sharply, after its launch on the new york stock exchange. in china, we witness the official efforts to silence popular criticism ahead of the national people s congress. and jackie s life afterjfk the lost letters which reveal a love affair with a senior british diplomat. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news high drama in dubai for andy murray. after an epic tie break, the world number one is into the the semifinals. good evening. one of president trump s most trusted colleagues, the us attorney generaljeff sessions, is under intense pressure tonight. he s facing allegations that he lied under oath about his contacts with russian officials during the election campaign. but mr sessions, speaking within the past hour, has denied any improper contact and he s announced that he ll not be involved in the official investigation into claims of russian influence in the presidential election. our north america editor jon sopel reports. marine one touching down
extent it was a self inflicted wound. what they clearly hoping the white house now is that they ve stopped the bleeding. once again, thanks for the update from the white house. jon sopel, north america editor. a reminder newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here is evan davis. d tonight the reaction to the argument in the us over the attorney general. as it is a world book day we have right and illustrator raymond briggs. join me now on bbc two. here on bbc one it is time for the news where you are. have a good night. hello, you re watching bbc news. i m olly foster at the bbc sport centre, these are our headlines tonight. no comment from sir bradley wiggins on a day that british cycling admits to more failings. andy murray says he s never experienced anything like it. seven match points saved in a half hour tie break as be scrapes into the dubai semi finals. and hear the tigers roar. they have thrashed the rhinos tonight to stay top of the super league. good evening, what a
of support for @torres. he s stable and conscious. he ll spend the night in hospital and undergo more tests tomorrow. on the pitch, it needed an antoine griezman goal in the 68th minute for diego simeone‘s side to take a point back to the capital after florin andone had given the hosts the lead in the 13th minute. but it still leaves them 11 points adrift of leaders, barcelona. elsewhere on an eventful thursday, sevilla have moved to within a point of second placed real madrid and two points off leaders, barca, after vicente iborra followed up on stevanjovetic‘s missed penalty to ensure a 1 0 win with his seventh league goal of the season. staying in spain, and it was back to work as normal for barcelona coach luis enrique on thursday. he took training, the day after he announced he would be leaving his role at the end of the season. the 46 year old gave the news of his imminent departure after his side beat sporting gijon 6 1 to go top of spain s primera division. sevil
As behaving like mafia gangsters during the time of the wrongful prosecutions, something steven bradshaw denied being the case. but in recent days we have spoken to several sub postmaster who have spoken about a bullying culture, where secrets were being kept. in one keyjudgement of the 2019 high court case against the post office it was stated. further more, last may, the mp alistair carmichael said at a westminster hall debate on the scandal. the post office told us in 2021 it changed its governance structure, appointing two serving postmasters to the board to rebuild trust
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