trace: we begin with peter doocy live in wilmington, delaware. peter, good morning. how much was biden asked about this in the homestretch of the election? not much. access was really limited, trace. in fact, in the final days the person who had the most opportunities to ask joe biden about his son, hunter, was president trump. my son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about china. politico reports jim biden, the president-elect s brother is being investigated for his links to a shutdown hospital business. remember, a whistleblower claims they were all in business together. tony bobulinski one of biden s former associates looked at jim biden and said how are you getting away with us? biden laughed and said plausible denyability. that s jim biden. i have asked joe biden about this many times. his answers were never super detailed but always very emotional. have you ever spoken with your son? everybody has looked at it and said th
for any reason must be removed from policing and every effort must be made to ensure that similar people neverjoin. that is why we are providing funding to the national police chiefs council to develop an automated system to flag about police officers. we are changing the rules to make it easier for forces to remove those who cannot hold the minimum level of clearance and police chiefs are getting back the responsibility for sharing these conduct hearings so that they can better uphold the standards in the forces that they lead. there will be a presumption for dismissal for any officerfound to have a presumption for dismissal for any officer found to have committed gross misconduct and i can announce today that there will also be an automatic suspension of police officers charged with certain criminal offences. but the work must continue. part two of the report is considering systemic issues in policing such as vetting, recruitment and the culture, as well as the safety of w
food prices. the new border target operating model has three stages with the introduction of health certification on imports of goods seen as medium and high risk which includes meat and dairy products, as well as most plants will now require checks from health inspectors or vets before they can be transported. and there will be bigger changes coming from the end of april when these products will be physically checked at new border posts in the uk. then from the end of october, safety and security declarations for eu imports will come into force. it is a lot of new details that have importers worried. anna holligan went to meet one in the netherlands. this planter doesn t put two of the biggest diy stores, for some the rules are about to change. some the rules are about to chance. , , ., , some the rules are about to chance. , , . , change. this is what they call will be plans. change. this is what they call will be plans. because - change. this is what they call will b
monster rival, the threads app now live and millions are signing up. we re going to begin this hour with that surprising announcement regarding the potential location of the man who led an uprising in russia last month. in a rare news conference this morning, belarusian leader alexander lukashenko said the head of the wagner group yevgeny prigozhin is in russia, not in belarus, despite saying last week he was in his country. nbc news cannot verify that claim. it is raising new questions, though, about the supposed deal that ended the attempted rebellion. joining us now from the presidential palace in minsk is nbc chief international correspondent keir simmons. you attended the news conference. you spoke with lukashenko, what did he say? reporter: yeah. yeah, as you can see, we re not at the presidential palace anymore. we were there. nbc news one of the few international news organizations invited to that conversation. and after an incredibly unpredictable almost two week