Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtually impossible to prevent government from sliding back. And the key issue is this pledge which was made by borisjohnson, repeated by liz truss, repeated a few times by rishi sunak around International Climate finance, from which so much of what the uk has done over the last few years flows, and that pledge was being broken. You say, because it was a pledge of something over. £11. 6 billion over five years. Over five years to be invested in International Climate change programmes and efforts. Yes. You
minutes where the chief of nato saying that the monumental change has been made that turkey s president has now agreed to approve sweden s bid to join nato. all of this coming just on the eve of the nato summit, which will be held in lithuania where president biden currently is. he did, of course, make that stop here in the united kingdom. the last stop of the meeting was to talk with king charles iii. biden travelled to windsor where he met with the king for the first time his coronation took place in may, which the president did not attend. biden also met with british prime minister sunak disduring partnerships and whether sweden would join nato. news that we re learning more and more about as minutes pass. biden said in recent days that he s defended his decision to send cluster munitions to keep. sunak has ruled out supplying them with the controversial weapons. the united kingdom will support them in other ways. cluster munitions release smaller objects to inflict damage
pay taxes in the tune of $1 hundred thousand in 2017 and 2018. gary shapely claims the true number is almost 600,000 for 2017 and even more than that for 2018. he says the plea deal essentially lets hunter off the hook. there is still outstanding tax due owing above that 620,000 because of this deal they ll never recoup. the most substantive felony charges were left off the table, which would have been evasion, for 14, false return for 18 and 19. julie: he says his team was prevented from looking into things that could have led them to president biden. the president on the topic deny, deny and deny again. president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. i don t know what he was doing. i did not know he was on the board of that company. i have oaf never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters. i ve never discussed with my son or brother or anything else having to do with their businesses. julie: it shows hunte
hello to you. i am ben thompson. welcome to the programme. even by the standards of american school shootings, it was grim 19 students and two teachers killed by a gunman. but what was also shocking about events at the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, was the police s failure to take prompt action. in the last couple of hours, we have had the department ofjustice report into that failure. it says officers failed to accurately assess the situation. they say it took more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman despite the presence of dozens of law enforcement officials. the us attorney general merrick garland has been in uvalde, where he saw some of the murals that have been created in memory of those who died. he also met survivors and some of the families of those who lost their lives. afterwards, at a news conference, he had this message for the entire country. the law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 2a, 2022, and in the hours and days af
president. we re getting new information right now on the multiple fronts in this trump investigation. tonight, the u.s. justice department details systemic violations by the minneapolis police department, saying the problems of excessive force and racial discrimination led to the murder of george floyd. dozens of guilty verdicts against the gunman behind the 2018 massacre at a pittsburgh synagogue. now that a federal jury had its say, will the killer be sentenced to death? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a new request by the special counsel in the classified documents probe. the filing reflects prosecutpro fears donald trump might go public with information about the investigation. paula reed is joining us now. walk us through this protective order as it is called, this request. reporter: wolf, this is a request from prosecutors that we would expect in a ca