Pleas to the charges. Our correspondent Daniel De Simone has been tracking the Court Proceedings and sent this update from the old bailey. Theyve been in the uk for between ten and 15 years. The three defendants are orlin roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov and katrin ivanova. The latter two have been living as a couple in a series of suburban properties in london for about ten years. Mr roussev arrived earlier in the uk, about 15 years ago, and he worked in financial services, in a technical role in communications, and later moved on to, he claims, own a company that was involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications. The other two worked, were told, in health care jobs. Thats what they told neighbours. They did own a local Community Group that supported bulgarian people who moved to the uk with english language classes and other things. This investigation is by the met Police Counterterrorism team, which has responsibility over espionage investigations. It
Good afternoon. Hes running for the white house again next year, but now donald trump is facing a fourth set of criminal charges. This time hes accused of trying to overturn his defeat in the last president ial election in the state of georgia. The 13 counts against him include violating georgias law On Racketeering. He is also charged with conspiracy to commit forgery and with making false statements. He says the charges are politically motivated. From washington, sean dilley. Hello, maam. Thank you. This was the moment Fulton County judge Robert Mcburney approved the grand jury s decision to indict donald trump and 18 alleged conspirators On Racketeering charges the same laws used to persue mob bosses. Prosecutors say their investigation was in part prompted by this leaked call between the then president and georgias top election official, brad raffensperger. Among Donald Trumps co defendants, his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani a
Three suspected spies for Russia Living in the uk have been arrested and charged in a Major National Security Investigation. The defendants, all bulgarian nationals, had been living in britain for several years, but its alleged they were working for the Russian Security services. Daniel de simone has our top story. Suspected of spying for russia. Bulgarian citizens who have been living in the uk for years. Including this woman, Katrin Ivanova. She ran courses on British Values for recent immigrants. Counterterrorism detectives swooped on a Major National Security Investigation in february this year. Searching a flat in this north london building. And this Seaside Guesthouse in norfolk. Five were arrested, three were charged. The . Arrested, three were charged. They had this big arrested, three were charged. They had this big tent arrested, three were charged. Tie had this big tent thing up arrested, three were charged. Tie1 had this big tent thing up and arrested, three were charged. T
But as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to Nuclear Power stations. Almost unnoticed by the outside world, President Biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with American Made ones. The bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new America First policy. I was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, Taxpayer Subsidy into Strategic Industries, particularly green industries. Theres so much money going in that its transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. We used to talk about the rust belt. They are now talking about a battery belt. It sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesnt it . Yes, and theres some conscious echoes of that. Indeed, where i was in kent
of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and w