A danger beyond ukraine. Translation there is no consensus today to send Ground Troops in an official, endorsed and sanctioned manner but in dynamic terms, nothing should be ruled out. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that russia cannot win this war. European leaders agreed to increase funding for ukraine in its war against russia. Mr macron says the coalition will supply ukraine with longer range missiles. He also says france will support a Czech Led Iniative to buy hundreds of thousands of Ammunition Rounds from third countries, something france had initally been cautious to agree to. Dutch Prime Minister mark rutte says his country will contribute 100 Million Euro to that czech iniative. While europe promises more aid to ukraine, the prospect of further assistance from the us has stalled in congress. Last month, House Republicans blocked efforts to pass new funding. President biden is calling congressional leaders to the white house tuesday as the clock ticks toward a possible
this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights, as it defends broad access to this pill, and for the biden administration. president biden has responded: with me is our correspondentjess parker. she has been looking into the story for us. what does this ruling mean? story for us. what does this ruling mean? access continues as it did before ruling mean? access continues as it did before two as it did before two mifepristone which, as you are saying, is widely used in america as part of a two drug regimen for abortion. just colbeck a little bit, there was a judge in texas who said that actually approval should be halted for the time being and then an appeals court basically ruled that went too far but looked to restrict access to mifepristone so you can only take it up to seven weeks of pregnancy, you couldn t ordered by mail, you had to go for an in person appointment. the supreme court has ruled for now none of those things will happen, axis remains as it was,
A hugely consequential day for donald trump. The criminal trial resumes in manhattan, a decision is pending on the gag order which he continues to flout. And a hearing in the Supreme Court on whether he is entitled to president ial immunity. All that within hours of trump being named as a Co Conspirator in a new set of indictments in arizona. We have got top legal analysis for you tonight on a whole string of legal problems facing the former president. Also tonight the case that sparked the metoo movement. A top court in new yorks today overturned the 2020 conviction of the hollywood mogul harvey weinstein, on grounds he did not receive a fair trial. The Scottish First minister scraps the snps Power Sharing Agreement with the greens. Opposition parties are threatening a vote of no confidence. And we will look at labours proposal to renationalise the uks railways. But is it full fat nationalisation we will get you an expert view. Good evening. The Declaration Of Independence held certai
congressman mark alford, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. congressman, your party, the republican party, has control of the house of representatives and the house is in chaos. why? well, republicans are independent thinkers. we always have been and we always will be. republicans are made up of entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, conservatives who appreciate capitalism, who appreciate america for what we are. it s the land of individuals. and so when you re trying to herd 220 some odd individuals in one room, it s kind of like herding cats. we all have our own opinions, we have our own districts who we were sent to represent, in my case, some 775,000 individuals from just south of kansas city in the heart of america. but those individuals cannot be happy with what they ve seen in recent weeks and months. that is a party that is at each other s throats, which got rid of a speaker, which you felt was a big mistake, i believe, but it happened anyway. now a new speaker is in pla
if the breakdown really tells us a lot about how that will go. there is a statement from chiefjusticejohn roberts. that s where we can bring that up. he writes the elections clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review that is what we heard from the chiefjustice. how much do you think the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the politics of this, wait on the decision? i think it is hard to see legally, but i think you can seejustice roberts really trying to pull together the majority, because he is aware that the court s credibility has really tanked. you can see him trying by some means to try to cobble together something just to keep the status quo, rather than make it look like completely going over the precipice. yes, justin, i would ask you about some of the decisions we saw a little earlier. two critical voting rights cases in alabama and louisiana. we mentioned that before we started the interview. what precedent do you thin