welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in america where there are now two special counsels investigating whether two us presidents broke the law in their handling of classified records. after a second set of classified documents were found atjoe biden s home, the us attorney general has appointed robert hur to investigate whether any crimes have been committed. former president donald rrump is also facing a criminal investigation for taking classified papers to his mar a lago estate. here s our north america editor, sarah smith. after admitting he was keeping classified documents at his delaware home, stored in the garage alongside his vintage sports car, president biden has a lot of explaining to do. classified materials next to your corvette, what were you thinking? my corvette s in a locked garage, ok, so it s not like it s sitting out in the street. people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously.
we want you to stay. the cladding used on grenfell tower is withdrawn from around the world. the us supreme court has partially lifted an injunction against president donald trump s travel ban. and a new aircraft carrier hms queen elizabeth sets sail for the first time from the rosyth dockyard in fife. it s 5 o clock. our main story is that after more than two weeks of talks the conservatives and the democratic unionist party have agreed a parliamentary deal to support theresa may s minority government. it will mean an extra £1 billion for health, education and infrastructure in northern ireland. the conservatives have also agreed to keep the so called triple lock on pensions and maintain universal winterfuel payments for pensioners. leaders in scotland and wales have condemned the deal other parties have raised concerns that the deal will cause problems in northern ireland. our political correspondent iain watson reports. why has it taken so long? theresa may had want
To both cases? i think that same principle will apply to both cases? i think that same principle will apply through - to both cases? i think that same| principle will apply through these parallel special counsel investigations and based on media reporting, it suggests that the special counsel investigation with foreman or president trumped s mishandling may potentially incur criminal charges. they may go forward or may not and perhaps that same principle will apply here with the case of the mishandling with president biden. are they the same potential criminal violations what it is obstruction ofjustice or espionage act will any of those be brought forward in the case of president biden, we did not know. obviously this council of ossetian is just but it will perhaps proceed in the same direction as the one of former president trumped. i in the same direction as the one of former president trumped. i assume we will speak former president trumped. i assume we will speak to former p
Trying to analyze that section is it mixes together so many different strands of arguments. they sort of conflate executive privilege with attorney-client privilege. conflate upon setian of the premises with possession of the documents, and the bottom line here is it was it was a fairly rambling filing by the president s team. yeah. they didn t have a lot of time to prepare it. so that s true, but here s what was missing. what was missing from that filing. if i were the judge and i was trying to evaluate the various, the two sides of the argument. what was missing was any declaration or affidavit from the president, the former president or someone on his legal team or somebody in mar-a-lago saying, here s what i know about how documents were kept and who had access to them. if somebody had filed a declaration saying the, there were there were in that room personal diaries or