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our own way. today, we re asking, with republicans going after joe and hunter biden, could this blow up in their faces and cost them their house majority? and then when politics gets personal, how does a name, a face, and a heart-breaking story change the debate over abortion? and good grief. yea or nay on the 73-year-old who is all the range among gen zers. the panel is here and raring to go. sit back. relax. and let s talk about it. up first, the house republicans formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. the third time congress has begun this process in just the last four years. for context, before 2019, it had happened only three times, in the nation s history. at the heart of the gop s case, the president s son hunter, who amped up the drama by speaking outside the capital, instead of testifying inside. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing. hunter biden on the attack. after years of pounding for his foreign business dea ....
stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we begin with a dramatic volcano eruption in iceland, which is sending lava spewing hundreds of metres into the sky. let s take you straight to these live pictures from south western iceland as the volcano continues to spew jets of molten lava from a crack in the earth that s now several kilometres long. the area is a volcanic and seismic hot spot not far from the capital, reykyavik. experts say the eruption could last weeks, or maybe even months. this is the moment the volcano erupted late on monday captured on webcam by the icelandic broadcaster ruv as smoke and fiery lava lit up the night sky. and look at these pictures, caught by an eyewitness from their phone as they were driving past the volcano. scientists are continuing to monitor the explosion from the air and land. they had predicted an eruption after detecting intense seismic activity over the past few weeks, butjust didn t know exactly when it would ha ....
murder in 2020. dramatic footage from south korea after a passenger opens the door of a commercial plane in mid air. hello, welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we start in ukraine, where a russian missile attack on a health clinic in the city of dnipro has killed at least three people and injured 25. this video posted on social media by the regional governor and verified by the bbc shows severe damage at the clinic, with firefighters battling to put out a blaze engulfing the three storey building. the local governor says two children are among those injured. writing on telegram in response to the attack on a medical facility, ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says russian terrorists once again confirm their status of fighters against everything humane and honest. the strike on dnipro came during another night of russian missile and drone attacks. ukraine says most were shot down. an oil depot ....
of bakhmut over to russian forces. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. here in the uk new figures show net migration hit a record high in 2022. net migration is the difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number leaving. it rose to 606,000 last year, driven by people from non eu countries arriving for work and study, after the pandemic. that s up from 488,000 in 2021. the figure includes people coming to the uk under resettlement schemes from both ukraine because of the war and hong kong, after a political crackdown in the former british territory. joining me live to discuss the issue is peter walsh senior researcher at the oxford university migration 0bservatory. also the bbc s mayeni jones who is in lagos in nigeria and our correspondent in hong kong martin yip. first, let s go to peter, thank you for coming on the programme. what do you make of t ....
a very warm welcome to the programme. i m sally bundock. we start here in the uk. allies of the former uk prime minister, borisjohnson, have condemned the cabinet office for releasing details about possible covid lockdown breaches to scotland yard and thames valley police. lawyers preparing the government s case ahead of the public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic have sent the police information about meetings held at downing street and the prime minister s country retreat, chequers. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. his team says. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more details. there is no investigation. what has happened here is that the lawyer through borisjohnson lawyer through boris johnson cosmic ministerial diary from the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for a forthcoming public enquiry which will exam ....