The Supreme Court says that itll decide the biggest question of all about donald trump and the presidency thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby philip in new york, april 22. Thats a date that you should circle on your calendar. It may go down as a defining day in the history of the republic. Its the de, that the Supreme Court says that it will hear oral arguments on the question hanging over the 2024 election, like a guillotine is donald trump immune from prosecution on charges that he interfered with the 2020 election . Is he immune from anything related to that violent january 6 insurrection that he encouraged . The high court revealed its plan and to dry paragraphs, the justices set out a clear timeline. There one that collides directly with his other trials and with the election that is very much underway. March 19, for example, is the due date for briefs. March 19 is also the day when voters in arizona in florida, in illinois, and kansas, and ohio all head to the polls.
inexperienced house speaker, is the argument here. do you see it that way? no i see it more broadly. this is a decision for the house of representatives. the senate has made its decision to seven senate in an overwhelming that 70 to 29 vote bipartisan. almost all the democrats, 22 republicans have in the senate, they supported ukraine package that s where it s going now into the house. and yes, the speaker does have a lot of decisions, a lot of authority to make a decision about when it comes to a vote or if it comes to a vote. but there are other people in the house who are looking for options to either get the speaker to allow a vote on something that they could put together, or to actually go around him which is possible to do if he sees people going around him, it may encourage him to make decisions. okay. bring it to a vote. big meeting today at the white house. this is among the very serious important topics that are going to be happening amongst the top congression
it is sunday, february 18 i m amara walker. have they tried to hip hop though? i was just going to maybe he ll start shaking backside right i m victor blackwell. thanks for joining us. here s what we re watching for you this morning. on mental fight till we get get them condition. they need president biden doubles down on his commitment to get aid to ukraine and lays blame for the delay directly, the fetus congress, what he said to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy during a phone call yesterday, donald trump hit the campaign trail for the first time since being ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties. and the new york civil fraud trial. and he did not hold back. of course, his response and how he he s raising money as the fines add up, the supreme court is expected to rule any day now and donald trump s request to delay the start of the election subversion trial brought by special counsel jack smith the factors the court that could play into the
were unfounded, politically motivated charges meant to suppress opposition. mr navalny always defended his innocence. he was only 47 years old. the kremlin denies it played any part in navalny s death. he spent his final days in a russian penal colony, where prison officials say he died after going on a walk. as the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg reports, navalny was seen in good spirits just a day ago. smiling, crackingjokes, smiling, cracking jokes, this was alexei navalny yesterday as he gave testimony by video link from prison. even court officials managed a smile. but today, russia s prison service said that mr navalny was dead. it claimed that inside this penal colony he had fallen unconscious and that medical teams couldn t save him. russian tv rarely mentions navalny. it read out the prison service statement about his death and moved on to other news. he was vladimir putin s most vocal critic, a protest leader, and anti corruption campaigner, who had long clashed
from that report that foreshadowed the withdrawal. have a look. these troops are increasingly pinned down and struggling. in the ditch here, a wounded soldier needing urgent help. so, what s going wrong for ukraine after two years of war? a simple answer can be found a few kilometres away. a ukrainian artillery team. last year, these men were firing 80 shells a day at russian positions around avdiivka. not any more. so, these are the last two shells that you have? yes, says the officer in charge, and these two don t even work. the news of ukraine s withdrawal comes as the world responds to the death of one of the most vocal critics of the war, alexei navalny. the a7 year old russian opposition leader has died in prison, according to the country s prison service. mr navalny was recognised internationally for risking his own life to stand up to mr putin s regime. his cause of death is not yet known. prison officials claim he died after going on a walk. many world leaders o