From opensecrets, which is a research group. It tracks the money, the lobbying, the conflicts of interest, both real and potential, the effect that all of this money has on elections and indeed on policy. Sarah, hello, and thank you forjoining us. I am so happy to be here. Well, its really good to talk to you because, as i was saying, you really do know about this stuff. And i think probably the place to start is with the basics, actually. So how does it work . Who can Donate Money, who typically does Donate Money . And you think of all those small Amounts that people are allowed to give kind of talk us through what the process is. Yeah, sure. So anyone who is an american citizen can donate to american politicians. But ultimately, you know, i youre not going to give 25 to a politician when youre. In the lower income brackets. You need that 25 to pay your Electric Bill or to buy some. Bread or whatever, i so were talking more about people of means. And thatsjust for the small donors. Th
In the Tour De France. Hello and a warm welcome to Bbc News. Days after the assassination of its president , haiti looks to be heading into a deeper political crisis. There are reports the countrys lawmakers have nominated the head of the senate, Joseph Lambert, as Interim President , in a move that a rival Political Faction including Acting Interim prime Minister Claudejoseph says is unconstitutional. It comes as haiti requests troops be deployed from the United Nations and the united states to help secure key infrastructure. The us says it has no plans to provide Military Assistance at this time but has sent Fbi Agents to help investigate, as our North America Correspondent Peter Bowes reports. Some of the men the haitian authorities say assassinated the Countrys President , on parade for the media hours after a long gunfight with Security Forces. The police also displayed some of the weapons they seized. Three members of the gang were killed and eight are on the run. Gunfire. The ci
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good morning. another dry and mostly sunny day on the cards today. if you re desperate for some rain, well, there is some in the forecast for the week ahead but possibly not enough. all of the details coming up here on breakfast. good morning, it isjust gone good morning, it is just gone six o clock. it s sunday 25th april. our top story: india has recorded a global record of coronavirus cases for the fourth day running with 349,000 cases reported in the last 24 hours. more than 2700 people have died as overcrowded hospitals warn of dire shortages of oxygen. simon gerrans reports. , here s simon jones. patients continued to arrive in hospitals struggling to breathe, needing urgent treatment but the health system is close to collapse, almost 350,000 new cases in the latest daily figures, another record. this man is desperate to find help for his sister in delhi. translation: i ve been trying non stop for three days from one hospital to another and i have never seen anything so
this is the first time i have ever been on an open top bus. really? ever been on an open top bus. reall ? ., ., ., ., and, prince harry gets on a tourist bus in california to talk about his new life in the us and why he left the uk. it was destroying my mental health. really? i was like this is toxic. yeah. so i did what any husband and what any father would do. it s like, i need to get my family out of here. hello and welcome. we start with that us intelligence report on the killing ofjamal khashoggi. it accuses saudi arabia s crown prince, mohammed bin salman, of personally approving the operation which led to the murder of the journalist in 2018. it s the first time the us has officially and openly accused the crown prince, who is a key american ally in the middle east. saudi arabia has dismissed the american claims as false and unacceptable. here s nick bryant. it was at the saudi consulate in istanbul that jamal khashoggi met his brutal end. he had been lured there to