bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi
to implement her tax cutting agenda. police investigating the disappearance of nicola bulley in lancashire say they ve spoken to a woman they d described as a key witness. ms bulley was last seen nine days ago. nursing leaders in england have made a direct appeal to rishi sunak, saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for click. this week. as we re working towards the metaverse, we re at interpol to see how they re planning to keep it safe. we look at new software that s helping doctors perform delicate brain surgery. lara s throwing her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base
pope francis historic visit to south sudan has ended with an open air mass. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show. coming up on this week s show nigeria s looted treasures and the battle to get them back. they will not have any other choice than to release what belongs to us, because the whole world knows they are stolen properties. we get the low down on europe s sleeper trains. the private companies that are now embracing this new passion for sleeper travel are getting people back onto trains and away from short haul budget flights. and we head to south america and what s officially the most electrifying place on earth. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from the historic university city of cambridge in the uk. now, it s the beginning of term and students are coming back, and like many generations before them, they ll be benefiting from some of the best educational resources in the world. and that includes valuable treasur
iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. the state broadcaster says that ayatollah khamenei was responding to a proposal by the head of the judiciary. iranian media outlets say that the letter from the judiciary chief said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. our middle east analyst sebastian usher gave us this update. this is a pardon that comes on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution, so there are pardons quite regularly for that. what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propag