An audit exit if this is put in charge of this years climate complement. And a look at whats happening in the front line town of soledar as russia and ukraine fight for control. Welcome to the programme. We start with the controversy in washington. The white house has confirmed that a second set of classified documents has been found in the garage of President Biden� s home in delaware. Its thought the documents are linked to Barack Obamas time in the white house Whenjoe Biden was Vice President. And in the last half hour, us Attorney GeneralMerrick Garland announced the appointment of Special Counsel to investigate joe biden� s handling of the documents. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to Making Decisions guided only by the facts and the law. Heres what the us president told reporters a little earlier. As i said earlier this week, and by the way my corvette in a locked garage. 0k . So, its not like it sitting out on the street. So those documents were in a locked garage . Yes, as well as my corvette. As i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. I also said we are cooperating fully and completely with theJustice Departments review. More now from our North America editor sarah smith. Biden is expected to run again and this was certainly over shower that and could drag on for months and months. As information leaks out of these investigations with potentially a another inquiry going out this good dog biden for months if not years. Lets take a look at how we got here. Joe biden served as Vice President betweenjanuary 2009 to january 2017. After this, and until 2020 he periodically used an office space at a think tank in washington dc. Fast forward to late last year and we now know that a first batch of classified material was found at this office. Which brings us to this week and a second batch of documents found at a separate location. This is a former us attorney. The current us attorney who is a trump holdover, will be looking at the same issue. Did then Vice President biden, current President Biden, know what she was doing was in violation of the law . Or, as the white house seems to be arguing, was this an inadvertent, at worst, a reckless act by not carefully putting these documents in a secure location. If there is no proof that the president knowingly violated the law, that President Biden knowingly violated the law. There will be no criminal prosecution. Lets put this into context. When us president s and Vice President s leave office, they have to transfer all of their documents and e mails to the National Archives, which maintains historic white house records. We dont know the content of the documents in question. But according to biden� s Special Counsel, they were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the archives. Adding that biden� s team is co operating to ensure all records are appropriately in the possession of the archives. Lets cross life and speak tojulia. But to talk to you. We have heard from Merrick Garland and he is doing a special consulate. What from Merrick Garland and he is doing a special consulate. A special consulate. What does that mean . Essentially a special consulate. What does that mean . Essentially we a special consulate. What does that mean . Essentially we are a special consulate. What does that mean . Essentially we are seeing i a special consulate. What does that l mean . Essentially we are seeing that the Department Ofjustice under President Biden is moving in an independent direction. They are not taking this politically and ignoring the situation. They are tackling this head on and looking at it from a independent point of view. The Special Counsel appointed by Merrick Garland is a trump appointed attorney. That is independent and it shows they are taking this very seriously. At the time when Merrick Garlands justice seriously. At the time when Merrick GarlandsJustice Department has had to navigate fraught political waters while trying to remain neutral. Remember it was Merrick Garland who signed off on the Search Warrant to go into mara lago to search for President Trumps set of classified documents. It shows that this is a very independentJustice Department. Very independent Justice Department. What very independentJustice Department. What does this mean for president writing . It what does this mean for president writin . ,. ,. ,. ,. , writing . It is not good for president writing . It is not good for President Biden writing . It is not good for President Biden right writing . It is not good forl President Biden right now. Writing . It is not good for. President biden right now. I writing . It is not good for President Biden right now. I dont necessarily mean it is a Doomsday Scenario for his administration but is not what his administration wants to be dealing with at this time. He is expected to announce a 2024 president ial run. He is coming off a successful Midterm Election season for democrats where they got the majority in the senate. He is trying to boost the economy and look forward to working with democrats in the senate. It comes after republicans had a fraught week in the House Of Representatives trying to choose a speaker and making the democrats look better. Now the attention is shifting to the administration, and President Biden has the answer all of these questions. It will be compared to the President Trumps situation. These situations from what we know at the moment are very different. It seems like the biden team found these documents and were forthcoming and going to the National Archives and going to the National Archives and reports in them. It also seems that there were simply more documents at President Trumps position in a position to bite his fist up and we know that trump did not hand over his documents. So very different situations but they will be compared. Different situations but they will be compared different situations but they will be comared. ~ ,. Be compared. Thank you very much julia. Now you might rememberformer President Trump found himself embroiled in a case involving classified documents last year. box these are pictures of the police raid on trumps mar a lago estate last august. They reportedly found more than 150 sensitive documents. At the time, President Biden called trumps mishandling of documents totally irresponsible. So thats led to trump saying today when is the fbi going to raid the many homes ofjoe biden, perhaps even the white house . And theres been a swift reaction from the republican party. I think congress has to investigate this. This is an individual in office for more than 40 years and said on 60 minutes that she was concerned about president drums documents and now we find that as a Vice President he was keeping it out in the open in different locations. So lets go through the comparisons. Back to Julia Manchester in washington. You mentioned the similarities between whats happening but there are Big Differences. Are Big Differences. There are absolute to are Big Differences. There are absolute to differences. Are Big Differences. There are absolute to differences. In. Absolute to differences. In President Trumps case we saw that the fbi and Justice Department had to force their way in to get those documents. Signing off any Search Warrant and contacting the former president and his staff multiple times until it led to what we sought last august to stop that search. There are also a lot more documents, as far as we know, in the former president s position. There are also wes edens, and this isjust going off, it seems like in President Trumps situation that they were in less secure situations. In President Biden skate looks like they were locked away in his garage or his office. Not as close to the public as they could be at mara lago. There are still questions that need to be asked of President Biden. Why have these documents taken care of earlier . Why were they in his position after he left the white house . In these cases there is the broader question of how outgoing and incoming us officials handled these information. ~ incoming us officials handled these information information. Thank you to talk to was always information. Thank you to talk to was always julia. 