, the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. earlier today we saw president biden signing the second executive order on this front since this historic decision, and the executive order today would, in part, support women who now need to travel out of state to get abortion services and other health care services. though it is very clear the white house is still figuring out the details of how exactly they would execute this. jake, there s no question that this is an issue that this white house hopes will continue to energize voters heading into the midterms. they believe that is exactly what they saw last night in kansas. m.j. lee at the white house, thank you very much. an issue still dogging the white house, the fallout from house speaker nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan. the c
and in central africa, we ve a special report on the race to stop the plunder of rich peatlands releasing damaging carbon dioxide. hello. one of president putin s closest advisers, the foreign minister sergei lavrov, has told the bbc that russia has not invaded ukraine. he s repeated the kremlin line that there is no war, but instead a special military operation . this comes as russia s invasion of ukraine is almost four months old. mr lavrov, who s been at the heart of power in russia for over 20 years, spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg. hello, thank you. how are you? it was the first time sergei lavrov had agreed to meet since moscow launched its offensive in ukraine. russia s government has created a parallel reality. invasion? what invasion? translation: we didn t invade ukraine. - we declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the west that dragging ukraine into nato was a criminal act. russia s special operati
hello and welcome. ukraine s application to join the european union looks set to take a step forward today. senior eu officials will give their recommendation on whether to grant the country what s known as candidate status . but it s a long and complicated process to actually become a member. in his nightly address, president zelensky said ukraine has never been closer to the european union than it is now. here s azadeh moshiri. ukraine s president called it a truly historic day, describing a visit to kyiv by some of europe s most powerful leaders. from france, germany and italy, three of the eurozone s largest economies as well as romania, and while president zelensky has grown accustomed to receiving politicians who wish to see the war first hand, this time he had clear demands, more weapons and shoring up support for ukraine s candidacy to the european union. translation: ukraine has felt the support of four powerful european states at once and in particular support for