vaccinated. thank you so much for joining us this saturday, june 5th. it s good to see you, my friend. thank you. i m feeling good this morning. i feel like things are nearly normal and i feel just optimistic about life today. we are getting there. little by little, we are getting there. yes, hopefully, soon. let s turn to the rising national security threat from faceless cybercriminals targeting key measure infrastructure and businesses. the white house is blaming russian-based hackers for an attack on jbs, the world s l largest supplier and colonial gas pipeline that sent prices soaring across the u.s. on friday, christopher wray compared it to the september 11th attacks. president biden will meet with biden especially during his first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin during the summit. it s like dealing with terrorism after 9/11. that urgent message from the head of the fbi chris wray adding his voice to the alarm being sounded by the biden administ
that man was a low key criminal and failed politician who was pushed to power by wealthy olga oligarchs. it didn t matter it was a haven for mobsters, the key is to replace the key western government in kyiv with a puppet and manafort was happy to oblige. needless to say, they entered a downward spiral of crackdowns and the political opponent well, she was literally locked up after her defeat. it s normal practice she told time magazine in reference to the jailing of the opposition leader. the party is powerful. the voters support it. when western countries objected to her arrest, manafort hired lobbiests in washington to spin the imprisonment of ukraine s commitment to the rule of law. their job is to say white is black and black is white. manafort s apprentice donald trump who he helped to elect in 2016 with russia s backing is acting like the ukraiian strong man and embarked from the he s emerged from the maga cocoon as a fully formed authoritarian butterfly. trump is
january 6th investigations. a congressional probe closing in on his inner circle and a federal probe looking into the fake elector scheme. trump admitting in a bombshell statement that he wanted mike pence to over turn the election saying pence did have the right to change the outcome unfortunately, he didn t exercise that power. he could have and this is the important word over turned the election. to be clear, pence did not have that right and pence, himself, made that clear when he was certifying the results. he could not have over turned the election and he did not. this is first time trump is confirming his intention that he wanted pence to over turn the election. something we know rudy giuliani and his legal team were efforting behind the scenes. we have been reporting on that fake scheme. another one of trump s legal team members admitting right here on the beat that he was part of this plot. trump s legal team and 14 of those so called alternate electors have been sub
so long, they have a pretty good sense of what they re going to get asked and what response they should have. that was sarah fisher, senior media reporter and cnn media analyst this morning joining us now. so, sarah, the big moment from today s hearing is when meta ceo mark zuckerberg was pushed by senator josh hawley to turn around and apologize to the families of various victims of nefarious activities that happened on social media. here say is a little excerpt. [ applause ] the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families have had to suffer. what was your reaction to that? i thought it was very emotional, jake, and it wasn t just him, it was also snapchat ceo evan spiegel who apologized to the families. normally the tension is between the ceos and the members of congress. what made this testimony different was that you had those family memb
the global food crisis, that is affecting millions of people around the world. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. europeans are already shivering at the prospect of a full on energy crisis this coming winter. partly, it s fallout from russia s invasion of ukraine and the disruption to supplies of oil and gas. but there is a bigger global picture. the world is still dangerously reliant on fossil fuels, even as climate change makes decarbonisation ever more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours. not long ago you said, what the world is going through today is a major, it might be the first, global energy crisis, in terms of depth and complexity. with words like th