The bbc s DIrector General reveals he knew In november that Huw Edwards had been arrested for possessIon of the most serIous category of Indecent Images of chIldren. Also comIng up on the World Today VenIce lImIts the sIze of TourIst PartIes to 25 people, In the latest attempt to reduce the Impact of crowds on the lagoon. Welcome to the World Today, an hour of InternatIonal news from the bbc. It Is one of the bIggest PrIsoner Exchanges between East And West In recent hIstory. 26 people have been swapped between russIa and the unIted states and fIve other countrIes. The WhIte House has haIled the deal as hIstorIc. PresIdent bIden has called It a feat of dIplomacy. Among the 16 people released from custody In russIa Is the Wall Streetjournal reporter evan gershkovIch, former Us MarIne Paul Whelan, and RussIan AmerIcan RadIo JournalIst Alsu kurmasheva. These are the latest pIctures weve had In, they were fIlmed of prIsoners beIng transported to make theIr way back to the west. And among t
Well as Congressman Tom Cotton of arkansas and Steve Scalise of louisiana, the house minority whip. John the highly anticipated summit between President Biden and its russian counterpart Vladimir Pittman Bos not over here in geneva. The two leaders discussing a strained relationship amid months of aggression from moscow. Im John Roberts live in geneva and this is america reports. Sandra im Sandra Smith here in new york. Right now we are awaiting President Biden is set to hold a News Conference similar to that of President Putin as we just watched him for about 55 minutes taking questions from about 20 reporters. Not that the live look in geneva, john, where you are sitting, as we await the president at his News Conference separately. We wonder where that location is its really just across the harbor, across from where we are and just outside of the Villa Lagrange which is where the two leaders met for some four hours. And what an extraordinary Press Conference we just saw from vladimir
the s&p 500 setting new record closes. we have fox team coverage, charles payne in new york tells us how this all plays into the big economic picture. we begin with white house correspondent kristin fisher and the president s spin on the numbers today. good evening, kristin. good evening, bret. no surprise here, the white house and republicans are interpreting today s jobs report in drastically different ways. the white house says it is proof that the country needs these massive multitrillion dollars spending bills now more than ever. but republicans argue that some of the things in that first big spending bill are precisely what led to these weaker than expected numbers. it may be the biggest miss in decades, forecasters predicted gains of close to a million jobs in april. buff when the data came out this morning it, revealed that the u.s. economy had only added 266,000. and the unemployment rate picked up to 6.6% to 6% in march. i want to put today s jobs report in pe
facility could increase the militarization of police. we get now to atlanta. nick valencia with more this morning. good morning. police say they detained 35 people. what else do you no he this morning? that s right. police are calling this a coordinated attack and occurred during what protesters were promoting. a week of protests and festivities with the goal of stopping this facility. police and fire training facility. it would be the biggest of its kind if it s completed. and on sunday, police say 35 people were taken into custody after throwing fireworks, lornlg racks and bricks and molotov cocktails at police. no officers were injured. they did say some protesters suffered sminor injuries. listen to the police chief at a press conference late last night characterize it saying this wasn t about the protests of a propose wi proposed police and fire training facility. this is about anarchy. actions such as this will not be tolerated. when you attack law enforcement offic
flights stuff are not responsible. long running dispute about parking former soldier convicted of murder. signed recent united states can julian assange should be sent to united states? priti patel says he can but he has the right to appeal. how day of the year so far. and kate bush s bracket number one. hottest day of the year so far. kate bush back at number one in the chart up bush back at number one in the chart up a0 years. prime minister borisjohnson has travelled to kyiv, to have talks with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. during the visit, the pm offered a uk led military training programme which he said could change the equation of the war . downing street says the operation would have the potential to train up to 10,000 soldiers every 120 days. both leaders have been speaking about the talks in kyiv. let s have a listen to what they said. translation: we do not have any doubt that - ukraine s going to prevail, so we are preparing for postwar reconstruc