the wiretapping of his political opponents. conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of d
temperatures across the uk rose with a level three alert, and some rider means the uk could be hosting next year s eurovision contest. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more reliable service for passengers. usually 900 flights run a day, but it ll be 825 injuly, and 850 in august. it comes after the government and regulators wrote to airlines telling them to make sure their summer timetables were deliverable . the decision means thousands of people will have their holiday plans disrupted, as theo leggett reports. this is what airlines and airports want to avoid. over easter and around the jubilee holiday, hundreds of flights were cancelled. some while passengers were preparing to board. people want to travel, but staff shortages at airlines and ground handling companies have become a s
a ceremonial dagger has been found guilty of murder. the founder of the wikileaks website can be sent to the us for trial following the home secretary s approval. he is 14 days to appeal. if the hottest day of the year so far in london. heat warnings are issued. coming up on the film review, come up coming up on the film review, come up with find out with mark kermode s take is on the week s big releases at 5:45 p:m.. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has arrived in kyiv on his second visit to demonstrate the uk s support for ukraine in the war against russia. he tweeted that it was good to be back in the ukrainian capital; back in the ukrainian capital. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky responded by calling the prime minister our country s great friend and saying that britain had proved that its support was firm and resolute . the ukrainian president has been speaking in the past hours between the talks. translation: we also took our work fur
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