unit, general abdourahmane tchiani, declared himself niger s new leader, saying insecurity, economic woes and corruption prompted him to seize power. the us, the eu, and france niger s former colonial ruler say they won t recognise the coup leaders, with some suspending security cooperation and budgetary aid. there are concerns among many countries over which states niger s new leader will align with potentially moving closer to russia as happened after coups in neighbouring burkina faso and mali. later, leaders from the 15 countries that make up ecowas, the economic community of west african states, and the eight leaders from the west african economic and monetary union, will meet to discuss their response. earlier, chris ewokor, who is following the story from neighbouring nigeria gave me an update on what can come out of this meeting. well, right now in niger, things are happening quite fast. earlier today, one of the members of the military coup came out on state
the famous sta keknife. he was obviously someone who had access to the higher levels of the ira. an ira spy catcher skilled at interrogating suspected informers. an ira enforcer and executioner. there s not one killing that freddie scappaticci was involved in that the ira did not sanction. freddie scappaticci denied his double life when exposed. i am not guilty of any of these allegations. his death was announced while a multimillion pound police investigation into his activities is ongoing. much is unknown about freddie scappaticci s life in the shadows. butjust one single episode exposed how he operated inside the ira while on the state s books. this is a story of a spy who got away with murder. west belfast in the 1980s. an irish republican enclave where many were subject to the ira s rules. such warnings to so called touts were frequently borne out. archive: charlie mcllmurray s body was found in this van on sunday. i charlie mcilmurray, a west belfast taxi driver, suspec
newsroom just as speaker kevin mccarthy is working to whip his caucus for the vote, the white house is doing the same with democrats. huge question mark is if any one senator could delay the process. several buildings sustained insignificant damage, explosions in a number of areas of the city and said several drones were shot down. we have to believe that we can do something incredibly special. i like our chances. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, may 30, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where a key vote today in a u.s. house committee could stall the debt limit deal and that is before most of congress even gets a chance to vote on it. the rules committee muste adopt a rule to allow the majority to approve the deal. two republicans on the committee have already blasted the debt deal but mccarthy says he is not worried. president biden also remains optimistic. you know i never say i m con
discrimination that dwarves jim crow and nobody notices. it happened yesterday. there was no press conference. no media coverage. 24 hours ago it happened. biden restructed the u.s. government to discrimminate. he made the announcement on the white house website. they all must ensure they have equity team within their agency to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives. they will report to the gender policy council. running all of this the largest racial tracking bureaucracyoo although be former president barack obama doing it through his lackey and cut out susan rice. rice a goal is to place the federal government in opposition to a very specific slice of our own population. every single person in the united states will qualify for one of joe biden s many protective categories except straight right men. we are all in this together except those guys who are on the out. it s all of us versus them. straight white men are not protected because they are the cause of t
hard-to-watch-at-times, grilling on capitol hill. president biden, the new deals between the country concerning the border. we are moments away from hearing from the pentagon after the u.s. launched air strikes against iranian linked targets in syria. that happened after a u.s. contractor was killed and others wounded during a drone strike in the country. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments as we wait for the pentagon update on those air strikes in syria. i want to bring in nbc s dan de luce. what do we know, dan, and what have we expected to learn from the briefing? what are the questions that are still out there? reporter: there are a lot of questions still about this whole episode. the first thing is perhaps why the head of central command, when he testified before congress yesterday didn t mention this lethal incident in which this drone killed an american contractor there at that base in northeastern syria. there s also a question about the