and 18,000 miles in an electric car. stay with us here for and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. the fallout from baroness mone s interview with the bbc yesterday, in which she admitted lying about how she and her family stood to profit from a government contract to supply ppe during the pandemic, continues. claim and counter claim have been flying around today. the prime minister insisted he s taking the allegations against michelle mone extremely seriously. she replied, what s the pm talking about, he knew about her involvement all along. a former tory health minister thenjoined in, saying she didn t tell him about it. the company run by baroness mone s husband, ppe medpro, made £60 million profit from its contract with the government. 0ur political editor, chris mason, has the latest. a pandemic strikes. suddenly, gowns and masks personal protective equipment, pp
unbelievable. ftc so that s biden s ftc federal.cs you re goingsi to jim jordan sad the hearings on thursday. i m glad you re coveringring. absolutely. sean, thanks s o much.s is i am jim griffin. this is ingram angle from washington tonight. sabotage and smear a. that s the focus ofmear tonight s angle. now, when the press kept catching lbj falsely describingt the true state of the vietnam war effort, it became knowwar n as his credibility gap. repeated assurances of progress that didn t pan out only undermine support for the war at home. y well, fast forward now to present day where another credibility gap is eroding public faith in almostou everything that our so-called , oparties. saying, led by course, the establishment of both parties. last night, we blew open the covid lab cover up where politicians, health officials, academics, all lea refuse to tel the full truth about the origins of covid worse thanf that, instead of holding china accountable, these america
Russia has intensified its attacks in northeast ukraine rausing fears the city of kharkiv could soon be in range of its artillery. The border town of vovchansk has been heavily bombed. Kharkiv s governor has said russia trying to stretch the front line ukraines commander in the area has been replaced. In another sign of the growing strain on kyiv ukraine has said it will need Record Energy imports after russian attacks on infrastructure. As russia makes progress in the war, president putin is set to appoint a new defence minister, Andrey Belousov. Like his predecessor sergei shoigu, he doesnt have much experience in the field. But hes one of putins most influential economic advisers. And analysts say that may offer a clue to the russian leaders desire to fund his military ambitions. Well have more on the changes in russias defence hierachy in a moment first James Waterhouse has the latest on the fighting in ukraine. Its a front line at the moment which is more than 1000 kilometres wron
Military aircraft closer to israel amid concerns of a larger regional conflict breaking out. Was iran involved in hamas planning and new attacks from the north . Americans among the dead. The state Department Says at least nine americans have been killed. More than 1200 people, soldiers, civilians and children are death on both sides. Those numbers are expected to climb even higher. Im Andrea Mitchell with our continuing coverage of the war in israel. A constant barrage of israeli air strikes lighting up the sky. 300,000 israeli troops have been called up after this weekend marked the most extensive invasion of israeli territory in decades. These tanks are at the border area between israel and gaza. Any Ground Invasion will be complicated of the desperate hostage situation. A heartbreaking dilemma of one israeli mother who was brave enough to come on and talk to me about it at this hour. I could hear people speaking in arabic outside their door, and they broke in. The last thing i hear
Prime minister rishi sunak is due to speak to his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu today to urge restraint after irans unprecedented missile and drone attack on israel on saturday night. Lets go live tojerusalem for the very latest and our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. Two days after the skies of israel was killed by iranian cruise and Ballistic Missiles as well as suicide drones, israel is making it clear that it will hit back. The question still is, how and when will it retaliate . What seems clear now is it will, at least it hopes, take many forms. This morning, israels Foreign Minister has said he is leading a political war against iran. He has written to dozens of countries urging them to sanction irans irg sea to isolate iran. We have heard from the military officials as well. Yesterday the israeli Chief Of Staff visited the airbase which was struck by several iranian missiles. Israel says it suffered limited damage but he took that occasion to say that isr