hello, i m 0lly foster. here s what s coming up on sportsday this evening. human rights groups have slammed fifa for telling teams to just focus on the football in qatar. the red roses are fully focussed. we ll head live to new zealand ahead of their rugby world cup semi final. it s the first of the quarterfinals at the rugby league world cup. can lebanon stop the reigning champions? also coming up in the programme. good evening. welcome along. injust over a fortnight, the world cup in qatar will be under way. the tiny gulf state, the most controversial host in the history the tournament, says everyone is welcome . human rights groups have contested that for the last 12 years since they were named as hosts, and today, fifa has been criticised for a letter that has been sent to all 32 competing nations, telling them to concentrate on football and not get involved in any protests. joe lynskey reports. the world cup starts here in 16 days, the stadium in the north of qatar wh
including kevin mccarthy s new problems. by the end of the hour we re going to turn to culture and the artist ransom. i want to begin this hour with you with one of our special reports about law and justice and fairness. it involves a dilemma many warned about, that the end of the trump presidency would not be the end of trump s impact or damage. especially been the ways he tried to corrupt the government and alter the traditions and norms at times have been guardrails for the united states. everything changed for president biden because he s now facing this new special counsel probe from the doj. unlike president obama. because the attorney general appointed a dedicated prosecutor to probe how classified documents ended up in his office and home and not just any prosecutor. we ll come back to that. this week s news is an unusual decision he made two months ago when he appointed a special prosecutor for trump s classified documents. in certain extraordinary cases it is in t
motorcade arrived at the new york attorney general s office for a deposition. we are getting new details about the fbi search. the former president s lawyer said trump s legal team was in talks with the justice department about records stored at mar-a-lago in the spring. she added the search warrant indicated an investigation io the handling of classified material. they said that they were looking for classied documents. evidence of a crime of classified documents goes. two sources familiar say fbi agents arrived monday morning at 9:00 a.m.nd left around 30 p.m. the sect service was given a heads up. trump called the search unnecessary as well as politically motivated but didn t provide any evidence. joining us is justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. ken, whacan we expect from the former president s deposition today? that s actually a bit of an interesting mystery because there is this is a civil investigation into donald trump s business practices and
around the nuclear power station was extra. it would appear from these satellite images that it is almost certainly untrue. that there has been no significant change in the level of attacks, evidence of attacks since the las images were taken a month ago. so that really gives the lie to longstanding propaganda line, taken by the russians, that the ukrainians are trying to shell their own nuclear power plant to make the russians look bad. that s on the one hand. i ve seen the evidence on the ground myself that missiles are being fired by results troops from very close to that nuclear power station. almost inviting a counter attack. they ve killed people across the dnipro river. so in that context, one can understand the demands being made increasingly stridently by the international community to demilitarize that area. that is why the french president called vladimir putin earlier on today. because of the deep concerns of some kind of military spy catastrophe there. and a fr
string of legislative success for the biden white house. so will it push midterm voters to the polls? and are celebrity candidates including mehmet oz threatening mitch mcconnell s hopes to retake the senate. the january 6th committee confirming it is requesting a trove of alex jones text messages sent at trial. and what actress anne heche said on her podcast before crashing her car into a home, causing it to burst into flames. all right. i m just going to keep going here. democrats in array, a string of legislative success, much of it bipartisan has the white house hoping it is gaining momentum heading into the midterms. the inflation reduction act, it passed the senate and now heads to the house for a vote as early as friday. this represents the largest investment to combat the climate crisis in u.s. history, $369 billion. major health care provisions include allowing medicare to negotiate the prices of some drugs, something that will take a few years to kick in,