0n on average patient having Heart Attacks and strokes had to wait more than 90 minutes which is 30 minutes more than it used to be in october. The target is 18 minutes. 0ur Health Editor hugh pym has been allowed into the royal Bolton Hospital in lancashire, england. He went into a e, to see for himself what patients and staff are experiencing. We are at ten on the corridor. Weve no capacity. We are going to come out and assess them in the ambulance so it will be one nurse coming out to each patient. Sue has worked here in a e for over 30 years. The last six, 12 months have been more challenging than i have ever known in the time i have worked here. The department was built to treat 21 patients. Right now, there are 60 waiting. We are running two and three times above our capacity continually, and often more than that. Is it sometimes so busy that you cant prevent delays for the Ambulance Crews . Yes, it is, yes. And then that is when we have the big delays and backlogs and when we get to that point, we are very often having to go out to the ambulances to see and assess them. We cant even get them in. And how much has that happened in the last few weeks . Its happened quite a lot, quite a lot, yes. Away from the noise of a e is Intensive Care the sickest patients. And it is nearly full. We have got one empty at the minute. The lady hasjust gone down to the ward. Sojust one empty bed. Its manic, to be honest. Obviously, there is significant pressure on the nhs, but it has felt busy in as much as it has been really difficult to try and get people home and get discharged from the ward and discharged from here. Um, itsjust felt blocked everywhere. It has been really, really difficult. Back in a e. Loud hubbub. The noise of staff and machines is striking. So as you can see, um, this is the quad. All the bays are full. We have even had to have some people waiting by the triage area, the assessment area. This is the heart of a e patients tucked into any available space. They have made it off the corridor. Some are waiting to be assessed. Most are waiting for a bed. Sometimes, we can have trolleys in all the spaces. So we have had trolleys all around, all around the assessment areas. Here, there is never a quiet moment, with so many patients to care for. A e is full because bolton, like other hospitals we have been to, says beds are hard to find. Here, 100 patients are fit to leave but cant because of Community Care issues. The government has recently given £200 million for extra Social Care Beds in england. How much will it help here . It may be a little bit too late to deal with the current pressures we are facing. But money is always welcome. That is your zimmer frame. Royal bolton is doing all it can to prepare patients for leaving the hospital. Oh, you are doing marvellous. We saw how, soon after they arrive, staff begin the rehab process. Perfect. But flu is adding to the pressure. Diane was so poorly, her husband took her to see the gp, who told him to get her to hospital fast rather than waiting for an ambulance. He were holding me up. I couldnt walk straight. And the gp saw me and she got the. Typed the note and sent me straight to a e. So. So i would say that gp saved my life. Staff say flu and Covid Pressures mean it is harder than during the worst of the pandemic. The staff is exhausted. It feels as difficult as it was during covid. But in fact, slightly more difficult because during covid, a lot of services, we stopped, but now we are keeping on all elective services, plus we are managing the pressures at the front end. The hospital is pointing as many patients as possible who are less seriously ill to other areas of care, but the corridor still looks like this. Despite everything, susan is philosophical. The workload is tough. We have had to adapt and change our ways of working. But we are a e nurses, and we take what is put in front of us, and we deal with it the best we can. Hugh pym, bbc news, bolton. Now lets talk about the war in ukraine. As always, its hard to be certain what the situation is on the front line but lets look at what we know. That front line is still in eastern ukraine. Ukrainian and russia are fighting for control of a mining town called soledar. If russia take soledar, it could help them to encircle nearby bakhmut another town it wants to take. And, russia hasnt taken a key ukrainian town or city for months, so theyre looking for a victory. And so theyre attacking soledar aggressively. Take a look at this Satellite Picture its how soledar looked in august. Those are peoples homes and apartments. This is it now. The buildings are completely destroyed. Heres another picture of soledar from august. More homes there you can see, and a school. This image of the same place shows how it looks now. We heard more from a ukrainian analyst. You could say that hundreds and hundreds of people on each side are dying every day, and the munition is being used on a grandeur scale. For example, we dont really know that Ukrainian Forces use up to 50,000 shells per day, only near soledar and bakhmut alone. So, basically, we could say that one of the biggest and the most fierce battles on European Continent since world war ii. And the pictures weve seen from there suggest that there might be truth to that. This video was posted by ukraine. You can see an injured person being stretchered out of a building, then carried into a first aid truck. The entire area is destroyed. Heres another video. It shows the Ukrainian Military near soledar, firing multiple rockets. The governor of donetsk gave this update to ukrainian tv. Translation there are 559 people still left in soledar, including 15 children. Thats as of today. They had the opportunity to leave before the 5th ofjanuary, but they chose not to. The city was then closed because of active fighting and enemy attacks. Melinda haring is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Councils eurasia centre. Thank you forjoining us. Let me ask you. Why is this small town is so important to the russians propaganda wise . 50 important to the russians propaganda wise . ,. ,. , �. ,. , wise . So the russians havent had a victo in wise . So the russians havent had a victory in months wise . So the russians havent had a victory in months and wise . So the russians havent had a victory in months and that wise . So the russians havent had a victory in months and that is wise . So the russians havent had a victory in months and that is why victory in months and that is why they are fighting so hard. They havent had any victory since summer and they have to show up momentum. The news is out that the battle is not going well. We saw a major reshuffle in the Russian Military structure this week and that is why they are to getting there. We structure this week and that is why they are to getting there. They are to getting there. We have had conflicting they are to getting there. We have had conflicting information they are to getting there. We have had conflicting information about | had conflicting information about who actually controls this area. Absolutely both sides are saying