but concerns this morning about national security after bombshell reporting that the documents of donald trump s florida home contain highly sensitive intel on iran and china. these new revolutions, today increase the odds of trump being criminally charged? we will talk to our experts. plus the january six committee officially issued a subpoena to donald trump. the very same day the steve bannon got four months in prison for contempt of congress. well donald trump comply, or with the set up a historic court battle. and later, we have seen the footage, florida residents visibly shocked by voter fraud arrests, courtesy of governor ron desantis. one of the cases has already been dismissed. will more follow? i will talk to a lawyer representing one of the people arrested. all that and more is coming up. and a happy saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. this morning, new details on the contents of at least some of those roughly 13,000 documents the fbi agents took from donal
his formal resignation is expected to be announced at some point today. the bbc understands the president s military jet has landed in male, the capital of the maldives. he had been in hiding after protestors stormed his residence on saturday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from colombo. many sri lankans feel that leaving is their only option, in a crisis defined by endless waits. hundreds queue for passports. a chance to leave their troubled homeland in search of something better. many trying to make it to the middle east, like vasana, whose hoping she ll find work as a cleaner to support her six year old. how do you feel about wanting to leave sri lanka? your heart is in sri lanka? she says she s going because she s struggling to even get food and that s one of the reasons why she s trying to find work in kuwait. me, i m planning to go to uk. we don t see any future. so that s basically we want to move on this country for our kids, not for
the leadership to break those rules. the past leadership to break those rules. in the past hour, the leader of the scottish conservatives set the prime minister position is untenable and says he will vote against it. boris johnson will meet the backing of 180 of his mps if he is to stay leader of the conservative party. today he told both mps he would win for them again as he met them in a private meeting. the hour began an hour ago. six p:m.. it will continue all the way through until 8pm so we have another hour to go. then they would be an hour of counting. we are expecting the result at nine p:m.. we do know which way some of those mps are voting and we will bring you the latest from the house of parliament. conservative mps hold boris johnson s future in their hands voting is under way etc they are voting right now on let that they have confidence in him and whether they want to remove him as leader of the party and whether they want to keep them. in recent months the p
militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. now, a white house official be the pentagon tried to walk back the president s comments, insisting the decades old policy of strategic ambiguity has not changed. but the defense secretary had a different explanation than the president when asked if biden s comments could mean putting troops on the ground. putting troops on the ground defend taiwan? our one china policy has not changed. we reiterated that policy in our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. cnn s jeremy diamond is in tokyo. this is not the first time that president biden said something like this about taiwan. reporter: that s right, alison. it s certainly not, and that is what is is critical to understanding biden s words here. back in august, president biden said we would respond if there s an attack on taiwan. two months after that, he said the u.s. had a commitment to if it were
israel is hitting what it says are hamas targets across gaza. it s unclear if palestinians are receiving warnings to leave certain areas. a stunning downfall. the president of the university of pennsylvania resigns amid public outrage over her testimony to congress about anti-semitism on campus. leaders of venezuela and guyana have agreed to meet because of a dispute over land. we begin this hour in gaza where israeli air strikes and ground operations are ongoing against what israel says are hamas targets across the strip. some of the fiercest battles are said to be in and around the southern city of khan yunis which the idf has described as a hamas stronghold. due to poor communications, it isn t clear if palestinians are able to receive warnings. two large explosions are building in central gaza early saturday setting off a scramble to pull victims from the wreckage. residents say at least 150 people were thought to be sheltering inside. the hamas-run health ministry