The bloomberg candidacy. He is bypassing the caucuses and primaries. His eye is on super tuesday. Our phone lines are open, 202 7488001 is the line for republicans, 202 7488000 if you are a democrat and 202 7488002 if you are an independent. We are also taking her text messages, that phone number is 202 7488003. Be sure to tell us where you are texting from and your good name. Good sunday morning. We begin with president ial politics. We are in the february season of caucuses and primaries. All eyes are on the nevada caucuses a week from saturday. Virginia is a key state for bloombergs super tuesday strategy. If there is a state or Democrat Michael bloomberg could expect a return on investment, it is virginia. By investing millions, bloomberg helped democrats take back the statehouse last fall with full control of government in virginia, democrats have started pushing through legislation on everything from gun control to gayrights. The state could serve as the centerpiece of the strate
A power sharing deal with separatists when the conflict in the south. Donald trump has reversed this testimony in the impeachment inquiry he now admits the u. S. President offered the quid pro quo with ukraine to investigate a political rival the Us Ambassador to the e. U. Golden now acknowledges American Military aid to ukraine was contingent on kiev investigating joe biden and his son for corruption either jocasta reports from washington d. C. The only witness to have explicitly defended President Trump on the central question of the impeachment inquiry has reversed himself that question is whether trump withheld Security Assistance from ukraine in exchange for help with his reelection campaign. Bassett or gordon solomon at 1st says there was no quid pro quo but after being implicated by other witnesses he says his memory has sharpened in someones amended testimony released tuesday the Ambassador Says he now remembers telling you crane in officials that the security money wasnt comin
Best known monument some experts fear the taj mahal could collapse. At least 15 people have been killed in an overnight attack in thailand south suspected separatists are believed to be behind the shooting at the security checkpoint in the province groups carried out attacks in the muslim majority region since 2004 when hate joins us now live from bangkok so why any claim of responsibility for this one. Sami no not yes and i think its highly unlikely that we will get any claim of responsibility we dont usually get them after these attacks in these 3 southernmost provinces of thailand bordering malaysia that happen fairly regularly there are regular small bomb attacks gun attacks but its fair to say that this one was one of the largest that we have seen in recent years with 15 People Killed several more injured as well the motive well we are left to guess that but as a say this has been going on for a long time and since 2004 has really intensified the target seems to have been defense
Future of Representative Democracy. This was part of a recent forum hosted by the college of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. It is 90 minutes. My great honor to ,elcome our distinguished guest and to our love it caps on arena it caps on arena and i am enormously proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, william and marys 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for states statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. His dedicated he has dedicated his career to public u. S. Ce serving a two president s and leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence. His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know but he drove the City School Bus when he was a student and was a chit assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discov
Automatically qualify, while the third and fourth placed nations will go into the play . Offs. The 12 best ranked teams in league b will face eachother for a place in the final play off round. Scotland are in a group with serbia, slovakia and israel; Northern Ireland were drawn with portugal, Bosnia And Herzegovina and malta; while wales will play croatia, ukrane and kosovo. Qualifying begins in april. Former world number one simona halep has had herfour year ban for doping reduced to nine months by the court of arbitration for sport. The two time grand slam winner tested positive for an anti anaemia drug after the us open in 2022. Cas have since ruled halep did not take it intentionally. Having feared her career was over,s the 32 old can now return to tennis immediately. And thats all the sport for now. Heres the eastern time and gmt time, east coast west coast. Weve got a Night Of Special Coverage Tonight on the bbc, Super Tuesday will be coming from washington, dc, looked across to