Last week. The revolution fits a pattern repeated in several of the sub saharan or sahel states and has russian fingerprints all over it. This time, neighbouring countries sound prepared to intervene. A think tank expert intervene. A think tank expert will explain it all to me as culture wars engulf all human activity, a new border might be opening up in gardening. The key opening up in gardening. The key fault line is over weeds. Should they be identified as disruptive interlopers or as indigenous british plants whose diversity should be celebrated . We speak to an r. S gold medal winner who seeks balance. Nicholas kenyon seeks balance. Nicholas kenyon will shortly join us in the studio , the former director of studio, the former director of the bbc proms and the Barbican Centre will opine that the arts council got it very wrong with its attempt to push the English National opera out of london. And of course, Stefan Kyriazis will be here and hell update us on the latest from the west
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, pm in london and 7pm in washington dc, where the investigation into alleged russian interference in last years us president ial election has laid its first charges. Paul manafort, the Trump Campaigns former manager, was taken into custody, accused of Money Laundering and conspiracy against the United States. A former business associate of mr manafort has also been indicted, and a former adviser to mr trump has admitted lying to the fbi. Our north america editor, jon sopel, has this report from washington. Reporter mr manafort, are you turning yourself into federal authorities today . This wasnt how it was meant to be. Lawyer mr manafort has no comment. Over a year ago the multimillionaire Paul Manafort was Donald Trumps Campaign Chairman and a figure of huge influence. Today, hes been ordered to an Fbi Field Office to face the most grave charges. Normally talkative, today, much more tight lipped. The indictment runs
We are going to build it on time, on budget, not for three times what it is supposed to cost. Rebuildilitary, we will our badly depleted military and ensure Service Members have equipment and training, technology and resources, everything they need to get the job done. Now hopefully we will never have to use that great tower that we are going to build. We are going to build the Strongest Military that we have ever had. On immigration, we will build a great wall and put an end to illegal immigration and stop the drugs from pouring into our country. America spends more on education than any country by far, and yet, our results are terrible. Pupil than anyer nation in the world by far, and you look at sweden and denmark and norway and china and japan, and they are all at the top, and you look at us, spending much more per pupil and we are down at the bottom. We are going to change that. Spend 4. 2 billion for an airplane so i can fly around, all right . For air force one, i dont think so.
When suspects heard Police Sirens they took off. This afternoon one man is behind bars, Police Searching for two others. People he spoke to want those men caught. And before another breakin happens again. Scary i live right down the street from here. And police say this crime was targeted, this was not random at all. Anyone with any information is whereabouts two other men obviously asked to Call Lowell Police immediately. In lowell this afternoon kelly ohara. A deadly drive for teenager in vermont 5 teens were killed in car crash after wrongway driver hit them along interstate 89. Investigators say that driver stole police car ask caused 7 more crashes. Suspect steven was eventually captured after the police car he was in caught fire. Now detectives say i was supposed to get medical treatment the day of crash but wouldnt say for what a car side swiped a utility pole in saugus. This all happening on route 1 northbound early this from the impact. Not clear what caused the driver to hit
We talked about the debates on the markets. Lets go straight to the market desk where matt miller has the latest. Matt we are a half hour in and down across the board. Check out the major indexes, a little half percent of the dow jones, more than 100 points the drop. Yesterday we had the best performance from the major equity indexes in two months. This is a little bit of a reverse bound. 2075. Wn 0. 4 , if you look at the map, and i have it in the bloomberg terminal, you can see nine out of 10 Industry Groups are down right now. The only gainer and really unchanged, consumer mark it is on my touchscreen actually. Matt bismarck talking to me . Turn off your microphone. Consumer discretionary, the biggest losers. Let me tell you what happened at disney. Disney mr. Earnings for the first time in missed earnings for the first time in five years, the first in 20 quarters. Earnings down, real concern about retailers, espn earnings and revenue. Actually espn earnings up a little bit because