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acknowledged the game was up. the leader of the ussr mikhail gorbachev realized basically he would have to agree. and before the end of that month, on christmas night, kn december 25th, 1991, mikhail gorbachev stepped down as head of the soviet union. the hammer and sickle flag of the ussr was brought down at the kremlin. the three-color flag of the russian federation was raised in its place. and on christmas 30 years ago, christmas 1991, boris yeltsin became president of the russian federation. he served as president for eight years almost exactly from christmas 1991 until new year s eve, 1999.re he served as president until dee y2k, december 31st, 1999. that night yeltsin was gone and vladimir putin surprise, who s he became president of the russian federation. and putin has been running that country with an increasingly authoritarian hand ever since. since 22 years is clearly not long enough in power for him, putin has just given himself the authority to stay in ....
is on top of the omicron variant. and the story shaking the media world today. cnn let s go chris cuomo after they say troubling new details emerged about his behavior. that s coming up. we are going to begin with sad news, bob dole has died. he was 98. he died in his sleep this morning. flags at the capitol have been lowered to half staff. dole was a patriot serving in world war ii until honorably discharged and he continued the service as a senator and becoming the presidential nominee in 1996. in 2018, the eighth senator to receive a god medal for service to the nation. he was also awarded the presidential medal of freedom. julie, talk us through the reaction on the hill to senator dole s death. bob dole is always going to be a central figure on capitol hill. you saw the flags lowered to half staff. speaker pelosi did almost immediately. he announced this year that he was battling stage 4 lung cancer and passed away this morning in his sleep and reaction is alr ....
get vaccinated. thanks for being here. we begin with breaking news, which is president biden is about to meet with french president emmanuel macron in rome where he will conclude his after which he ll conclude his first day of meetings in his high-stake trip to europe. relations between the two countries, the u.s. and france, are strained after france declared a crisis of trust last month, i m sure you remember, over a u.s. deal to sell nuclear-powered submarines to australia, undercutting another deal with the french. things even devolved to the point where france recalled its u.s. ambassador for the first time in history. and already today, president biden met with pope francis at the vatican for a lengthy 90 minutes. the white house says the second catholic u.s. president hand the pope discussed a range of issues including the pandemic and the climate crisis. let s begin there. kaitlan collins is live in rome and has been following all these big moments that have ....
defeats and two victories so far. in the united rugby championship, title contenders glasgow narrowed the gap on leaders ulster 17 6 they beat zebre, sonnie tuipuloto with the pick of his side s two tries they ran in against the league s bottom side. elsehwhere today, ospreys beat bennetton. oisin murphy has become champion jockey for a thrid time on champions day at ascot. the queen was in attendance on what is britains richest race day. the feature race of teh day the champion stakes was won by the the french trained celiway. adayer finished fifth and with it went william buick s hopes of pipping murphy to the jockey s title. and you can follow cameron norrie in the semi finals of indian wells from 9.30 tonight on 5 live sports extra. that s it for now. we re back with the late news at 10.15. now on bbc one, it s time for the news where you are. hello. this is bbc news. now on bbc news, david sillito is on the hunt for britain s best new building, and winner of the 20 ....
democrats are fighting back. the white house today telling the national archives to share relevant documents with the committee. and refusing to assert privilege. and the january 6 committee said they will enforce their subpoenas even if that means holding witnesses like bannon in criminal contempt. our goal is compliance here. our goal is to get to the truth and to produce a report that tells the american public exactly what happened on january 5th and january 6 and the events leading up to that. reporter: and bannon s privilege claims are unlikely to proceed since he s a private citizen fired in 2017, subpoena fights could take time. maybe more time than the committee has. now when we go back to the fight over documents from the national archive, we re hearing from trump and he said the democrats are drunk on power but he will try to exert executive privilege over a handful of documents that the national archives were prepared to hand over to the committee that th ....