there is continuous news tv, radio continuous news, so there s a lot more of it. is that better or worse? it s better in that i think we are responding to what people want and how they live their lives and how they don t want to just kind of make an appointment to see news or to listen to news, they need it there, instantly so it s better in that respect. is the quality of what we do worse or better? i think the quality of what we do is actually incredibly good. you mentioned quality, but as you ve heard, some people think there has been a loss of quality because of the cuts that you ve had to make of the past few years. recently the bbc admitted it had been a mistake to interview the lawyer alan dershowitz after ghislaine maxwell s conviction. do you accept that with fewer experienced journalists in the newsroom, mistakes like that are going to happen more? well, mistakes do happen. i m not going to deny that. but i think in that particular case, it was less to do with cuts,
the morning comes. and tributes to one of the giants of american rock: the multimillion selling meat loaf has died at the age of 7a. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the first shipment of us military aid to ukraine approved in recent weeks by president biden has arrived in kyiv. the us embassy there says it includes 90 tonnes of what it called lethal aid , including ammunition. it comes after the us and russia held what they called frank talks in switzerland aimed at reducing the risk of a conflict in ukraine. president biden has travelled to the presidential retreat at camp david, where he will be joined by secretary of state antony blinken, who is on his way back from the meeting with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. the us wants russia to pull its forces back from the ukrainian border, which western countries fear are preparing to invade. the us has promised to provide a written response to russia s security demands, which include a
the multi million selling meat loaf, who s died at the age of 7a. hello and welcome to bbc news. the first shipment of us military aid to ukraine approved in recent weeks by president biden has arrived in kyiv. the us embassy there says it includes 90 tonnes of what it called lethal aid , including ammunition. it comes after the us and russia held what they called frank talks in switzerland aimed at reducing the risk of a conflict in ukraine. president biden has travelled to the presidential retreat at camp david, where he will be joined by secretary of state antony blinken, who is on his way back from the meeting with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. the us wants russia to pull its forces back from the ukrainian border, which western countries fear are preparing to invade. the us has promised to provide a written response to russia s security demands, which include a ban on ukrainejoining nato. our diplomatic correspondent james landale has more. more russian for
a member of parliament to alleged this week that rebel mps have been subject to blackmail or make a statement about it. he has been meeting with the police. the world of the whips in westminster is a very secretive one, they are the people that enforce party discipline. but yesterday the senior tory mp william wragg alleged that conservative whips had threatened to withhold public money, investments from the constituencies of some mps who were threatening to try and bring down borisjohnson. he is one of seven tory mps who had called on the prime minister to quit, and said that this could amount to blackmail. i have just spoken to mr wragg and he confirms that after seeking a meeting with the met he will meet officers at the beginning of next week to discuss his concerns. it doesn t mean the police are going to investigate, but i think it certainly ups the ante around this story. so far he has not produced any evidence to back up his claims and today the business secretary sai
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there is nothing at the department of justice that indicates that they didn t do overt acts and these investigation investigations 60 days before elections. it s customary, usually around the time of an election they won t do what is called overt acts, that i won t bring indictments or subpoena people or do anything publicly as to try to not sway the election. the idea that we here in that time frame or approaching it is simply not true. i think what we know, poppy is that we expect mueller will continue in september and there may be a quiet period come octob october, a month before the election. as we saw from james comey in the hillary clinton e-mail probe, things can be reopened days before an election. that is something that mueller and his team would be conscious of.
mueller was i mean, comey was in trouble for that. that is something they are considering. for sure in their minds. dana bash