hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. we start in washington and high stakes because the us supreme court is about to start hearing a case which could potentially stop donald trump running in the 2024 presidential election. it is a legal first those bringing the case are using the 14th amendment of the constitution, arguing he is disqualified from standing because he commited insurrection onjanuary 6th, trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election. that was successfully argued in the state of colorado in december where he s been removed from the ballot. donald trump and his attorneys will argue that any effort to stop him running is anti democratic. the us supreme court will hear 80 minutes of oral argument today. we have our correspondent inside the court listening to proceedings. thejustices have given little indication over the last few weeks where they stand on this, so it will be fascinating in the coming hours to hear the sort of questio
going to happen. dana: that s true. jesse: what did he say? bret: good evening. i m bret baier, breaking tonight. blame game over the southern border intensifies as the migrant surges. the biden administration is pointing financingsers at republicans saying the g.o.p. is are rejecting throtion add more agents. this comes as democrats call on the white house to do more. as homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas faces a republican-led impeachment effort over dereliction of duty we will speak with secretary mayorkas live in moments. bill melugin is in eagle pass, texas again with the latest on the ground and we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. jacqui: good evening to you, bret. right now the white house and the house are not talking. even as a bipartisan group in the senate tries to work out a border policy reform deal they hope could also pass the lower chamber and unlock funding. and right now
fighting intensifies around the ukrainian city of kherson, as kyiv steps up the counter offensive, trying to recapture the southern city from russian forces. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he oversaw economic reforms known as perestroika and political ones known as glasnost or openness which led to the break up of the soviet union in 1991 and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin has expressed deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at a historic life. he was the kind of russian leader of the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end the cold war. but at home, it was a different story. born in the days of dictator josef stalin, mikhail gorbachev bec
And what some are saying is potentially a breach of International Law. Are you ok with israel potentially committing war crimes and youre providing full moral support regardless . Its important to remember why were in this very difficult situation, and thats because hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, committed an appalling act of barbarity and has killed over a thousand israelis, including women and children, in scenes that are, quite frankly, horrific and that we havent seen in decades. It is unequivocally wrong, and there is no moral ambiguity about that. Israel has every right to defend itself and take the action that is necessary to ensure protection and security of its citizens and that nothing like this can ever happen again. Even if some of those actions are not in line with International Law . No, of course, we should always and we are always having concerns of civilians paramount in our minds, something ive discussed with Prime Minister netanyahu myself, and underline
Ok. This is p. W. News live from berlin chiles president moves to increase the minimum wage in a bid to quell the countrys worst unrest in decades thats as Police Use Water Cannons and tear gas on protesters in the capital santiago also coming up to come up with that. In iraq protesters say Security Forces are shooting at them with live bullets its a brutal crackdown on baghdad the battle of the bridges. And in our special
coverage of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall well take you to the colorful East Side Gallery where artists turned a symbol of division into a canvas for hopes and dreams for. Im told me a lot of both thanks for joining us chiles president Sebastian Pinera says he has asked parliament to raise the minimum wage by around 15 percent in a further attempt to end the countrys worst unrest in decades the president also says that police accused of Human Rights Abuses will be prosecuted with the same force as rioters and looters for weeks now the south Amer