A budget that will define the next Half Decade under labour begins to take shape with more investment in big projects, more borrowing, and perhaps less of a Tax Rise than expected. And devastating israeli strikes on beirut actively targeting hezbollah s leadership, as Benjamin Netanyahu dashes back from the Un And Tehran holds emergency meetings. Where will this escalation take the region and the world . Good evening. This is newsnight, home to Insight And Analysis from home and abroad. Well discuss the emerging situation in the Middle East a little later, matters could develop as we are on air. Breaking news is that they hezbollah it senior leadership is unreachable following the israel strikes on the Beirut Southern Suburbs on thursday. We will discuss that later. But first a domestic Mid Conference political and economic stock take with our top panel. Anushka asthana, Itv News deputy political editor, author of taken as red, an Insider Account of Labours Ascent to power, zing tseng,
Known as Super Tuesday as millions of People Choose who they want as their preferred president ial candidate. Will vernon reports. Another triumph for trump. The former president cruised to victory on Super Tuesday, securing his position as the unassailable frontrunner in this race. They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one. And they tell me, the pundits and otherwise, that theres never been one like this, theres never been anything so conclusive. Officially he hasnt won the nomination yet. But with results like these, total victory seems certain. As expected, President Joe Biden also swept the board in the democrat primaries. Nikki haley was trounced by donald trump. Its not clear whether she will continue her campaign. President ial election day is still eight months away. But Many Americans already seem wary of the campaign, and of an increasingly polarised political climate. We cant hear any other voices but those two now. I mean, nikki haley is still out there and
soledar is important more than anything as a symbolic victory after months of defeats in and around kyiv, kharkiv region, and kherson as well. so for them, after suffering these defeats to take soledar would be a victory, a symbolic, if not strategic victory. ben wedeman, thank you very much. appreciate that. cnn this morning continues right now. lisa marie presley, good morning, everyone, friday, january 13th and we are remembering lisa marie presley. looking back at the life of elvis only daughter. she was so young. we ll look at her life. also a special counsel now appointed to investigate joe biden s classified document scandal. who is robert hur and what does this mean for the president? in just a few moments senate majority leader, chuck schumer is going to join us at the desk. what he thinks of the president s handling of classified materials. we begin with more than 30 tornados have torn through the south with georgia and alabama hit the hardest
southwest, then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye towards tracing their way through the cartels. instead as we, the house oversight committee and ore news organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some made it back into the country. two were found at the scene where border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now tonight, though, after six months of reporting, fortune magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line letting guns walk was not, i repeat not, part of the plan. she writes five law enforcement agents directory involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could, but were ham strung by prosecutors and weak laws, w
i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that s not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we re more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there s a lot of reasons. and what s interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing a growing middle. you know, a grow withing number of folks not aligning themselves entirely with the democratic party or the republican party. i think what you see is frustration out there right now on how to lead forward. i think you might be able to tie in the fact that social media has become so prevalent in helping organize people, you know, ten years ago we didn t have facebook or twitter or t