All good news as it could force Interest Rates to rise again. And two years since the taliban returned to power in aghanistan theres severe hunger and a near collapse of the Health System we have a special report. Former President Donald Trump says he will release his own report on what he calls Election Fraud in georgia. That comes after prosecutors in the us state charged donald trump and 18 others with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat there. The former president is facing 13 new charges, including racketeering and conspiracy. Racketeering is a type of organised crime where a person profits through dishonest or illegal activities. This is his fourth criminal indictment. He now faces in total 91 charges with allegations of election interference, hush money paid to a pawn star, and mishandling classified documents. Mr trump has denied any wrongdoing in all of his criminal cases. Hes called the latest charges a witch hunt. He charges a witch hunt. Hopes to win the us pres
establishment wing. balking over finalizing the very rules mccarthy conceded last week to hard liners to become the house speaker. is this normal? plus, president biden s upcoming meeting with the president of mexico after visiting the border. where critics say the true scope of the humanitarian crisis was hidden from his view. and prince harry dropping bombs, accusing his stepmother of leaking stories to help her image. what does the royal family have to say about all of this? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our politics lead with the first test of newly elected speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. in just a few hours, the house is going to vote on its new rules package. this will include one of the biggest concessions mccarthy made to the hard line rebels to get the gavel. that one-person motion to vacate rule. this means just one member of congress can now force to remove mccarthy as speaker. he also made other concessions including allowing more fre
The Us State Department said this week that Russian Troops had used chloropicrin, an oily liquid developed during the First World War which irritates the lungs, eyes and skin. The kremlin described the accusation as Completely Baseless and unsubsta ntiated. 2a people are now known to have died in southern brazil, where some of the worst storms on record have caused severe flooding. More than 20 others are missing. 1a,000 people have lost their homes or been displaced by the extreme weather. Researchers have recreated a sd model of the face of a Female Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago. The reconstruction was made from a shattered skull discovered in a cave in iraq. Experts think the women may have been in her 40s, a considerable age for the time. So far, there have been 1900 arrests at the College Protests across the united states. At least 60 colleges have taken part, though not all of those arrested were affiliated. The new york mayor eric adams said this morning more than 40 of
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scheme during which trump allies tried to certify him as the rightful winner. they were also interested in what giuliani said to georgia l lawmakers. he was said to be a target of this investigation. there were also looking at unauthorized access to voting machines. willis is going to have to decide what she does next and we don t know the timeline of when that will happen. one of the big questions is whether the report will be released to the public. is that something that s normally done and given that so much of this activity so far has been in the public eye, would you expect it in this case at least to be released? no, jake, it s highly unusual for a grand jury report to be released to the public at this point and i think any responsible, ethical focused prosecutor has to object to that. first of all, this is a grand jury proceedings. it s supposed to happen confidently except for in