vladimir putin of sending russian conscripts to their death in ukraine by forcing them to fight in the war. a british man freed after being held by russian backed forces in ukraine describes how he was stabbed by a russian officer and thought he was going to die in captivity. hello and welcome to bbc news. voting is under way in italy s general election. polling stations opened two hours ago. 0pinion polls taken during the campain suggest the country will get its first ever female prime minister, and its first far right leader since mussolini, in giorgia meloni. a win for her party would be expected to see the return of silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini to government, two men who ve had ties to russia s president putin. 0ur rome correspondent, mark lowen, reports. there are some things that italians agree on they ve got the best coffee and food and many they don t. politics is one of them, and it s at the fore today in a crunch election. it was sparked injuly when the
but then last summer, after the committee committee released bombshell testimonies from meadows white house aide cassidy hutchinson, the former chief of staff suddenly went quiet. i m not commenting on anything that relates to the president running or january 6th. have you spoken to cassidy hutchinson before her testimony? as i said, i don t comment on anything about january 6th, guys. that was a year ago. since then, mr. meadows has had to deal with more than just a congressional committee. a judge ordered him to testify to the federal grand jury investigating january six, as well as trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and in the days within weeks since then, mark meadows has sort of disappeared. and that radio silence has led to rumors that mark meadows may have flipped on his former boss. which brings us to today, when mr. meadows refused to even say the words january 6th. have you testified before
digested as a huge political intervention and an upending of conservative policy on the economy, and the immediate impact was a very clear to see on the value of the pound, which fell, and the reaction of the markets too. let s listen to her nor a phrase that the chancellor a time ago. 0ur viewers will have seen very dramatically what happened in response to your statement on friday directly. what happens if the pound continues to slide like that? you know as chancellor continues to slide like that? you know as chancellor of the exchequer i know as chancellor of the exchequer i don t know as chancellor of the exchequer idon t comment know as chancellor of the exchequer i don t comment on know as chancellor of the exchequer i don t comment on market - know as chancellor of the exchequer - idon t comment on market movements. i don t comment on market movements. what i rn i don t comment on market movements. what i rn focused idon t comment on market movements. what i m focused