Is bob an end as a National Security threat . And where are the democrats on whether remaining in his position should even be tolerated . Two essential questions tonight, as menendez remains defiant in the face of a damning indictment. Good evening, everyone, im abby philip. And among the charges that the democrat is accused of using his power to get Sensitive Information about american diplomats oversee. Information that eventually made its way to a Foreign Government. And while he is temporarily stepping down from being the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, he is still privy to classified information. Now, the governor of his state suggested those allegations alone make him compromised. And one of menendezs democratic colleagues went even farther. Does it sound like espionage from your perspective . As a former intel officer, we collected information and we paid people for that information. So in the simplest of terms, yes. From a legal standpoint, ill defer to the
economic cooperation summit in san francisco. in their first face to face talks in more than a year, they are expected to discuss the ongoing trade row between the two countries, as well as washington s measures to restrict beijing s acess to advanced computer chips. the meeting comes as china s once roaring economy struggles to recover from the the impact of the pandemic. earlier i spoke to the executive director of the asian trade centre in singapore, deborah elms. she told me this conversation is an important first step. well, i think the most important part is that they ve had a meeting. i mean, that sounds pretty modest, but after a lot of disruption that through the trump years and through the trump years and through the trump years and through the pandemic and through the pandemic and through the pandemic and through the post pandemic period, just having a conversation between the two leaders is critical to helping stabilise this rocky relationship.- stabilise this ro
there was a scary moment on capitol hill at this afternoon when cops were called to a nearby park. witnesses said there was a man in an orange jumpsuit carrying a rifle. joining us now from washington s capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. brian, what do we know happened? there is no doubt that it was a scary few moments here on capitol hill as capitol police officers from across the campus rushed to this scene where this man was discovered carrying what they described as a long gone. it was noted by a passerby who have been to inform capitol police. this is an area very close to the capital campus. it is a park which is situated in between union station, which is one of the main transportation hubs in washington, d.c., and the senate office buildings on the capital campus, so very close to the operations up here on capitol hill. when this man with the gun was discovered and capitol police were informed of it. they swarmed the area to subdue the man. we are told that th
has strongly denied the allegations. in this tweet on sunday, us secretary of state antony blinken revealed that he d spoken to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov, to convey washington s grave concern over the arrest. russia says the case will be decided by the courts. but there are possible diplomatic responses, like prisoner swaps. bbc russia s 0lga ivshina explains. it s not the first time this is happening and it seems over the years mr putin has got more and more experienced and more interested in such exchanges, spy interested in such exchanges, spy exchanges, and this is just another example of that. i don t think it s going to be a long game but on the other hand russia has specific targets, specific aims in mind it wants to achieve and before it achieves that, it is not going