hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a late morning commute with a twist rail passengers in newjersey are delayed due to a bull on the tracks. just a couple of lines of breaking news. we have just heard from the la department of medical examiner that the friends star matthew perry s death has been ruled an accident from the effects of kata mean. you will remember his body was recovered from the jacuzzi in his la home. the examiners are saying that he was suffering acute effects of ketamine. he long talked about his drug problems and addiction, very open about that. we heard from some of his co actors on friends, they said they d spoken to him in the morning he died and he was in fairly good spirits. so something obviously went wrong between that moment and when he was found the next day. and he seemed to have ketamine in his system. and from the bbc, question of sport which has been running for 53 years has been axed due to funding challenge
tech strategy and trump himsel posted fine messages, many aimed at the manhattan da. his former fixer and sta witness in this case has a different idea of what is goin on with his former boss. it goes way beyondscared. way beyond afraid. he is petrified. he could put on whatever big vibrato that he wants, knowing donald trump as we all do, who s not just forget about th fact that he is a germaphobe and so the fact that he is eve going to be in this area i going to sort of make a skin crawl. trump successor meanwhil taking a hands off approach to the news are you reacting to president trump former president trump s situation? no, i have nothing to say about. that i m not going to talk about. it i will talk about th white house no comment strateg and whether they can keep it going in the face of mor criminal cases but we are going to start with this deadly tornadoes that tor through the south and midwes for you. at least 18, as was mentioned, are now confirmed dead afte
d.c. tonight s lead, spring forward right now, the opening polls o the 2024 presidential race are being fired. the two presumed front runners for the republican nomination, both making to the gop s first caucus state, florida governor ron desanti was in iowa on friday, as he hints at the run just ahead, former president trump, who has already announced that he will be in the state tomorrow meanwhile, another possibl candidate, former vice president mike pence has mad one of his strongest criticism yet of trump s actions o january 6th. at a dinner last night, he admitted what most of us hav known all along, that th presidents reckless word endangered his family an everybody on capitol hill that day. we are going to be breakin down all of this tonight o politicsnation plus, a new report from th justice department finds a pattern of aggressive policing against the black community of louisville, kentucky three years after the police shooting of breonna taylor one state over in
We will have more on all of those stories. First, though, lets head to the bbc sport centre, round up the sport. Good afternoon. The england and both report have announced a new regulator sport and complete lead change the game. It is in response to a report earlier this or that outlined racism, sexism and elitism in cricket. Here is dan roan. The game has undergone a period of soul searching over the last free months, and nowhere has that process been more relevant or painful than inherent headingley, the county was engulfed in a racism scandal two years ago. It was heavily criticised for the way that it handled the allegations of its former player azeem rafiq, and it was fine hundred of thousands of pounds and docked 48 points in the County Championship by the ecb earlier this year, but this this scandal spreads well be on one county, because three months ago, the independent commission for equity in cricket produced a damning report that found that the game across england and wales
In the coming weeks and months so, a lot that we are lookin out for from this candidates when it comes to the crowd though, richard. there was a split. there were folks that were for desantis, folks that were fork trump. and a good amount of people wh said, it is still early. i am going to watch and se what happens to make my mind later. though, the establishment does seem to be in favor of desanti right now just by looking at the invitation list, which did not include the former president, according to th trump campaign, richard. and you did mention michigan, and i was just in michigan thi week they are listening there they are talking and debatin about this very story that you reporting on dasha burns, thank you so much as donald trump looks to tuesdays likely arraignment, president biden has its eye on the 2024 white house is no comment approach and, later the show will go on thanks to a federal judges lat night decision to halt tendencies drag ban. live in nashville, a look at wh