immediately. we believe that joe biden has been blackmailed by this for years, which would explain why he acts the way he does ukraine has tapes of joe biden. ukraine has tapes of hunter biden. the highly credible fbi informant says that the burisma executive who allegedly bribed joe biden $5 million to fire the prosecutor has audio recordings of joe and of hunter. these audio recordings were kept as an insurance policy in case the burisma executive got cornered. here with senator grassley on the senate floor moments ago revealing for the first time that joe and hunter biden may have been captured on recordings with the burisma executive in ukraine. are you ready? 17 different times grassley reveals that joe biden may have gotten hunter biden hired at burisma and if you thought couldn t get any more corrupt, it does. the fbi, when it finally released this document with these allegations to house oversight? redacted out the part about the audio recording. the 1023 produced t
speaker told reporters that they re not close to a deal at this point. are you concerned about timing at this point in. look, i think everybody needs to relax. regardless of what may be said about the talks on a day-to-day basis, the president and the speaker will reach an agreement, it will be passed on a bipartisan vote in both the house and the gnat. live look at capitol hill, it s 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. and that was senate minority leader mitch mcconnell trying to calm fears about a u.s. default. we ll have the latest in the negotiations over the deceiling. plus, florida governor desantis chooses an unusual platform for launching his presidential campaign. we ll get into that, that has definitely never been done before and another southern state passes an extreme abortion bill despite bipartisan efforts to block it. we ll also have new reporting on the status of the mar-a-lago classified documents investigation, which some legal experts feel is the strongest leg
world. i m laila harrak. all ready in berlin. ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy visits germany as that nation prepares to supply billions in aid to help ukraine fight russia. bracing for disaster. millions in bangladesh and myanmar in the path of powerful cyclone moka. sweden takes home the top honor in this year s song contest. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is in berlin right now meeting with top german leaders who are providing some much-needed military support. he landed there hours after germany announced its biggest batch of military aid, which includes 30 leopard tanks. the $3 billion package also includes armored vehicles and reconnaissance drones. germany was reluctant to deliver weapons to kyiv in the early stages of the war, but it later made a policy u-turn, becoming a major arms supplier to ukraine. for more, salma aziz joins us from london. president zelenskyy on his first visit to germany since russia s invasion of ukraine. what kind of rec
it turns out that ron desantis, florida governor popular, won by 20 points, who they thought was anti-trump in tone and substance, he sounds more america-first and first then ukraine for as long as it takes. earlier this week, desantis called ukraine a territorial dispute not dispute not in our national interest he slammed by his virtual blank check to ukraine and open-ended as long as it takes commitment without objective benchmarks for success. he noted that this war distracts from our many other challenges, and he rejected further escalation with long-range missiles or f-16s, because the nuclear risks he believes is unacceptable with russia. the pro-war coalition heard this and they went wild. now you might ve thought that desantis had pushed for, i don t know, russia to join nato as a reward for invading ukraine. the anti-woke guy ron desantis, his ideal is putin s russia, where there are no gay people or women in power, where there are no christians. that s how he
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain. there are over simplistic explanation. voice-over: live simplistic explanation. voice over: live from our voice 0ver: live from our studio voice 0ver: live from our studio in voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us, where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is b