Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Thank you for joining us. Right to the breaking news at the United Nations this morning, President Biden is about to address the general assembly for the final time as this Countrys Commander in chief. His address comes amid global turmoil with War still raging in ukraine. And conflict escalating in the Middle East. Israel ratcheting up its attacks against hezbollah over the last few days, killing more than 500 in a series of deadly Air Strikes within lebanon and injuring at least 1600 more. Much to discuss. Joining us now, Richard Engel from tel aviv, and nbcs Mike Memoli at the u. N. , and New York times diplomatic correspondent Michael Crowley and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of state joel rubin. Good to have all of you here. Richard, if you will, paint a picture for us of this moment globally as the president prepares to address all these World Leaders. Well, things look very rough right now. And i think a lot of people are sayi
the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is making his first official visit to poland since russia invaded ukraine. warsaw has been one of the most outspoken and generous supporters of kyiv since the war started. it s taken in millions of refugees and sent more than 300 tanks. it was also the first country to send fighterjets to ukraine. in a moment, we ll be speaking to our correspondent hugo bachega who is in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. but first, let s go live to warsaw where we can speak to the bbc s adam easton. welcome. the first official visit by president zelensky since the outbreak of the war. what can we expect? outbreak of the war. what can we exect? , , , , expect? this building behind me is warsaw s expect? this building behind me is warsaw s royal expect? this building behind me is warsaw s royal castle expect? this building behind me is warsaw s royal castle where - warsaw s royal castle where president zelensky will be coming later to meet some of those
and peter murrell the husband of scotland s former first minister nicola sturgeon has been arrested as part of a police investigtion into the finances of the scottish national party. 58 year old peter murrell was the snp s chief executive until he quite last month. in a statement, police scotland said they had taken a 58 year old man into custory for questionining over the party s funding and financing. the investigation was launched into donations raised by the party which was ostensibly to campaign for and hold a second independence referendum. it is alleged that money instead was used to help with the party s day running costs. in a short statement, the police had a 58 year old man has today, wednesday the 5th of april, been arrested. as part of an investigation into the funding of the scottish national party. he is being questioned by detectives. officers are also carrying out searches at a number of addresses as part of the investigation. they said i report will be s
in the country. but ranil vickrema singha also warned, he would deal firmly, with what he called undemocratic efforts to topple the government. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sonia sodha the chief leader writer for the observer and giles kenningham political commentator & former conservative party press chief. welcome party press chief. back to you both. let s have a welcome back to you both. let s have a look at the front pages. and then there were two, the i newspaper focusses on the conservative leadership contest as rishi sunak and liz truss face tory mps in the final run off. this was the moment the result was read out. the penny s dropped reads the metro as trade minister ms mordaunt is eliminated from the race. according to the daily telegraph, the foreign secretary is the front runner to become prime minster the winner is to be announced in september. but the guardian says the tory party fears
Monday in parliament. The main news from westminster after the 620 summit, the Prime Minister is confident about the uks position in the world but dismayed at americas position on climate change. I spoke personally to President Trump to encourage them to rejoin the Paris Agreement and i continue to hope that is exactly what he will do. Theresa may is reaching out to other parties on Big Policy Issues Labour says her government has run out of steam. If the Prime Minister would like it i am very happy to furnish her with a copy of our election manifesto, or better still an early election so that the people of this country can decide. Also on the programme the Falkland Islander who travelled 8,000 miles to raise concerns about brexit. We may well lose the support of the rest of europe and may well see spain and possibly other members of europe giving greater support to argentina over its mistaken and a legal claim to the falkland islands. When the leaders of the 620 countries the worlds l