A budget that will define the next Half Decade under labour begins to take shape with more investment in big projects, more borrowing, and perhaps less of a Tax Rise than expected. And devastating israeli strikes on beirut actively targeting hezbollah s leadership, as Benjamin Netanyahu dashes back from the Un And Tehran holds emergency meetings. Where will this escalation take the region and the world . Good evening. This is newsnight, home to Insight And Analysis from home and abroad. Well discuss the emerging situation in the Middle East a little later, matters could develop as we are on air. Breaking news is that they hezbollah it senior leadership is unreachable following the israel strikes on the Beirut Southern Suburbs on thursday. We will discuss that later. But first a domestic Mid Conference political and economic stock take with our top panel. Anushka asthana, Itv News deputy political editor, author of taken as red, an Insider Account of Labours Ascent to power, zing tseng,
Team says charges are imminent tonight. Well talk to someone who just walked out from in a grand jury coming straight to us. Now the death toll in maui is at 99. It will be higher. Our bill weir is there getting a rare look at whats happening in hawaii. And the ruble takes a massive tumble. A very public and embarrassing message tonight. Lets go outfront. Fast and furious, you are looking live at the Fulton County courthouse right now where a grand jury is inside, working overtime, still hearing the case at 7 p. M. Eastern with all signs now pointing to an unprecedented fourth indictment against former President Trump. The lights are still on in that courtroom where the grand jury is meeting. We are two hours past that courts normal closing time. Trumps advisor telling cnn his team is preparing for that indictment to be delivered imminently. Coming up this hour, were going to be joined by two witnesses because moments ago the former georgia Lieutenant Governor, jeff duncan, he just lef
james harden, and the incredible cast of everything everywhere all at once, including my girl jamie lee curtis, when the sag award herself. that takes us off here tonight. and on that note i wish to wall a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. d of tomorrow it s a really good to have you here we have a very interesting show for you tonight. if he had ever been to london, or if you re like, me and you basically spend every waking hour you are not working, eating, sleeping, or fishing watching british crime dramas set in london. which is what i do now because i am a middle aged childless lesbian. anyway. whether you ve been to london or you spent a lot of time in london in your mind. you might have noticed these blue blacks on the london landscape. the british government puts out these blue discs. these blue plaques on historic sites of all kinds. not just in london,
pennsylvania held a press conference about it. shapiro announced that authorities decided to set the chemicals on fire. that was a good thing. no one should be unduly alarmed. the burning of the chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote, as planned. officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn, quote, perfect. mike dewinn, the governor of ohio agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroad s jer engineers, and se officials overseeing them, had everything under control. two days later, evacuation orders were listed. in the subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud was it a wise decision to light vinyl chloride on fire over a populated area. if it was safe, how do we know that? is anyone in charge actually monitoring with any accuracy the level of did deadly chemicals ie air, ground and water in and around east palestine? apparently nobody is. that s highly upsetting when you think about it. talk about a failure at all levels. the first duty of
welcome to the show. i am mehdi hasan. they called it black monday. it was the day the supreme court issued its famous ruling in brown v. board of education. a ruling that told americans school segregation was unconstitutional. and for a group of white mississippians, that they came to be known as black monday. the monitor came from this man, thomas pickens brady, a prominent segregationist and future mississippi supreme court justice who gave a defiant speech against the decision entitled, black monday. it was printed as a booklet and passed out to white school children in mississippi. seeped in racism and white supremacist thinking, you might not be surprised to hear that it was published by the white supremacist organization, this is since councils, a group that was also formed in mississippi, right after, take a guess, the brown the board ruling. i am telling you all of this to show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was to fe